SWSucceed - Golden Era DC3

SWSucceed · October 28th, 2009, 13:09

Departing ORBI for OIBB ...

SWSucceed · October 28th, 2009, 15:25

Landed OIBB

SWSucceed · October 29th, 2009, 01:18

Leg 5 flight report and pictures: http://aspirefsx.com/viewthread.php?tid=250

Or the blog: http://fsx.aspireblogs.com

Lots of sand .... what more can I say

SWSucceed · October 30th, 2009, 02:55

Departing OIBB to OIZJ ...

Never got off ground? Aircraft rolled over immediate on leaving runway?

Traced fault to mouse, had managed to toggle mouse yoke so when moving mouse to dashboard of plane it rolled it over. Watch out for that one!

Took a reboot to get duenna to go off of red. Try again.

SWSucceed · October 30th, 2009, 03:14

Departing OIBB for OIZJ ...

**Spookster67** · October 30th, 2009, 03:27

Originally Posted by SWSucceed

Traced fault to mouse

Ah, yes, pesky rodents! :costum: When mice start chewing through the instrument cables all sorts of bad things can happen...

Hope the weather at Jask is good for you - I imagine it would be quite hard to find in IMC.

SWSucceed · October 30th, 2009, 05:37

Landed OIZJ

SWSucceed · October 30th, 2009, 05:43

Originally Posted by Spookster67

Ah, yes, pesky rodents! :costum: When mice start chewing through the instrument cables all sorts of bad things can happen...

Hope the weather at Jask is good for you - I imagine it would be quite hard to find in IMC.

hehe!
Had t swing out to the coast as it was blanket cloud at times and I needed to see that "spur" that juts out about 25 mins out from landing, an indication when to swing out a little to make the landing approach.

Outside the coast beautifully clear and very few winds or problems. Mice have been humanely dealt with, and the box of crackers found dumped under the co-pilots seat have been removed, dusted off and who knows, may be useful if I get peckish!!

SWSucceed · October 30th, 2009, 06:04

Departing OIZJ for OPKC ...

SWSucceed · October 30th, 2009, 08:51

Landed OPKC ...

SWSucceed · October 30th, 2009, 11:29

Departing OPKC ...

Headed for Agra AB (VIAG) hoping to keep the English End Up lmao!!

SWSucceed · October 30th, 2009, 14:38

Crashed about 15 or so miles from the runway at about 4,000ft I think ... it happened so quick I can hardly recall, I was on a simple 1000ft/min descent but I hit a freak shear wind that rolled the DC right over and into a nosedive, I was unable to get the auto-pitch controller off line as the cockpit was rolling and we stacked into the ground.

This is a second crash and a 3 hours penalty on top of the other 2 hours so the continuation of this is pointless. I would not have survived the landing anyway so that's me done. I won't have time to run from the start again I don't think in a second entry.

Thank Sim Outhouse, here's to the RTW 2010!!

Best of luck to all the rest of you out there

**Spookster67** · October 30th, 2009, 15:47

Bad luck again Stuart. Sorry to see you pull out, we were just getting into a bit of a race between you and I...

I think I was about half an hour behind you landing in Karachi (it seems everyone is landing in Karachi today - maybe there's a party...

)

I still have the Cessna C414A parked up at Mildenhall, and team slots open for willing pilots, so perhaps you can help me get that to Oz? After all, there's still a month to go in this event.

SWSucceed · October 31st, 2009, 00:27

Originally Posted by Spookster67

Bad luck again Stuart. Sorry to see you pull out, we were just getting into a bit of a race between you and I...

I think I was about half an hour behind you landing in Karachi (it seems everyone is landing in Karachi today - maybe there's a party...

)

I still have the Cessna C414A parked up at Mildenhall, and team slots open for willing pilots, so perhaps you can help me get that to Oz? After all, there's still a month to go in this event.

