Cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Posted (2 years 7 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 19902 times:
Couldn't see any topic like this, so I'll ask, where are you flying at the moment in Flight Sim?
Today I've done TSV-SYD in the MD-11, and I'm currently trying to ferry the plane from SYD-LAX. That's not going very well. I'll make it on the fuel load, however - I'm near Nadi, and just had a severe inflight upset due to some very nasty weather. Went down about 4000 feet.
The worst seems to be at FL360, so I'm staying around FL340.
Aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 2, posted (2 years 7 months 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 19902 times:
Quoting Cpd (Thread starter): just had a severe inflight upset due to some very nasty weather. Went down about 4000 feet.
Cool! Just finished OAKB-UKLL-EIDW with my Ariana Afghan B727. Lots of noisy fun Going to do an EI flight EIDW-LSZH but can't decide what aircraft to use...
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Cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 3, posted (2 years 7 months 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 19913 times:
I'm still going... Really long flight. Argh... I don't dare accelerate the time, for fear that FSX will crash, or the MD-11 will do something strange. Not much to see, it's night time.
Haven't had any "traffic, traffic" messages for a long while. Did have a few between Australia and Fiji though.
Midcon385 From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 570 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 19867 times:
Just flew from Hong Kong to Tokyo Narita. Next stop: Seoul Incheon. Aircraft: PMDG B747-400.
PJFlysFast From United States of America, joined May 2006, 463 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 19862 times:
I like to stay in the range of a 2 to 3 hour flight! But I do lots of those. I can never seem to do a long haul flight like I used to because of distractions and work
YWGfarmer From Canada, joined May 2007, 38 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 19846 times:
I flew for the first time today in over a month. Been busy with harvest and field work. Had some rainy days now though so I went from VHHH to YSSY in the PMDG 747.
Cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 7, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 19826 times:
I discovered I could save the flight and resume it later with the MD-11. Now about 475Nm from Top of Descent point, cruising at M0.818 at FL430. There have been no further in-flight upsets. That's the first time I've ever had one in Flight Simulator - quite alarming to see the plane suddenly descending very, very quickly.
I will land on RWY07R at KLAX. It seems quite cumbersome to set the STAR on this FMS system, especially with the alternate plan nearby on the same page.
Though maybe it's a lack of practice. (more likely)
Csturdiv From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1254 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 19790 times:
I am not sure about my next flight. I am at Toronto City Centre Airport and deciding on where to fly next, I am flying the AFG (I think) freeware King Air 300. I do not do long flights, maybe an hour or two at a time. I haven't flown in over a week, I have been working on adding in additional ai to my sim,
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1965 posts, RR: 7 Reply 10, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 19772 times:
I just finished AA907, MIA-HAV in a 757. Next I think I'll do SIT-ANC in a 737-400
EDICHC From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (2 years 7 months 20 hours ago) and read 19624 times:
Well as I have just purchased a bundle of payware photoreal scenery for various NZ airport and city districts I have been doing a lot of local routes. My next is my home airport CHC to ZQN with an Air New Zealand FFX 737-300.
Pawsleykat From UK - England, joined Jul 2005, 1964 posts, RR: 16 Reply 14, posted (2 years 7 months 9 hours ago) and read 19608 times:
I've just finished LHR-HKG-SIN-PER-SYD-LAX-LIM-SCL-LIM-JFK and am about to embark on AA104; JFK-LHR shortly. It's been a loooooong 12 days
I've flown Cathay Pacific (747-400 and 777-300ER), Qantas (A33-200, A330-300 and A380), LAN (767-300 and A340-300) and finally American Airlines (777-200ER). A mix of Overland and POSKY aircraft
JG
First Class passengers are my favourites. They can't get any further forward without an ATPL.
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1965 posts, RR: 7 Reply 16, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 19558 times:
This one looks nice and short: a recreation of AA579, DAL-MAF in a 727-100
Jamesjimlb From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 1023 posts, RR: 3 Reply 20, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 19502 times:
nowhere yet... filing virtual paperwork .
I might do the SEA-PHX hop tonight, not sure.
The sky is no longer the limit, but the mere minimum
CV990A From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 1386 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 19397 times:
I did MUC-LAX earlier today on a POSKY 744. No clue where I'll go from there- kinda depends on my mood the next time I fire up FS9...
Wongkw From Singapore, joined Sep 2009, 28 posts, RR: 0 Reply 25, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 19369 times:
Well, earlier today I experimented with FSPassengers in SDA, doing some "war zone training". It was exciting, to say the least, though I wouldn't want to be a pilot of an aircraft shot in a warzone in real life... who would, really? I ended up landing on the grass but everyone got out safely.
Tonight I'll be running the SQ SIN-CHC service, and will make a return flight tomorrow. Aircraft: Boeing 777-200ER. The last flight I made was a fictional one, SIN-HKG-SFO and return with a SQ 77W.
EDICHC From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 27, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 19532 times:
Quoting Pawsleykat (Reply 14): I've just finished LHR-HKG-SIN-PER-SYD-LAX-LIM-SCL-LIM-JFK and am about to embark on AA104; JFK-LHR shortly. It's been a loooooong 12 days
Heyyy, why bypass NZ?
Next up is SYD-WLG gonna programme the wx for some typical gusty wind for arr WLG.
MIAspotter From Spain, joined Nov 2001, 2078 posts, RR: 26 Reply 30, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 19460 times:
I am preparing now to do LX138 ZRH-HKG on the A340, it's been a long time since I'd done a long haul flight, I will take off, level at cruise altitude and after a while I will let my virtual "relief crew" take over while I go to sleep and hopefully wake up tomorrow morning to do the landing (and try not to screw it)
I will do the return leg HKG-ZRH sometime next week.
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1965 posts, RR: 7 Reply 37, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 18736 times:
I just finished QX 53, BOI-SEA- CRJ-700, University of Washington livery
Babybus From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 3226 posts, RR: 5 Reply 39, posted (2 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 18137 times:
I've only just completed a round the world trip in a 737 taking such places as Turku, St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ulan Bator, Beijing, Tokyo, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Acapulco, Quito, Santiago, Falkland Islands, a day trip around Antartica, Beunas Aires, Rio, Tobago, Orlando, JFK, Gander, Cork and LGW.
Next time, after a well deserved rest, it's round the Nordic countries including Greenland.
and with that..cabin crew, seats for landing please.
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 826 posts, RR: 1 Reply 40, posted (2 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 18132 times:
I planned to have a hop to SXM from somewhere like southern Florida, Bahamas or Cuba, but did not have time to. Might as well do it tonight. Or I will take the night shift and mirror governmental aid for Haiti expected to leave BTS in the evening, provided I find out the routing.
What bothers me though is the fact that I only have my little SpeedLink Black Widow home with me. I really got used to the combination of Saitek Yoke system and pedals.
France 1789, Eastern Europe 1989, Northern Africa 2011
Pawsleykat From UK - England, joined Jul 2005, 1964 posts, RR: 16 Reply 42, posted (2 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 18090 times:
I've not flown as much lately due to work constraints and just being generally busy busy busy
But coming up tomorrow is AA105; LHR-JFK on a lovely 777-200ER
On Sunday I shall be doing AA667; JFK-SXM on my 757-200 and then I'm still to pick an SXM-SBH hop on a Winair Twin Otter
JG
First Class passengers are my favourites. They can't get any further forward without an ATPL.
