Ed Burke
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Post by Ed Burke on May 3, 2012 20:31:49 GMT -5
Sounds good to me. I will try not to make the beatup too alarming !
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Ed Burke
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Post by Ed Burke on May 9, 2012 5:54:09 GMT -5
From St Paul KMSP we have been through KOMA which is close to Bill Lockwood's home, then to KIRK to say hello to the Flaminghotsaucey one. From there it was a long haul to KOZW via an extremely shortened crossing of Lake Michigan. That last flight was at FL220 and the Golden Eagle moves along at around 207 ktas, pretty handy. I gave the south end of the lake a darn good low beatup so we will see what happens. Probably the FAA will get me locked up !
The next leg takes me to Boston and if I knew where the old Mr Hobbit lived I would really get myself in the slammer------------Ed
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Post by davidrevans on May 9, 2012 7:12:52 GMT -5
Good airshow ED ,enjoyed the visit...had the A-10 driver make a few passes just after you left,no worries about FAA ,sea planes use the lake all summer...
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Post by davidrevans on May 9, 2012 7:13:42 GMT -5
Good airshow ED ,enjoyed the visit...had the A-10 driver make a few passes just after you left,no worries about FAA ,sea planes use the lake all summer...
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Ed Burke
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Post by Ed Burke on May 9, 2012 16:29:07 GMT -5
Glad you enjoyed the wing-over Dave. It's a real NO NO in the 421 due to torque loads on the props and reduction gears but I reckon once in a while will be forgiven, Cheers, Ed
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Post by Ed Burke on May 11, 2012 7:14:10 GMT -5
Having recovered from David's tasty home made wine I have done the miles to Boston. A FL250 bash which produced good TAS and got me into the KBOS circuit area quickly but I then made a hash of my self-inflicted ILS approach which added another ten minutes to the flight time. The wx was perfect but I put my head under the metaphorical hood for the practice, seems it was needed. Ed
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Post by Ed Burke on May 14, 2012 0:07:57 GMT -5
I lifted off from Boston and headed for FL250 as there was a goodly drop of water to cross before Nova Scotia. When the land began to appear we let down to 5000' so as to be able to take in the scenery. Not a lot of hills but plenty of small lakes and I imagine that floatplanes are a popular choice here as they are in the rest of Canada. A brief stop at Halifax Int'l and then a hop over the fence into Shearwater, Jon's home ground.
A mystery emerged in the circuit area of CYAW. A 500' cooling tower is placed within half a mile or so of the field. A huge gadget that one would have constantly in mind, however it is false as a search on GE produced only a cylindrical tower of some 100' height in that vague area. Seems the author of my add-on scenery deals in fiction.
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Post by Ed Burke on May 14, 2012 18:05:20 GMT -5
Shearwater CYAW back to Boston KBOS called for a little more neck stretching than had taken place during the East bound trip so we headed first for Cape D'or and then over to the northern coast of the Bay of Fundy with its amazing tides. Then it was coastal all the way to Boston.
During the latter part of the flight I experimented with fuel consumption vs distance covered and found low boost and low rpm to be the most economical. Unlike Garfield's advice in E.K.Gann's The High and The Mighty where they used max boost and low rpm so I guess our FDs differed !!
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Post by Ed Burke on May 15, 2012 16:41:03 GMT -5
And now I am in Norfolk Mass. after a low level wander from KBOS. Here lives an old mate of mine from my gliding days at YBLA, Benalla, Victoria, Oz. This guy has amassed over 3000 hours of instruction on sailplanes which to me puts most commercial pilots in the shade. There are NO autopilots in those 'planes and it is full on concentration for every minute, Ed
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Post by Ed Burke on May 16, 2012 3:03:06 GMT -5
Out of 32M, Norfolk, and a short trip to the west to do a touch and go at Hopedale, IB6, a spot where Tom G had some moments many years ago. It's still d**n short Tom.
Then it was the long haul to Arnold Palmer, KLBE, where we landed on 05 after nearly three hours in the air but not before we had given Derry a good going over. Hello Bill !
Yes this is Bill Von Sennet's home ground and he might find it hard to get rid of me as I'm feeling like a rest !! Ed
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Post by Tom Goodrick on May 16, 2012 9:40:14 GMT -5
Thanks for your clear discussion of the route you've taken so far. I missed some of those stops when trying to put together the route. I will be resuming my Grand Tour starting at KCOE where my Phenom Jet has been parked for a while. I will be switching back to my lightly-loaded Cessna 414 (direct drive) for this trip through Glacier NP, Yellowstone, direct KFCA, CYWG, to KMSP.
