Colonial/CTrott - Golden Age - Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 "Copertino"

[Colonial]

Departing EGUN early, bound for Marseilles. Good luck to all. May your airframes not come unglued and may your canvas stay stretched!

[Colonial]

Well that worked out less than stellar, for some reason nothing took on the Duenna, no report, no nothing.....

[MaddogK]

grab a pic of the flight analysis screen

[Colonial]

I closed it down before checking the output folder.

[Colonial]

Ok, gonna try again. Departing for short hop EGUN to LFPB

[Colonial]

Baton dropped somewhere on the runway at LeBourget, hope I can get a new one before we leave.

Duenna worked, thanks for putting up with my silliness. I'll get it all figured by the time the 2011 race comes around.

[MM]

Wonderful paint, Bud!

[Colonial]

Thanks Mike, the paint is standard, I just added some flair...its all that Marshal Balbo allowed us to do

Picking up the baton for the leg from Le Bourget to Lyons.

[Colonial]

Baton down at Lyon Bron

[ChrisTrott]

Baton picked up Lyon - Marseille

[Colonial]

Sorry Chris, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to make it all the way to Marseilles tonight, so I stopped over in Lyon.

[ChrisTrott]

Baton dropped - FS is not cooperating with me tonight....

Hope you can finish to Marseilles, I'll take it to Rome after that.

[ChrisTrott]

Well, looks like whatever the problem was is fixed. I'll take it to Marseilles and then on to Rome tonight.

[Milton Shupe]

Beautiful aircraft guys ... looks a treat to fly. Best of luck.

[ChrisTrott]

Thanks Milton.

Unfortunately, the computer crashed on approach to Marseilles so I'm out again until I can do a full and complete cleaning of the computer again to see what the problem is. I may just have to use to my Golden Wings install instead of the prime install for this.

[bpfowler]

cant wait to see some of these locales in GW!

[ChrisTrott]

Okay, baton back picked up for the trip to Marseilles. Will make that tonight and then try for Rome tomorrow night.

[ChrisTrott]

Well, here's my first leg (finally). Flew it in Golden Wings - sadly, didn't see much scenery difference because of the lack of European Coverage in GW3.

Anyways, found a bunch of 1960's-era scenery for some of the major stops in Asia and a couple of the ones left in Europe, so I'll be flying my Silver Wings install instead.

Here's the required piccies and file -

[MM]

Very nice, Chris.

[ChrisTrott]

Baton picked up for Marseilles to Rome.

[ChrisTrott]

Welcome to Rome!

[ChrisTrott]

Baton picked up - Rome to Athens.

[ChrisTrott]

Oddly enough, dead reckoning still works as long as you have a good E-6B.

[ChrisTrott]

Baton retrieved - Athens to Aleppo (this is going to be a LONG flight).

[ChrisTrott]

Safely in Halab, Syria.

Only thing of note was that I passed a QANTAS Connie on approach to Athens when departing on a downwind climbout (1959 scenery and traffic being used).

Screenshot descriptions -
1) Flight Log
2) At the Gate in Athens
3) Passing the Connie on Approach
4) The view most of the flight
5) Just after landing. Only traffic on the field - a lone DC-3 freight hauler.