PRB - Golden Age - Lockheed L9

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Made it to LGIR.

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I'm going to Cyprus. LGIR --> LCRA.

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Safe at LCRA!

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Off to Beirut (LIRA --> OLBA). Wish me luck.

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OLBA. It was very hazy on this flight. From 5000 feet could not see the water nor the horizon. Cool!

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Almost decided to park the Lockheed for the day. It was 16:00 when I landed at Beirut, after all. Then I said "what the deck?" There isn't anything to see in the great desert anyway. The only navaids are the set of 37 NM ADF stations at the airport in Baghdad, which give me an about an 80 NM "window" to hit if I tune in the northern most and southern most stations. So I'm off to Baghdad (ORBI). Into the wasteland and into darkness.

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Made it to Baghdad.

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Headed "down river" ... ORBI --> OIBB

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Down @ OIBB

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Dang, I fell off the front page! Well, my L9 was down for maintenance. Seems I needed a new main disgronificator coil. Try to find one of those out here! In any event, I'm now off to Jask (OIBB --> OIZJ)

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Made it to Jask (OIZJ). This was a fun flight. Jask has no nav aids. No buidlings either, nor control tower. Pretty much a deserted airport. By with no ADF station, one has to find it with the Mark I Eyeball alone. With good weather and a map that isn't too difficult though, as it sits at the end of a small peninsula, just after you pass the Straight of Hormuz.

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oizj --> opgd

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Made it to OPGD. There's a building here!

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On the road to Karachi. OPGD --> OPKC.

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Made it to OPKC.

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Next leg: OPKC --> VIJO, with a test of the REX2 weather engine.

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First observation: Enabling REX2 for "real time weather" sets FSX's weather selector to "user defined weather", which causes duenna's weather light to "go yellow", indicating real wx is not set, which is, strictly speaking, true. Proceeding on.

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REX2 Weather Update: It's been about an hour, and I just got a green message on the screen saying REX was loading weather, then the weather changed, slightly. I think this confirms that REX2 does indeed update the weather periodically. I wonder if there is a way to change the interval, from what appears to be 1 hour, to something else...

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Made it to VIJO. This was a fun flight, because VIJO has no NAV aids, and is in the absolute middle of nowhere, so there was no coastline shapes to help locate it, although there is a big city. REX2 seems to work ok as a source of "real weather", but we have to get special authorization, because duenna doesn't recognize it.

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Off to VIAG. Ok wait, the ICAO code for Agra is VIAG? That's a joke, right?

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REX2 seems to work ok as a source of "real weather", but we have to get special authorization, because duenna doesn't recognize it.

Don't forget PRB, Active Sky X and Active Sky Advanced don't give you a green Duenna either in FSX.

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Don't forget PRB, Active Sky X and Active Sky Advanced don't give you a green Duenna either in FSX.

Ok, thanks. I didn't know that. It does make prettier clouds to look at during the flight! Very nice.

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Made it to VIAG.

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Leg 17: VIAG --> VIAL

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Down safe @ VIAL.