Staggering Staggerwing

[srgalahad]

Funny winds over Pakistan and western India but might work..

Off OPGD for VIJO (with maybe a stop at Karachi if required)

[srgalahad]

Well, I found a semi-favourable wind layer.. way down at 3500 ft.. makes it tight on gas but it's still progress. Just a couple of knots below my average speed so it will hurt a bit, but not disasterously.

1 hour to go

[srgalahad]

ahhhhh.. smoggy, foggy Jodhpur...

barely see the green Duenna thru the goo

[srgalahad]

Surf's up!! errr the wind!

VIJO to VIAL (Checkpoint Allah)

[srgalahad]

There I was.. flat on my back, in the cloud and...

well, not quite, but a total elctrical failure 5 min. after take off in IFR conditions makes life interesting...
No autopilot
no radios
no lights
but the battery powered clock still runs

oh.. and no fuel gauges

[srgalahad]

and now isolated thunderstorms

This is so much fun..

[srgalahad]

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!
Manual gear extension worked!!

On the ground at VIAL...
now where's the restroom????????????????????

[srgalahad]

Oops.. A-bad has fugged in.. time to leave

VIAL to VYSW with working electrics this time

Edit: I think Paul's post jinxed me... 3 min in MSFS locked up, joystick too .. reboot... restart flight

One more time on Friday the 13th

[PRB]

See, you should use Lucas Electrics. Then you wouldn't have that problem.

[srgalahad]

By Kolkata (Calcutta) VECC at :26
soon to be "out of India" and on the way across the water to Burma
should be an easy 1+20 from here

[srgalahad]

Enjoy
Your
visit
with
Burma

shave

and a haircut.. six bits!
Down at VYSW

[Moses03]

[srgalahad]

HEY!!! I resemble that remark!!!
TY Kevin. That's much nicer than some of the antiques you dredge up for the Mystery Airplane thread


consider it stolen! :ernae:

[Moses03]

Good on reversing the sign order. I didn't notice that at first.

[srgalahad]

that's cause we tend to "think" left-to-right.. but I find I can work bass-ackwards and it make sense.
the one that gets me is the sign they paint on a highway. is it...

STOP
AHEAD

or should it be ...
AHEAD
STOP

to be read in steps, or all at once...

BTW.. is it true you can only have one sig pic at a time?

[srgalahad]

Thinking left to right (on the map)
Enough breeze to make it worthwhile so I'm off to Bangkok
VYSW to VTBD

FS9 RWWx

[srgalahad]

Just past halfway the winds started to drop - of course- but still on the tail.
Not enough to panic so I'll stagger onward. At least there's lots of fuel if I have to go hunting wind later.

[srgalahad]

Beautiful downtown Bangkok
We have arrived!

[srgalahad]

In spite of the winds...

VTBD to WSSL ( with possible diversion to WMKA)
FS9 RWWx
online (MAPE)

[srgalahad]

Wellllllllllllll... John's been online so there's no way I can even BUY some favourable wind. Making WSSL even with a loss of 20 kts would be ok, but no matter what I try I come up 20 nm short.

So, diversion to WMKA (at least I'll have a tailwind for a few moments )

[srgalahad]

Oh sure.. 40 miles from destination and I have to run out to get some info for my car insurance -while they wait on the phone -- I guess being possibly uninsured is part of real life...

So, back to Bangkok for another try in a bit. :greenf:

3 hours :toilet:

[srgalahad]

One more time.. VTBD to WSSL

[srgalahad]

Lean, leaner... a bit more...

Made it to Seletar and no going to find a sling.. Singapore that is.. or maybe a couple of dozen....

[srgalahad]

WSSL to WRSJ (fuel alternate WIIH)
FS9 RWWx

[srgalahad]

Down at WRSJ (Surabaya)