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

[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... :d

[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.

[Willy]

Nice early morning flight to Gwadar, even if it's got to be the most boring coastline in FS.

Distance: 247.2 nm
Total Distance: 3675.3 nm

Flight Time: 01:21:17
Total Time: 19:10:44

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...wKrDUuQ5ZZh07g

[Willy]

Heading out for India...

[Willy]

Arrived at Jodphur (VIJO) in one piece and in low vis...

Distance: 582.2 nm
Total Distance: 4257.5 nm

Flight Time: 03:01:56
Total Time: 22:12:40

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...kgHbrIjH8VTVm4

[Willy]

Going to try and make it to Allahabad for the second checkpoint. I'd like to at least get as far as Calcutta today.

[Willy]

It's been a rough flight so far. Took 3 tries to get started and the FOG is back.

Paused at 21:48 Zulu to go feed my horses. Hope no one steals the Beech while it's stopped in mid-air.....

[PRB]

Quick, Moses, get the cinder blocks..!

[Moses03]

Hehe. Hope he checked ALL the compartments in the Beech before he left...

[Willy]

Hmm... I might want to do a complete look over of the Beech before I un-pause

Took longer than I thought. Our 600lb colt Chief decided that he was Mr Billy Bad Arse and we had to have a "Come to Jesus" moment or three with him. I like to have caught a hoof upside my head a couple of times in the process, but he's being a good boy again now. Darn that rascal is strong!

I'll be un-pausing here in a few minutes.


Un-paused at 00:08 UTC

[Willy]

Finally arrived at Allahabad (VIAL) for the 2nd Checkpoint. Kind of a zig-zaggy flight path while I was chasing NDBs.


Distance: 472.1 nm
Total Distance: 4729.6 nm

Time this flight: 05:09:34
Time paused: 02:20:09
Adjusted Flight Time: 02:49:23
Total Time: 25:02:03

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...GzNd39934p4pn8

Pics...
1) the circled thingy is the Taj Mahal
2) fog at 9500ft, can't see the ground
3) approach into Allahabad

[Willy]

I can't stand it.... Heading out to the "black hole of Calcutta"...

[Willy]

Nice flight with good weather although a bit of a small headwind most of the way


Distance: 404.2 nm
Total Distance: 5133.8 nm

Time this flight: 02:12:22
Total Time: 27:14:25

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...GKesXsUfKuk0Ew

I think crossing India is a good enough day's work .

[Willy]

Heading out of India for Burma.

[Willy]

Made it to Sittwe Burma, after a short stop enroute at Cox's Bazar that I'll cover up at the Watering Hole.

Distance: 289.1 nm
Total Distance: 5422.9nm

Time this flight: 02:01:44
Total Time: 29:16:09

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...Exghvt7PUFYcT0

[Willy]

Heading to Bangkok, but reserving a possible divert to Rangoon (VYYY) should it be necessary.

[Willy]

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the Captain. Our navigator has apparently gotten into the medicinal brandy again. At this point we have no clue where Rangoon is, so we shall continue on to where we think Bangkok might be. Nothing to worry about, just a typical Flight 19 snafu.....

ETA Destination: We're gonna be a bit late to where ever we're going due to a 10kt headwind the whole trip this far...

[Willy]

Wasn't a tad late getting there, but my ISP had a service outage in this area about 20 mins from landing at Bangkok. Which made the clicking the Real Wx unable to connect to the internet box every minute or so a lot of fun.

Anyway, I still got a valid Duenna out of it.

Distance: 579.7 nm
Total Distance: 6002.6nm

Time this flight: 03:17:31
Total Time: 32:33:40

Here's the partial race track which quits at where I was at when I lost internet:

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...IcfCovHdDi8nZI

[Willy]

Heading out for Malaysia.

[Willy]

Landed safely at WMKA in a thunderstorm.

Distance: 464.2 nm
Total Distance: 6466.8nm

Time this flight: 02:26:06
Total Time: 34:59:46

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...ki0QtNKKnf4OJ0

[Willy]

Heading out to Singapore.. lots of NDBs enroute too! ADF heaven :ernae:

[Willy]

Made it to the 3rd Checkpoint at Singapore (WSSL) just fine... checking out the lay of the land on the map before take off paid off.

Distance: 353.8 nm
Total Distance: 6820.6nm

Time this flight: 01:59:41
Total Time: 36:59:21


http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowF...wdpFzMCcJqH9Os