PRB Ring of Fire Tour, The Second One

[PRB]

Taking off for WRRB.

[PRB]

Diverting to Bali (WRRR), because I have enough gas.

[Willy]

Bali is good. :ernae:

[PRB]

Made it to Bali (WRRR)
Fuel Used: 19,358.0 LBS
Indonesia bonus.

[PRB]

Off to Halim International (WIIH).

[smilo]

nice shots, Paul
it's all very nice,
but you'd better get back to Whidbey.
you've got company coming over in a few hours.
I've got a case of Sapporo
that I picked up during my little RJCJ diversion.
I figured we could use it for your
Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Party

[PRB]

nice shots, Paul
it's all very nice,
but you'd better get back to Whidbey.
you've got company coming over in a few hours.
I've got a case of Sapporo
that I picked up during my little RJCJ diversion.
I figured we could use it for your
Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Party

That sounds like a plan, smilo!
:ernae:

Made it to Halim Intl. (WIIH). First checkpoint.

That was fun! I set my NAV2 to the VOR/DME station at WIIH, and NAV1 to the ILS frequency for runway 24. When I was about 29 NM out, I turned right, and waited until the NAV2 bearing needle was pointing about 240-ish, then turned towards the airport. When I picked up the ILS I was only a few degrees off, and by the time I picked up the runway out the window I was dead on.

Fuel used: 13,114 LBS

Total Fuel (LBS): 32,472.0
Total Bonus (MIN): 30.0

[PRB]

Headed for Singapore (WSSS)

[PRB]

Made it to Singapore.
Fuel used: 15,022 LBS
Total fuel: 47,494.0 LBS

[PRB]

Headed for Saigon (VVTS).

[PRB]

Made it to Saigan (VVTS). Wild weather too. Visibility was ok, but wind gusts were tossing the big Douglas "too and fro", if you get the drift.

Fuel Used: 16,310 LBS
Bonus: 30 (Vietnam)
Total Fuel: 63,804 LBS
Total Bonus: 90 MIN

[PRB]

Time to kick this can down the road. Or up the coast, as it were. Off to Hainan Island, and Phoenix Intl. (ZJSY).

[PRB]

Well we have good news and bad news. The good news is we made it to Hainan Island in one piece. The bad news is that the Chinese are really really mad and may not let me go. Willy tried to warn me that "Mainland China" was off limits, but I had my "radio" off. Maybe I can plead ignorance on account of Hainan Island, being an Island, isn't part of the "mainland". As such. Think they'll go for it? They haven't made it into the plane yet. I'm holding them off by telling them there's a serious leak of relative bearing grease containment gas, very dealy. So far they're buying it...

[PRB]

Off to Hong Kong (VHHX)

[PRB]

Made it to Hong Kong (VHHX). I cheated though - landed on the runway without all the building and hills on the end of it...

[PRB]

Off to Kadena Air Base (RODN). That's on Okinawa.

[PRB]

Made it to RODN, barely! I forgot the Alphasim A-3 has this "glass in the rain" issue common to some FS9 port-overs, whereby the glass bocomes opaque in the rain! And it was raining at Kadena. Transitioned to the 2D cockpit, but it's really unsuitable for landing as it's "looking up" too much. Lucky for me the rain stopped at about 1 mile out, so I could get back in the VC for touch down. Oh, and there was a 16 knot crosswind too!

[PRB]

Off to the "mainland." RJTY.

[PRB]

Down safe at RJTY.

[PRB]

Off to parts unknown. I might try to UHPP, but that's a long haul. If I get tired, I may stop at RJCN, the last airport in Japan before UHPP. Not even sure I can make the 1300 NM to UHPP. We'll see...

[PRB]

Of course, on the very first leg in which I'm even remotely worried about range, I get a 50 knot head wind!

[Moses03]

Of course, on the very first leg in which I'm even remotely worried about range, I get a 50 knot head wind!

I think it is called the "cinder effect".

[PRB]

I think it is called the "cinder effect".

Dang it!! (sends co-pilot back aft to look for "un-authorized ballast"...)

[PRB]

computer crashed. this is starting to p*** me off

[salt_air]

All's well that ends well Paul,,,,,,lookin' good overall.

Good luck the rest of the way!