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MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:45 am
by killerbunny
I already have this one for a while in my hangar, didn't use it much yet.  But now, I felt like taking this beautifull bird out for a nice little flight :)

Took this Swiss MD11 from Lugano to Oslo Gardermoen

At the runway, waiting for take off clearance
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climbing ...
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This is a rather nice VC :)
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Cruising over Germany
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Some more cruising :)
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Even more cruising ;D
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Starting the descent to Oslo
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Looking for the runway
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On short final (without airspeed indicator, it failed for some reason)
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And a nice, soft landing :)
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This is the Overland MD11,  can be found here (not really easy to read the page, you'll see ;))
Repaints enough on Avsim

I hope you enjoyed this series :)

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:25 am
by The_Joker_Flyer
Love the serias man!!!  ;D

Im a fan of the Swiss liveries  ;D ;D ;D  they always seem to look good ;)

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:33 am
by cspyro21
Wonderful shots of a beautiful bird!!  ;D ;D
Cheers  ;)

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:36 am
by FLAPS_DOWN
Again, I aspire to your heights ;D ;)

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:51 am
by Jakemaster
I think Im gonna give civil jets another go with this one, any suggestions for a good flight to "learn" on?

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:41 pm
by rich747
Try doing a LAS-LAX or vice versa. Provides a challenging take-off and landing with hills surrounding boths cities+good sights to be seen.

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:42 pm
by Jakemaster
Okay, I cant fly big jets. Took it from auckland to christchurch, everything looked good on final, then I landed about 100ft before the runway.   Ill stick to my Otter NG ;D

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:44 pm
by cspyro21
I think Im gonna give civil jets another go with this one, any suggestions for a good flight to "learn" on?


Okay, try flying the 737 from Gatwick to Oslo or something similar...... ??? ;D

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:57 pm
by killerbunny
Okay, I cant fly big jets. Took it from auckland to christchurch, everything looked good on final, then I landed about 100ft before the runway.   Ill stick to my Otter NG ;D

Flying big jets requires some practice :)
And the way I see it : If you didn't crash, the landing is succesfull ;D

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:34 pm
by Jakemaster
I didnt crash, but I surely scared the crap outta my passengers

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:41 pm
by simonmd
There's a pilot's saying that goes, 'any landing that you walk away from is a good landing'!

Very nice MD-11 and super shots as always Killer, i've got the iFDG MD-11 but it's a bit frame rate hungry for my system, i'll have to try that one.

Re the airspeed, did you forget to turn the pitot heater on?

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:58 pm
by Flying Homer
Great quality!

Fantastic shots

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:11 pm
by killerbunny
Thanks people!

... Very nice MD-11 and super shots as always Killer, i've got the iFDG MD-11 but it's a bit frame rate hungry for my system, i'll have to try that one.

Re the airspeed, did you forget to turn the pitot heater on?...

This MD11 is much more framerate friendly than the IFDG one.  Had the IFDG MD11 before and got rid of it as soon as I had the Overland MD11

And you're right, as there is no pitot heat switch on the panel I didn't activate it.  I should add one to the panel :)

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:19 am
by Alphajet_Enthusiast
Wow, very cool shots Killerbunny! :) Sad that they got rid of their MD-11s....

it failed for some reason

Are you sure your pitot heat and anti-ice was on in a cold weather flight like this?  ;)

Re: MD11 to Gardermoen

PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:46 am
by Omag 2.0
I love the landing shot! Great work!