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Thanks Ken. :ernae:

Thats a beauty, Paul! Very sharp. :applause: :medals:

Congrats Paul!

It doesnt matter if you have a registered or unregistered version; (payware or freeware). You just need to have FSUIPC. Thats my understanding. Find the latest download and install FSUIPC and it should work fine. I have his gauge in the Osprey and also Dinos VTOL F35B and it is awesome.....!

Done! Flight Time: 00:42:04 Race Time: 00:42:04 Fuel Consumed: 124 Lbs http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=QpQSl1Ewv6ErEJPZvnf4hvuQnT4

Yeah, that was about how I felt, hehe. Off to complete the final leg, across the San Joe-a-quin Valley, my old "stomping grounds"...

Passes! Dang, I knew there had to be a secret to this sort of thing. I was on my way south to cross over the Tehachapi Pass, all the way down around Bakersfield, but when I got to somewhere around Kings Canyon park, the hills were just low enough to get through. I think I should have went north instead... Oh well, there was pretty scenery to look at... Flight Time: 01:36:03 race Time: 01:36:03 Fuel Consumed: 276 Lbs http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=GWSGyMusZCjgXnHkU7t1hBtDMU

Thanks DL.. When I get a chance, I will take a look at that! Pete

Outstanding tribute to a very talented designer, and good friend too! NC

Congrats! Yeah that runway at San Carlos does seem a bit short.

Congrats!

Hint: The operative word is passes. :monkies:

Hmm. Next stop is Mariposa Yosemite. That's over the top of The Wall of the Sierra Nevada, which is 13000 feet high. I ain't no good at number ciphering, but I think I have to come up with 3000 feet of granite to get through somehow. Off to study my National Geographic map...

Made it to Lee Vining. Flight Time: 00:51:18 Race Time: 00:51:18 Fuel Consumed: 142 Lbs http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=sc425aiJ3eFj7huj1iW2xgISGgo

Just excellent. Congratulations. Are you buying?

Congratulations on a job well done.

There were so many versions of cowlings on these so I shot for the most popular. The earliest long nose had a 'shorter' nose with a cool, stylish S line for the back edge line of the cowling, which was also a vent, but a smaller engine, thus smaller airspeed. Dads was a long nose, but had 6 stacks, (like this green one), but most had two exhaust manifolds instead of 6 stacks. The short side scoops were on some as well, like again on this green one, but most didnt, so I left those off as well. Some cowlings had the wide opening at the prop for a big British spinner, like dads had, but I left that off also as most didnt have that, nor the big spinner. The radial also had variations, like some had wider gaps at the join between fuselage and cowling. Some radial cowlings had a small bump at the bottom of the cowling, some had a bump on the right side. Most didnt, so I made the 'didnt' version. So many versions of cowlings. That was nerve wracking. But at least the wings and fuselage were all mostly the same.

Great screenshots, Roger! I have no idea on that squadron patch either, Huub. I doubt that is official. I left it out of the paint scheme. No photos appear that show it in detail either.

Going to Lee Vining (O24), at the foot of the Great Sierra Nevada Wall.

: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: