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Aug 11^th, 2003 at 6:06am

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What do you guys like to do as a good challenge?

My latest is a B25 from one side of the Himalayas to the other.... It is proving a little difficult.

Will

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Reply #1 - Aug 11^th, 2003 at 7:09am

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When I have time I am doing a tour of European capitals in alphabetical order, in a Tiger Moth (I started this months ago, and occassional continue, but I've been rather busy lately, come Autumn things'll calm down and I'll get on with it ).
No AP, lots of landclass scenery. Lovely Grin

Ozzy

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Reply #2 - Aug 11^th, 2003 at 7:13am

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Where have you got too Mark? Athens??

Will Wink

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Reply #3 - Aug 11^th, 2003 at 3:08pm

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I'm in the process of flying the US border from south Texas all the way around clockwise. Started three days ago and am not even out of Texas yet! I think this is gonna take awhile . . .

Oh, yeah, I'm flying in the Hughes H-1.

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Reply #4 - Aug 11^th, 2003 at 3:20pm

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Navigating from one itty bitty island to another in the South Pacific. They must be at least a thousand miles apart. Over water so no dead reckoning.

Compass only and no intitial heading - no watch, weather report, gps or anything else. Just a compass and geography knowledge.

Might seem simple to a lot of you - but I am just learning to navigate. After wind and such play their tricks - it boils down to guestamation and deduction.

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Reply #5 - Aug 11^th, 2003 at 10:21pm

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as a big blues fan i did a little blues pilgrimage that i had wanted to do in an automobile.. i flew from my home in Lakeland, FL (KLAL) up to Gainesville to pick up one of my ladyfriends (!). Then to New Orleans, then I flew just east of the mississippi river on history highway 61 to Memphis, and then to Chicago. I did all this in the default KingAir 350.

my father was a bush pilot for 4 years in Alaska so i decided to recreate some of his adventures there by flying in the aleutians as well as in southeastern Alaska near Ketchikan. There's actually a nice island (150+ acres) for sale on a website for 1.8 million.. so i found that one and i fly to and from it for fun in the cessna caravan amphib. it's pretty fun.. the entire path there from Wrangell, AK at an altitude of <2000' is like a snake of mountains and water so its kinda fun to drop to 300 feet and ride the lightnin at full throttle Wink

If you want to visit my island, follow the trail east of Wrangell, AK. ive been meaning to plot an IFR approach to the island for seaplanes but i dont have any aeronautical charts for the mountain elevations. i suppose with some patience i could plot it from the cockpit and i very well may, but i havent yet. so Tongue

- cam

attached is a link to my screenshot directory if you'd like to look at them

http://cam.deflected.org/fs2002/

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Reply #6 - Aug 12^th, 2003 at 12:08am

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Try getting the Rutan Voyager off of the runway. It took about 5 tries and every last inch of the Edwards runway(including the blast area). Then once your in the air, set up for cruise and try to do the fuel planning for flying around the world. I landed with 15 minutes of fuel! Shocked

.....so I loaded up the plane and moved to Middle-EEEE..........OIL..that is......

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Reply #7 - Aug 12^th, 2003 at 9:05am

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Well done OTTOL,I was looking at that myself!

Oso,that's a good place to fly . I've just done a circuit ending up in NZ.

I've been picking things like the major rivers and flying them ocean to source,pick a country and fly to every state. I've flown to every country in Africa,flown the Trans Siberian railway(as far as you can fly it--you need a map and need to know which route is being used)and still find more to do!!

I will say that I do fly real time , real weather and fly to where-ever I want to be to start an adventure.

ITS GREAT!! Grin

White on White fly all night.&&&&Red on White you're alright.&&&&Red on Red you'll soon be dead.

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Reply #8 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 6:53am

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I'm preparing an adventure which will prove to be pretty difficult for me since I'm not a very experienced sim-pilot. I'm going to take-off from my hometown of Fresno, CA, take a quick flight over to San Francisco, CA, then head to Honolulu, HI. I actually have flown this 4 times (as a passenger of course) but I want to be behind the throttle.

I then want to fly back over to Seattle, WA and hop into a non-jet aircraft and tour the Northwest and Idaho, Montana, Wyoming areas. Does anyone know if Old Faithful is in Yellowstone Nat'l Park in Montana?

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Reply #9 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 7:29am

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It sure is, and it goes off, uhhhmm . . . faithfully! Roll Eyes

Go check it out!

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Reply #10 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 9:44am

packercolinl Offline
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Hey,eppisode3,if you do a Google search for Yellowstone you'll find a reallife flying tour of the area giving all the info you need to do it in Sim including the coords for 'Old Faithfull'

Not a bad fly!! Cheers

White on White fly all night.&&&&Red on White you're alright.&&&&Red on Red you'll soon be dead.

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