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1965 posts, RR: 7 Reply 43, posted (2 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 18076 times:
I just finished this an hour ago:
SKW/OO 4177 (operated for United Express) SFO-LAX, CRJ-200 OC (N958SW)
MadDogJT8D From United States of America, joined Oct 2009, 282 posts, RR: 1 Reply 44, posted (2 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 18069 times:
Eaa3 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 870 posts, RR: 0 Reply 45, posted (2 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 18081 times:
Quoting Cpd (Reply 3): I'm still going... Really long flight. Argh... I don't dare accelerate the time, for fear that FSX will crash, or the MD-11 will do something strange. Not much to see, it's night time.
Get FSUIPC and have it autosave every 1 minute.
Here´s my latest flight:
And my route:
And a video of the flight. This is only one of 3 videos and I will be uploading the rest today.
Aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 46, posted (2 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 18045 times:
Quoting EDICHC (Reply 38): I want to do a short hop to INN, say from MUC. any suggestions for operator and equip for this?
I always Wikipedia the airport & see what real life airlines fly in & out, & then download planes, sceneries, panels, sound etc from Flightsim.com or Avsim.
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YYZRWY23 From Canada, joined Aug 2009, 561 posts, RR: 0 Reply 50, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 17908 times:
I haven't flown in several months and recently re-installed EVERYTHING on a different computer.
So my flights for tomorrow are going to be KPAE-KSFO-KPAE in the PMDG 737, PMDG 747, and PSS 777. That way I get two take-offs, one ILS, and one visual in each aircraft. Plus I have a scenery for SFO, and, PAE makes sense for Boeing aircraft. Than I will test my Wilco Airbus aircraft on CDG-LHR-CDG for both the A320 and A340. For WIlco Embraer, I do YYZ-YOW-YYZ. Than I can begin real flying again.
And people say you can't burn off a week after exams...pshhh. :-P
Not to hijack this thread, but when I try starting FS9 I get a warning that says it can't copy Esselerate and shuts down. Any help?
YYZRWY23
If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them.
Thebatman From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 52, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 17868 times:
Quoting EDICHC (Reply 38): I want to do a short hop to INN, say from MUC. any suggestions for operator and equip for this?
Did that in Overland's flybe Bombardier Dash-8 Q400. Nice!
Eaa3 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 870 posts, RR: 0 Reply 55, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 17728 times:
Quoting Captaink (Reply 54): Just did KJFK - KBOS in a JetBlue EMB190, WIlco/Feelthere version. What a sweet model..
midcon385 From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 570 posts, RR: 0 Reply 60, posted (2 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 17513 times:
IAHFLYR From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4129 posts, RR: 28 Reply 61, posted (2 years 3 months 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 17399 times:
I will be flying later this evening a quite simple yet enjoyable flight from IAH-SFO in a wonderful Flight One Software SuperPro MD80 in CO colors.
The return will be in a PMDG B738 winglet version, again in CO livery.
thebatman From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 67, posted (2 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 17119 times:
I'm enjoying flying around in this Epic LT turboprop. Not only is this a good-looking bird with a very nice cockpit, but it's also FAST.
thebatman From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 68, posted (2 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 17093 times:
Quoting thebatman (Reply 67): I'm enjoying flying around in this Epic LT turboprop. Not only is this a good-looking bird with a very nice cockpit, but it's also FAST.
Sorry, I forgot to mention WHERE I was going. Since I am still familiarizing myself with this airplane, I am doing one of my typical test flights... SEA - YVR.
csturdiv From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1254 posts, RR: 4 Reply 69, posted (2 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17050 times:
Last night I landed at FNJ, flying the freeware Samdim An-148. I downloaded a freeware scenery for FNJ and it looks very nice with the terminal buildings and decorations with flags for North Korea and a big picture of the dear leader on the terminal. All I saw was some general aviation and a few Il-76, Tu-204, Il-18 and some Tu-154s for Air Koryo. I know Air China also operates here, maybe I might see them later on. The first thing that I did was to modify my GA traffic to remove all GA flights from FNJ (they fly elsewhere now), as I do not think there is much in GA there. Now I am working on adding in some military traffic to some of the surrounding airbases (another freeware addon for North Korea). And I also downloaded a freeware Tu-204 and a repaint for Air Koryo and will spend a few days in this region doing flights to Beijing.
IAHFLYR From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4129 posts, RR: 28 Reply 70, posted (2 years 2 months 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 17025 times:
I just got done loading the FMC on the PMDG B739 and am taking a quick break before flying IAH-SEA.
Dano1977 From British Indian Ocean Territory, joined Jun 2008, 283 posts, RR: 0 Reply 74, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 16654 times:
In the cruise at the moment...
Flying a B757-200 (with winglets) EGE-JFK
Children should only be allowed on aircraft if 1. Muzzled and heavily sedated 2. Go as freight
BAW076 From UK - Scotland, joined Aug 2006, 723 posts, RR: 34 Reply 75, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 16608 times:
I am currently at FL370, flying NZ038 LHR-HKG-AKL. I am approx 1820nm from reaching Auckland, expecting a Runway 23L arrival, via the BASIV5A star. and I am expecting to land in about 4 hours. The 1st leg of the flight between Heathrow and Hong Kong took 11hrs 24mins.
aljrooney From UK - Scotland, joined Jan 2007, 26 posts, RR: 0 Reply 77, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 21 hours ago) and read 16587 times:
Last flight was a short hop from Montreal to Toronto in the Snow in the CLS A340-500 in AC colours. In real life, currently in Nice on a course so may do ABZ-CDG-NCE and back in my PIC 737-300 or maybe a round Britain jaunt from Waddington-Lossiemouth-Valley-Waddington in my beautiful Vulcan.
USAir330 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 748 posts, RR: 1 Reply 78, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 10 hours ago) and read 16579 times:
Last flight was from sju-bos AA 757-200 (Captain sim) flight ended up being sju-lga. Descended from fl390 to fl 320 due to turbulence (Had FS Passengers running) and both engines flamed out. Attempted to restart but no luck. Powered the RAM and decided it would be better to glide around new york due to the 3 airports and the Hudson . Ended up landing at LGA on 31. I was going for 22L or 22R at JFK but wasn't gonna make it. Got a kiss landing from FS pax. On the landing though -56 ft.
Aeolus From Mexico, joined Aug 2007, 370 posts, RR: 0 Reply 79, posted (2 years 2 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 16448 times:
Hello all!
I tend to do some virtual world tours. My last one was in the Middle East, around the time of ET409 crashing...
I tend to travel to and from my local airport, MEX, with the new photoreal scenery, it's awesome, but I need a new computer, soon, because I'm using FS9 and I''ve just got the FSX... I tend to join tours and change aircraft every now and then, you'll notice...
