Hi,
I don't know if this'll help at all, but DC3Airways have a program called Night Mail Flights which adds beacons to the airmail routes in the USA..
Here is a bit from the description of the program...
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......What is our quest? It is our attempt to give you the opportunity to fly the DC-3 under the same conditions experienced by those pioneer pilots of the 1920s. We obviously cannot reproduce exactly the conditions under which the pilots flew but I am sure that you will acknowledge that we have come as close as it is possible to get.
We offer this Transcontinental Route to introduce you to a whole new way of flying.
Full credit and thanks go to
Al Gay and J
ohan van Wyk who toiled for months developing the light-beacon procedures and to create the lighted airways. They have laid a network of rotating light beacons over the original Transcontinental Air Mail route across the US ... A total of 32 legs if flown in both directions.
NDB beacons (maximum range - two miles!) are co-located at each light beacon so that you may identify which beacon you are nearing by it's Morse code identifier. They are numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., as were the original beacons using flashing lights. Don't get lost, though, because the short-range NDBs will be of no help in finding your way back on course.
You will fly and navigate in the dead of night using nothing more than a flight description and the Mk 1 eyeball. You must fly the routes in VFR conditions and we hope that you will use Real Weather or equivalent to enhance the realism of the early flights.
These flights will demand your close attention. Boredom will not be a problem.
We anticipate that this will be the beginning of a whole new way of flying the old way. You will need to pay attention to drift angles when flying these routes, so dust off your E6-B calculators, virtual, digital, or real. Those who have installed
Mark Beaumont's fs9 kneeboard will have E6-B access with no interruption of their flights.
To the left is the fs9 Airway Rotating Beacon and Tower and the adjacent Equipment Shed.
The Night Mail download includes a detailed readme file by Sr. VP Norman Hancock. It contains full information on how to fly a light-beacon route. The words in this description were also excerpted from Norman's file. "
Andy.
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