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Clive wrote in message
... What's the recognised route around the world. Planning on doing it in the Baron. Can anyone point me to a flightplan in FSNavigator for such a route? Thanks Clive Fuel is the key. If you fit ferry fuel tanks, you can do California Hawaii which is one of the deciding sectors due to the long range, otherwise via the north Pacific. Cheers Peter Cokley |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:50:54 +1000, "Peter and Susan"
wrote: Clive wrote in message ... What's the recognised route around the world. Planning on doing it in the Baron. Can anyone point me to a flightplan in FSNavigator for such a route? Thanks Clive Fuel is the key. If you fit ferry fuel tanks, you can do California Hawaii which is one of the deciding sectors due to the long range, otherwise via the north Pacific. Cheers Peter Cokley Shame that the range of the Baron falls short by a meagre 100nm for the Easter Island route It would not take a lot of Extra fuel and with favourable winds who knows? Alan |
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"Clive" wrote:
What's the recognised route around the world. Planning on doing it in the Baron. I'm still halfway around in my DC-3. Below you'll find my flightplan as it stands now. You can either fill it from there or just use some of the points. The first leg (CYYT - LPCR) is crucial if you want to cross the Atlantic, but crossing over Greenland is always an option. From there it's a piece of cake making it to Iceland and the UK and the rest of Europe. But I've come across some really nice and sometimes strange scenery. Flying over New Zealand is a MUST!! Have fun at Mount Cooke (YMCO)! CYYT - LPCR LPCR - LPMA LPMA - GQNC GQNC - DRRN DRRN - FCOK FCOK - FLMW FLMW - Z23K Z23K - FIMP FIMP - FJDG FJDG - YPCC YPCC - YSHK YSHK - YCDU YCDU - YMCO YMCO - NZMC NZMC - NZTG NZTG - NIUE NIUE - NTAA NTAA - NTGJ NTGJ - SCIP SCIP - SCFX SCFX - SLCC To this point the trip is 22372.2nm, using 9420.9 gallons of fuel. Total flighttime in the DC-3 (averaging FL170) is 111:11.52' The plan from here is to fly up South America, over the Southern states of the US and back up to St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada. The real challenge is flying a straight line over both poles, or flying the full length of the equator. Have fun! Marcel |
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Marcel Kuijper wrote:
snipped SCFX - SLCC To this point the trip is 22372.2nm, using 9420.9 gallons of fuel. Total flighttime in the DC-3 (averaging FL170) is 111:11.52' The plan from here is to fly up South America, over the Southern states of the US and back up to St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada. The real challenge is flying a straight line over both poles, or flying the full length of the equator. Have fun! Marcel Nice plan Marcel, I'm sure you know, that you can't make the poles and the equator route is boring because there is too much water. I'm not keen to count fishes - even if there are flying g. It's not too easy to plan a really interesting flight just staying close to a great circle. The best chance to have as much land as possible is starting somewhere in Europe towards Auckland. -- Regards Axel |
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"FlyingAxx" wrote:
Nice plan Marcel, Thanks, Axel! I'm sure you know, that you can't make the poles and the equator route is boring because there is too much water. I'm not keen to count fishes - even if there are flying g. Well....I flew over the North Pole once in an F-14 at FL500. Using FS2k. I couldn't get a decent reading on any of my instruments, but I flew over it and past it, just to turn back and land at Anchorage. When I tried it in the Baron (using FS2k2) I was in real trouble. I don't see why it should be impossible to fly North-South at an even higher altitude in something even faster. When I get some time, maybe even this weekend, I'll try a hop in my trusty Blackbird at FL700. And I'll do it in FS9 on my laptop. I want to see the results.....and I'll tell you all about it. Maybe I'll make some screenshots of the instruments. The key is to fly manually. When you let the AP fly, you will most certainly crash and burn! I do agree on the equator flight being boring, but when you're facing a challenge you should go all the way. And that's where, again, the Blackbird comes in. I figure that whole trip will cost me 6-7 hours. It's not too easy to plan a really interesting flight just staying close to a great circle. The best chance to have as much land as possible is starting somewhere in Europe towards Auckland. My trip isn't even a real circle, but I had to compensate. Our planet looks really funky when you're planning a flight like this. Originally I was going to go from Madagascar to India, but then I realized I would upset Aussie John and Kiwi Don if I didn't check out Australia and New Zealand on that trip. And since I could use French-Polynesia to get to South America from there, I went that way. Next time I'll do Alaska, Northern Europe, Russia, Asia, Hawaii, Western US, Canada and back to Alaska. But just once I'd like to go to every country in the sim world in one, single trip! Marcel |
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Hi Marcel,
You wrote: ... Originally I was going to go from Madagascar to India, but then I realized I would upset Aussie John and Kiwi Don if I didn't check out Australia and New Zealand on that trip. And since I could use French-Polynesia to get to South America from there, I went that way. OK, this I can understand :-) Next time I'll do Alaska, Northern Europe, Russia, Asia, Hawaii, Western US, Canada and back to Alaska. But just once I'd like to go to every country in the sim world in one, single trip! That reads like a real challenge, wow! I think I will make that one by using FS 2014 or so hehe. Then I will have the time - maybe - and hopefully the money to buy the needed HyperLightGig100Comp... Back to my trip: I started at Fireland, flying now along the Andes heading north momentarily. There are very nice spots in Argentina and Chile as well. You know, those airports being hidden in niches or holes. The landscape is quite nice, even the standard scenery. I'm not too interested in landing in the midst of a flat landscape having some autogen trees and nothing else to see. I think, I'll follow the mountains towards Alaska, throwing then the coin whether to go East or West. -- Regards Axel |
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"FlyingAxx" wrote:
[Marcel wrote:] But just once I'd like to go to every country in the sime world in one, single trip! That reads like a real challenge, wow! I think I will make that one by using FS 2014 or so hehe. Then I will have the time - maybe - and hopefully the money to buy the needed HyperLightGig100Comp... Hi Axel! Yeah...that's a big order alright! I like to push myself to the limit sometimes! But I probably won't get around to it this year. I have too much planned already and hardly any time to fly nowadays. So you get that supercomputer and we'll handle that group-world-flight in about 10 years. With state-of-the-art hardware! :-)) Back to my trip: I started at Fireland, flying now along the Andes heading north momentarily. There are very nice spots in Argentina and Chile as well. You know, those airports being hidden in niches or holes. The landscape is quite nice, even the standard scenery. I'm not too interested in landing in the midst of a flat landscape having some autogen trees and nothing else to see. I think, I'll follow the mountains towards Alaska, throwing then the coin whether to go East or West. I have a question: where's Fireland? But yes, South-America has some very beautiful scenery. Even in FS2k2. As soon as I get my other computer, I'm going to turn it in to a server and post all the screenshots from my worldtrip. There are some really weird ones of Africa and Australia, and some really nice ones of Australia, New Zealand, The Azores, FP and the Canary Islands. FS2k2 really is a huge step up from FS2k and FS9 is even nicer! I remember seeing baseballfields all over Greece, Vietnam and India! Some of them on mountainsides! :-)) I know what you mean about those hidden airports. I've seen some of them deep inside a whole! Like 1000 feet straight down! One of them in Canada! Banff, Alberta is situated on a rock! Tough to land a 737 there! :-)) When you make it to Alaska you have to fly East! Fly all the way across North Canada. When you make it to New Foundland, fly NorthEast over Greenland.You know....since you like nice scenery and all.... That's what I would do. But eventually the choice is yours. Marcel |
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