Simviation Forum - US TOUR FLIGHT # 18

Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 11:54am

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Evening all, are we ready for another fun session of flying?

On Saturday October 22nd at 9pm eastern standard time we will fly between KPEO (PENN YAN, NEW YORK, USA) and KMPV (BARRE/MONTPELIER, VERMONT, USA)

Distance along great circle: 249.8 statute miles, 217.1 nautical miles, 402.0 kilometers
Initial true great circle heading: 62.8 degrees (east-northeast)

Because it is more than 200 NM I would recommend the use of a larger turboprop such as the default king-air, the piper cheyenne, or a similar aircraft.

As always if you are flying a addon aircraft I would suggest starting the flight in the default king-air so that we see you as a similar type of aircraft.

For general questions please refer to the general question thread:
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Multi;action=display;num=1...;

Please remember to let us know if you will be coming and give us a heads up your skype name so we can give you a call when it comes time to go flying..

Hope to see you there,

Jared

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Reply #1 - Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 11:59am

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I'll be there...... providing i have no computer issues again.........
if i can get mic and headphones working i will have skype online......
*in case it works* skype: mynameisnemo

Nemo.......

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Reply #2 - Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 1:29pm

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I'll be trying to be there also. Now we are geting into my neck of the woods Wink

. I will use some default aircraft or another. N100JB as usual...... Skype available ...JBaymore.

How about we do a "synchronize watches" type thing in the SIM time setrting... and all be flying about the same "time".

If everyone's computer could STAND it..... frame-rate wise...... maybe we could also all run realworld weather 15 min updates? Of course... the real weather is currently kinda' stormy....we're expecting rain. So maybe that is not good for this one...... but for one in the future. Maybe if the cloud ceiling is high enough we could stay VFR UNDER the clouds?

Just drove THROUGH the Barre/Montpelier, VT area Thursday on my way to Burlington. Leaves in some places are still nice...... but some areas are down to the "winter barren" look. There was snow and hoar frost on thie higer hilltops.

Hope to see eveyone this evening.

best,

...................john

PS: If there are too many for a 5 person Skype limit... maybe we could try the new Teamspeak server that was mentioned in another thread here?

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Reply #3 - Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 3:01pm

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Destination Vital Statistics

Edward F. Knapp State Airport

KMPV is not a towered airport, it uses Boston Center on 135.7 / 282.2, and UNICOM is on 122.8. Of course, we'll use frequency SKYPE Wink

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Lights dusk to dawn via CTAF and revolving white/green beacon.

Bring your credit card........ Avgas is $4.40 a gallon! Shocked

The airport elevation is 1165 feet.

Runways are 17/35 (5002 feet....asphalt ...fair condition) and 05/23 (4022 feet ......asphalt...good condition).

Rwy 17 is the "main" runway with 4-light PAPI on left (3 degrees) and 4-light MALSR approach lights. Left pattern. Nothing on the others.

05/23 has no snow removal....... and if running real weather....... we might get some snow in the north country tonight Cheesy

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The Burlington IAF vor (117.5 BTV) is located on the typical Rwy 17 ILS approach pattern so it might make a good navigation entry. Use the 092 from to the REGGI intersection then rt turn 168. You are about 18 nm out at the turn, and should be at about 5200 feet ASL.

There is the Montperlier vor (110.8 MPV) roughly in line with the 17 approach pattern flying at 168 degrees. Threshold is at about 1.1 nm DME.

Watch the mountains....... 4088 feet within 10 NM of the airport. Between the outer and middle marker there is a 2000 foot +/- mountain just left of the runway centerline.

ILS localizer is on 108.7 (I-MPV).

A good alternate is KBTV, Burlington International, 30 nm to the NW.

After we arrive I think I'll rent a car and head up to Lake Champlain for a few days.

best,

........john

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Reply #4 - Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 6:32pm

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IP Address for the flight is:

69.221.166.6

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Reply #5 - Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 6:59pm

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I just checked the realworld weather at KPEO at about 7:00 PM Eastern ........ overcast and light rain............. wind 216 @13.............. viz at 1 mile. If you get up over it... threre is still a good view thru haze and broken clouds in daylight conditions.

So it's possible to use RW weather and not stare at a solid cloud cover undercast Wink

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I plotted out the following route for flight planning.......

KPEO.WEIGH.NIDUQ.REGGI.KMPV

in the default FS2004 flight planner. It lines you up for the runway 17 ILS. You cross just about directly over the VKN (268.0) NDB between the REGGI intersection and the airport, so that is another way to line up............. fly to "on top" the VKN and then turn rt to 168.

Flight time using that plan in the default Baron is 1:16, needing about 45 gallons of fuel for the 237.5 nm.

See you all tonight.

best,

..................john

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Reply #6 - Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 8:37pm

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Starting to think about setting up the simpit for tonight's flight.

I am currently logged onto the ts. NetFrag.org Teamspeak server and on the "flightdeck" channel. I will be there all during the US Tour flight, I think, if anyone lese is on there too..... but I also will have Skype online. If no one else is on the Teamspeak setup... I'll kill it.

I only have one mike....... so I will have to switch the mike jack back and forth between the two separate inputs if there are folks on both systems. I will only be able to talk on one at a time Wink

. The sound will come through two different outputs already though.

If I had two mikes......... it would be like having comm 1 and comm 2 radios Wink

. I'll have to work on the problem...... with a mike switch (TX1 / TX2) maybe.

best,

......................john

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