Willy's Western Roundup in a CDM

[Willy]

To finish off the "trifecta", I'm flying the FSD Cessna 337D (aka: CDM) in FS9 with default Real Wx in the Bronze Class, Low course.

[Willy]

Heading out in a dawn flight to KHQM. Wish me luck!

[Willy]

Made it to Bowman Field just as the sun was coming up on the horizon...

74.4 nm
00:27:50
75.1 lbs (darn two engines are thirsty)

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=l7cubK6bPA80khUTaqu26R3pKvE

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[Willy]

And away we go.... on to 4S2.

[Willy]

After a most troublesome takeoff, the rest of the flight to Hood River was pretty much trouble free.

126.1 nm
00:47:39
122.6 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=MKolzT3PIIkCjBnsVzJUlkc7k


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[Willy]

Heading on to KEAT

[Willy]

Safe at KEAT

117.2 nm
00:41:55
104.2 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=NwXGkxqcaRIE6XaJO38FfS7wwg

[Willy]

Heading out to Spokane

[Willy]

Nice flight to Felts.

117.6 nm
00:39:34
100.5 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=LWXZFnKnrUASbWPegbO1gEjHQ

[Willy]

Time to saddle up for S27. Wherever that is....

[Great Ozzie]

Time to saddle up for S27. Wherever that is....

Big Sky Country... where Paul is going to raise rabbits after getting off the Красный Oктябрь.

[Willy]

Yep, the sign said "Welcome to Kalispell" at the airport.

124.7 nm
00:40:38
94.8 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=BAnOPLnDXOy1AZ88cWxUNJtbuw4

[Willy]

On to Bozeman Think I'm going to fly the rest of these on the SOH server. No AI traffic to get in the way.

[Willy]

This isn't looking good. I wasn't watching the time of day and took off at just before 8pm local. Hope the lights work on this.

[Willy]

Well it did get kind of dark on me at the end there. Good thing there wasn't any trees or hills close to the airport....

193.0 nm
01:01:10
130.0 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=pM17IUSKD5KQRCTLpon7hxo9AY

I think we'll just spend the night here rather than try to slip into Jackson's Hole in the dark....

[Willy]

Time for an early morning start to Jackson Hole...

[Willy]

Kind of a zig zaggy route to stay under the soft ceiling and go around hills, but we made it to Jackson Hole despite the 25-30kt headwinds.

131.8 nm
00:52:28
106.9 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=WyCT82cpNW0bCJedwT9do3kRvh0

[Willy]

Heading on out to Heber Utah...

[Willy]

Nice flight through the big valleys down to Heber.

190.3 nm
01:11:03
148.7 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=yJNdFNd9JKvchy1UDVa6QZ4AqzQ

[Willy]

Time to head to Canyonlands...

[Willy]

Kind of a worrisome start going through the mountains, but that didn't last too long...

129.2 nm
00:49:14
99.2 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=WFUlY5ufofVWbXt5LKdxpRh4lmQ

[Willy]

On to Page Arizona

[Willy]

Page looks like a good place to stop for a bit...

136.3 nm
00:50:35
109.0 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=OdiM2FD1Bo9pFroELpsnZsVuc

[Willy]

Going to take the Valle penalty.....

[Willy]

Nice flight to Valle although otto went nuts and I had to break out the sharp stick as the CDM climbed past 10,000 breaking the soft ceiling. Still not sure what happened, but I stepped away for a few seconds and when I came back, the aircraft was in a hard right bank. I rolled it back to the left hard and as I did it went into a steep climb breaking 10k before I had a chance to grasp what was going on. Max altitude reached was 10338 ft before I got it to start going back down. I hand flew it the rest of the way into Valle..

83.7 nm
00:32:04
66.6 lbs
5 min Valle penalty for bypassing KGCN

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=aTqPdYO1emSr3h2cWnepGA5x6fQ

[Willy]

Heading on to Lost Wages. Hope otto behaves....

[Willy]

Otto was very well behaved this time. I guess our "come to Jesus" moment worked out in my favor...

147.6 nm
00:55:09
121.5 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=Ayk2L8KOM76V5FqwdaqczywYrBE

[Willy]

On to Death Valley in the Cessna Death Machine...

[Willy]

Made it to Furnace Creek

87.6 nm
00:31:44
66.8 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=HR3iiDLpRxlVUGEPO6JSKAxAQ

[Willy]

Made it to O24. Good place to stop for the night.

139.3 nm
00:59:35
133.6 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=bdV7WQH677hJWRcYl2hBfsTK3Y

[Willy]

About wore out from moving my daughter today and this evening, but I'm wanting to wrap this up..

[Willy]

Just a short simple flight.. what could go wrong? Got lost in the mountains, had to break the soft ceiling to jump a ridge and ended up taking the long way around to the airport...

51.8 nm
00:28:51
59.5 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=1qIMOLhi8urDFlvdm3P6R6QA

[Willy]

Just as well to finish this off... what else can go wrong?

[Willy]

Piece of cake...

105.2 nm
00:36:35
102.0 lbs

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=AlEGwaGXUDdnyEdgEtH0wxlFnE

[MM]

Well finished, Willy.

[robert41]

Another congrats. :icon29:

[Willy]

Thanks guys! Flying all three classes was getting a bit tiresome towards the end! But I'm looking forward to our next event.