Robert's Cape to Cape adventure

[robert41]

It has been a busy weekend. Having to work on top of Easter, on top of mother's birthday, on top of some yardwork.

Now time to fly.

ENHF to ENVA. Heinkel Doppleblitz. GW3. Default real weather.

[Willy]

Cool! Golden Wings!

[robert41]

Down safe at ENVA. Long flight in this thing.

Forgot to mention this is under the reference race.

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...QMbUD1mYWe2CFI

[Moses03]

Robert, entrants are automatically placed in each race. There is no need to declare which one. Hope that helps.

"Each race is scored separately, with a rank ordering for the Precision Race and also for the Reference Race."

[robert41]

Thanks Moses for clearing that up.

[robert41]

Here is a shot parked at ENVA. Forgot I had the AI on. Default GW3 install. Never seen this guy before.

[Willy]

Looks kind of Braniffish. Nice shot of the Heinkel airliner.

[robert41]

Thanks Willy.

[robert41]

ENVA to ENKJ.

[MM]

That Heinkel is one classy ship.

[robert41]

Thanks Mike.

Crash at ENKJ. Not sure why. Was stopped then the tail sank into the runway. Will have to refly.

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...9LDxtXtCQmDmpw

[MM]

You have a couple of options, Robert.

(a) Since you were landing when the crash occurred, you can treat this as a crash landing. Take the leg as flown (using the time from departure to crash landing) and start from the new airport. You add a crash penalty to your flight log.
(b) You can simply re-fly the leg. Don't count the invalid leg time in your log book. You do add the crash penalty, of course.

Not sure what you prefer. But normally, one might as well take the "crash landing" option--advancing to the next airport while incurring the standard crash penalty. No reason to re-fly unless you want to.

This clearly is an odd crash. You had landed and were on the ground moving at 10kts just before the "event" happened.

[Willy]

On the ground and moving slow? Sounds like what happened to me in Oslo Fornebu.

[robert41]

I'll take the penalty and the leg.

Hopefully these folks here will have that hole in the runway fixed before leaving.

Now all I have to do is put the tail back on the Heinkel. Anyone have some duct tape?

[RedGreen]

Now all I have to do is put the tail back on the Heinkel. Anyone have some duct tape?

Well that's a silly question!

[robert41]

Doesnt look like duct tape was around in these days.

We are back together and ready to go.

ENKJ to EKCH.

[robert41]

Down safe at EKCH.

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...JKd4KrsmgbR5B8

[robert41]

Visibility was at 3mi. coming into EKCH.

[robert41]

Onward to our homeland.

EKCH to EDDH.

[robert41]

Down at EDDH. Took off in soup, landed in soup. Most of the flight was clear.

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...96aVZ1jcgkJcyw

Lot of traffic at Hamburg today.

[robert41]

Onward, EDDH to EDDF.

[robert41]

Down at EDDF. Great weather this flight. Going to let the Heinkel people look over the aircraft, make sure everything is ok.

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...RXSHWJbTR75nlA

[salt_air]

Good to see an instance of GW3 being used ... perfect event for it.


Great Job ... all the best in to Cape Horn!

[robert41]

Thanks Salt.

[robert41]

Its off to the Alps. Hand flying. No autopilot.

EDDF to LIPB.