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Post by katiepipkin on Jan 10, 2010 17:57:10 GMT -5
Well after a whole day spent test flying various aircraft at Alice Springs, the Goose made the final cut. I have painted a GAAR logo on the side and named it Branta (all my planes have to have names!) She's fueled up and ready to go. Thanks for all the recommendations, they kept me busy checking them out!
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Post by rattler1 on Jan 10, 2010 18:40:18 GMT -5
Is it just me, or is everyone getting a blank where Andrew's avatar should be? All the others are coming up fine.
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Post by pterodactyl (George) on Jan 10, 2010 22:53:27 GMT -5
Rattler1; I am getting the same thing so it isn't you.
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Post by Tom Goodrick on Jan 10, 2010 23:43:24 GMT -5
I just got Aussie RW at local noon. It is very hot in many places - 38.6C or 101F. It is also windy at many airports (16-20 knots).
Though most legs are short, there is one high-altitude airport (YHOT, 4260 ft msl). Its temp was a more reasonable 22.4C.
Two legs require significant climbs and a cruise above 8500 ft.
So your plane should be able to take off from a hot grass airport and climb at a reasonable rate to a significant altitude.
For me the Aeronca Champ is out.
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Post by Capt Zlogg on Jan 11, 2010 6:23:34 GMT -5
So your plane should be able to take off from a hot grass airport and climb at a reasonable rate to a significant altitude. For me the Aeronca Champ is out. Which leads to the logical choice of one of the fine products from the Great Motherland!! Make your reservations now with us! (wet or dry lease possible, attractive navigatresses and innovative engineers with kettle experience) cheers Capt. Zlogg vp KFB Air Droppers (cows, elephants & rhinos) chief box office QLD floods
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Post by 0603 Kenny on Jan 11, 2010 9:57:49 GMT -5
Looking foward to the GAAR 2010. "Thanks" to BGA for all the prep work.
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Post by Allen Peterson on Jan 11, 2010 13:26:55 GMT -5
Capt Zlogg, I might be interested in one of your planes. Does one have to fly it upside down in the GAAR? Hopefully, there will be an extra set of wheels (skids?) on the top, er, bottom wing. Good wishes from Idaho. Allen
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Post by johnl on Jan 11, 2010 17:22:04 GMT -5
Decided to fly something much smaller than the DH Flamingo, but still very British, this year. After various trials, I've ended up with a Miles Monarch (the soothing purr of a DH Gipsy Major, a cabin which seats 2 and still leaves room on the back seat for a few tinnies and other necessaries, and simple to fly (fixed prop, no mixture control, and a fixed undercarriage)).
Katie, just one slight worry with the Goose - after it's been kicking up all that gravel, please remember to check the hull for leaks before you next alight on water. <G>
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Post by Les Smith on Jan 11, 2010 19:15:24 GMT -5
A 1944 version of the DC3 at the Mt Hotham (YHOT) airport during tests for the GAAR 2010. FSX and the ORBX Australian Terrain Expansion Pack. Well for better or worse I am now flying a purchased DC3- MAAM C-47 on FSX. Conversion of the FS9 model DC3 by MAAM for FSX is not complete and there remains much work by volunteers to gain a smooth DC3 transition to FSX. Nevertheless, I have downloaded all the current add-on files from MAAM (Mid-Atlantic Air Museum) including the transparency converters to gain good window views and spinning props and I am very happy with the performance of the model thus far in FSX. I flew the VH-CUF during the recent DC3 2009 World Rally using FS9. Converting to FSX has produced challenges such as disappearing un-docked windows when switching from the pilot to co-pilot views. The workaround to keep un-docked windows is to switch windows with the "w" key by cycling through all until the target window appears (about 4-5 presses of the "w" key). Having tested the model in FSX extensively I am now delighted with its performance and I will be using it during the GAAR 2010. The DC3 version above is (I quote from FSX) "Douglas C-47A A65-34 of 36 Squadron RAAF (1944). 36 Squadron provided transport and logistical support in the SW Pacific, including Papua New Guinea. Livery by Mark Beaumont, created for the FS2004/FS2002 model by Mid-Atlantic Air Museum Simulations. Base textures by Jan Visser". Les
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Post by Brett I. Holcomb on Jan 11, 2010 19:41:43 GMT -5
Well for better or worse I am now flying a purchased DC3- MAAM C-47 on FSX. Conversion of the FS9 model DC3 by MAAM for FSX is not complete and there remains much work by volunteers to gain a smooth DC3 transition to FSX. Nevertheless, I have downloaded all the current add-on files from MAAM (Mid-Atlantic Air Museum) including the transparency converters to gain good window views and spinning props and I am very happy with the performance of the model thus far in FSX. I flew the VH-CUF during the recent DC3 2009 World Rally using FS9. Converting to FSX has produced challenges such as disappearing un-docked windows when switching from the pilot to co-pilot views. The workaround to keep un-docked windows is to switch windows with the "w" key by cycling through all until the target window appears (about 4-5 presses of the "w" key). Having tested the model in FSX extensively I am now delighted with its performance and I will be using it during the GAAR 2010. Les MAAM is for the better <G>. I bought it about a year ago, added the FSX fixes and fly it in FSX all the time. Love it. I'll be flying a MAAM in BGA colors for GAAR.
