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Hi all,
@durian text comms is much less used since contrary to years ago we have TeamSpeak now and also text comms is not easily usable with the new swift pilot client because it operates mostly as a standalone program. While I could get messages to get displayed as overlay I don´t think you can create them within the sim cockpit.
@surfintucson sorry to hear about your crash. Still you managed to post a PIREP 🙂
I had done some pre-flyin on Saturday from NZMF to NZGT on FS-Economy to get familiar with the airport. Unfortunately only a C182 was available for renting so I replaced it with the default X-Plane C172. For some reason I managed to crash 5 times in a row while I was trying to depart. The aircraft veered of the tight runway before I could reach sufficient speed. The last time I even sunk the aircraft in the nearby water due to not being able to stop after leaving the runway. 😬 Furthermore on my flight to NZGT I barely managed to climb over the mountains due to lack of power in the C172.
So for the actual fly-in I chose something more powerful, the Carenado PC-12 while @Big-IN was flying the Piper PA46. We went off from Wellington Airport NZWN.
The update installation of the Swift I had done recently seems to have re-enabled the option to ignore all aircraft without a match in their database, so initially I had to substitute Din05´s PA-46 with a PC-12 model here. Later I found the switch again in the "Matching" section and could turn off the check again so my other models are now back into action.
From Wellington we went to VOR NS (Nelson) and later VOR WS (West Port), then to the South along the coastline.
At the entrance of the bay.
When I arrived in the vicinity of the airport some others were just taking off but managed to get away in time.
I had a hard left turn.
Got aligned ok.
And then I reduced power a bit too early. The tires crashed onto the runway and got kicked in when I touched ground with the shock absorbers giving some hard "plonk!" sound. But the plane survived and I could stop very quickly. Landing rating was "wasted" 😒
MrMac coming in here.
@Kumiankka landed his float plane.
@surfintucson also showed up.
After a while I had another flight from NZMF to Queenstown NZQN.
Some maneuvers have been a bit risky ... 😬
Finally located the airport with some obstacles in front.
@Big-IN was actually flying a U16, but I had no livery for it. Got replaced by an E135 here.
Got parked and shut down engines.
See you next time! 🙂
P.S.:
We have been here earlier in Fly-in 597 on June 5th, 2016. Unfortunately due to forum reorganization a lot of the old images got lost.-
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On 11/2/2021 at 3:17 AM, surfintucson said:
Hmmm. Anyone else seeing some random building and grass in the middle of the ramp at NZMF?
@surfintucson yes, I got this when I reenabled the AlPilot NewZealand HD Mesh and associated overlay. It did not appear without. Thanks to the exclusion package provided by @172MC the problem is solved and I can use the special Mesh.
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@Kumiankka It appears the download you linked to contains v1.0.3 of the airport but there is a newer version v1.0.4 of NZMF included in some collection by the same author (don´t get confused by the 1.0.1, the number is for the collection, but not the included airports), see
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34 minutes ago, Don Boling said:
Are you suggesting I install in C:\Users\username\Apps\ location instead?
Any folder on any drive you have full write access to will do, however to keep it simple I would always recommend e.g. D:\x-plane11 for simplicity. Some folder in the root of some drive which is easy to find, preferably not on the drive c, if possible. Personally I would not recommend desktop, documents and alike, since the path names get localized to the country language chosen for Windows and are quite long which makes them hard to handle.
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16 hours ago, philipp said:
Sorry, I'm an idiot. I didn't see that this post was in a plane-specifc subforum. Nothing to see here, move along.
@philipp How about trying the „hide“ option in the 3 dots popup menu at the top right corner of your post? 😉
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Hi all,
this time I took the Zibo mod B737-800X from Las Vegas McCarran Intl. (KLAS) to our destination Denver (KDEN); shifted the time by one hour in order to avoid total darkness.
Taxiing to runway 19L using the Follow-me car.
Some of the city skyline is visible in the background.
Departing via LAS5, then BCE J60 HVE POWDR8.JNC on flightlevel 350. @Big-IN was following late behind in a B747 that required some time to get started.
Great mountain scenery.
Descending near Denver after passing the mountains.
Had to pass through some overcast cloud layer on the way down.
After passing VOR DVV near the airport, the FMC unfortunately decided to go straight to intersection MERYN instead of flying the full route via KIPR.
After passing MERYN a left turn to 160 was required which took a lot of room so that I ended up with insufficient distance left to go full ILS. I switched to Visual approach and managed to get aligned after right turn, descending with full spoilers and flaps. Despite there was sufficient room left, got a hard landing according to the plugin.
Got parked and waited for others to arrive.
@Big-IN aka Din05 arrived in his B747.