My last routing was:
---- Middle East ----
These flights were with 80 passengers in all.bussiness class configuration (except BBJ737 & E170)
MEX-MRS-BEY B763 Project Opensky Colours (used throughout the tour)
BEY-TLV BBJ737 (Private scheme)
TLV-AMM BBJ737
AMM-JED B752W Project Opensky Colours (used throughout the tour)
JED-MCT B752W
MCT-AUH B752W
AUH-BAH B752W
BAH-DOH B752W
DOH-KWI B752W
KWI-THR E170 For THR, SDA, KHI and KBL we took only 50 people and the others stayed in Kuwait. Embraer colours.
THR-SDA E170
SDA-KHI E170, B752W was ferried from KWI with the passengers that were left there
KHI-KBL-DBE E170 (Bags)/B752W (Passengers)
DBE-FRU B752W
FRU-AST B752W
AST-TAS B752W
TAS-GYD (Wrong destination... had to go back...) B752W
GYD-ASB B752W
ASB-EVN B752W
EVN-TBS B752W
TBS-DAM B752W
DAM-SNN B763
---- Maple Shamrock Tour ----
SNN-YVR A332 (Winter Olympics' Opening) F-WWJK Airbus Factory leased it to us.
YVR-YUL A332 F-WWJK
YUL-YTZ Q400 Porter Airlines
---- Amazon Quest ---- (Picking up an E170)
YYZ-GRU AC B77W
SJK-PBM E170 (No passengers, delivery flight towards MEX in weird routing due to crashing of FS9 Scenery) Embraer Colour Scheme.
PBM-SXM E170
SXM-MSY (Mardi Gras night!) E170 (Delivery flight but having fun!)
MSY-MEX E170
And even more recently I did the roundtrip spaced with 2 weeks in between flights on BA 744 (Posky)
BA242 MEX-LHR 26/2/2010
BA243 LHR-MEX 17/3/2010 (It's tomorrow's, I know, but I wasn't going to have time).
I'm planning an African tour, I'll post a round-the-world route I did a few months ago on a B752W later.
Happy Flying!
I had planned on doing the DY974 CPH-AAL using the same aircraft, but I taxied out to Runway 22R at CPH, and my computer very annoying froze and I really couldn't be bothered to restart the flight! - May try again tomorrow if I get time, me and my girlfriend have a hospital visit for the first scan of our unborn baby!!
THEBATMAN From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 82, posted (2 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 16265 times:
I love mountain flying, so yesterday I flew a Mitsubishi MU-2 from Aspen, CO (KASE) to Bozeman, MT (KBZN). Beautiful !!!
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1965 posts, RR: 7 Reply 83, posted (2 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 16201 times:
Yesterday I flew the POSKY CRJ-200 (in a Delta Connection/SkyWest livery) from Salt Lake City to Jackson Hole, WY (JAC). I like the approach into runway 19 at JAC, because you get to fly through an endlessly long, wide valley which leads you straight into the airport Today, I did DL1587, SAV-ATL with a 737-800 (POSKY again, N3742C) just as a short run to get a look at my new DL AI set (thanks to AIG for the flightplans )
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 91, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 15751 times:
I'm doing the BA002 - currently at 45700ft, M1.92 / 1130mph.
Now at M2.00, climbing slowly above 50700ft, and just added the next series of waypoints and checked them off against the communications plan - and all the computed distances do match what the plan says (so I've typed them in correctly).
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 93, posted (2 years 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 15332 times:
Flew EGLL-TBPB yesterday, but couldn't finish the flight because it took too long.
It was horrible hot weather, -50C most of the time, so I had an infernal warble tone most of the time indicating that the airframe temperature was too high!
FX772LRF From Luxembourg, joined Apr 2009, 675 posts, RR: 14 Reply 94, posted (2 years 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 15299 times:
Quoting cpd (Reply 93): It was horrible hot weather, -50C most of the time
Not too sure how hot it is when it's negative 50 celcius.
I flew patterns around PASI today in an empty PMDG 747-400F. Some of my best landings have been at that airport in that plane. Only had one approach stall today, luckily I recovered - but overheated the brakes in the process when I landed long.
-Noah
Cleared to IAH via CLL 076 radial/BAZBL/RIICE3, up to 3k, 7k in 10, departure on 134.3, squawk 4676, Colgan 9581.
THEBATMAN From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 95, posted (2 years 2 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 15299 times:
Flew from PANC - PADQ in the Quest Kodiak:
A friend of mine has a scenery add-on and said that he always plows into the side of the ridge in Kodiak (PADQ) while on short final for RWY 25. Has anyone else experienced issues with scenery add-ons making you crash into something that isn't there?
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 96, posted (2 years 2 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 15278 times:
Quoting FX772LRF (Reply 94): Not too sure how hot it is when it's negative 50 celcius.
That is actually ISA +06 - which is very warm indeed, and it kills the climb performance too. Later on in the flight, nearer to Barbados, the forecast was for -83C at high altitude! It's an interesting phenomenon that causes those temperatures to be much colder as you get near the equator.
At -50C, the airframe temperature was hovering between 126C and 128C most of the time, hence the idiot warble tone driving me nuts! The TMO is 127C. That's a temperature differential of nearly 180C.
So although -50C for us would be bitterly cold indeed, out on the wings of the plane, if you could stand there in flight, the temperature of those would probably be in the mid 90C range, or low 100C range. You could almost certainly fry an egg.
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 826 posts, RR: 1 Reply 99, posted (2 years 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 15174 times:
Tried to fly Yak-40 TAT-BTS today, FS crashed on me, so I took me a Tu-154 KSC-BTS finished with beautiful PAR controlled approach, then tried taking Il-18 to TAT from BTS, but, technology prevailed once again. All in all, it was a nice return to history (we had an event on IVAO) I am thinking about flying some nice SAS routes i MD-80 tomorrow.
France 1789, Eastern Europe 1989, Northern Africa 2011
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 100, posted (2 years 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 15138 times:
Concorde to Barbados, again from London. Maybe about almost 45min to 1hr of flight, then something bad happened. The plane went crazy, and I flew it back to Cork under manual control, with only the standby artificial horizon operational, and only 2 engines working.
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 101, posted (2 years 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 15135 times:
Quoting cpd (Reply 100): I flew it back to Cork under manual control, with only the standby artificial horizon operational, and only 2 engines working.
That Concorde of yours sounds so realistic! Lol the thought of Concorde in Cork....
Incredibly I uninstalled FS9 again....thought I was just uninstalling a 757...no no...uninstalled the whole thing....do I get a trophy? It's a record, second uninstall in a month!
[Edited 2010-05-02 07:35:36]
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cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 103, posted (2 years 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 15081 times:
Quoting aerdingus (Reply 101): That Concorde of yours sounds so realistic! Lol the thought of Concorde in Cork.... Big grin
Well, I'm trying the same flight again - but this time without any issues. I've also turned off engine damage this time around. I also don't have wind shear and turbulence this time (no flashing 88888 displayed on the INS left-side display in a certain mode).
I spotted an S7 TU-154 at Heathrow too when lining up for takeoff (and then troubleshooting an errant "PFC" master warning light). It's working fine so far though. Nice weather too, -58C at 49,000ft.
Currently doing 1280mph at 49,000ft (M1.96). 3690 miles still to go according to the "Marilake" plasma display in the cabin.
