Willy's Golden Age flight to Oz in the Twin Beech

[Willy]

I was just thinking I could get a job with Northwest. I too can surf the net from the cockpit while flying........

[MM]

[Willy]

Just picked up the Beruit NDB which put me about 75nm out. I probably won't make it before SOH goes down for maintenence, so I'll post the details first chance I get. And I promise some pics too.

[Willy]

Landed safe at Beruit (OLBA) in a t-storm.

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...orcVztcweNX6LI

Next will be on to Baghdad, but that will be tomorrow, I'm off to the pilot's lounge for a few cold ones..

Distance: 516.6 nm
Total Distance: 2142.1 nm

Flight Time: 02:43:36
Total Time: 11:01:25

[Willy]

Heading out from Beruit to Baghdad....

[Willy]

I sure miss the old duenna program. I never had these kinds of problems with it. Same thing as before... it thinks I went to Africa. I got a flight analysis shot as a back up. Grrrr......

ETA: This old comp occasionally freezes up for a few seconds. No rhyme or reason to it, it just happens now and again. I suspect the freeze ups have something to do with it.


Distance: 438.5 nm
Total Distance: 2580.6 nm

Flight Time: 02:11:32
Total Time: 13:12:57

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...CRXlu8RfboHD1I

[Dangerousdave26]

Very strange errors there Willy

But we can see the log shows you enroute on your appointed flight path then suddenly jumping to 0 latitude and 0 longitude twice.

29/10/2009 23:20:10; 33.808592; 35.833406; 9444; 1036; 140; 111; 0
29/10/2009 23:26:28; 0.000000; 0.000000; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0
29/10/2009 23:36:56; 33.786089; 36.958022; 9491; 2; 218; 175; 0
29/10/2009 23:46:56; 33.768169; 37.687877; 9464; 14; 218; 175; 0
29/10/2009 23:56:56; 33.741391; 38.403828; 9498; 16; 227; 175; 0
30/10/2009 00:06:56; 33.717250; 39.136880; 9490; 2; 229; 176; 0
30/10/2009 00:16:57; 33.691231; 39.897721; 9480; 8; 231; 175; 0
30/10/2009 00:26:58; 33.662818; 40.660425; 9488; 7; 229; 174; 0
30/10/2009 00:30:29; 0.000000; 0.000000; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0
30/10/2009 00:40:57; 33.632820; 41.657151; 9520; 7; 222; 174; 0

Of course this is physically impossible to happen.

For some reason in this same time period your got the Same Aircraft error as well as a bunch of Warning: FS unavailable

I can not really say why it happened but it clearly is a good leg.

[Willy]

Loading up to head out of Iraq and into Iran. Customs and the race inspectors decided they didn't want to look in my crate so bad after all...

[Willy]

Drat! First FS locks up solid on me, then my comp bogs down. I'm going to do some maintenance on this thing tonite and try again tomorrow.....

[Willy]

Going to try this again. (I've got a theory that I was hit with a shoulder fired missle by one of Achmed's minions somewhere north of Basrah last night )

Off to Bushar Iran!

[Willy]

Feet wet over the Persian Gulf. I've been fighting a 20kt headwind the whole way.

[Willy]

Down safe at OIBB. The Duenna even played nice. Trying to decide whether to stop at Jask next or go for broke and on to Pakistan.

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...J2wuB5obvB4WO0

Distance: 426.0 nm
Total Distance: 3006.6 nm

Flight Time: 02:19:08
Total Time: 15:32:05

Didn't use much of the runway when I landed at OIBB. I should get a discount on my landing fee for that...

[Willy]

Let's see if we can do this again without breaking anything. Heading out from Bushehr to Jask....

[Willy]

Nice flight to Jask. Not sure what all the fuss is about finding it. It was right there where it was supposed to be.


Distance: 421.5 nm
Total Distance: 3428.1 nm

Flight Time: 02:17:22
Total Time: 17:49:27

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...TpKtlf6MQwAhos

[Willy]

Pushing on to Gwandar, Pakistan.