London to Lisbon part one.

[Woodlouse2002]

As you all should by now know there is currently a race on between myself, Kevin (DPR) and Ben M K to see who can get from London, England to Lisbon, Portugal fastest in a trimotor. Here is my trip so far.

First off an apology. I forgot to take a sceenshot of me taking off. So it starts with me getting on course...

Post take off. Engines on full and climbing. Course 213.


Crossing the Solent in the dark...


Dawn at last. I can now see where I am going. And that i'm off course. Never mind, this crate seems to veer left so it's good compensation.


English channel past, crossing the French coast over Brittany.


After crossing the coast I realised I was very near to where I went on holiday this summer. So I took a quick detour to have a look at the Rade de Brest...


And the Baie de Douarnenez. (Excellent sailing to be had there. And my god do they know how to put on a festival!)


Past Douarnenez bay and heading for de la Pointe du raz...  


An arial view of the Raz. One of the fastest and dangerous tidal rips in the world flows round that headland with the water going up to 9 knots at full flow.


Right, enough of detours. Back on course (now 207 degrees) and off we go.


Heading out into the bay of Biscay. 200 miles of sea now lies ahead before I reach Spain. But that's all to come in the next part.


I took off from Luton airport at 0530 am. ETA Lisbon is about midday. Provided I don't run out of fuel. Average speed is about 140kts at aproximately 14,000 feet.

[Woodlouse2002]

The quality of the shots seems to have gone down dramatically with the uploading. Apologies for that.

[Theis]

As you all should by now know there is currently a race on between myself, Kevin (DPR) and Ben M K to see who can get from London, England to Lisbon, Portugal fastest in a trimotor.

Why arent you using an DC-10?
Cheers Theis

[Georf]

How did you navigate?

[Woodlouse2002]

Set up a course and the info before you take off gives you a course from the airport you start from. Other than that i'm using the GPS as a map as when ever I go to the map view the engines go to full revs which messes up the trim.

[Wing Nut]

You're using GPS and tell me I shouldn't use autopilot?  :)

[Woodlouse2002]

Yup. I'm only using it as a map so that I can actually go in the right direction. And the lack of autopilot means I can't set it up to fly my plane straight there.

You did know I was a hypocrit, right?

[Wing Nut]

Once you leave Luton, set 213 and off you go!  I've been using the FS map, so it's pretty much the same thing...  ::)

[Woodlouse2002]

Thats what I did to start with. But the M$ map kept messing up the engine revs so I decided that the GPS would be the better option. I even disabled the big green flight plan line to keep it fair.