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Post by Capt Zlogg on Jan 12, 2010 6:19:39 GMT -5
Comrade Wright Patterson,
Very intelligent to be interested in one of our superb aeronautical achievements! Whatever configuration is possible. Babushka will adapt your choice to the local requirements! We have a fine Lisunov Li-2 (poor copies by messrs. Douglas), a fine Polikarpov I-15 or I-16 (souped up engine) , Ilyushin IL-2 (heavily armoured against stone throwing locals), IL-14 (various models, mucho copied in the West) and much more. We would like to draw your attention to the Yak-18T, a sure winner and a treat to fly.
Scope of supply: - the aircraft of your choice with full nav equipment required to negotiate the GAAR 2010 event succesfully and end in the top ranks. - fully qualified engineer (engine & kettle) - top notch navigatrix (state preferred measurements and hair/eye color) - complete works by Lenin & Marx (bound in leather, gold embossed, signed by comrade Stalin) - autographed picture of Babushka (very rare!) - free ticket for the 5th Great Motherland Assembly on 7 year planning, Narodni Trida, Moscow, CCCP, including lunch box and sleeping bag.
Payment: in rubble - 5 days in advance. Availability: at the starting line of the event at the proper hour against copy of payment.
Looking forward to your early reply.
cheers Capt Zlogg vp KGB Air Droppers (cows, elephants & rhinos) leading outfitter "The Elegant Patriot", Barnaul, Novosibirsk oblast, CCCP
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Post by dca1322 on Jan 12, 2010 13:38:58 GMT -5
Why do all rally creators feel the necessity to have flights start at a runway, electricals and engines started? I never fly that way and It seems easier for the non-purists to hit the battery and "CTRL+E" than it does for me to get the aircraft C&D, at a parking spot? Although I realize this is all about the flight...I ALWAYS start C&D at a parking spot.
OK...complaining over. I've decided on an old favorite...the AeroCommander 500. I've yet to see those starry eyed Russkies copy that. I'll be looking for the latest piece of "flying metal brick" from our rezident apparatchik...as it careens past on the way to meet back up with the Motherland. I believe the potato crop must have formed some type of fungus, this year...probably of the hallucinogenic variety? Zlogg seems more delusional than usual? Or, perhaps he needs to wash the samovar?
Whatever the case, we will once again show the "small red man" what we Kapitalists are capable of.
Zlogg, make sure you bring the hand crank...it will be hard to explain to the Organs why you could not get back off the ground when your flying meat grinder invariably arrives there? The Gulags may be closed...but I'm sure they have a place for you.
"Hard labor will make you free", eh?
Captain America
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Post by katiepipkin on Jan 12, 2010 13:56:55 GMT -5
Here's my plane: Apologies to Capt. Zlogg for the bourgeois nature of this aircraft. I'm afraid there are no kettles anywhere on board!
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Post by rattler1 on Jan 12, 2010 16:23:37 GMT -5
dca1322, no problem with starting D&C. Andrew covered this last year. Just allow enough time to be airborne at the start time of the flight, since the weather is geared around that time.
The Commander seems a good choice; I was considering it myself, but a bit of patriotism crept in and I had to go for one of Geoffrey de Haviland's wonderful creations. The Devon is presently in Iran, on the way out to OZ.
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Post by Jon on Jan 12, 2010 16:30:15 GMT -5
. My name's Jon Houston and I'm a bit of a n00b around here (bit of a rube as well, but that's another story). I'm from Nova Scotia, which is that odd little place that looks like a colostomy bag hanging off the starboard side of Canada into the Atlantic. We pronounce it "Nose Kosher", but you can say it however you wish; you have my okay.
I mainly wanted to say that I'm very much looking forward to the GAAR, but alas I haven't quite yet decided what cab I want to fly. Choices . . . choices. I'm sorta torn between the Beech D-18, Aero Commander 500 or the lovable old Dakota -- MAAM, of course. Knowing me as I do, I'll likely futz- and dither-around for a day or two before settling on the Dak.
Katie: Ver' Nize looking aerodyne y'got there! Enviable paint job!
Capt Zlogg: Are you the famous author of that fine WWII tome, "Samovar Aircraft Are Missing"?
Nice to meet you all.
Cheers, Folks. .
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