A while later @Kumiankka also landed on 2nd attempt after having to go around once because of missing to intercept the final turn to ILS runway 16L approach at KAILE at first attempt.
See you next time! 🙂
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Hi pilots,
thanks everyone for the great shots and especially to @Kumiankka for organization and the fly-in video as well as to @Vega66 for spending the time to assemble one especially for this event. 👍
@Big-IN and I arrived late since this was becoming a late afternoon / early evening event for us due to the planned formation flight. I managed to start at Vancouver airport (CYVR) just in time to reach Calgary, change aircraft and get ready. @Big-IN joined later in his Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic to join the formation in flight.
When I started up at Vancouver it was early morning there when I entered the X-Crafts Embraer Legacy 650. The engine allowed for a taxi without getting pushed back.
Ready for takeoff!
After darkness had vanished I quickly reached the mountain area.
Did the flight without much programming, just VOR based and some dead reckoning.
Near Calgaray I went heading 350 until North of the airport then turned in for ILS on runway 17L.
Landing went fine.
I rolled over to the apron where most of the gang had shown up.
Then switched planes and logged off and on again to make sure ICAO code got correctly updated at x-fllightserver. For the formation flights I tend to use the Aerobask Viperjet.
Taxiing into position. Sorry I accidentally caused a problem here passing through some aircraft of someone who just turned up left of me.
Departure went chaotic due to sync issues, as @Kumiankka already outlined. When he announced to apply power, the others in front of me were not really moving so I overtook quite a few.
Onwards to scratch the tower ... 🙂 I don´t know how the English wording is in the Top Gun movie, however these fighters are targeting the tower quite a few times. I think in German he said he needs to cough towards the tower or so. 😉
When we had passed the airport I made a mistake. I misread the instructions and turned North about 10 nm but it should have been 55 nm. The instruction with 10 nm was just for climbing up to 14000 ft. Sorry if I caused any confusion. When I recognized I was wrong I returned to formation as soon as possible.
Below we can see @Big-INs Tupolev Tu-144 in flight.
A view from the rear seat of my Viperjet.
At the end I went for the RNAV-Y approach to runway 20 at Edmonton (CYEG).
For whatever reason the landing was extremly bumpy and I nearly crashed the aircraft. Finally got it under control.
Got parked next to @rajo.
I had even a correct CSL installed for @Kumiankkas Evenblade.
Final group short, I think some had already logged off or crashed on landing.
Looking forward for more events to come in the future.
Until next time ... 🙂
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Greetings pilots,
I had only a small amount of time to spend for flying this time. Started with @Big-IN at Dresden airport (EDDC).
I made this a memorial flight, since I had just noticed in newsreel that the Italian airline Alitalia had just ceased to exist on October 15th after about 74 years in operation. I believe a lot of people (about 10000, if I remember correctly) will go to unemployment now 😟. If you belong to that group, I wish you good luck finding a new job.
Below we see the X-Crafts ERJ 145XR with Alitalia livery.As @Kumiankka mentioned, the modeling of the performance is not really accurate. I have seen older versions which might have been overpowered, but not long ago I was facing the situation were I could not reach / hold intended cruise speed, at CRZ setting. Only TO or CLB settings had sufficient power to reach and keep it. If of interest, the thread where I discussed this with @Steve.Wilson and other forum members can be found at https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/249485-how-to-accelerate-to-cruise-speed/
Departing Dresden. Din05 had some issues with the aircraft he was flying (first time, as far as I know) since there was no FMC and he needed to fly manually or by simple autopilot.
Reaching the Eastern (Baltic?) Sea / Pommersche Bucht or Zatoka Pomorska in Polish if I am not mistaken)
We were flying STAR KOSE3T with ILS approach for runway 29.
I had first to speed up to keep separation from @Big-IN closely behind.
I think I had a bit crosswind on landing.
Very nice and detailed scenery, thanks @pngraf. 🙂
Logged off for the day.
Hope to meet you again soon. 🙂
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42 minutes ago, Quintao said:
The Poland VFR scenery referenced above doesn't seem to download on my end.
Did anyone have better luck?
I have no problem to download that poland.zip file with about 730 MB. It is just that my browser (Firefox) at first considered it to be a security risk because the connection to the server where this file is hosted uses just http instead of https protocol. So I needed to explicitly allow it to download from that place on the download result page of Firefox.
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Hi pilots,
this was quite a challenge and I have to say without cheating I would not have made it at all. No navaids, no co-pilot to read the map etc. and mountains closeby in all directions 😬
When I started up a number of aircraft were already visible at the apron. It took some time until Din05 was showing up, he had also decided to fly something new in his hanger (Let 410, if I remember correctly) and could not get the engines running at first.
