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May 27th, 2003 at 6:11pm

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I have recently had the idea of a round the world trip only landing on carriers. Looking at the Arrcab program is seems that I have 18 carriers to play with on this journey. Now heres my question. Would it be possible to circle the globe in a Bucaneer landing on carriers only to refuel? Anyone know?
 
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Reply #1 - May 27th, 2003 at 6:15pm
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Cmon Woody - how are we sposed to know?

It's up to you to show us.... Grin Grin
 
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Reply #2 - May 27th, 2003 at 6:17pm

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I have recently had the idea of a round the world trip only landing on carriers. Looking at the Arrcab program is seems that I have 18 carriers to play with on this journey. Now heres my question. Would it be possible to circle the globe in a Bucaneer landing on carriers only to refuel? Anyone know?


I can't say for certain but if you're going to use realistic fuel loads I very much doubt it. You're almost certainly going to have some of those carriers clumped pretty close together (Honolulu being an example with the defaults).

Unless the rest are evenly spaced around the globe, you'll have some extremely long journey legs.
 
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Reply #3 - May 27th, 2003 at 11:56pm

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Why not change planes, take the Rutan Voyager and forget refuelling altogether............ 8)
 
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Reply #4 - May 28th, 2003 at 12:41am

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.....or just cheat and use the unlimited fuel option Grin
 
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Reply #5 - May 28th, 2003 at 10:30am

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This may be costly, but if you were to purchase the Lago Tornado or the Falcon, they come with a VC-10 Tanker and a KC10 Tanker.  Might be kind of cool to fly to your carriers using inflight refueling....  Just a thought.
 
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Reply #6 - May 28th, 2003 at 10:31am

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Actually, Woods, I've got the 18 carriers, too. I did something similar. But, no you couldn't do that without inflight refueling. Some of those hops would be extremely long, and there's just no way to make it to each in a Buc.

What I did was start a land bases and flew out to each carrier from wherever was closest. You could fly from land base to land base in something that has the range, and then switch to your favorite Navy bird and fly out the the carrier. Then, back to the base and into your big bird and on to the next base.

That kind of souns like fun! Grin
 
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Reply #7 - May 28th, 2003 at 11:20am

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There are 18 default carriers??? ???
I had no idea. I purchased Flight deck III and I have those four.  Where are the 18? and will GPS work to get to them?

Thanks, Rick
 
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There are 18 default carriers??? ???
I had no idea. I purchased Flight deck III and I have those four.  Where are the 18? and will GPS work to get to them?

Thanks, Rick


To the best of my knowledge Rick, there are only 4 default carriers. Whether any are supposed to come with Flight Deck III I don't know, but there are additional carriers (or at least there were) here in the SimV d/load section. I believe they need arrestor cables (maybe?) but that's integral in the Flight Deck III package.
 
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Reply #9 - May 28th, 2003 at 5:54pm

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Ok then. I shall attempt it. I shall set up air tanker flights all around the globe and try to intercept them if neccasery. I shall attempt it in the summer. Grin
 
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Reply #10 - May 28th, 2003 at 6:05pm
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Just get the XB70 - set it on unlimited fuel, full throttle at 70,000 ft, point it one direction and set back - you'll be where you started from in less than a day.  Grin
 
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Ok then. I shall attempt it. I shall set up air tanker flights all around the globe and try to intercept them if neccasery. I shall attempt it in the summer. Grin


Do you have the LAGO refueling package?
 
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Reply #12 - May 29th, 2003 at 6:13pm

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Do you have the LAGO refueling package?

Will I need it? Tongue Grin
 
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Not unless you're flying their Tornado I don't think...?

I wouldn't recommend you do either - it needs re-fuelling far more frequently than it should in my opinon.
 
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Reply #14 - May 29th, 2003 at 7:46pm

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Not unless you're flying their Tornado I don't think...?

I wouldn't recommend you do either - it needs re-fuelling far more frequently than it should in my opinon.


Well I intend to use a Buccaneer so I won't need it then. Grin
 
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