Post by Scott Anderson on Dec 5, 2013 19:02:16 GMT -5
Just a heads-up for this event (link below). For those of you who are not familiar, it's a tradition with FlightSim's Multiplayer Adventures crowd. What it amounts to is a "may the fastest plane win" race with few rules, and is more for the spirit of the thing than the glory (for example, they just announced last year's winner right after they announced this year's dash). Lots of aviators fly it non-competitive, just 'because it's there'.
The departure point this year is the Detroit-Wayne County Airport (KDTW), which makes it 2091nm to their base at Holkham Bay, Alaska, SSE of Juneau. Times are verified by the Duenna program, and their Holkham Bay base is available for download. Not a bad place, really-- we need something like it.
I'm going to fly the original Bluegrass flagship, Cessna T-50 Bobcat NC-61782. Obviously I have no chance at being competitive, especially against aircraft like the P-51H, but I thought it would be fun, as well as a little flag-waving for our airline. I had considered flying a Hawker Sea Fury and actually trying to win the thing, to the point of shooting a dozen touch-and-go's yesterday in one-- but for whatever reason I have actually become attached to the dear old Bobcat, so away we go.
The window for the flight is from December 13th to January 14th. My plan, weather permitting (real weather being among the rules) is to take off before dawn on the 13th, and fly the whole route that day. I was going to ferry the Bobcat from Bowling Green up to Detroit today via Cincinnati, to check my fuel consumption, but we're having a non-virtual winter storm (freezing rain and sleet tonight, snow tomorrow) in Kentucky, so I'm sitting on 'go' tonight.
www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?271948-The-Sixth-Annual-Holkham-Bay-for-the-Holidays-Dash&s=d557313aac664fd91767a28979cf9206
The departure point this year is the Detroit-Wayne County Airport (KDTW), which makes it 2091nm to their base at Holkham Bay, Alaska, SSE of Juneau. Times are verified by the Duenna program, and their Holkham Bay base is available for download. Not a bad place, really-- we need something like it.
I'm going to fly the original Bluegrass flagship, Cessna T-50 Bobcat NC-61782. Obviously I have no chance at being competitive, especially against aircraft like the P-51H, but I thought it would be fun, as well as a little flag-waving for our airline. I had considered flying a Hawker Sea Fury and actually trying to win the thing, to the point of shooting a dozen touch-and-go's yesterday in one-- but for whatever reason I have actually become attached to the dear old Bobcat, so away we go.
The window for the flight is from December 13th to January 14th. My plan, weather permitting (real weather being among the rules) is to take off before dawn on the 13th, and fly the whole route that day. I was going to ferry the Bobcat from Bowling Green up to Detroit today via Cincinnati, to check my fuel consumption, but we're having a non-virtual winter storm (freezing rain and sleet tonight, snow tomorrow) in Kentucky, so I'm sitting on 'go' tonight.
www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?271948-The-Sixth-Annual-Holkham-Bay-for-the-Holidays-Dash&s=d557313aac664fd91767a28979cf9206