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I managed to get another leg done yesterday. It's available via my link as usual. The report contains two embarressing admissions

Awesome stuff. That approach sounded pretty hellish....I tried doing an approach like that, just to see whether I could.

I could not! Need more practice at bad landings.

Also, not meaning to nitpick, but I think it's Antonio Carlos Jobim Airport in Rio, named after the Brazilian bossa nova/jazz composer.

Awesome stuff. That approach sounded pretty hellish....I tried doing an approach like that, just to see whether I could.

I could not! Need more practice at bad landings.

Also, not meaning to nitpick, but I think it's Antonio Carlos Jobim Airport in Rio, named after the Brazilian bossa nova/jazz composer.

Since I arrived in South America I've been getting a lot of practice at bad landings!

Feel free to nitpick - it's the only way I spot my typos! Fixed now thanks.

By the way - that was leg 11 you were reading... lol.

Nice bit of flying there

Only one suggestion at the end of each report, maybe you could post departure and Arrival times, and total flight time.

No offence, but I just looked at your leg 12 and I have no idea of how long it took

btw, you have the little blue dot for the pre-booked visit of me

Always a good idea to do a complete thorough preflight even if it is a sim. I found a joystick glitch that way when the alerions didn't respond. Simple restart of my joystick app. fixed it so no mechanic's fees but that's better than taking off and finding out you can't turn.

I don't know whether you particularly want to fly to only default airports but I found an add on that gives you airports in Antarctica. The filename is ATAK2_A.zip by Bill Freeborn in the Scenery section here at Simviation.

Nice bit of flying there

Only one suggestion at the end of each report, maybe you could post departure and Arrival times, and total flight time.

No offence, but I just looked at your leg 12 and I have no idea of how long it took

btw, you have the little blue dot for the pre-booked visit of me

Take a look at the Flight Log link - the distances and times are all in there.

Always a good idea to do a complete thorough preflight even if it is a sim. I found a joystick glitch that way when the alerions didn't respond. Simple restart of my joystick app. fixed it so no mechanic's fees but that's better than taking off and finding out you can't turn.

I don't know whether you particularly want to fly to only default airports but I found an add on that gives you airports in Antarctica. The filename is ATAK2_A.zip by Bill Freeborn in the Scenery section here at Simviation.

You're absolutely right about the pre-flight and I will make sure I do a proper one next time!


Thanks for the info on Antarctica. I'm by no means constrained to default airports although the target for the flight was to take in the most Northern and Southern airports by defult.
I haven't checked that file but if it's the one I think it is, it contains fictional airports. I don't have many rules with my flightsim, but where scenery is concerned, that's a big no no for me. I'll download it anyway just in case.

The way I understood the Readme file, the airports are fictional but they correspond to actual stations. Most small scientific stations there wouldn't have a dedicated runway. They'd just use any flat smooth surface nearby to land a ski equipped plane (which wouldn't work with FS2002). I think he also used some artistic license in the buildings and looks of the stations.

"The names of the airports in the A/FD correspond to the actual names of the scientific stations.  The stated coordinates are for the respective airports with the stations being in near proximity.  Geographic positioning is as accurate as possible, but is governed by the default scenery.  There has been no attempt to represent any station, as such.  Beyond the station names and their approximate coordinates, you are subject to my imagination."

Don't know if that's realistic enough for your flight rules but since you particularly wanted to visit the farthest North and South I thought I'd give you a heads up. I think there was a glitch that kept the South Pole base from being anywhere near the real South Pole but I measured the farthest South one the add on puts in and it's about 650 miles away although this might be a bad time to fly down there with Winter coming on.

[quote]The way I understood the Readme file, the airports are fictional but they correspond to actual stations. Most small scientific stations there wouldn't have a dedicated runway. They'd just use any flat smooth surface nearby to land a ski equipped plane (which wouldn't work with FS2002). I think he also used some artistic license in the buildings and looks of the stations.

[i][b]"The names of the airports in the A/FD correspond to the actual names of the scientific stations.

Take a look at the Flight Log link - the distances and times are all in there.

Sorry, never noticed that page

Matt - I'm gonna make you come with me!

It's 2,794nm almost due South from Guardiamarina Zanatu to Vostok/Ross Island

Nice stuff John. I was pretty peeved about the missing statue too. That and the cable car with James Bond fighting Jaws (Moonraker) being absent!
Err why didn't you check the flaps sooner?

Ozzy

Nice stuff John. I was pretty peeved about the missing statue too. That and the cable car with James Bond fighting Jaws (Moonraker) being absent!
Err why didn't you check the flaps sooner?

Ozzy

I knew the statue was missing in the default scenery but I put some add-on scenery in for Rio which is why I was even more disappointed than usual.

As to the flaps.......errrr....well....... I was so busy looking for the statue that I didn't have time to look at the panel!

(That's my hideously feeble excuse and I'm sticking to it!! )

I have just caught up with Legs 11 and 12.

Wow.  I'm sitting in my study perfectly safe but sweating with all the suppressed fear of having to make that Rio landing myself.

As for the flaps problem, I have to admit that I did the same once with airbrakes.  I was doing an around Europe flight in a harrier.  Landed with airbrakes on, taxied to fueling point, re-fueled and saved then went to bed.

The next day my airspeed was appaling at full throttle and I had the range of an inebriated gnat.  It took me two hours to work out what I'd done.

Good luck with lucky Leg 13 tee hee hee.

Will

[quote]I have just caught up with Legs 11 and 12.

Wow.

I once did the same thing, but it was the autopilot that was left on and I just couldn't figure why the aircraft wouldn't respong to the controlls

It took a couple system restarts before I finally figured it out. Boy did I feel stupid!