Best split I can make of the 2 legs remaining. Winds on this leg again not great, Low pressure system seems stuck over Spain, so no help there! Hope I make it on fuel!
Taking off HEAX for LDDU
Best split I can make of the 2 legs remaining. Winds on this leg again not great, Low pressure system seems stuck over Spain, so no help there! Hope I make it on fuel!
Taking off HEAX for LDDU
Low on fuel had to land at LATI. Crashed into a mountain while handling bad weather, poorly planned approach, in the dark. Plane destroyed and with a crash like that no survivors I am afraid.
Real world commitments mean I probably cannot finish the race by 2morrows deadline. Had to do this leg now. Will finish as I can, when I am able just for the sake of it, but basically am out of the running on the official table.
Dang!
FlightLog_17-58-16.TXT
http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...YlxjLISMx8fbhA
Just going to do a couple of short legs for the sake of finishing. No more racing the clock required.
Taking Off HEAX for LGAV
FlightLog_22-17-04.TXT
http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...cWM8SiNO3WXVR0
Flight Time: 02:30:36
Routine Ground Time: 00:45:00
Special Ground Time: 00:00:00
Penalty Time: 01:00:00 Crash and restart Flight at HEAX
Thanks Roman, gonna keep going. Was such a stupid mistake I made, basically over-reliance on OTTO. I should have kicked that AP off and pulled her up at soon as I saw the TAWS warning; trying to get AP to do it took seconds too long. Also looking at this leg to LGAV, time not too bad despite the winds, so I was trying to get too clever trying two long legs in this weather; the C90b cannot do it. Three short, fast legs would have done it. Guys are flying so well in this race there are just minutes separating the top rankings, and one mistake like this costs!
Taking off LGAV for LIPQ
Wall to wall clouds tops at around 10000 ft pretty much all the way from Athens.
FlightLog_02-45-25.TXT
http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...513yTfhfe3jZys
Flight Time: 03:09:37
Routine Ground Time: 00:45:00
Special Ground Time: 00:00:00
Penalty Time: 00:00:00
Well this is it I guess. Weather still being most unkind to racers toady, just have to make the best of it!
Taking-off LIPQ for EGUN
Martin (FS RTW Race pilot 2009-19)
Win7 x64 | MSI X79A-GD65 | Intel Core i7-3820 Quad-Core 3.60 GHz | 16GB DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB
And just to complete the whole racing story, a real permafigging morning welcome it was. ILS approach in an was only at the 500ft callout that the RW lights became visible, thank goodness dead-ahead ( sometimes default stuff in FSX /P3D can give one a nasty surprise here!). Glad to be in, and made good time (13mins ahead of plan) on this last leg.
FlightLog_19-16-52.TXT
http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...fNUjWfsc2Sqhic
Flight Time: 02:55:20
Routine Ground Time: 00:45:00
Special Ground Time: 00:00:00
Penalty Time: 00:00:00
Know it a dark pick but that's how it was! Touchdown at EGUN
Well done on a great run.
Martin (FS RTW Race pilot 2009-19)
Win7 x64 | MSI X79A-GD65 | Intel Core i7-3820 Quad-Core 3.60 GHz | 16GB DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB
Congrats to another "Beech" boy.
Jeff
"Providence Permittin"
Congrats on finishing.
Thank you everyone! Once again a big thank you to Miss Nellie and the race administration!
That was an altogether different experience to the run to Melbourne, with new lessons learned (planning and weather related). The Little Beech did her best (her pilot let her down, and if planes could take revenge, I am sure he would get a swipe across the ear from a wing-tip on the next pre-flight inspection!). Besides the crash spoiling a "clean sheet" , I think at times I made some errors in hunting winds at lower altitudes; better to face stronger headwinds at higher altitudes, in less dense air? Only really helps if one can get tailwinds at lower altitudes.
The ship will have to have its engines serviced after running so many hours at Max cruise power (torques 3010-3015, rpm 1900).
Not too far behind the Beech Boyz in the 200! Now just waiting for Big Brother Beech 350 to teach the King Air family a real lesson!
The race "bug" has bitten. Next I guess will be RTW 2015 in Feb sometime?
Martin (FS RTW Race pilot 2009-19)
Win7 x64 | MSI X79A-GD65 | Intel Core i7-3820 Quad-Core 3.60 GHz | 16GB DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB
Congrats making it in to Mildenhall, even if it's with the standby bird.
FYI, the passengers on your crash flight were found by some tribe and their magical medicine man managed to keep them alive. They are slowly recovering from their injuries. That information came from locals that somehow managed to get in contact with the tribe.
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