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 104, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 15020 times:
I'm again doing EGLL-TBPB (Barbados). Currently about 231nm away from Barbados at FL577, the outside air temperature is a reasonably cold -75C! Just encountered a bit of a temperature shear as I hit a bit of a temperature layer, so it was a little bit bumpy. It has smoothed out now.
Edit: Now up to 60,000ft! Levelled off. Will start descent now.
Edit 2: Woah, engine surge on one of the engines. That made a huge bang.
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 826 posts, RR: 1 Reply 105, posted (2 years 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 14921 times:
Quoting cpd (Reply 104): Woah, engine surge on one of the engines. That made a huge bang.
Not much of a reliable plane, is it?
Did not fly yesterday myself, but me and a friend met up on a 36hrs event on IVAO and instructed another buddy on Tu-154. He flew pretty good, for a first timer.
France 1789, Eastern Europe 1989, Northern Africa 2011
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 106, posted (2 years 1 week 14 hours ago) and read 14890 times:
More likely I'm not operating it with as much care and precision as I should use. I should have adjusted the engine power in a much more gentle fashion.
That's actually what I was supposed to do - but I was a little bit heavy handed. It demands careful throttle movements at high altitudes. It's very realistic.
I'll do a return flight from Barbados soon, or maybe I'll go via New York.
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 110, posted (2 years 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 14671 times:
I've arrived - parked at gate 611 (why did they send me to the cargo stands?) in 3h:40min.
The maximum altitude reached was 58,500ft, the highest speed achieved was 1350mph, and on arrival, 10T of fuel remained. Landing was on runway 09L using ILS for guidance.
Approach was via SL1 and KATHY. I also descended a little bit too quickly, costing precious time. Screenshots will come later.
Is that the Boeing / Ethiopian ship you posted a screen shot of? I'm not very advanced with FS yet and wonder how much things like load, baro. and weather effects engine performance. Say, if you added more load or were @ Denver. Would the engines spool up any differently on FS? I do know that w/ FS it definately effects lift capability.
Quoting EDICHC (Reply 102): Just arrived MNL from FRA via CAN (a route sadly no more...except in FS)
That's the beauty of FS. Being able to recreate times gone by. Sadly, as you say, the glory days of commercial aviation are past us.
Quoting THEBATMAN (Reply 95): A friend of mine has a scenery add-on and said that he always plows into the side of the ridge in Kodiak (PADQ) while on short final for RWY 25. Has anyone else experienced issues with scenery add-ons making you crash into something that isn't there?
Oh hell yes! Even without add-ons if my graphics are set too low. He's probably hitting un-seen trees. Case in point, flying a helicopter down the Las Vegas strip or landing anywhere in the "Magic Kingdom". As soon as you're below rooftop level....CRASH! Strange though, I can land a heli on the playing field at some MLB stadiums but not all. When you touch down on some fields the skids go below the terrain but doesn't crash you!
I was just flying around KLGB in a Robinson R-22 practicing for my next lesson. Man that's a twitchy bird to fly!
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 114, posted (2 years 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 14593 times:
They are coming soon Kevin! I was out creating some real screenshots of real planes today. Perhaps I'll get a bit of time and process 7 more and get over 100 images on airliners.net.
Next flight I think could go down to Bahrain, although I might just do a trans-atlantic crossing. I'm struggling with the fuel use on Concorde, it's a bit different to the old FS2004 version and I've had a few flights where I ended up with a bit less fuel than I expected.
That Barbados to London flight I took off with 95.4T of fuel, and still arrived with not much left over. If I had to do any extra long diversions or multiple holds over Ockham, it would have been really marginal.
Not bad, just over 8000ft and already doing 500mph! That's real speed.
Though I've seen some real-life Qantas B747-400/ER planes doing some seriously speedy travelling at 7000ft on departure out of Sydney sometimes. Not quite Concorde fast, but really fast for a B747.
The Barbados flights starting just before dusk (when it is still dark) are always some of the best ones for amazing sunrise views - because you fly towards the rising sun, so the sunrise happens very fast.
But as you can see in the cabin view above at 8100ft, there was still 4240 miles to go (normal miles, the display converts from nautical miles). When you enter the value in nautical miles into the controller for that display, and lock the number in, it converts it over for you. When you are on the ground, it shows the welcome message, and once you are in the air, it rotates between the DTG (distance to go) and outside air temperature numbers. Mach number and miles per hour are always displayed.
The Barbados flights are among the longest Concorde flights you can do. And with this one at 3h 40 minutes, I actually arrived about 10 minutes sooner than I expected. The usual time is around 3h 50min. The prevailing jet-stream activity over the Atlantic brings slightly higher speeds sometimes. If you get really good conditions, you can go very fast indeed. I had one flight already with over 1420mph cruise speed.
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 115, posted (2 years 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 14571 times:
Quoting kevinl1011 (Reply 112): Is that the Boeing / Ethiopian ship you posted a screen shot of? I'm not very advanced with FS yet and wonder how much things like load, baro. and weather effects engine performance. Say, if you added more load or were @ Denver. Would the engines spool up any differently on FS? I do know that w/ FS it definately effects lift capability.
I don't know about other FS planes, but with Concorde, high temperatures very clearly affect the climb performance. Although the speed is still okay, since the ground speed is still quite good - so the virtual passengers are still getting value for money.
If you have colder conditions, you'll climb much higher and faster. With Active Sky Enhanced, if you program in a flight plan from say London to Barbados, or London to Bahrain, set the cruise altitude to 58000 feet, or 60,000 feet and look at the difference between the air temperatures. Down near the equator, the upper air temperatures are much colder indeed.
And on the Concorde (even in FSX), when you swap the engine rating from climb to cruise at just on M2.00 (there are a number of checklist items to do at that point), in those very cold conditions, the engine speed will be slightly reduced. Across the North Atlantic, when doing the same thing, the engine speed usually doesn't change at all.
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 116, posted (2 years 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 14520 times:
Quoting kevinl1011 (Reply 112): s that the Boeing / Ethiopian ship you posted a screen shot of? I'm not very advanced with FS yet and wonder how much things like load, baro. and weather effects engine performance. Say, if you added more load or were @ Denver. Would the engines spool up any differently on FS? I do know that w/ FS it definately effects lift capability.
Yeah that's the one. The olad was about 60-70% altogether, includin fuel. The baro was low, I think.
kevinl1011 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 2960 posts, RR: 53 Reply 117, posted (2 years 21 hours ago) and read 14513 times:
Quoting cpd (Reply 114): Next flight I think could go down to Bahrain,
Maybe there's a scenery add-on for Bahrain complete with burned up IA, RPG attacks and you have to race a SAM on departure.
Quoting cpd (Reply 114): That Barbados to London flight I took off with 95.4T of fuel, and still arrived with not much left over.
I never would have thought Barbados had enough runway.
BTW... I guess there's no "Virtual FAA" with FS to bust you for noise. Ever tried going Mach1+ @ low altitude over a major city?
Quoting aerdingus (Reply 116): The olad was about 60-70% altogether, includin fuel.
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 118, posted (2 years 17 hours ago) and read 14504 times:
Quoting kevinl1011 (Reply 117): I never would have thought Barbados had enough runway.
