Flying around the world

[Staiduk]

A thought for extending distances:
In my (failed) Pole to Pole flight I carried 2000lbs. extra fuel in drums in the back of the DC-3. If required; I would land and pump the fuel into the wings - helped out immensely in the Arctic; where the nearest strip with a fuel pump was around 2300kms away.

If you want a real challenge; go into the Panel file and disable the GPS - relying on visual cues makes for a totally different flight!

[exnihilo]

I'm currently doing an around the world trip in the cessna 172. I've installed ferry tanks giving it a total of 95 gallons. That puts it near maximum take-off weight, but gives me a total of around 6 hours flying time. I started out from Liverpool, up throuch Iceland, Greenland ,then down to Canada. I'm just about to land at Sydney in 30 minutes. All flying is real time, and each leg ends with a landing, and refuel, ready for the next leg. The whole trip will be done in 80 days.

Alan

How do you do the ferry tanks thing?  Edit the aircraft cfg file?

[JRoc]

Yep. Go download the FSEdit SDK from the official FS2004 site, it'll make it way easier, and it's super handy to have around.

[phantom1]

I just opened the aircraft.cfg in notepad, and down the bottom in the fuel settings, changed the left and right fuel tanks from I think it was 26 gallons total fuel each to 47.5 gallons each, then save the file. The only thing is, the fuel gauges  show full tanks until they are below 26 gallons each, just as if the ferry tanks get emptied first.

Alan

[TacitBlue]

I think theres a way to adjust the guages in the panel CFG so that they display accurately. I think...

[Katahu]

I practice the long-haul flights with a XP-38 with Little Rock AFB as my starting point. I then fly out to either the East coast or the Gulf coast.

One day, I might do the roun-da-world thing with the XP-38.

[Staiduk]

I practice the long-haul flights with a XP-38 with Little Rock AFB as my starting point. I then fly out to either the East coast or the Gulf coast.

One day, I might do the roun-da-world thing with the XP-38.

The plane or the landspeeder?