SOH Practice #3 Getting there in style.

[Willy]

Don't know for sure what happened but when I was doing the update post, FS set me back at SBRF with a invalid Duenna.

Maybe someone will recover the Flight Data Recorder

Baton is free at SBRF

[Willy]

Dratted shop heaters. Knew I should have taken the DC-7. I'm thinking Achmed was behind all this :d.

[srgalahad]

Don't know for sure what happened
Maybe someone will recover the Flight Data Recorder

I can't tell you why, but I can tell you how...
(from your Duenna .txt file)

._____________________________________ Altitude; ..VS; ..GS; KIAS; OnGround
31/01/2011 05:06:55; -8.135230; -34.920635;... 323; 4042; 220; 221; 0 Initial climb
31/01/2011 05:16:56; -8.215302; -33.772554; 29968;.. -12; 519; 345; 0 Leveling at cruise?
31/01/2011 05:23:13; -8.226261; -32.830579; 34928;... -2;.... 0; 306; 0 The last moment

Max. altitude: 34934 ft
Time in overspeed: 60.3 secs.
Error count: 1

These things are powerful a/c and accumulate overspeed very rapidly during the climb if not held back. Esp. if one isn't used to it that 60 sec ( which IS fatal in the default 747) is on you like magic. At some point, when you opened your browser, or while posting you grabbed the last few seconds needed to turn you into a cloud of shrapnel. Wind shifts can do it, not setting the autothrottle properly ( or inadvertently disconnecting it or Otto on the way to your browser) .. all sorts of probable causes... one messy result.

[Willy]

Rgr overspeed. I did experience a rather long one during climbout that I was pulling every trick in the book to slow down. I had just leveled out at FL350 when I went to post the status report. When I came back it was sitting back on the rwy.

[Willy]

Ok, gonna try this one more time in a different aircraft. Just don't expect many updates here from me.

I have the baton SBRF to FHAW via the South Atlantic Corridor in the DSB A-7 Corsair II. Fly Navy!

[srgalahad]

Hokay!

The Garburator errr.... Globemaster III crew is waiting to carry on to the land of Springboks once you arrive

[Willy]

Heading east on hdg 114 at FL320. Ete 1:40/925nm.

Darn this panel needs a serious re-gauging, but other than that, it's a nice enough shop heater.

[Willy]

Interesting data plate on this. Says "Mfd by Kero-Max Heating Systems"

By my calculations (no fuel status gauge onboard) I'm going to be cutting it close on fuel. Guess that means I need to go faster so I can get there before I run out of kerosine.

[Willy]

Ete: 1hr

[Willy]

ete 25mins +

Will start reentry here in a bit

[Willy]

Rob, get ready! I'm coming in hot.

[Willy]

crashed in the fog 7nm out from the rwy. Baton back at SBRF.

Couldn't see a bloody thing.

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...YnjoYJnvxH7onA

[srgalahad]

returning to ramp...

Good thing we brought the beer cooler and BBQ

[PRB]

Ok, time to give this a shot. I have the baton, SBRF - FHAW, Boeing 747-400.

[jkcook28]

Wing for P. SBRF-->FHAW. SR-71

[PRB]

At altitude and speed. More or less. ETE 2:10.

[PRB]

Less than a thousand miles to go. ETE 1:50. Picked up a tail wind.

[jkcook28]

Wing down safe FHAW

[PRB]

ETE 1:00.

[jkcook28]

Arrival crew awaits the Jumbo.... ................hehe

[PRB]

ETE 0:30+ groping around in the dark to land.

[PRB]

Wing transfer. Baton 1 crashed into a tree on final.

[srgalahad]

Testing system stability

I have the baton FHAW to FIMR Boeing C-17

Initially online, but we'll see...

[srgalahad]

4430nm or 8:30 to go.

Crew rest time-

[srgalahad]

The baton is free at FIMR

Note: 9 hrs 20 minutes online in FS9 with no sim, FSHost or O/S failures (btw, it's Vista!)