It's plenty long enough, and it was a regular visiting place for Concorde (BA). They would carry only 80 passengers, but typically with extra luggage. It gets off the runway easily enough with room to spare - but the 4250 mile journey is sometimes pushing the limits of Concorde range.
Quoting kevinl1011 (Reply 117): Ever tried going Mach1+ @ low altitude over a major city?
About the lowest altitude would be 29,000ft, anything less would be treated to the infernal warble tone from the overspeed indicator. It's very insistent and irritating. Really encourages you to deal with the overspeed very quickly. But I stick to the procedures.
Barbados is more fun on departure, it is flat out right away, no noise abatement. Certainly not like Kennedy and the Canarsie Climb which is very elaborate.
One I haven't tried yet is Cardiff to London via Bay of Biscay. In real life, that was where Concorde went from take-off to Mach 2.0 in less than 9 minutes. (60,000ft also in less than 9 minutes). If I remember right, it was G-BOAG or G-BOAE that did that. I've tried other times with training fuel loads, and the rate of climb was simply crazy with full power. The take-off distance was also very short, and the plane was very difficult to control on the ground, extremely easy to go too fast on the taxiways.
Bahrain was another place they used to visit, and it's a very unusual flight with a long subsonic sector over Europe before going supersonic over the Adriatic and Mediterranean.
EWRkid1990 From United States of America, joined Mar 2009, 150 posts, RR: 0 Reply 121, posted (1 year 11 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 13906 times:
The past few days I've been doing some flying on the Project Opensky CRJ-900 V3 in Delta Connection Comair colors. I've done the following routes, regardless if they're real routes using that aircraft or not.
Day 1.
ATL-PIT
PIT-JFK
JFK-YYZ
YYZ-ATL
ATL-AUS
Day 2
AUS-MSP
MSP-OMA
OMA-MSP
MSP-PIT
PIT-MSP
Day 3
MSP-STL
STL-MSP
MSP-MDW
MDW-MSP
and then I'm going to fly a Project Opensky 777-200 in Delta colors MSP-ATL to simulate a pilot commuting back to his base =)
FatmirJusufi From Albania, joined Jan 2009, 2396 posts, RR: 9 Reply 123, posted (1 year 11 months 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 13874 times:
I'm thinking switching to FS9 right now, after I haven't completed any flight since a month I guess!
Haven't decided yet for the route... maybe I'll do a short hop - PRN - TIA or vice-versa!
THEBATMAN From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 125, posted (1 year 11 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 13861 times:
Haven't done any long haul in a while, so I'm flying a UAL MD-11 (PMDG) from ORD-HNL...
Flinhion757 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 229 posts, RR: 0 Reply 127, posted (1 year 11 months 1 week 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 13807 times:
Hello,
First of all, great thread, all of your posts are very interesting! These aro the routes I plan to fly the next couple of days. Note: I do not know the schedules of these airlines much less the aircraft used on them, so don't judge that. Other than that, enjoy! I recently got the Commercial Level Sim A300 so I'll be using it a bunch.
Today:
LH203 A300-600R(CLS)
FRA-HER-TXL-ARN-FRA
Tomorrow:
ZB1408 A300-600R(CLS)
LTN-FAO-LTN
Hopefully when I get time :
CLS A300 World Tour
MAN-JFK-OKC-LAX-HNL-GUM-NRT-HKG-DEL-DXB-CAI-MAN
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 128, posted (1 year 11 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 13755 times:
Quoting Flinhion757 (Reply 127): First of all, great thread, all of your posts are very interesting
Hello
Just flew an AN28 from Khorog to Dushanbe in Tajikstan! Very challenging, turnin & climbin out of the mountains! At FL170, practically brushin off the peaks with the gear!
Next goin to take a B6 E190 JFK-CLT
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kevinl1011 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 2960 posts, RR: 53 Reply 131, posted (1 year 11 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 13573 times:
EDICHC From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 132, posted (1 year 11 months 11 hours ago) and read 13523 times:
Quoting kevinl1011 (Reply 131): Great! Love all that action. Nice detail too.
Thanks...I've spent quite a bit on payware for airports since the launch of FS9 as I hate arriving at generic looking airports. especially if they are airports I'm familiar with in the real world. I like the little touches you get with POSKY's 738's like the push-back truck and ramp engineer walking back.
Carlisle From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 271 posts, RR: 5 Reply 135, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 13199 times:
Quoting cpd (Reply 114): That Barbados to London flight I took off with 95.4T of fuel, and still arrived with not much left over. If I had to do any extra long diversions or multiple holds over Ockham, it would have been really marginal.
Those are some really great shots!
Personally, I did DL 110 ATL-LAX last night, and probably going to do DL 017, LAX-SYD, 772LR sometime this weekend or maybe sometime next week.
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1965 posts, RR: 7 Reply 137, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 13160 times:
Short for a 767, yes, but I just landed in AMS from LHR as KL 624.
I'm thinking I might do something like FSD-LNK in my Cessna Citation II in the next few days to do my part in the Special Olympics airlift. http://www.airlift.cessna.com/
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1965 posts, RR: 7 Reply 142, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 13027 times:
Now en route LHR-BRU as BA 2716, in a Trident 3. The weather has been terrible, and the damn autopilot quit on me without warning!
AERDINGUS From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 143, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 13020 times:
Quoting edichc (Reply 141): The absence of an update on this is worrying. Should we be sending out a virtual search & rescue helicopter? What was the last reported position?
Ha don't worry, we made it! Well...if you call floatin way over the runway, then going around, then flying all over Austria, only to miss the ILS again & finally just slam her into the runway "making it"?!! Then yes....!
edichc From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 144, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 12982 times:
Quoting AERDINGUS (Reply 143): we made it! Well...if you call floatin way over the runway, then going around, then flying all over Austria, only to miss the ILS again & finally just slam her into the runway "making it"?!!
As has been said many a time, any landing you walk away from....
THEBATMAN From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 146, posted (1 year 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 12831 times:
EdIcHc From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 147, posted (1 year 9 months 4 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 12800 times:
Looks like it will be domestic NZ routes for a little while for me. I've just joined Air New Zealand Virtual and will be restricted to ANZ Link (Air Nelson) Dash 8s for my first 10 sectors.
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 153, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 12711 times:
Quoting EdIcHc (Reply 150): Will perhaps start a new thread for this, say a turbo-prop screenshot thread? Or an EDICHC virtual ANZ flight log?
Why not do both?
Quoting EdIcHc (Reply 151): For some reason my return flight PIREP wont register.
As fun as virtual flying looks, this why I couldn't get bogged down in it...ATC would probably get real annoyed with me all the time aswell! FS ATC is so good to me lol!
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EdIcHc From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 154, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 12683 times:
Quoting MIAspotter (Reply 152): Cool! I had the same problems registering PIREPS when I was with LX virtual... I gave up.
Yeah, I was with Singapore Air Virtual a while ago and they used to allow manually logged PIREPs with no online flying which was great, but then they switched to an ACARS based system where you had to be logged onto VATSIM and I just found that more trouble than it was worth.
Quoting aerdingus (Reply 153): As fun as virtual flying looks, this why I couldn't get bogged down in it...ATC would probably get real annoyed with me all the time aswell! FS ATC is so good to me lol!
