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:icon_lol: :icon_lol: Approach to Furnace Creek.

Made it to L06! Flight Time: 00:36:07 Race Time: 00:36:07 Fuel Consumed: 94 Lbs http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=IVWZ6dfThFD0XGcO5rkahXGjS7k

Rgr that Willy! After a night of wild debauchery, we're off to Furnace Creek (L06). Isn't that a great name for an airport in Death Valley?

Couple pics from the flight to Vegas. The first shows the vast expanse of the Great Western Desert. I steered south to the VOR station at Peach Springs (PGS) in order to avoid what looked like pretty biggish hills on the direct line to KLAS. From there we zigged back north to the Boulder City VOR (BLD) and then into the giant airport south of the City of Sin, where I made a passable ILS approach to runway 25L.

Here's a couple of kodaks of the approach to airport in the Kaibab National Forrest, on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It's pretty high out that way!

I will:salute: Has there been more than one guide published? I tried to follow one many years ago, but got too frustrated and gave up. Am hoping I can succeed this time. Thanks, NC

Onze Helden Zijn Terug! Thanks Jagd! Loved it!

FSX68, I think the classrooms and the hangar were combined? Not sure. That was way back in the Winter of 1972! I think I might recognize it if I saw a picture. That was a very cold Winter.... NC

Remember... What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas :icon_lol:

Not a clue, but I bet someone on this forum does, RD! NC

KLAS: Flight Time: 00:57:43 Race Time: 00:57:43 Fuel Consumed: 149 Lbs http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=bgv7AI9TLcWW5syosfksl35CTkg

What does it mean, El Guapo, to have a plethora?

I'm not at all surprised at where Time Warner came in on the list. Got into it with them the other night when my DVR hard drive was going out. First guy that answered the phone said that he couldn't help me as we're former New Wave customers. Time Warner bought out New Wave a while back and the customer service has dropped big time since the change over.

Found it (KGCN)! Flight Time: 00:29:35 Race Time: 00:29:35 Fuel Consumed: 80 lbs http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=094ldODGK2lXtJVsVXvAwYx3sU Headed for KLAS now.

I tend to be nostalgic when it comes to Millington. I'd want to "reconstruct" the old hangar where I trained to work on A-4s..... NC

Off to find the Big Ditch (KGCN)

Part of the issue is how knowledgeable the model designer is about the meaning of those speeds when translating from sometimes very inexact historical data. Innumerable sources quote simply one 'max speed' (not even specifying KIAS, KTAS, MPH) and certainly not recording whether this was "max. attainable speed in level flight" or design Vne. Often a modeler will not question or cross-check this data and simply "makes it so". In fact some of the historical data from the WW II era was deliberately vague in this regard for propaganda purposes. However, we have found examples where Vne was used in the .cfg file, but then the model was tweaked to allow it to reach toward/near this in powered level flight, not just as a limit in a dive. Alternately, aircraft models that can reach real-world Vne (interpreted by the modeler as "max. speed" - level) in level flight then have a .cfg limiting speed much higher to enable speed to increase in a dive. These anomalies don't always show until the model is flight tested against r/w data. Others have more-or-less accurate numbers but the model has been crafted to reach that number at the worst altitude and thus is far too fast at Sea Level. For things like the events of which Paul speaks then would require corrections to be made (and somehow enforced) or the model rendered unacceptable since there is no current way to monitor changes or accuracy of an individual's flight model. While I agree that it would be useful to be able to decompile the data from the tables, building a tool to do so might be more hours of work ( P likes to play with data :icon_lol: ) than the flight testing if done on an ongoing basis.

Although I couldn't find that photo to narrow the specific sub-model (engine derived), the base is the Marcel Jurca MJ-2 si correct, Maison Ouvert, s.v.p.