Last I had also problems since when I wanted to help to find a missing scenery file I suddenly experienced an I/O error with that harddisk and had to reboot the whole box and start all over. Meanwhile the others had already left.
The following image was taken before that happened:
I think that was most likely @Kumiankka on the apron.
Here we have @Quintao landing and Chas getting ready as well.
Finally took off in a Thranda Quest Kodiak with FedEx livery.
The scenery was quite impressive (I had shutdown the fog via fog_is_gone as usual).
Even at 20000 ft I was really at the limit of these mountain tops on the first leg North of SPHZ.
The co-pilot spotted @Quintao at 4 o´clock position after a while.
After a hard time cheating around with Little Navmap etc. I found this mountain lake near Pias (SPIS) but when I came in I was as usual too high and too fast. I pulled back immediately to slow down and then fired full flaps to go down again.
Still it was very risky.
The turn was very steep (sorry for the lines in the image, I took this from replay and it does not seem possible to remove that stuff due to aircraft scripting being unavailable in replay mode).
When I touched down I had used up already a lot of the runway and then fired up beta mode. Somehow the bird got very shaky and went away from runway to the right crashing through some fence. 😒 So I guess in other simulators that would surely have resulted in a crash, X-Plane is more forgiving.
Since Din05 suffered a lot of problems - he found the Let 410 had no Oxygen and pressurized cabin and also had some crash issues, and it turned out the Dash 8 Q400 was unsuitable for that airport.
After a while @rajo arrived.
Followed by @ghun1
and later @Kumiankka
I then set off for the next destination Chagual (SPGL). Had an overfly over the airport since when it got visible I was too high.
Came back after 180 degree turn in a safe distance. Arrived through the valley from the North, had to fly a steep left turn then. I managed to get down better this time, but still went off the runway a little bit.
Got parked with @Kumiankka if I am not mistaken.
@Kumiankka taking off again.
@Big-IN aka Din05 on approach (Aircraft wrongly shows as a Dash8, but was a PA46, the plugin did not detect the change).
On the way back I had to get up to 22000 ft. But later I discovered following Din05 that I could fly around the mountain and descent into a valley.
On approach to SPHZ again after performing some right turn in front of a hill. Landing was done the VFR way.
Got parked.
Called it a day here.
Have a nice week and see you soon 🙂
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Hola,
@Big-IN and I made a series of short flights touching most of the islands. I took the Carenado PC-12 for all of the tour while Din05 changed aircraft a couple of times, I think first Piper PA-46 and then later TBM 900 (don´t know if reflected in images).
Starting off at Lanzarote (GCRR) waiting for Din05 to appear.
Taking off.
Our first destination was the nearby Fuerteventura (GCFV) airport.
Merlin was sitting here holding short preparing for the flight in the foreground, unfortunately he was not available on Teamspeak voice chat and only very late on regular text chat (wrong frequency I guess). Finally Din05 and I went first.
All the three aircraft took off one after the other.
Scenic view with the Spain UHD scenery.
The next destination was Gran Canaria (GCLP), here on base leg ...
and after turning final.
@Big-IN on final.
From there we went on to Tenerife North (GCXO).
On the way passing some oil platforms.
I had a hard time to find the airport. The DME readout was already indicating pretty close distance when I finally spotted the airport on a hill.
Landed for a cup of tea.
We continued for La Gomera (GCGM), on the way passing beautiful landscape.
La Gomera was also on top of a hill at 715 ft. with a short runway of 4918 ft length.
And the next hop went to Hierro (GCHI).
Nice small airport of 4127 ft length at 104 ft elevation on top of the cliffs.
Backtracked for taking off.
And then while enroute to our intended destination (1st the volcano!) I hit the clouds.
Clouds at 2500 ft.
I managed to spot the lava stream though and followed it uphill.
Excellent scenery add-on.
After crossing the mountains and a traffic pattern to the South I got back on track.
Finally got parked with @Big-IN in front, me and some other in the background.
The whole islands from above with the big crater and the lava stream on the other side.
There was a lot of traffic, but most of others were flying shorter routes or had started earlier (and I started already early afternoon around 13-14 o´clock my time), so had logged off already when we encountered destination.
Had a lot of fun with this islands hopping and the excellent scenery and UHD Mesh. 🙂
See you soon!
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Hi all,
the volcano eruption has made it into X-Plane as scenery add-on:
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Just in case there is another freeware alternative available here:
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Hello again,
I did a lot of small flights this time to get my official Cirrus SR22 G2 which I own in FS-Economy and which was parked at Friedrichshafen Airport to near our destination. In X-Plane I use the Aerobask Pipistrel Panthera as a replacement for the Cirrus, so don´t wonder if it looks different.
The tour started in Friedrichshafen on Saturday, the day before the official fly-in.
