World’s shortest commercial flight - challange

[OldAirmail]

This is more of a personal, self, challenge than one of those nearly impossible challenges.

It's quite doable, although it may take you two, or more, attempts to get it right.

The primary challenges are keeping your speed and altitude down.

Takeoff is from EGEW on Westray, to EGEP on Papa Westray. There are grass runways, but the video uses the hard surfaces.

You might want to use 09 at Westray, to 22 at Papa Westray. That looks to be the best match per the video.




World’s Shortest Commercial Flight is Just 47 Seconds Long




[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwyVWaCAD2A[/youtube]

[Jean Loup]

Here we go OldAirMail, with my trusty Smmuglers Dream for a short hop

[OldAirmail]

Hopefully you did it better than I did. First I was too high & fast, then just too high, and lastly too fast.


I had fun anyway, but none of my passengers will ever get on a plane that I fly.

Everyone walked away, so isn't that the mark of a good landing.

[Fozzer]

When it comes to popping/hopping from airfield to airfield over short distances, requiring short take off and landings, and some smart manoeuvring in between, I have always preferred aircraft fitted with quick reaction piston driven props, rather that turbine driven props with their inherent slow response time in changes to engine/propeller speed, and their lack of braking/slowing down effect!

Probably why the old DH Beaver was/is so popular in out of the way places!

I rather like piston props....they remind me of my motor-bike engine, with a carburettor....(but without a propeller).

Paul... ...!

[OldAirmail]

I have plenty of airplanes that can go slow, like the Westland Lysander or the Fieseler Storch.

The challenge is in taking an aircraft like the one pictured in the article - World’s Shortest Commercial Flight is Just 47 Seconds Long.



And using something similar in the sim.



Your natural instinct is to get it off the ground and up into the air quickly.

And that's when you realize that you're too high. And going too fast.

Read the article, watch the video.

Like I said, it's quite doable. Not hard at all.

But if you are using something more powerful than your 150/152, something like what's used in real life, you might find yourself too high or too fast.