You have it pretty close. See if this helps It could only receive one signal at a time so rcvr had to be switched from Nav to Com and back. That's the switch on the right. As it was a mechanical slide it also contained the "NAV" or "COM label that showed in the appropriate window. Off/IDENT switch at bottom was for Nav rcvr audio. Yes, the yellow 'flag' should show Off/To/From, No, no Glideslope (VOR/LOC only) another good image here: http://djholman.csde.washington.edu/N5814L/Found/IMG_0746.jpg

Really sounds nice. Always was a dream of mine to have SLUFs flying out of NAS Cecil Field, doing carquals off the coast of Mayport, and rtn to Cecil. THAT would be so cool to fly hops with! NC

AI aircraft is about the only aspect of flight simulation that has completely befuddled me. If I can ever take the time to understand how to incorporate it into FSX, I know it would be rewarding. So many great MAIW packages, especially USN aviation! NC

KPGA Flight Time: 00:55:57 Race Time: 00:55:57 Fuel Consumed: 155 LBS Fun flight. I was on the 022 radial into KPGA, which is the direct course from KCNY. But soon there appeared giant mountains along that path, so I made the VOR gauge steer me into KPGA on the 025 radial, which got me a bit south east of the direct track, and missed the big hills. Starting to "get" how to use VOR. Very cool. http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=m1WJaIBIh37fgCfVgh7kY7P68IU

I'm going to Page now. KPGA. That's in Utah.

Paul, Just in case, like if you just reloaded FSX or got a new computer, make sure you have the SP1 and SP2 updates. This might be an issue concerning that. What I think is happening is that for some reason, the ship is up out of water, and it has a airport mated to the deck, so the land is coming up to the deck like it would if it were lover land, like a bad place runway that has the wrong surface altitude with the lay of the land. I'll bet Arno could figure this out quick.

KCNY Flight Time: 00:48:23 Race Time: 00:48:23 Fuel Consumed: 136 LBS http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=lwNZhkaFC4njEaA0ce6eXRqQ

Yup. Good work.

Gone to Canyonlands (KNCY). Can't say when I'll be back.

Huh? :isadizzy: :icon_lol:

75.9g (Didn't check CFS 2)

Hi TJ, I added your data to the scoring page, as well as a link to the "logbook" for this run. While not scored, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to gather data for comparison with the GA planes.

Thank you Robert

No worries Austin. Records updated.

Did you say yoot? What's a yoot? :icon_lol: :icon_lol: I read someplace that the "technical talk" on Star Trek was a result of the director instructing the actors to just "say stuff that sounds technical". They had no idea what they were even saying, which is pretty funny. Rgr Bussard Ramjet collectors. Now those would work. But you have to be going pretty darned fast, as you know...

Found here on SOH: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?57131-iPad-and-FSX

My prayers to the folks in Oklahoma. We got slammed here on the north side of town with one in '06 that killed several people. I keep a national weather radar site bookmarked to keep an eye on storms that might be heading my way ever since that last one. What rolls through NE Texas and Oklahoma usually ends up here within about 36 hours. Think I'll go check flashlights and stuff..... Anyone else who is east of that storm front best be prepared to hunker down.

I remember when Moore got slammed by a F5 tornado back in 1999. Gosh!

Excellent flying. For the moment, taking the lead in the (unofficial) "Legacy League"!

Well it's strike two .. I have to withdraw my entry in the Gold Class due to real life reasons. It's been a great event ... had a ball ... wish I could finish. Good Luck All!

Nope ... not going to happen ... have to withdraw ... real life reasons. Good Luck everyone and thanks to the committee for producing a well developed ... well thought out event! Catch you guys later,

Not at all. I gave it a good look!

Am quite sure you Crusader fans have visited this site: http://www.cloudnet.com/~djohnson/index.html The Last of the Gunfighters website A lot of great information there:) NC

So glad I could help:mixedsmi: Every once in a while (when not even looking for it) I will discover yet another FSX site I'd not heard of. This community is larger than we realize! NC

I hate to mess up record keeping tasks, but I need to withdraw from at least one entry. I will not be "around" as much as I thought when I originally made the entries and I'm not comfortable having folks wait for me to finish, so ... As of this post I need to withdraw my entry for the MSFS Mooney Bravo in FS9 ... MSFS (Jeppesen) weather ... Low Course .... Silver Class. Apologies to the staff for any inconvenience this causes ... and in advance of a possible second withdrawal of the remaining entry.

Bravo Zulu K. Keep the BBQ going till I get there!

That would never work, Kevin. The impulse engine field modulators would interfere with the anti-gravity compensators if the atmospheric density is greater than 0.357 (Earth normalized), so the acceleration vector de-couplers wouldn't work, and anyone knows what would happen then! Hey, I heard Khan was involved in this movie. Is that true? That would be cool.

Down safe at 36U. Flight Time: 01:07:15 Race Time: 01:07:15 Fuel Consumed: 199 LBS http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=LUwZqFidGTJHoR2np8gfHb48q48

Good show Kevin!

On down the road: 36U.