Team United - Golden Age - Boeing 247D

[DHC120]

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 approach, too high and fast on an approach, "forcing" a landing that one knows he isn't going to make before he even tries.. It's all part of the game.. Fortunately, we can walk away from these landings/crashes, a "real pilot" would know better and would have never put his plane in a risky situation.
This race was, for me, a physically and mentally challenging (read Fatiguing) ordeal.. Like I mentioned once before, My Dad flew B-29's from Guam (Anderson AAF) to Tokyo and back.. non-stop (Show of Force Missions in '48-'49).. He was in his late twenties.. I'm not!
I hope folks enjoyed my "Leg Reports".. I tried to convey something interesting out of an otherwise boring several hours of flying (What is it they say?? Flying is hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror!), plus add a bit of humor where I could..
Let me know as soon as you can, when you think you'll fly the last leg.. I'll do my best to be there cheering you on.. If on Hamachi, I might fly the last thirty or so minutes with you, if you'd like the company..
Remember.. Blue Up, Green/Brown Down...

[salt_air]

Good Lord what a mess!

Let's get all the cobwebs cleaned out of the inside and a fresh wash job on the outside,,,,,time to finish up!

While you're at it fill up the oil and check the gas.

Gonna roll this thing out of Charley tomorrow sometime.

Headed straight for Melbourne me thinks......

[salt_air]

salt_air for Team United in the Boeing 247D flying YBCV-YMEN.

This is the Prceision Flight leg and the estimated time for the flight is:

04:13:00

See if these clear skies in Melbourne will hold out! :mixedsmi:

[teson1]

Go, Austin, go!

[Vicious]

Good Luck!

[salt_air]

Three quarters of the way with Narrandera NDB at my nine and just over three hours on the duenna.......oh boy, gonna be close.

[salt_air]

Down safe,,,,Team United is done!

Close, but no cigar.

Amazing to fight headwinds all the way down here and then fight tailwinds on the last flight. Who knew?

Weather had me worried for a little while, flying in the soup for almost three hours. Then it cleared off as promised for the rest of the way in.

Appreciate everyone's support and all the work that was done by the Committee and it subbed out help.

Great Event,,,,Thanks to All!!!.......:ernae:

[Willy]

Congratulations and well done! :ernae:

[srgalahad]

Well done guys.

[arrvoo]

Congratulations. Great team effort

[Bry Rosier]

Well done Guys :ernae:

[DHC120]

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.. you "called" 4:13:00 and the Duenna shows 4:13:37 for Flight Time, 4:13:38 for Baton Time.. I don't care how you slice it, that's "dead on" in my book!! (I'd be doing good to "call" the day I'd land!) You deserve a BIG HAND for the Precision Flying leg!!

[MM]

Terrific job by all. Great team effort was a wonderful success. Congratulations!

[RedGreen]

Way to bring it home, Austin!

[Milton Shupe]

Congratulations guys ... :ernae: A long, hard flight.

[EdGeneer]

Excellent job Austin, and great job Team United....

Austin, You nailed that time estimate.... under a minute on a 4 hour flight is doing damn good....

Cold ones all around, for everyone....!!!

[bpfowler]

more cheering and confetti!!! ..you should what it's like outside the bar?

[salt_air]

Appreciate everyone's support and all the work that was done by the Committee and it subbed out help.

Great Event,,,,Thanks to All!!!.......:ernae:

This should be a regular yearly event with the work and hosting either rotated or shared amongst the websites.

[EdGeneer]

Only if they want to relinquish it.... This is a fun event, and If they dont mind the work, I dont mind (in fact, quite enjoyed it) coming over to the SOH group of gents and sharing some air time for a fun event

Well Done Guys (SOH Crew), I had a blast... and you gents are a great group of guys... :mixedsmi:

[srgalahad]

Only if they want to relinquish it.... This is a fun event, and If they dont mind the work, I dont mind (in fact, quite enjoyed it) coming over to the SOH group of gents and sharing some air time for a fun event

Well Done Guys (SOH Crew), I had a blast... and you gents are a great group of guys... :mixedsmi:

Well, strictly speaking it's not a purely-SOH event to begin with. We host it because this is a place where irreverent and twisted minds gather and swap curious ideas. As long as Ickie doesn't cut our file space we are happy to have it here and it means less "traveling" for us

As for the committee, it's not just the Outhouse... Reggie, MM and poor, drafted Eamonn are imports from "over there" -------------------------->

and some of us frequent other dens of FS iniquity now and then to keep tabs on the outside world.
It's not always easy to advertise and send out alerts about events so we depend on you for that.

BTW, I hope you realize that by participating you've all been drawn into the Outhouse anyway... so now you're part of "it".

Rob
(Unofficial Truly Evil Mind of the Committee)

[salt_air]

BTW, I hope you realize that by participating you've all been drawn into the Outhouse anyway... so now you're part of "it".

Rob
(Unofficial Truly Evil Mind of the Committee)

Home is where you hang your hat......always a pleasure to be in such "good" company Rob.:ernae:

[EdGeneer]

Well, you guys here make it very welcome for us 'team outsiders' to come in when the rtw is not competitively active, and participate as if we were almost family... So, It is very appreciated. You guys are top notch....

I greatly enjoyed participating, and will definitely do so again...

BTW, I hope you realize that by participating you've all been drawn into the Outhouse anyway... so now you're part of "it".

Rob
(Unofficial Truly Evil Mind of the Committee)

nothing wrong with that....

[DHC120]

Well, you guys here make it very welcome for us 'team outsiders' to come in when the rtw is not competitively active, and participate as if we were almost family... So, It is very appreciated. You guys are top notch....

I greatly enjoyed participating, and will definitely do so again...



nothing wrong with that....

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.

[donlimpio]

a little late, hope somebody's still around-congratulations in any case!

[mickj300]

Warm welcome to Aus for my Team Flightsim buddies!