KMSP is known as "Minneapolis" since it is west of the Mississippi River. St Paul has their own own little airport south of the St Paul town center known as KSTP.
As a kid in the Civil Air Patrol I covered much of southern and central Minnesota in a J-3 (in the winter). We flew out of a grass strip near Anoka (no longer there). My first few takeoffs were made to the north directly over the bunkers of Federal Cartridge Corporation (which I prefer to use now with my pistols).
I spent a fair amount of time at NAS Minneapolis (located on KMSP) during my brief time with the Naval Air Reserve (1960-1962) with my Squadron VA813. I was the guy holding the fire bottle while pilots started the engines on their AD5's. I did get a nice ride on a T-28 once over southern Minnesota.
Looking forward to the hop eastward to Boston, etc (another old 'hometown').
I am flying with "Fair Weather" giving me no landing winds but fluffy clouds at about 4,000 ft and light westerly winds at altitude. With pressurization on the 414, I'll fly high sometimes and low other times.
Incidentally, as I found and discussed years ago on this Forum, turbocharged piston engines in FS9 do best with Auto Mixture ON and making no mixture adjustments. The manual mixture settings are all screwed up in the FD and are unfixable. But using auto mixture you get pretty close. That factoid is buried somewhere in the historical Forum pages.
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Post by Ed Burke on May 16, 2012 17:41:00 GMT -5
You certainly have had a goodly bit of exposure to the NE of the 48 Thomas. My apologies to the denizens of Minneapolis.
I am using this flight as a scenic tour and I have my system stacked with quite a bit of add-on scenery, the only bit I have paid money for is an old "Galaxy" membership in FSGenesis which has provided some decent mesh and some basic landclass. It certainly is a vast improvement on the MS tired, eroded world.
My experimenting with the fuel performance was aimed at getting through Norfolk and Hopedale with the minimum AUW which would leave me a decent margin at Arnold Palmer field. That is how I found that at low altitude using the lowest boost and revs (staying in the green sectors) and leaning by the book produced a 19 gallon burn at ~150tas. A tad under 8 mpg is frugal for that beast. I will try the auto fuel setting for a more realistic result.
Your mention of old postings makes me wish, yet again, that we had access to the postings on the old forum, there was a tremendous body of information there.
So I wander along looking at the good stuff which has become better with Pennsylvania under the wings. Things were a trifle flat further north and I temporarily switched to fall colors to get a bit more interest. I will probably divert to the Appalachians when I leave Arny P with lots of fuel. Next stop is OH96 near Mt Orab Ohio, a private grass strip nearest to Sardinia whereat resides Bob, bgan005. Ed
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Post by Ed Burke on May 27, 2012 17:33:25 GMT -5
Runway 21 at Arnold Palmer, KLBE, is a short strip to have a tall stand of timber on the 30 threshold but, as we were light, a little weaving through the tree tops saw us in the clear and heading for the mountains of West Virginia.
An enjoyable flight at hilltop level for a hundred miles or so and then we climbed to 10,000' on a heading for Neals, OH 96. This is bob's territory and I wish he had been on hand to flash a mirror. A green field among green fields but stubborn stupidity triumphed and I got lined up on my third attempt and here we are ! Seemingly nowhere, but definately in Ohio.
Ed
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Post by Bob BGAN005 on May 27, 2012 22:20:55 GMT -5
Sorry I did not know you were coming here. I would have helped you land. That field is grass and has power lines at one end and OA10 is not much better. For this county, KGEO is the only paved runway I know of. All Ohio counties have at least one paved runway built by the state. Another choice is I69. It has a NDB and Sporty's Pilot Shop to get your flying needs. I use KILN myself. It is my old Air National Guard base, Clinton County AFB, and there are plenty of places within range to get "refreshments"! Welcome to Southern Ohio and it's heat and humidity. Now I will have to get going and visit where you live. A KC-97l or a L-1649 seems in order.
Bob
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Post by Ed Burke on May 28, 2012 2:35:07 GMT -5
Thanks for those words Bob, my aim is to land at the nearest field to where i calculate the BGA member lives. My system's scenery is very green in your part of the world and the landing field looks like everything else which makes for a bit of fun.
If you are coming my way YBMC is the nearest airport and has about 5900' of good seal to welcome you, no ILS though.
Ed
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