DD26 - Golden Age - DH.80 Puss Moth

[Milton Shupe]

Now that's some serious flying in the spirit of C.J. Melrose. :ernae:

Can you imagine being cooped up, no bathroom breaks, no coffee, no snacks for 12 hours with no auto pilot. Yikes!

[MM]

Did the Moth get ESPN?

[Dangerousdave26]

Did the Moth get ESPN?

Probably as good as I do...

I don't own a Television.

[Dangerousdave26]

Now that's some serious flying in the spirit of C.J. Melrose. :ernae:

Can you imagine being cooped up, no bathroom breaks, no coffee, no snacks for 12 hours with no auto pilot. Yikes!

I have a much keener hold on what it might have taken to pull this off.

I would also add there would have been more concern about navigation than I have to deal with.

The Puss Moth would not have had radios, no drift meter but probably much better charts than I have. The odds that he was concerned about where he was would have been very good.

Now back to my trip.

Since I left Singapore the weather has been in my favor until now.

Its cloudy the visibilty below me is probably the standard 6.2 sm of vis and I have an ever so slight head wind.

Still all is good should be in Darwin around 12:30 est.

[salt_air]

Some championship flying by you Dave.

One more thing young Jimmy had was that fact that he was 19 yrs old.

I don't event want to start thinking about the things I did at that age.

If I tried to do them now, I would suffer with broken bones in most cases and probably have a heart attack trying to do the others.

Good fortune across the "Outback" and into Melbourne.

[Dangerousdave26]

Down and safe

Good thing Darwin has a NDB on each end of the run way. I could not see anything until I had the lights at 800'

[Dangerousdave26]

Looks like it will be a head wind bonanza but off we go to Charleville.

[Dangerousdave26]

Not quite so bad the winds have been all over the place but all less than 10 kts so who cares.

Moving along just fine

I will end up pausing this one also. Seems I started too late to be done when I need to this evening.

[Dangerousdave26]

All is well but its about time to Pause the sim and head out the door.

Cheers

[Dangerousdave26]

Simulation Paused

[Dangerousdave26]

Simulation resumed

[Dangerousdave26]

Down and Safe

Details to follow

Summary:
Direct distance: --------1207.9 nm
Flight time:-------------14:11:58
Pause time:--------------2:50:00 <--- correct as needed
Total Flight time---------11:22:58


Tracker Range

27/11/2009 22:50:24; -24.255360; 143.204217; 3799; 12; 111; 99; 0
27/11/2009 23:00:25; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
27/11/2009 23:10:26; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
27/11/2009 23:20:26; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
27/11/2009 23:30:27; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
27/11/2009 23:40:28; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
27/11/2009 23:50:29; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 00:00:29; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 00:10:29; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 00:20:30; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 00:30:31; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 00:40:31; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 00:50:31; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 01:00:32; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 01:10:32; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 01:20:32; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 01:30:33; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 01:40:33; -24.456035; 143.439493; 3796; 0; 110; 99; 0
28/11/2009 01:50:34; -24.538952; 143.536487; 3767; -4; 111; 99; 0

[srgalahad]

Good work Dave.
With some luck I'll be able to fly 'escort' for you to YMEN before I shut down the computer for it's annual holiday.

[Dangerousdave26]

Time to bring this event to a close

YBCV - YMEN

Est time 6 hrs 47 mins

[bpfowler]

RAH RAH RAH!
Thanks for bringing the Moeuth home, DD.

[Dangerousdave26]

Its a battle of the winds here today.

Some of the best winds I have had through out the whole race.

Unless I get some serious head winds (which could still happen) I think you can throw out my estimate.

[Bry Rosier]

I hit the Headwind wall at the New South Wales / Victoria state border so you may have good luck with the winds

[srgalahad]

Photo/escort Beech 18 amphib... anyone know where the brakes are in thi s thing.. 1900rpm, 29" MP. one notch of flap and I still have to keep doing circles to "keep up (back?) with Dave...

and we'd better take up a collection to buy him a new sliderule.. his old one is mighty worn out and inaccurate...

[Dangerousdave26]

HAHA

Down and safe

Holy Cats I could not have had any more diversity in weather.

[srgalahad]

Congratulations Dave
Worst estimate so far
Perhaps the best landing in the worst weather... officially Zero vis (I saw you for a couple of seconds as you crossed the threshold (maybe 300 ft)

[srgalahad]

This is what it looked like a couple of minutes later .. without, and with fog

[Bry Rosier]

Congratulations Dave :ernae: A truly Gargantuan Effort to take the Moth all that way solo Superb

[Dangerousdave26]

Well I started out the leg with 100 nm of 13kts of tail wind.

Then I had 30 kts of cross wind...

Which became 30 kts of tail wind...

Which flipped to 30 kts of head wind giving me 4.3 seconds of over speed.

NICE

Then I got more tail winds...

Lots of Tail Winds for so long I am going to Declare Shenanigans on the Duenna.

After arriving almost an Hour early it only shows a net of 5.9 kts of tail wind.

No freaking way.

Of course the arrival could not have been any more intense.

0.00 vis at the YMEN

Screen shots show the weather and the funky affect no visibility has on textures.

Try landing a plane when you are not sure where your plane is or where the runway is.

The only positive side is I could see the runway from a couple of miles off. It only got hairy on landing.

I thought I was going to stall the Puss Moth if I did not touch down soon.

[Great Ozzie]

Ok Dave... time to prove you're a real pilot and fly it all the way back to Mildenhall.
j/k of course! Nicely Done! What a way to end too! :ernae:

[MM]

Quite an achievement, Dave. Congratulations and getting the Puss Moth "all the way there" on a solo flight.

Come join us all in good cheer.