Flight plans, help/ideas needed

[fulanito_uk]

I am plaing a simulated flight from Cali Colombia to Florida "everglades airpark" flying a light twin engined prop "AERO COMMANDER", using just VOR "no GPS" and taking off in the early hours of the evening/ night flight. However is there any place on the internet where i can make this flight plan? as i don't have a printer connected to to my gaming pc and therefore can not print the plan that id given to me by Microsoft and can't copy and paste it... any ideas??

Thanks

[Brett_Henderson]

If you're flying VOR-to-VOR, all you really need are the VOR frquencies...

Just write them down..

[Brett_Henderson]

Take off from the Cali airport...

---------------(freq)(radial)(distance)

Direct to ULQ(117.70)(020)(35.3nm)

Direct to UIB(113.20)(350)(98.9nm)

Direct to LCE(112.60)(002)(127.6nm)

Direct to BAQ(113.70)(036)(209.9nm)

Get fuel at SKBQ

Direct to MLY(115.50)(352)(442.2nm)

Get fuel at MKJB

Direct to UMZ(116.00)(359)(143.5nm)

Direct to UCJ(117.80)(339)(146.5nm)

Direct to EYW(113.50)(311)(230.1nm)

Track the 021 radial outbound for 78.8nm and you're at Everglades Airpark (X01)


All of the VORs are high-altitude, so you'll just fly to/from them. The only time you'll be out of range between two VORs is the long leg over water (BAQ > MLY). You'll have long since found the heading to hold the radial in whatever wind there might be by then, and the "dead zone" shouldn't be more than 100nm. It will be a good character building time..lol

[fulanito_uk]

Thank you so much for that!!!!!.... wish me luck! its the longest flight i've ever done..

[fulanito_uk]

decided to fly in legs.. just landed in "skbq" after a very bumpy approach, "real weather" i think there must be some tropical storms in that area... well still a long way to go which will be done tommorow. No GPS, all VOR with some tower advice on approach, and only looked at "MAP" 3 times, just to make sure

[Brett_Henderson]

It's fun and satisfying, hu ?   Try the rest with no map peeking at all.. even if you get lost.. what's even MORE satisfying, is getting unlost with no maps or GPS.

I'm sure you realize that now you're going into a leg with dead-space. A nasty wind aloft shift could really take you off course. You've already had to fly a leg where the begining and end were while you were in range of just one of the VORs. The other legs pretty much had you in range of both VORs for the whole leg. Just remember what degree of correction you had to fly to stay nailed on a radial, and add a couple degrees more just as you enter the dead-zone. It will be a tense several minutes (unless you cheat and peek), but you'll be fine. It sounds like you understand VOR navigation..

Report back from MKJB... Kingston is a good place to relax...

[fulanito_uk]

Could'nt resist.. had to do the leg!!! Cocktails on the beach sounded to good

[Brett_Henderson]

It looks like you were facing winds out of the east, and did indeed add a few degrees of correction for the dead-zone. The reason for that is that Murphy's law applies to winds aloft... and if you're gonna be off course, it's best to have a tail-wind getting back on course. Of course this matters little when the dead-zones is less than 100nm.. but you get the idea.

The rest of your flight should be un-eventful, but very scenic.

Check in from the Everglades  

[fulanito_uk]

MADE IT! all the way from Cali Colombia to the Everglades Florida!!!! yahooooo. Finding there was a small tense moment when approaching Florida i had made a little make shift map of the small islands i would encounter shortly before reaching the airstrip and the ones i saw looked nothing like the ones i had drawn!!! But as i got closer the islands on my pencil map were in fact in fornt of me just much smaller than i had expected!!! a

[BFMF]

Pretty fun ain't it?

I would suggest acquiring some aeronautical charts for a specific region. It's much more fun using them to plan, and navigate with compared to the default map in FS. 8-)