Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

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Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby ATI_7500 » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:32 pm

Leg 1a: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1072026881

Leg 1b: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 55;start=0

Leg 2: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1074930756

Leg 3: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1074933452

Leg 4: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1075463452

The main reason why I made the trip: Checking out the north pole in FS. Packed everything I needed (survival kit! although I would have had no chance of surviving if i really had to make an emergency landing) into my 680, put as much fuel into the tanks as I could and  wrote my will (you may never know...). I've set myself an iron rule: "Life comes first!". This means that in case I never would be able to reach the pole due to fuel reasons, I'd immediately turn around and save my life instead of continuing the flight and crash somewhere because I've ran out of fuel.
With mixed thoughts consisting of worries and curiosity, I climbed into my "Com" and started the engines...

The map, no changes made:
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Taxiing to the runway, one of the mysterious Learjets in the background.
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Thundering down the runway. Needed almost every meter of it,because i had my engines in the "economical" mode.
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Climbing to my cruise altitude. The nervousness and excitement rises...
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Northern lights. A warning sign?
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Crossing the 80th degree (north).
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81st degree north, the end of the texturized FS world is closing in.
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A small distance for an airplane....
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...but a great loss of ground textures (you can see the border if you look closely at the water).  :P
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Umm,okay,now that's real darkness! No more clouds,water or stars...
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Degree #89 (north). I'm running out of fuel,still one degree to go until I reach the magical 90th degree...
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What to do now? Break my rule and fly into the "black hole of FS"? Give up everything just to declare myself "KIA"? NEVER EVER! Call me a coward,but I don't want to risk everything. Heading back to base at 89 degrees and 2.76 minutes.
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As I was heading back, I took a look at the GPS,because I couldn't fly back just by following my compass. And that's what I saw:
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I was in some kind of slew mode...I tried everything to keep a certian course,but I almost had no chance.
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After some serious struggling, I made it back to the "real" FS world without some serious damages (except my nerves :P). But I feld quite sad and disappointed of myself...
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On final,back in Longyear. I just wanted to go back to civilisation, relax and think...
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Touchdown. Some engine smoke gives the illusion of a hard landing.
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Parked in front of one of Elvis' food storage buildings (but still no sign of him...).
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I now gotta think about what to do next. Leaving it at that or trying again...been there,seen that,alright. But is that what it was about? I wanted to go to the pole. I almost made it. But only almost...damn!   :(

Hm,I think the best ting is leaving the FS pole as it is,a covered mystery of the FS world.
Now i think about where to go next. Back to Sweden? To the USA? I have many possibilities. But I can tell you one thing: The story's not finished yet...

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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby Sam 400 » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:20 pm

Hey, I don't think you can actualy get to the pole, the FS world is more of a cylinder than a sphere.
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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby Cherokee_6 » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:25 pm

Great Pics and GREAT STORY!! Nicely Done!

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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby Fitter » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:30 pm

Well came to Brasil in vacations.....after rest a little you begin again your chalenge..... ;)
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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby BFMF » Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:33 pm

Not bad ;)

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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:12 pm

Dude, you had 60 miles to go. Take a jerry can next time eh? ;D
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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby Billerator » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:36 pm

Yeah I tried to go as far as I can.

The closest you can get is 0.5 of a degree.

If you fly in daytime you will see something very interesting.

Yeah the 'world' is a cylinder, which infact creates a few problems when you get near to 'the edge of the world'.
One problem is that you will cover more visual ground than navigational ground, its weird.
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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby Billerator » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:53 pm

Great pics there.
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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby FLYING_TRUCKER » Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:03 pm

Good Trip Silent even if you forgot my present from the North Pole ;DLOL

Nice Shots....Why not come down through Ontario Canada?

I know a good place to get sauerkraut and beer and parking overnight is free!

Cheers...Happy Landings....Doug :)
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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby Omag 2.0 » Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:52 am

Scary place, out off the FS-world.

Did you see monsters at the end of the world???

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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby ATI_7500 » Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:00 am

sorry 'bout the present,doug,but i couldn't find santa's shack. ;)
ontario sounds nice,but i'll have too find out how to get my 680 back over the big pond...

billerator,try uploading renamed files...

omag.....i.......could........see.......dead.......people........RAAAAH! ELVIS! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! *runsaway*

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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby sum41skater » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:34 am

mAN THATs scary only 1 degree magic ;D
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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby ozzy72 » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:39 am

Strange stuff Silent. Flying off the edge of the world!!!!

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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby ATI_7500 » Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:29 am

Strange stuff Silent.


who is strange here,mister i'm-flying-upside-down-at-mach-2-with-a-wing-in-the-ground? ;D
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Re: Trip To The North Pole: Leg 5 (The Big Show!)

Postby GooseSDE » Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:52 am

Great story bro! Pics and plot have me wanting to read a sequel :)

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