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Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:39 pm
by gtirob01
Part 1 - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1216352180

It is very lonely at 37,000 feet in the middle of the north Atlantic! Atleast it was a clear day.
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The English coastline is in sight
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About to touchdown at Gatwick
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Welcome to London.... now get off the plane!

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:25 am
by jime59
Great shots. I'll have to try a long flight like that myself one day.

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:05 am
by BFMF
So how long was the flight?

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:25 am
by ThomasKaira
You call that long? ;D ;D ;D ::)

Try VHHH to EGLL, now THAT will train you well, dear aspiring insomniac. ;)

Or maybe backwards, then continue on to Sydney. Call it a project, but do it all at once, or at least try.

(I think my minor insanity issues might be stirring right now.) :D 8-) :-X :-/

*Leaves silently*

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:20 am
by tcco94
Was your landing that bad so you dint show a picture? ;D

Kidding..
Nice shots I like the first one at 37,000 feet  ;)

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:21 am
by Vuikag
nce shots but....
zoom is a large product placement for mazda! it's a zionest conspiracy!
;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:51 am
by gtirob01
Ok, well maybe not the longest flight, but it was still around 11 hours. But I did cheat! haha. just used the map and placed the aircraft where I wanted it.

Actually, the landing on this flight was quite good.... just didnt get any good shots/angles of it.

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:30 am
by BFMF
Ok, well maybe not the longest flight, but it was still around 11 hours. But I did cheat! haha. just used the map and placed the aircraft where I wanted it.

Actually, the landing on this flight was quite good.... just didnt get any good shots/angles of it.



You moved the aircraft with the map?


Try a 14 hour flight in a B-17 from San Francisco to Honolulu. No time compression, no GPS, and no map. I only used a compass, a primitive autopilot, and my Nav/Adf radios. All real time, and sitting at my computer.

Also, I recently flew from Washington to the Florida coast in a DC-4. The flight lasted almost 12 hours, and I only used my maps, compass, and my nav radios to navigate. I never once used the GPS, or the default map to see where I was. And once again, the flight was completed all real time while sitting at my computer

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:57 pm
by tcco94
I couldent do that.. I wish I could..If I had a home cockpit...
Diffrent story  ;D

And I know your landing was probally good anyways..
Just a joke  ;)

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:11 pm
by Fozzer
I can manage half and hour or so on a short hop from one grass airstrip the next nearest one.....

..then I switch the Computer off, and go and do something useful...

...like mow the grass... :)...!

Paul...G-BPLF.... ;D....!

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:35 pm
by firemonte007
great looking shots...the most i can probably get away with is about an hour-2 hour flight maybe....after that it runs the risk of frustrating my bride  :)

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:00 pm
by waspiflab
I struggle from Bristol to Filton and thats a couple of miles ;D
if it wasnt for landing it would be the most dullest sim ever made :P
come to think of it ::) what the hell have I doing since July 2003 :-?
god help you all who have been using this since  1982 ;D ;D

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:43 pm
by gtirob01
Yea, I cant sit for more than maybe 2 hours on the computer. So thats why I just used the map to place the aircraft where I wanted it, took some shots, and moved on. I did of course fly the takeoff and landing legs on my own!

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:18 pm
by OVERLORD_CHRIS
Your 767 made it all the way over their? Nice.

Re: Just Zooming along - part 2

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:16 pm
by tcco94
..then I switch the Computer off, and go and do something useful...

...like mow the grass... :)...!


I love mowing the lawn  ;D..
but you forgot one thing....

Golfing  8-)