Were to go next?

[masmith]

Ive decied Im going to fly to Australia,

For the first stage:
I started in the UK at Halton EGWN,
and Im currently flying to Rome.
Yesterday I Arrived in corsica,
and Im on the final leg to rome
with 3 more stops to make,

Im flying Rick Pipers Chipmunk  :D
(<---Look left)

Any suggestion on were to fly to next?

And eventually I will end up in Australia

[C]

Rome - Athens - Cyprus - Amman (Jordan) - Riyadh - Dubai - Muscat - Karachi - Mumbai (Bombay) should get you started - check the distances though!

[expat]

Chipmunk to Oz.

I would take the wings off and put the chippy in a  Herc, or a 7 Cargo

Matt

[C]

[quote]Chipmunk to Oz.

I would take the wings off and put the chippy in a

[expat]

I had the fortune to do VFR, low level in a Herc, with the back ramp open in a previous life once. More excitment that I really wanted.  :-/ At this point I need a brown smiley to go with the green one

Matt

[Nav]

masmith, I do that route quite often - doing it now, as it happens!

Best route (largely followed by all the 'pioneers', like Amy Johnson and Francis Chichester) is probably Luqa (Malta) - Iraklion (Crete) - Tel Aviv - Kuwait - Muscat - Karachi - Delhi - Calcutta - Rangoon (Yangon) - Singapore - Djakarta - Suribaya - Dili (East Timor) - Darwin.

But that's with the aeroplane I'm using at the moment - Hurricane Mark II, with a range of 500 miles (and I can get 700 out of it with coarse pitch, lean mixture, and some help from the wind). Being a trainer, the Chipmunk will only have a very short range (about 250 miles?) so you'll have to find other places to land and refuel in between.

If range is a problem you could try putting on bigger fuel tanks - which is what the real long-distance people did. Find the aircraft.cfg file, back it up, then look for the fuel section, type in bigger fuel figures, and re-save it. With luck, if you're reasonable (maybe just double the figures?) it won't affect the flying performance (except that it will maybe feel 'heavier' on takeoff). If it spoils it, put the backed-up file back in.

Good luck with the trip, hope you make it!

[Ivan]

He probably will up in airport-less areas...

OK considering max range of the thing is 300nm or so, there is not that much choice (even a F7b/3m has more range) in route.

I don't know what the climbrate of that plane is, but you have the best chance going Rome -> Athens -> Istanbul, then follow the coast up to Georgia, follow the Caucasus until Baku, and go southeast through Iran (depending on max ceiling go direct Rasht - Tehran when you can climb over that mountain. Alternative is going over Mashad) and Pakistan avoiding the big mountain ranges.
Problem is that you end up in India which has large distances between the airports...

Alternative (needs a lot of addon scenery): Go from Baku slightly northeast, and follow the Transsiberian to Vladivostok, then go south through China to Thailand and Indonesia.
For this route you need:
- All the russian airports by Rulexy (avsim.ru and watch the dates when installing as some packs have updated versions)
- China airports from avsim