DC's Western Roundabout

[DarkCharizma]

Lancair Legacy on the High Course, OpusFSX Weather.

Departing KBFI.

[DarkCharizma]

Landed safely at CYPS.

Flight time: 0:48:33
Race time: 0:48:33
Fuel consumed: 60.0 lbs (or 60.2 if it's change in gross weight, rather than fuel weight?)

[DarkCharizma]

Leaving CYPS for Castlegar, hoping to find good place to punch through the cloud layer...

[DarkCharizma]

Down safe at Castlegar (CYCG). Nice weather for the second half of the trip.

Flight time: 01:02:44
Race time: 01:02:44
Fuel used: 81 lbs

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[DarkCharizma]

Departing CYCG heading south!

[DarkCharizma]

Safely landed at Felts Field.

Flight time: 00:30:13
Race time: 00:30:13
Fuel used: 36.6 lbs

Duenna behaved strangely in this flight, releasing the baton at the time I touched down and not when I stopped, and didn't seem to record fuel usage correctly. The above is calculated from the loading page in FSX. I started the flight with 50% fuel (198 lbs), ended with 40.8% (161.6 lbs). As you can see, the fuel use is roughly the same per hour as my previous legs.

Other glitches with the Duenna file has been found, it seems to be completely off in every possible way. I'm invalidating this leg and reflying.

[DarkCharizma]

Departing Castlegar.

[DarkCharizma]

The Duenna issue seems to have been caused by the connection between my WideFS client and FSX having been interrupted when I was trying to fix some issues with my router. After restarting the WideFS client the Duenna is now seemingly working again.

[DarkCharizma]

Down safe at KSFF. Duenna worked properly this time.

Flight time: 0:30:03
Penalty: ?
Race time: 0:30:03 ?
Fuel use: 35.0 lbs

The rules doesn't specify any penalties for reflown legs due to technical glitches, so someone will have to decide what penalty, if any this should get.

[Moses03]

Klas, the reflown leg is fine. Please press on without penalty.

[DarkCharizma]

Roger that Moses, thank you!

Departing KSFF for OR12 Oxbow.

[DarkCharizma]

Fun approach in the narrow valley, down safe at OR12.

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Banker man is exchanging attaché cases with some guy who arrived by speed boat, and is now eager to get going again.

Flight time: 0:43:52
Race time: 0:43:52
Fuel use: 52 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

Departing Oxbow for Sun Valley. I have to admit a turbo wouldn't hurt on this leg!

[DarkCharizma]

Down safe at KSUN.

Flight time: 0:40:47
Race time: 0:40:47
Fuel used: 47 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

Leaving KSUN.

Edit: almost got there when I looked on my laptop and realized the Duenna wasn't active... restarting.

[DarkCharizma]

Down safe at 36U, finally...

Flight time: 0:58:51
Race time: 0:58:51
Fuel use: 69 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

Departing 36U for Steamboat Springs!

[DarkCharizma]

Aircraft parked and secured for the night at KSBS.

Hit some turbulence a couple of times, forcing me to temporarily slow down a bit.

Flight time: 0:55:20
Race time: 0:55:20
Fuel used: 59 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

Plenty of O2 and a tiny bit of fuel loaded for me and the passenger for this jump. Departing KSBS.

[DarkCharizma]

It's good that I checked the map before so that I knew I passed on the right side of the highest peaks. Though, it's weird that my map shows a lot of mountains to the left of my flight path, but when I look out the window all the mountains are to the right... Oh crap...
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Down safe at Boulder 1V5/KBDU.

Flight time: 0:25:32
Race time: 0:25:32
Fuel used: 23 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

Leaving Boulder.

[DarkCharizma]

Down safe at KLXV.

Flight time: 0:25:00
Race time: 0:25:00
Fuel used: 23 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

My banker went ahead and took a snowmobile to Aspen on Wednesday since we couldn't get there as planned in the snow. Once there, he promptly told me there was no rush in coming to get him, so I stayed for a few days. Writing this I realize I still must carry the weight of the him in order to not break the rules of the race. There we go, a couple of sandbags loaded. I would estimate the quality of the companionship on board is about the same as before, if not better.

Leaving Lake Co for Aspen.

[DarkCharizma]

Arrived safely in Aspen.

Flight time: 0:11:22
Race time: 0:11:22
Fuel used: 9 lbs


Wasting no time today, taking off after a little refueling for Telluride.

Can't attach my Duenna stuff for some reason, here's the tracker page: http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?flight=fwg3e4gI9fjg3sX2L9T8hzFBIkI

[DarkCharizma]

Arrived in Telluride.

Flight time: 0:28:52
Race time: 0:28:52
Fuel used: 26 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

Leaving Telluride.

[DarkCharizma]

Landed in Grand Canyon National Park KGCN.

Flight time: 1:08:22
Race time: 1:08:22
Fuel used: 74 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

On to Las Vegas. I hope the Grand Canyon area looks a bit better today when I've actually enabled the addon scenery... :redf:

[DarkCharizma]

Down in KLAS.

Flight time: 0:38:58
Race time: 0:38:58
Fuel used: 44 lbs

[DarkCharizma]

Taking off for Furnace Creek.

[DarkCharizma]

Down and safe at Furnace Creek.

Flight time: 0:27:16
Race time: 0:27:16
Fuel used: 26 lbs