With Air NZ virtual you do not have to fly with online ATC, but PIREPs are filed automatically via an online ACARS program (XACARS/SimMILES). As I'm new to that system I haven't quite got used to the little quirks of the system yet. I'm sure it will all come good...eventually.
THEBATMAN From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 155, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 12655 times:
virginblue4 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2008, 694 posts, RR: 0 Reply 156, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 12579 times:
Just flown a Vietnam 787 from KPAE to KBFI for a short test flight
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 158, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 12540 times:
Lol I always thought the traffic warnings in FS9 were over-cautionary-cut to me nearly being obliterated for the first time by a TC 757! I was leaning out the window towards my 2 'o clock..couldn't see anything...then zoom! The 757 hurtled past my windscreen @ the same fl, just missed me! I had crash detection on, wonder what would've happened.....
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EdIcHc From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 159, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 12544 times:
Looks like Air NZ Virtual might be getting binned soon. Still having PIREP problems, and very poor support from the alleged 'support' forum on it's website. I truly don't mind doing local milk runs to begin with, particularly as I have some neat payware NZ scenery. But the guys running the VA need to make it a whole heap more user friendly.
Anyway, rant over & back to topic. Just done 4 short hops (PIREPS failed! OK I lied about the rant being over!)
Auckland-Napier-Wellington-Nelson-Christchurch all Dash 8-300
WNwatcher From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 270 posts, RR: 0 Reply 162, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 12521 times:
Been doing the DFW-GMP-DFW route in the Venomhatch/POSKY 747-800 for 2 weeks. Averaging 13 hours each way.
Nooo, but there is a program called FSPassengers which simulates... well... passengers! they will rate your piloting skills, if you make a rough landing, or don't have IFE or food, etc.
WNwatcher From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 270 posts, RR: 0 Reply 165, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 12527 times:
virginblue4 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2008, 694 posts, RR: 0 Reply 167, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 12486 times:
Do any of tyou guys when doing a flight speed up the time, or do you leave it at normal? Also do you use autopilot or not?
WNwatcher From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 270 posts, RR: 0 Reply 169, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 12478 times:
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 171, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 12460 times:
Took a Conviasa An148 from Margarita to St.Vincent (TVSV), so hard to land there! Comin in for 26 you have to get over a hill, then dive down & somehow flare so as you're not comin in too hot....it's kind of Paro-esque.....took me a few good times....
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DAL7e7 From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 357 posts, RR: 4 Reply 175, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 12370 times:
Taking the CLS KC-10 PDX-SKA. Just turned over the SEA VOR. I recently joined NWAG and I've been doing a lot of flying in the NW USA. Its pretty nice up there.
War Eagle!
DAL7e7
DAL7e7 is wondering... Do pilots take crash courses?
WNwatcher From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 270 posts, RR: 0 Reply 176, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 12369 times:
Venomhatch 747-8 KCLT-HKMO. Charlotte Intl. to Mombasa, Kenya. Est. Flight time: 14:54
MIAspotter From Spain, joined Nov 2001, 2078 posts, RR: 26 Reply 177, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 12405 times:
I am planning my "Virtual Holidays"
I will be taking an Airbus Corporate Jetliner (of course) from ZRH to SXM stopping in TFS
Once in SXM I might do a few short hops along the Islands or maybe fly down to Cayenne in French Guyana... never thought to fly around that area... so I'll give it a go.
I will post some shots on the bog standard thread.
Quoting aerdingus (Reply 173): Sorry....I remember readin in Airways (I think) how everyone loved their DC10s, that they used Caracas-Canaries-Madrid?
Yes! it used to be a great airline, the DC10s flew everywhere, LHR, MAD, FCO, CDG, FRA even to Billund in Norway!
I flew on their A300s back in 1990 or 1991 from CCS to PMV, I was not entirely aware of airplanes and such back then, but my mom just told me "we are flying on the Airbus 300 to PMV" and I still remember that day.. I even remember what they gave me for lunch, it was a box with 2 half sandwiches in there (white and brown bread).
DAL7e7 From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 357 posts, RR: 4 Reply 179, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 12260 times:
Flying with a buddy on the Kansai-Kai Tak leg of our around the world flight. FL340 in B748's. He's only 1.8 nm behind me. Its sweet!
War Eagle!
Trey
DAL7e7 is wondering... Do pilots take crash courses?
EDICHC From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 180, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 12253 times:
Switched from Air New Zealand Virtual to Virtual Air New Zealand (Sounds like the Judean People's Front/People's Front of Judea fiasco from Life of Brian). No pireps problems with them, so plodding short feeder routes in a Beech1900D builing up my hours to progress to something meatier. last sector was Blenheim-Christchurch.
B6A322 From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 267 posts, RR: 0 Reply 184, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 12168 times:
Nothing at the moment, but today I flew a 737-800 in modified Pacifica colors (really good looking ones I might add) around the islands of Hawaii starting at Honolulu.
I particularly like flights around Hawaii because you get a fair number of somewhat challenging landings with shorter runways.
WNwatcher From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 270 posts, RR: 0 Reply 186, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 12094 times:
THEBATMAN From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 821 posts, RR: 11 Reply 187, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 11 hours ago) and read 12080 times:
ediCHC From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 188, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 12073 times:
Still plugging away at short dom hops in an Air NZ Link (Eagle Air) Beech 1900D, but now bought the PMDG version. Will need to post a screen shot soon. Last trip Christchurch - Wanaka. 4hrs 50min logged on type now.
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 189, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 12075 times:
Just flew ORD-DFW in a UA A320. I sure did land on the wrong runway but FS ATC didn't seem to mind. "No worry, love", they said, "go on & park over there. On the grass".
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aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 191, posted (1 year 9 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 11986 times:
Quoting ediCHC (Reply 190): Aha the ATC version 'of the naughty corner'!
Exactly!
Been flying around Chile lately, somewhere I'd love to go in real life, fascinating part of the world. An AV 762 BOG-SCL & LA 763 PUQ - SCL. The LA flight was the best but unfortunately I landed with the a/t still engaged. No bother, I just shut the engines down on the runway
"An FS Accident Investigation discovered that the PF was distracted during the final landing phase due to painting & decorating her room at the same time, and did not notice the a/t still selected. The flaps were also found to be in the wrong position. The PNF also failed to pay attention, and was scraping wallpaper off during the crucial phase of landing. Engines were shut down on the runway, and no-one was injured."
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apodino From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 3385 posts, RR: 7 Reply 192, posted (1 year 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 11964 times:
Having a problem getting the real world weather going, but I am about to do PVD-DCA in an ERJ. I have actual real world flight releases that I am using to help me, as well as real Jepp plates as well as an up to date nav database. Planning to go to PHL, then LGA, and finally BGR after DCA
WNwatcher From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 270 posts, RR: 0 Reply 193, posted (1 year 9 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 11946 times:
Quoting apodino (Reply 192): Having a problem getting the real world weather going
Is it saying that it is unable to connect to the internet and that you need to check your connection?
apodino From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 3385 posts, RR: 7 Reply 194, posted (1 year 9 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 11949 times:
Quoting WNwatcher (Reply 193):
Is it saying that it is unable to connect to the internet and that you need to check your connection?
