RTWR 2018 Practice 4

***srgalahad*** · February 9th, 2018, 13:29

I have the baton BIPA to BGKK
WOP P-51D "557" FSX default wx

***srgalahad*** · February 9th, 2018, 13:54

No I don't. tried twice.
FSX locked up - first about 7 minutes in, second was a matter of a minute.
Baton is back to BIPA and I'm looking for a recycling bin for this laptop

***PRB*** · February 9th, 2018, 14:39

I have baton BIPA to BGKK. Grumman/SOH F7F-3 Tigercat. FSX. FSRealWXPro.

***PRB*** · February 9th, 2018, 14:54

Baton back at BIPA. I have no idea what happened. I stepped away to prepare dinner. Came back, the airplane was out of control, falling, engines running, full power, plenty of fuel. I've never seen anything like it with this airplane ever. I disengaged otto, and tried, all the way to the watery death, to regain control. Weird.

***PRB*** · February 9th, 2018, 14:56

And now FSX won't load anymore. CTD.

***PRB*** · February 9th, 2018, 15:05

I'm flying this again, in daylight. It occurs to me that my IAS is 0 knots. Both on the IAS gauge in the cockpit, and on secondary gauges. I wonder why.

***PRB*** · February 9th, 2018, 15:08

Oops. Pitot heat. I need more practice...

**Milton Shupe** · February 9th, 2018, 15:17

Originally Posted by PRB

Oops. Pitot heat. I need more practice...

LOL Paul; good one :-)

***PRB*** · February 9th, 2018, 15:19

Originally Posted by Milton Shupe

LOL Paul; good one :-)

It's really cold up here in Feb...

***PRB*** · February 9th, 2018, 16:07

Well I made it to BGKK. This leg is invalid since I flew it daylight to attempt to troubleshoot my "problem", which, as is quite common, turned out to be me. I'm posting this in the great tradition of the US Naval Aviation magazine "Approach", where pilots who do dumb things tell their story in the hope that it might help others. This F7F has been my "go-to" plane for all RTW race flights at night and/or bad weather. I knew everything about it. Didn't But I hadn't flown it in a w while, and not in cold weather. So I forgot both pitot heat and anti-ice. What I don't know is if that will kill engine power at some point after flying a long time in cold weather with rain and snow, which this flight had in abundance. So, the moral of the story is: know your airplane. Sounds simple enough, but it bit me tonight! Lesson learned!

**Gregory Paul** · February 9th, 2018, 16:52

Originally Posted by PRB

Well I made it to BGKK. This leg is invalid since I flew it daylight to attempt to troubleshoot my "problem", which, as is quite common, turned out to be me. I'm posting this in the great tradition of the US Naval Aviation magazine "Approach", where pilots who do dumb things tell their story in the hope that it might help others. This F7F has been my "go-to" plane for all RTW race flights at night and/or bad weather. I knew everything about it. Didn't But I hadn't flown it in a w while, and not in cold weather. So I forgot both pitot heat and anti-ice. What I don't know is if that will kill engine power at some point after flying a long time in cold weather with rain and snow, which this flight had in abundance. So, the moral of the story is: know your airplane. Sounds simple enough, but it bit me tonight! Lesson learned!

Hello Paul

Just to compare I did this same flight in the P-51C-10-NT.

**Milton Shupe** · February 9th, 2018, 17:08

Originally Posted by PhantomTweak

I had a 35-45 kt headwind the whole way. Bumpy as the road I live on too. Ever get "potholes" in the air?

Raining when I got it down, thankfully the winds were close enough to the runway heading the landing wasn't bad. Bumpy all the way down to about 500'AGL too. As I was hand-flying, the stick was all over the place, trying to keep some semblance of control

At least the clouds stayed up around 1800'AGL, so I had decent (other than the rain on the windscreen) visibility.
Never a dull moment.

I'll get onto the alternate site, and register, all that good stuff.

A question, if I may: I ran the Race for a couple years in Flightsim's team. Now that I've moved over to Sim Outhouse, does that give me Rookie status again? I'm just wondering, because a Mulligan might save us a leg. It might help the team. Poncho is in the same boat, so you might have 2 mulligans available, if needed. Just a thought...

Pat☺

Edit: Is my forum username and password usable on the sim-outhouse.net forum as well, or will I have to register there and get a new username or password?
Pat☺

Pat, you will need to register there (.net) as well. You can use the same user name and password if you wish.

**MaddogK** · February 9th, 2018, 19:27

I'll carry the baton BGKK-BGSS FS9 WoP P-51D FSRWX

**MaddogK** · February 9th, 2018, 19:33

up and green

**MaddogK** · February 9th, 2018, 20:41

Down and green, baton free BGSS

In a hole, short runway- had to do a couple go-arounds because I couldn't believe they stuck this strip in the bottom of a dark hole. Recon is a smarter alternative than going in blind.

Here's a daylight pic- Just because I had to look. Imagine coming into this totally dark.

**MaddogK** · February 10th, 2018, 08:22

I spoke to my lawyer this morning and he advises me that should I choose to invoke the missing pilot rule and the requirement that I comply to the rule for this practice that I fly A default A/C after the first hop (that I totally forgot about), an empty default 737 will make it out of this hole AND has the range to make to KJFK.

Just sayin.

**PhantomTweak** · February 10th, 2018, 10:57

I'm posting this in the great tradition of the US Naval Aviation magazine "Approach", where pilots who do dumb things tell their story in the hope that it might help others.

I never miss an issue of that magazine, to this day. Got into it when I was in. Good ol' Mech too.
Great pair of magazines, even on-line. There was no "line" when I was in. All we had was paper

Pat☺

**PhantomTweak** · February 10th, 2018, 11:52

Well, given the unlimited use rule,
I have the baton at BGSS, heading to CYFB, in the Dcc P-38J, FSRWX
Pat☺

**PhantomTweak** · February 10th, 2018, 12:43

About 30 min out, plus approach
Pat☺

**PhantomTweak** · February 10th, 2018, 13:01

Well, well, well...
I guess I don't learn from other's issues.
I just crashed due to, you guessed it, carb ice. Everything was going perfectly smoothly, so I (no choice, really) got up to use the head. Just for a minute. I got back and sat down again, in a spin, engines failed. Hit the carb heat, but I was to late, and went for a swim. COLD water. Talk about "shrinkage"...

My apologies to all...
Pat☺

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