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This is the unofficial first hop of Jakemasters swiss tour.  If all goes well, more are planned.  This is impromptu, beggining at 5 pm Central US time (GMT -6)

The hop will go from ZURICH (LSZH) ----> SION (LSGS), a total distance of 89.6 Nautical Miles

For this, and all Swiss tour flights, we will use the Douglas DC-3.  The reason is it is a great plane, and to add to the challenge of mountain flying.  Not to scare anyone away, but the whole point of these hops is to add a challenge that is unseen in us tour or uk tour flights.  

For those of you who want, here are a few changes to make to the dc-3

1.  To make the tail wheel steerable, change the first point under CONTACT POINTS in the aircraft.cfg to this:

point.0=1,  -56.00,  0.0,   -2.3, 1200.0, 0, 0.60, 60.0, 0.200, 2.5, 0.695,  0.0,  0.0, 0.0,   0.0,   0.0
  NOTE: the 180 turned to sixty, just so you know

2.  To make it stop a little quicker, change the toe_brakes_scalar from .3 to .75

3.  Download dc3dfpn1.zip from flightsim and install to give it a modern autopilot.

FOR THESE HOPS: we will use WSPILOTS Oceania server, 66.147.177.125 port 23456

WE WILL also use teamspeak, as it is much better than typing.  85.10.201.84 flight deck channel

See you there!

UPDATE: Will be held later, 8PM Central time, thats 9PM EST, Some wee hour GMT

I'd love to join this, but with the new time youre really excluding all us europeans jake.. :-/

Yeah, on the actual tour time will be round 9PM GMT

Sounds better!

im gonna be on in a few minutes: departing at 20 after the hour