Moses03
May 31st, 2014, 20:16
On February 24th, 1955 a Convair R3Y-1 Tradewind set the turboprop transcontinental speed record with a flight of six hours flat. The record still stands today.
This was my attempt to replicate that with the Virtavia FSX model. As you can see I fell short of the record due mostly to a lackluster Jet Stream.
Overall route was North Island NAS San Diego to NAS Patuxent River Maryland. Clocking in at :06:42:01.
http://i59.tinypic.com/10z2uf6.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/t7edc0.jpg
Notes:
There were a couple of issues. One, about an hour into the flight, my 8yr old came over to take a look and there was a spilled beverage incident. In hurrying to clean up the mess, I didn’t see that the R3Y-1 had gone into overspeed and I had to pitch up to FL300 to bleed off the excess speed. (The model does not easily slow. Not sure if this is a real attribute or a Virtavia quirk). With 89.5 seconds of overspeed registered, I had to be conservative the rest of the flight.
Also suffered more overspeed time with several wind shifts over Virginia on descent. Eventually a total of 103.1 seconds!
The other nitpick is that my segment from Albuquerque to Wichita was not the most concise.
OT: This was a good test of FSX running under Windows 8.1. Knock on wood.
This was my attempt to replicate that with the Virtavia FSX model. As you can see I fell short of the record due mostly to a lackluster Jet Stream.
Overall route was North Island NAS San Diego to NAS Patuxent River Maryland. Clocking in at :06:42:01.
http://i59.tinypic.com/10z2uf6.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/t7edc0.jpg
Notes:
There were a couple of issues. One, about an hour into the flight, my 8yr old came over to take a look and there was a spilled beverage incident. In hurrying to clean up the mess, I didn’t see that the R3Y-1 had gone into overspeed and I had to pitch up to FL300 to bleed off the excess speed. (The model does not easily slow. Not sure if this is a real attribute or a Virtavia quirk). With 89.5 seconds of overspeed registered, I had to be conservative the rest of the flight.
Also suffered more overspeed time with several wind shifts over Virginia on descent. Eventually a total of 103.1 seconds!
The other nitpick is that my segment from Albuquerque to Wichita was not the most concise.
OT: This was a good test of FSX running under Windows 8.1. Knock on wood.