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Post by flaminghotsauce on Oct 19, 2008 19:41:24 GMT -5
Actually, I flew the second leg in FS9 in the mooney. I didn't put the auto mix on, but manually handled it. I'd forgotten about that. After that leg, I went back to FSX the rest of the way. The scenery was better.
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Post by ben on Oct 20, 2008 2:00:42 GMT -5
Thanks Hans. Wan't sure if my textures had veen mixed up. -
Tom
my panel is basically yours with an extra panel to see most of the extra bits i like to see - using a button to toggle it on or off
your b58p makes short work of the distances in this fling - very nice.
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Post by Tom Goodrick on Oct 20, 2008 9:15:21 GMT -5
Whatever you use get the terrain display on for this type of flying. It's a big help.
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Post by Ed Burke on Oct 24, 2008 21:41:21 GMT -5
At last I have hit the skies for the Great Colorado Neck Crane. My mount is the old Aero Commander 500 (by Shupe and friends), the one with the augmented exhaust system that increases thrust by a tiny bit and noise by volumes. It is a pity that the sound files are not realistic as they are default Baron. Does anyone know of something genuine?
An aircraft that used a similar system of multiple drain pipes was the Beech Twin Bonanza, a type which a friend of mine flew often out of Moorabbin airport in the SE suburban area of Melbourne, Oz. A nearby elderly resident bitterly resented the racket and she often rang the tower to complain. On one occasion when Keith had lined up for a rare late night departure the controller said, "Charlie Lima Oscar...cleared for take-off, the phone's off the hook".
Having read of problems getting away from Granby due to the 8000'+ elevation, I did a good ground run-up and got the mixures right on max power. The result with the very lightly loaded Commander was that we used a little more than half of the strip to get airborne, great !
After settling into cruise the first thing I noticed was that the autumn colours were almost non-existant. Maybe October 24 is too late ? I reset the date to Oct 1 and there was red and yellow again. Isn't FS wonderful ;D
After an initial 9500' we descended into the river valley and stirred up the birds. Good scenery with very interesting clouds here and there that made for sweaty palms when the surrounding hills briefly vanished.
Arriving over Glenwood Springs the aifield proved to be a trifle elusive due to a few nuisance value clouds. Finally lined up on approach to 14 only to find a couple of fir trees close to the threshold that needed a right, left chicane manouvre to avoid pain. Bob Hoover would have thought nothing of it but I had a 'moment'. All ended smoothly, the AC500 flys well but I'm going to have to reduce the autogen setting somewhat, or select No Crash !
Good fun.
Ed
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Post by Tom Goodrick on Oct 24, 2008 23:23:31 GMT -5
I have been working on special sound for the AC560. I think all the Aero Commanders were a bit noisy. I'll send you a copy of the sound file. I have been tweaking it for prop sounds. You can let me know how I have done.
Enjoy the trip.
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Post by Ed Burke on Nov 3, 2008 6:18:05 GMT -5
Slow progress but I landed this evening at Canyonlands KCNY. The sounds are fine.
Ed
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Post by hanspetter on Nov 3, 2008 16:00:31 GMT -5
I'm ready for leg # 10. I don't recall the names of the airports since they're nothing but number/letter codes. I've seen a lot canyon land by now.
Regarding the sound update I'd like to try that too even though I haven't chosen that aircraft for this fling (yet). Could I please have a copy?
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Post by hanspetter on Nov 4, 2008 11:25:47 GMT -5
Lake Havasu coming up next When I started this fling I figured I'd spend most of the time in the state of Colorado. That was wrong. The Colorado river runs through several states and I've been to Utah and Arizona. I switched between a few planes during the previous legs and rediscovered the beauty of getting used to one aircraft. I'm sure a Citation Jet would do fine but I came in too fast and ran out of runway
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Post by hanspetter on Nov 25, 2008 9:43:57 GMT -5
I finally finished the fling The last leg had extremely poor visibility. Needless to say, the scenery didn't matter much in this case. To do a visual landing in absolute IFR conditions I ended up circling the airport (according to the GPS) and finally spotted a blurry runway in the fog. I noticed the direction, flew away a few miles, turned and pointed the aircraft in the right direction according to the compass. This worked on my second attempt. If I had bothered to look up the ILS frequency I could have done better.
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Post by Tom Goodrick on Nov 25, 2008 11:29:54 GMT -5
If someone gives you just the airport code and you want to know other things about the airport - like its name or where it is, just select Go To Airport, set the search limits to any country and any state and enter the code at the top of the page. You will see the airport information in the table - country, state, name, etc. (You do not have to complete the action of going to that airport.) I wish Microsoft would also make the full airport information just a click away when you are doing this. To get the full information - frequencies and runways - I pause the flight when about 40 miles out and find the airport on the map, point and click on it and read the data. The most helpful info are the ATIS freq for COM1 so someone can tell you which runway is in use, and the ILS frequencies for NAV1 to jot down on your note pad. (What? You don't fly with a note pad handy? SHAME!)
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Post by jerryluke on Nov 25, 2008 17:31:39 GMT -5
I do the exact same thing, Tom. I pause and go to the map and jot all the airport info down. If i'm on GPS, I'll even enter the ILS info into NAV1. That way, when I'm ready for approach, all that stuff has been taken care of. I find a notepad to be a must. Besides...all that frequency and altitude and runway info looks mighty impressive to the next person who sits down at the computer and sees my notebook there.
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