Yeah...the problem is on the Microsoft end, as apparently the weather server doesn't work anymore, and based on comments in other forums, fixing the problem does not seem to be a priority for Microsoft.
WNwatcher From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 270 posts, RR: 0 Reply 195, posted (1 year 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 11933 times:
Quoting apodino (Reply 194): Yeah...the problem is on the Microsoft end, as apparently the weather server doesn't work anymore, and based on comments in other forums, fixing the problem does not seem to be a priority for Microsoft.
I guess they for got to pay the bill from Jeppeson........
Maverick623 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 3795 posts, RR: 4 Reply 196, posted (1 year 9 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 11923 times:
Quoting apodino (Reply 194): Yeah...the problem is on the Microsoft end, as apparently the weather server doesn't work anymore, and based on comments in other forums, fixing the problem does not seem to be a priority for Microsoft.
Mine works just fine.
I had the same problem you did a few months ago. Try this:
LHR380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 199, posted (1 year 9 months 11 hours ago) and read 11864 times:
I was (for the first time in about a year in and a bit) doing a proper flight, CDG JNB in a Airbus 380 of Air France.
Flight was fine, 447 people on board, perfect flight. Was watching the IFE (A movie on telly lol) and keeping an eye on the screen, fuel flow etc when I looked over at my 15 min mark and it had crashed.
Replayed from 120 seconds before the crash and all was fine. 2:30 out of JNB, cruising at a steady speed at 36000 feet, when all of a sudden it shook a little and crashed. not deviating altitude. Like it hit a brick wall mid-air.
cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4813 posts, RR: 49 Reply 201, posted (1 year 8 months 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 11772 times:
I'm about to set off on New York to London - we'll see how that goes. I'm hoping for some nice weather so that it'll be a fast flight. I'd like to do under 3 hours if possible.
WNwatcher From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 270 posts, RR: 0 Reply 204, posted (1 year 8 months 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 11780 times:
Quoting LHR380 (Reply 199): Like it hit a brick wall mid-air.
Have had that happen several times to me. Try running the "repair" feature on your FSX disks.......
apodino From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 3385 posts, RR: 7 Reply 205, posted (1 year 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 11712 times:
edichc From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 206, posted (1 year 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 11651 times:
Quoting aerdingus (Reply 191): The PNF also failed to pay attention, and was scraping wallpaper off during the crucial phase of landing.
Suggest the PNF be summoned here to a full inquiry, to account for his or her actions. Forfeiting large quantities of alcoholic beverages to peers on here if a no-show.
Took a wee break from Virtual Air NZ ops to fit in a flyglobespan STN-EDI (see Defunct Airlines screenshots)
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 207, posted (1 year 8 months 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 11621 times:
Quoting edichc (Reply 206): Suggest the PNF be summoned here to a full inquiry, to account for his or her actions. Forfeiting large quantities of alcoholic beverages to peers on here if a no-show.
Suggestion noted, will exchange alcohol for Ikea vouchers.
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wfm From Sweden, joined Jul 2007, 47 posts, RR: 0 Reply 208, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 11407 times:
I have just flown Aloha Airlines 737-700 PHNL-PHLI-PHNL-PHOG-PHKO-PHTO.
Later today I will fly around Brazil with Varig 737-700: SBKP-SBGL-SBCF-SBBR-SBSV-SBAR-SBMO-SBRF-SBNT.
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 209, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 11022 times:
Quoting WNwatcher (Reply 204):
Have had that happen several times to me. Try running the "repair" feature on your FSX disks.......
Im flying 04, my computer is not good enough for FSX lol.
Currently flying VP-BQF, an S7 738 with very nice winglets on its delivery flight. Routing at the moment KBFI-CYQX, have around 4:43 flying time left at an altitude of 33000 feet. After that I will fly it to Scotland, then hop over to its new home in Russia.
gingersnap From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2010, 674 posts, RR: 6 Reply 210, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 11020 times:
Completed a short hop last night in a WN 73G, from KSEA-KSAN.
Not sure where to go next to be honest.
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 213, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 10995 times:
Winds are a bit stronger then expected, got whacked in the side by a massive gust of wind that cuased my speed to shoot up and pushed me off course, so am diverting to CYBG where my crew will spend the night.
EDICHC From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 215, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 10965 times:
Quoting aerdingus (Reply 214): Right, I diverted 2,600km to Chennai. Where's me dinner?
Well if we are in virtual Chennai it has to be a virtual Madras curry!
Quoting lhr380 (Reply 213): Winds are a bit stronger then expected, got whacked in the side by a massive gust of wind that cuased my speed to shoot up and pushed me off course,
I was on final approach for Rwy 20R at SIN during a thunderstorm a few days ago. It was just about the scariest landing I have ever made. About 3 miles out a sudden head wind pitched me up about 200 feet above the glide-slope and then (thankfully with the wheels only 10 feet or so from touchdown) I lost about 40 kias. Must have been a microburst.
gingersnap From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2010, 674 posts, RR: 6 Reply 218, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 10941 times:
Quoting EDICHC (Reply 215): I was on final approach for Rwy 20R at SIN during a thunderstorm a few days ago. It was just about the scariest landing I have ever made. About 3 miles out a sudden head wind pitched me up about 200 feet above the glide-slope and then (thankfully with the wheels only 10 feet or so from touchdown) I lost about 40 kias. Must have been a microburst.
Yup. I was at SIN a few weeks back, and departed off Rwy 20C. Thunderstorms and windshear on initial climbout.
That Singapore sure knows how to raise hell with aircraft.
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2244 posts, RR: 20 Reply 220, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 10816 times:
Flying to Kinshasa in a Wimbi Dira Airways DC-9. Best name ever for an airline. Don't know where to depart from yet, trying to get scenery of Goma with lava, but that's maybe a bit unrealistic @ the mo....
BA EI FH FR TS ZB 3K 5G A306 A313 A320 A321 A333 B738 B744 B772 BCN CRL DUB FRA FUE GRO HEL HER HKG JFK LHR LIN MAD MXP
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 222, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 14 hours ago) and read 10717 times:
Quoting ACWS777 (Reply 221): Currently flying to hong kong from toronto with Air Canada 777-200 LR at FL410. I have a long way to go just 20 minutes in the flight.
B747forever From Sweden, joined May 2007, 16074 posts, RR: 12 Reply 225, posted (1 year 5 months 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 9970 times:
I will fly LX 1249 (ARN-ZRH) tonight and tomorrow morning the first thing I will do when I wake up is to start the long sector to LAX from ZRH as LX40. Will be a fun 12.5hours of flying tomorrow
LoveJT8D From United States of America, joined Sep 2010, 47 posts, RR: 0 Reply 227, posted (1 year 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 9939 times:
Well after the 14th try or so I just recently got done completing the "Loopy Larry" mission at the Oshkosh Air Show. What a pain that mission is trying to land on a school bus, but the best feeling once you pass it. I think I'm going to take a nice relaxing celebratory trip in a 172 out of my original home town at KMRT.
