World Flight

[Moses03]

Feeling restless with the SOH threads wiped out from the crash. Decided to point the nose into the air and document the flight here. I flew around the world back in 2004-2005 in the Avro Shackleton and enjoyed the task. It took me about 4 months to complete working it in and around real life duties. Probably won't get that far this time but who knows. Keeps me out of trouble when Merc Air is on hiatus.

A few guidelines:

-Fly in real time & with real weather.
-Follow all ATC procedure as best as possible.
-No slewing or time compression.
-Fly by the numbers for each aircraft. No "RTW" style full throttle/dive to the deck flights.
-Will use both FSX & FS2004 and a variety of aircraft.

Willy had a similar type flight going down in the Cantina.

[Moses03]

First flight in the books already. From homebase DDJ to KOCH (Nacogdoches, TX).

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[Moses03]

Uneventful flight to Mobile, AL.

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[Willy]

Way to go Moses!

I started mine back up where I left off tonite with a short hop to Hiroshima.

Is your's gonna be online? I might try to catch up with ya.

[Moses03]

Thanks Willy! I have been flying offline so far. As you know FSX doesn't work well with FSHost. I guess I could do a few windowed mode flights along the way though. Headed down the island chain towards Tinidad to eventually make a S. Atlantic crossing.

Had a nice flight today along the Florida Panhandle down through the Tampa area to Naples. Landed in a mild rainshower. From the Duenna it looks like I made a straight shot across the Gulf.

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[Moses03]

Nice sunset hop down to Key Largo (07FA) from Naples (KAPF). Some storms started to fire up in the distance but landed before they closed in.

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Total flight time: 6:49:35
Total distance: 1052.6

[Moses03]

It was humid and thunderstorms were starting up again all over S. Florida when I left the USA. Had to dodge and weave my way until I was nearing Nassau, then the skies cleared up. Made it safely to Grand Turk (MBGT), in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Total flight time: 10:07:20
Total distance: 1606.3

[PRB]

Nice shots, Moses! If you have pilot records turned on, you might want to look into the Visit Series (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=143). It's pretty cool. You get "rewards" on your pilot records screen for visiting countries and airports. I just got the Solomon Islands flag after an extensive survey of that region.

[Willy]

Pilot records must be a FSX thing. Interesting to know though. If FS9 had it, I'd probably have it maxed out. I've got almost 3000hrs in the pilot log already and that's not figuring in the first year I flew it.

[Moses03]

Thanks Paul. I do have the pilot records turned on so I might look into the Visit Series addon.

That is a lot of flight time Willy! I have a little proggy that monitors engine hours on all FS9 aircraft. Need to check that again. The last I looked, the Do-335 was at or near the top of the list from all the RTW race & practice runs.

[PRB]

Willy, there is a "log flights" option in the FS9 general settings, but I'm not sure where it logs the flights. There is a logbook.txt file in the My Documents/FS9 folder, but it's always empty. And even if you don't select Log Flights, the engine hours for all planes ever flown in FS9 are still maintained, which is what, I suspect, Moses's "proggy" is looking at.

M, what "proggy" is that? That would be cool. I'd like to see how many FS9 hours I have in what plane!

[Moses03]

Here you go Paul. Found it over at Flightsim-

FS2004 Aircraft Usage Log

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FS2004 Aircraft Usage Log. This program lets you see how many hours you have flown each of your aircraft. You will see a list that can be sorted alphabetically or according to hours flown. An update feature lets you see the hours each has been flown since the last run of this program. By Scott L. Goodrick.

[Willy]

If you'll look in the same folder that your FS9.cfg is in there'll be another folder named aircraft. Inside that folder are folders for every aircraft folder you have inside your main FS Aircraft folder. The text docs inside those folders will give you the engine hours on that aircraft. For instance, my Beech 18 non floater has 54 hours and some change on each engine right now. I suspect that is where Moses' proggy is getting it's info.

When in the windowed mode, there is an option to see your pilot log in FS9. It'll give the aircraft, any notes you've attached to that flight and the flight hours for day, night and instrument for that flight.

[PRB]

Thanks, Moses. That's a cool program. Works for FSX too!

[Moses03]

No storms to deal with on the flight down to San Juan, Puerto Rico (TJSJ). A crescent moon kept me company.

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Total flight time: 12:08:30
Total distance: 1947.8

[salt_air]

Doin' a fine job Moses,,,,some great shots too.

That Grumman Goose is probably the best default aircraft Microsoft ever sent to market.

All the best to ya on your journey,,,,,I'll keep checking in from time to time. :applause:

[Haitun]

Great shots, Moses!!!
And a good idea to fly around the world.
(sorry for being offline guys, but moving from St'Pete's to Volgograd, than to Tianjin and finding new mrs.Haitun keft me off the records for a while. Will be back in two weeks and ready to perform ).

[Moses03]

Thanks guys. Having fun.

Just finished another short flight to Anguilla (TQPF). Heard some of the Caribbean's best beaches are here.

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Total flight time: 13:09:48
Total distance: 2116.6

[Moses03]

Decided to press on a little farther down the chain to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Put down at Port Elizabeth (TVSB). Too dark to get any decent pictures. I'm missing a lot of the nice scenery!

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Total flight time: 15:16:41
Total distance: 2446.5

[Moses03]

Long grueling flight to Cayenne, French Guiana (SOCA). I hugged the coast as best as possible. Better to put down a mile offshore than to be forced down into the jungle. They might never find the wreckage.

I had plans on switching to the King Air or even a small business jet for long stretches like this but I am determined to see how far I can go in the Goose for now. The flight to Ascension Island will probably force the issue on that.

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Total flight time: 20:22:12
Total distance: 3166.4

[Moses03]

As a side note, I am picking up a lot of FSX rewards doing this flight. Kinda neat I guess. Still need to install the Visit Series Paul mentioned before.

[PRB]

Rubber wings??? How'd you get those? :costumes:

And we'll need to know how you earned the "bus ticket home" award as well...

BTW, when you install the visit series, it looks at all your previous flights and credits you with whatever you've already earned.

[Moses03]

The rubber wings came from Tutorial 4. The bus ticket home was earned from doing the "Cessna engine out" Swiss flight I believe.

Made it to Belem, Brazil (SBJC). Mostly uneventful flight.

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Total flight time: 23:08:12
Total distance: 3607.5

[Moses03]

Moved along down the coast to Sao Luiz (SBSL). ATC vectored me in behind a Piper Cub on final. Had to plod along to keep distance.

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Total flight time: 24:53:25
Total distance: 3869.9

[Moses03]

Another short flight along the Brazil coast. This time to Parnaiba (SBPB). The rudder pedals felt a bit sluggish on final. Will check it out at first light.

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Total flight time: 25:56:33
Total distance: 4021.3