Haitun - Golden Age - Vultee V1A

**Haitun** · October 23rd, 2009, 17:22

So, here we go (after a quick sleep)

***Moses03*** · October 23rd, 2009, 17:57

Welcome to the party Haitun. Good luck!

**Milton Shupe** · October 23rd, 2009, 18:04

Looking forward to your progress ... great aircraft too!

**Vicious** · October 23rd, 2009, 19:08

Good Luck!

**Haitun** · October 27th, 2009, 13:11

Off from EGUN to LFML.

**Bry Rosier** · October 27th, 2009, 14:07

Good Luck Haitun , may the winds be with you

nice plane

**Haitun** · October 27th, 2009, 16:53

Down and safe @LFML

**Haitun** · October 27th, 2009, 16:58

Some pics from the flight:

**Haitun** · October 27th, 2009, 17:05

Thank you all.
Yup, the plane is nice and no one was flying it, so, i took a try - and it's sturdier and more long-ranged than Orion and a WAY easier to land than comet.
Also in year 1936 famous Soviet aviator of polish origin Sigismund Lewanewsky flew the last produced V-1A equipped with floats from LA to Moscow accross Siberia.
One of the most sccesful Soviet passanger planes of the pre-war period -- KhAI-10 (aka PS-34) was based on V-1 design.

MM · October 27th, 2009, 19:54

Excellent choice, Haitun!

**Haitun** · November 5th, 2009, 02:44

Off to LIRA

**Haitun** · November 5th, 2009, 04:55

Down and safe at LIRA. Although I accidentialy hit "Otto" button while taking kodaks above rome for approximately 5 secs - though not having any benefits from it - I know where is LIRA and where is LIRF and the visibility was good and that "Otto" almost crashed me into Coliseum=)
So, I beg the commitee to pardon me or penalise me accordingly without me having to refly the leg.

Otherwise it was a nice flight with slight boltanka over Corsica and some fog near Italian coast.

MM · November 5th, 2009, 05:19

Haitun, this leg is good.

Not sure just what you did over Rome. If you merely used the autopilot, then there is no problem--the rules permit the use of an autopilot. (I believe that most pilots are using an autopilot of some sort--it's practically a necessity for those long legs to come.)

For a nice package that includes ADF radios and the Sperry autopilot, see the one that PRB put together for use in the Race.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...ad.php?t=24096

**Haitun** · November 5th, 2009, 07:32

I accidentially hit the key which turns on default FSX autopilot, which AFAIC is turned to the point of destination. Although I was 1 mile away from the airport when I did this, so there was no benefit in it.