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 228, posted (1 year 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 9779 times:
Did a really nice flight yesterday. JFK-FRA in a very nice PanAm 747-100. perfect flight, little choppy just after take off, and a bit foggy on approach (Fun when not using the ILS I can tell you)
BAW076 From UK - Scotland, joined Aug 2006, 723 posts, RR: 34 Reply 230, posted (1 year 5 months 2 weeks 1 day ago) and read 9624 times:
I am just approaching 40 minutes into flight FR1936 Girona - Stockholm (Skavsta), callsign RYR1XN, currently crossing the southern most parts of France and into Italy shortly. Flight time is expected to be 2hrs 53mins, and I am flying EI-DWC which carries the 'Pirineu de Girona' titles.
aluminumbird777 From United States of America, joined Jan 2011, 8 posts, RR: 0 Reply 238, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 8490 times:
I am flying all over the world in an Eaglesoft Citation X. Currently I'm in Stockholm. Eventually I will return to my hometown of Lexington, KY (KLEX).
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 242, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 8466 times:
Quoting lhr380 (Reply 239): En route again after repairs were made to my plane. Now on a night flight MAA-SIN
Landed safely in SIN, though had a major comms problem so had to circle the airport to check runways and such for landing (Was stuck on a MAA frequency, and even with manual adjustment it kept going back to MAA)
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 243, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 8408 times:
Good flight from SIN-DRW. No problems on the DRW-SYD until I got to SYD and the weather was, well, crap. Had to go around late due to a slow moving plane on the runway, and then it took me ages to land again. Did it in the end.
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 245, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 23 hours ago) and read 8350 times:
Took off safe and sound from NOU heading to Pago Pago. About 100 miles out the clouds started to build and I started hearing thunder. Very bumpy approach, not helped by my flaps seizing up the damn things and my throttle lever sticking to idle. Got on the ground all well and good and got the thing sorted. Now en route for the LONG leg to HNL.
I have Christmas Island in mind if the winds are not good meaning I will get to HNL low on fuel.
CaptainMeeerkat From Russia, joined Aug 2010, 266 posts, RR: 1 Reply 246, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 23 hours ago) and read 8351 times:
Quoting lhr380 (Reply 245): Very bumpy approach, not helped by my flaps seizing up the damn things and my throttle lever sticking to idle. Got on the ground all well and good and got the thing sorted
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 248, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 8317 times:
Made it safe and sound to HNL, but had radio problems again, brought a new one in HNL, installed and fixed the problem and took off for the long flight to LAX.
Woke at 4am (Before my alarm as well lol) and made a safe landing into LAX.
After a bit of a rest, took of en route to JFK. Nearly coming up to the least legs of this RTW trip.
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 250, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 8307 times:
Quoting CaptainMeeerkat (Reply 249): I was up all night (and still!) writing a chapter of my thesis, flew Almaty to Hong Kong in Lufthy cargo MD11 to 'entertain me!'
lhr380 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 251, posted (1 year 4 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 8290 times:
Landed safe and sound in JFK, and took off en route to Ponta Delgada in the Azores. Nice flight, but HORRID weather and a nasty cross wind made it hard to land when I finally got there.
Now am en route back home (Well home of the plane) TXL, the final leg of the journey..
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1965 posts, RR: 7 Reply 252, posted (1 year 4 months 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 8262 times:
Once I get everything back in business, my first flight's gonna be DUB-AMS in a Southern Air 747-300F. They said it was some big concert production and the Kalitta 747 apparently wasn't enough
NAV20 From Australia, joined Nov 2003, 8462 posts, RR: 40 Reply 259, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 3699 times:
Quoting lhr380 (Reply 254): Safely landing in TXL to complete my first RTW trip in a good few years
I've rather 'specialised' in RW trips over the last few years. I find working out the best routes, and then flying them as best I can in 'real weather,' provides constant stimulation - in that things can and often do go wrong!
I've done it in all sorts of aeroplanes - including the default Cessna and even a nicely-modelled Hawker Hurricane - and especially enjoy using Robert Christopher's excellent Lancair Legacy. The ideal for me is really an aeroplane that has a range of the order of 1,500nms.; that means that you have to be pretty inventive about routes because, as examples, Honolulu-San Francisco is over 2,000nms., so you have to go round the Pacific rather than across it; and even a key part of the traditional Great Circle route Australia/Australia (St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada to Lisbon, Portugal) can't be flown direct, a stop in the Azores is 'mandatory.'
Just at the moment I've 'made a change' from my usual Melbourne-Melbourne trips, deciding to re-enact Scott and Black's legendary 1934 Mildenhall (UK)-Melbourne trip in the (still beautiful) FS2004 DH88 Comet. I stopped everywhere they were required to stop (Baghdad, Allahabad, Singapore, Darwin, and Charleville in Queensland) and also allowed for a half-hour stop at each point (as they did).
Pleased to report that I made it to Melbourne in 58 hours. That is better than the 71 hours they took; but no credit to me as I had built and installed an autopilot, usually got a night's sleep in between legs, and avoided the problem they had late on (one of the engines pretty well 'signing off' due to duff petrol being supplied before the leg to Darwin). How they EVER did it - with only the most basic instruments, zero visibility and/or storms a lot of the time, several 700-mile flights over the open sea, and no sleep barring what they could grab in their seats while the other guy was hand-flying, beats me; I'm lost in admiration for them, it was literally 'death-defying'!
I was also astonished by the performance of the (faithfully-modelled) Comet. After a couple of cautious trips, husbanding the fuel, I found out that Geoffrey De Havilland seems somehow (probably through the perfect streamlining) to have managed to build in a sort of 'reverse fuel economy' - the aeroplane tends to produce better 'miles per gallon' (yes, the ASI on the model reads in mph! ) than it does at lower throttle settings. I already knew that Scott and Black flew at full throttle most of the time, after my FS 'flight' I now know why .
If anyone wants to know more about the real-life flight, this shows a (remarkably laconic) account of the trip by Scott (and Black, though he only says one word!) on their return:-
I've decided that, having reached Melbourne in such a short time, I'd better 'convert' the trip to a round-world attempt. I usually aim to complete them within five days. 'Touch and go' whether I make it though, the first stage of the 'second leg' is inevitably to plug north over the Pacific, enduring the (normally 'prevailing from the east') winds close to the Equator. But I hope to make up the lost time once I reach Honolulu and head for San Francisco, after that I can hope for some help from the (westerly) 'Roaring Forties' above about 30 degrees North.
Sorry for such a long post, but I hope it's of interest.
"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards.." - Leonardo da Vinci
csturdiv From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1254 posts, RR: 4 Reply 260, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 3673 times:
I have not flown for a long time. Actually my FS became corrupt and I was very lazy on reinstalling it. However after a recent trip out to PHX and also taking a helicopter ride out in Sedona, Arizona, I have the flying bug again, and have been busy on reinstalling my FS. I soon hope to be flying around Arizona soon, as I was just amazed at the landscape out there.
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Nowhere, working in my virtual hangar 
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Going to do an EI flight EIDW-LSZH but can't decide what aircraft to use...
Really long flight. Argh... I don't dare accelerate the time, for fear that FSX will crash, or the MD-11 will do something strange. Not much to see, it's night time.
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. Ended up landing at LGA on 31. I was going for 22L or 22R at JFK but wasn't gonna make it. Got a kiss landing from FS pax. On the landing though -56 ft.
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