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Could not have said it better myself.
I believe I can say, We All had a great time!
A Big Round of Clap for the SOH Crowd.. errr Applause.

Salt;
Great Job!! Thanks for bringing B-247D "The City of Oakland" home.. beaten and battered tho she may be..
Sorry to have missed your arrival.
On the "Precision" part of the flight.....

Salt;
I don't believe I was embarrassed about any of my failures.. all of them can be attributed to a "Pilot Error" of some sort or another ("Barber Polling" the throttles, too low & slow on...

YTNK-YBCV, she is done!
Set-up and ready to fly around 0825 local (Tennant Creek) time. Set my AFD Radios (I don't know why, can't pick-up the first NDB until you are 300nm into the flight). WX...

Ready to depart Tennant Creek (YTNK) for Charleville (YBCV) again….
Racing for Team United in the Boeing 247D.

Let me think on the last paragraph.. As it stands right now, after I touch down in Charleville, I'd fly the last thirty minutes or so of the YBCV-YMEN leg, "en masse", across the finish line (as a...

Salt-Air;
Yes Sir! No E6B in the Cockpit (weren't you the one who suggested using the long flight time to learn how to use the E6B? And I'm getting the hang of it, too:sleep:
I will refly...

Rob;
I appreciate all your efforts in sorting out my options on this flight, not to mention hiring the survey crew to locate, much less haul off the wreckage (can I have new engines Installed?...

MY "Estimations" were that I was closer to YWHD than that.. So much for "Ded Reckoning" and E6B Plotting. Of course, I will accept the decision of the judges. There is a twenty peso "gratuity" for...

Rules state that "Rather than restarting mid-air incident flights (Overstress qualifies), pilots may optionally choose to place their aircraft at a nearby airfield along the flightpath no nearer to...

Duenna Blew Me Out Of The Sky!
So much for YTNK-YBCV today.............................................
A few minutes before I "crashed", I was cruising comfortably at 153Kts IAS/170Kts GS. Level...

Ready to depart Tennant Creek (YTNK) for Charleville (YBCV).
Racing for Team United in the Boeing 247D,

Willy;
Thanks.. That's an interesting set of commands.. I would have never thought something like that was even available.
Appreciate the info.

Austin;
Sorry to hear about your property damage.. Been there (Texas Hail stones aren't gentle on roofs, windows and cars:isadizzy:).. Older sister lives outside of Boston, baby sister lives...

Red-Green & Salt-Air;
Got up this morning at 0655 (Texas Time) to get some coffee in me, set-up (my yoke, TQ's, etc.) and start the nearly 800nm leg from YTNK to YBCV. I found I had no internet...

Red;
I also have commitments this weekend.. I plan on flying into Charleville tomorrow (going to make a day of it).. But can't do anything else till next week.. unless Salt-Air does the final...

Thank You, Sir.. I figured, when you are sitting in one place for a couple of hours and have nothing better to do than stare at some gauges (until something goes wrong), why not take some notes and...

YPDN-YTNK Is In The Books!!
Departed Port Darwin 0741hrs Local. WX called for Light Clouds, wind 000/00 and 10mi Vis. I turned to heading 152 degrees and began a slow (300FPM) climb to 8500'....

Ready to depart Port Darwin (YPDN) for Tennant Creek (YTNK)
Racing for Team United in the Boeing 247D,

Salt & Red;
My plan is to fly the YPDN-YTNK leg today (in a few minutes) and possibly try to squeeze in the YTNK-YBCV on Friday.
This would leave "open" a "single run" from Charlieville to...

Salt;
Yup! I didn't smack into a light pole :isadizzy:..
Going to try to get in another flight in the morning.. see how it goes:sleep:.

Bry;
Thank You for the kind words.. Flight wasn't so nice, but the landing was a perfect "three pointer".. No doubt the best landing I've ever made.. no smoke came off the wheels. At first, I...

Landed safely at YPDN Port Darwin.
Departed WRKK at 0554 Local Time. Conditions: Clear. Wind 189@2.
Gently climbed out of the bowl that surrounds the airport until I reached 2500'ASL and got out...

Ready to depart WRKK Kupang, Timor for YPDN Port Darwin
Racing for Team United in the Boeing 247D,
With E6B and Instructions in hand!
Charles (DHC120)

Salt;
I opt for less legs that are longer.. just not as long as I attempted on my ill-fated OTBS-VIAG/divert to VIJO flight (1954nm).
What about VIAL-VYYY/Rangoon (962nm) then a...