I would imagine that a party in Karachi would mean some stunning food ... Tom was with me last night and got his controls off and had a terrible trouble landing, hearing him going "ooohh" "aaahhh" s@&!!%&* was mad but he got down lol!

I need to fly some 50 hours by end November and I get time to do around 10 maybe per week with family and bowling committments so would need time off work which is not possible until Christmas now so another solo is not possible.

The team flight is always a possibility - I will try and get Tom and Roger on-board as well. I'll at least try to get it off the ground. Would you be averse to me asking committee for a name change on the team considering no one else has actually made any committment to it thus far?

Best of luck on the solo!!

SWSucceed · November 9th, 2009, 11:36

Now flying under the name of Teams AspireFSX.com current members SWSucceed and Spookster67 we have repaired the DC-3 albeit now made of 8 different donor craft and have departed OPKC Karachi Airport headed to to VIAG Airforce Base ... Eamonn there are I believe 3 hours to add as the crash penalty??

Departin OPKC Karachi Airport ...

SWSucceed · November 9th, 2009, 11:58

OK ... took the DC-3 up and she climbed and climbed and climbed ... trouble is I could not stop no matter what I tried ... had so much negative trim it was crazy and unflyable.

Crashed the program and restarted, exactly the same thing, reboot and blahhhh just this weird nonsense. This race is simply not going to happen for me this year so that is it FINALLY for me, I am getting to frustrated at the problems.

Check out the pitch reference in the pic ... something has gone screwy with my DC-3 model maybe which could explain these weird taxi crases and the roll over on take-off a few days back ... and then perhaps why the DC rolled rightover in that wind shear when Tom's did not ...

**Spookster67** · November 9th, 2009, 13:28

Originally Posted by SWSucceed

Check out the pitch reference in the pic ... something has gone screwy with my DC-3 model maybe which could explain these weird taxi crases and the roll over on take-off a few days back ... and then perhaps why the DC rolled rightover in that wind shear when Tom's did not ...

Looks like some sort of FSX config glitch has got you again, bad luck. Or maybe our friends in Karachi just didn't fix her quite right... :isadizzy:

Now we're a team entry, let me join in and see whether I can tame it.

OPKC to VIJO.

**Spookster67** · November 9th, 2009, 15:18

Down safely at VIJO.

Wow, the DC-3 can get thrown around in the turbulence, that got a bit exciting at times! Having only 2 gallons of fuel left at the end was also slightly concerning, no chance for a go-around... Need to plan better next time.

SWSucceed · November 16th, 2009, 01:41

Well done ... catches you quick at times she does ... glad to say that one of our Aspire members has experienced the DC-3 roll over onto back on take-off that I have had during this race, but keep that in mind when you're rolling ... good luck with the finish, shout out if you think you need a bit of help as I'd be OK to make a trip or two to help you out.

**Spookster67** · November 26th, 2009, 23:25

Moving the DC-3 along. Pre-dawn departure, as we may get several flights in today.

VIJO - VIAL

**Spookster67** · November 27th, 2009, 02:04

Down at Allahabad, but it nosed over and crashed when I applied too much brake.

I guess I should have aborted the flight when I realised I had a problem with my flight yoke (it wasn't connected to FSX at all) but I reckoned I could land the DC3 using just the Sperry autopilot. I went for runway 06, which was fine, and I got her down no problem. However, I'd used up a lot of runway by being very careful with the touchdown using autopilot control, and so I had to stand on the brakes. Ooops!

This DC3 is determined not to make it to Melbourne. We'll see...

So, "crash landing", more penalties, and we continue.

**Spookster67** · November 27th, 2009, 02:16

Re-fueled, nose cone repaired, and we're heading for Burma.

VIAL - VYSW

**Spookster67** · November 27th, 2009, 03:31

Flight aborted - pilot not paying attention, and co-pilot not doing his job properly! Broke the 12,000' and 15,000' hard ceiling. :isadizzy:

Re-starting, without penalty, VIAL - VYSW.