The first destination was Dahlemer Binz (EDKV) a small airport to the North West.
From there I continued to Namur in Belgium (EBNM) and finally towards Marham Airbase (EGYM) United Kingdom.
Below I am crossing the British coast coming in from the North Sea (as we call it in Germany) near Aldeburgh with the river Alde. I was wondering why the river did not end up straight into the ocean.
Setting up for landing at Marham AB.
The weather was typically British I guess. Unfortunately there was no scenery for this airport, just empty runways.
The next day I continued from there towards Cork (EICK) in Ireland.
Overflying the green hills near Cardigan Bay, if I am not mistaken.
Flying with Timewarp at St. George Channel towards the Irish coast.
Making landfall before heading a bit to the North in order to get to the FAF for runway 16 ILS.
On final to Cork airport where Din05 was waiting to join.
Departing to next destination Shannon (EINN) to deliver some passengers.
Departing for Sligo (EISG).
Getting into the traffic pattern flying around this hill below. The airport is located to the left of the clouds.
In FS-Economy I had to leave the Cirrus at this location because there were no commercial flight offers to Donegal from here.
All flights for pilot ostkamp Date From To Aircraft Type Duration Distance Earnings Action 2021/09/26 14:03:07 EINN EISG DE-GAO001 Cirrus SR22 G2 00:45 96 $2,262.60 View 2021/09/26 13:17:29 EICK EINN DE-GAO001 Cirrus SR22 G2 00:43 54 $1,954.80 View 2021/09/26 12:33:44 EGYM EICK DE-GAO001 Cirrus SR22 G2 02:18 336 $1,693.80 View 2021/09/25 16:27:16 EBNM EGYM DE-GAO001 Cirrus SR22 G2 01:26 204 $829.80 View 2021/09/25 14:58:52 EDKV EBNM DE-GAO001 Cirrus SR22 G2 00:36 68 $698.40 View 2021/09/25 14:03:21 EDNY EDKV DE-GAO001 Cirrus SR22 G2 01:37 202 $2,486.70 View So I continued privately:
On approach to Donegal
Got parked side by side to Din05.
I was surprised to find so many sceneries for this place, originally I had one from tdg, however the one recommended by @Kumiankka was better. The 3rd one had ortho but wrt. the airport I preferred the latter one. I did not try the 4th offer since it required an unneeded registration and buying a $0.00 product.
Due to the length of the tour we unfortunately arrived late and most pilots had already logged off. I spotted @rajo for a short moment when I was on approach before he had to say goodbye due to appointment.
Finally cooled down the engine here and switched off after a long flight session.
See you soon! 🙂
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Hello fellow pilots,
after reading the Wikipedia pages about the Wonsan Kalma airport I found that it has only flights from Pyongyang airport and the latter had flights to a number of foreign locations, e.g. Vladivostok Airport in Russia.
So I started up at Vladivostok (UHWW) this time with X-Craft Embraer Legacy 650 and a full fuel tank.
I entered North Korean airspace near Ghongjin Orang (see map below).
Then went flying official STAR for the countries capital airport using runway 35.
I was happy to see a "Butter" landing this time.
After getting parked, I switch aircraft to a Aerobask Eclipse 550 NG for the short leg to Wonsan.
I bypassed the airport to enter traffic pattern for runway 33L.
Kumi who came back from some sightseeing in a Mig-15 had declared emergency due to fuel shortage and landed in opposite direction.
This is @Kumiankkas Mig-15, unfortunately a bit sunken into the ground. As we discussed the aircraft was already in use during the Korean war.
Got parked near to the tower next to @Vega66 and had a cake break.
@Kumiankka s Mig parked next to a couple of US fighters which look a bit displaced here due to shortcomings of X-Plane.
@ghun1 had also teleported his aircraft to this location.
@Vega66 was correctly showing up as North Korean Mig-21 next to my location.
After returning from cake break I loaded up the ddenn Bombardier Challenger 300 and went for a flight to Seoul Incheon (RKSI). Not to be repeated in real life of course.
@Kumiankka and I had a partially parallel start, but his bird had more power and he started a bit earlier.
After a while I enter overcast conditions, but fortunately it cleared up again later on descent.
I then realized I should land at Seoul on some of the runways 34x due to weather conditions, and turned South to join a traffic pattern at the airport, before turning base and final and intercepting the ILS.
Got parked at the northmost tower - this airport has 3 towers. Due to some misunderstanding @Kumiankka had a go around since was aiming at the same runway.
The airport is located on an island.
His second attempt went better. He was flying an Airbus model.
We arrived at my parking location and we had a final group shot before saying goodbye.
Hope to see you next time, have a nice week and stay safe 🙂
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Hello all,
I felt the ancient Chicago Meigs Field would be a good start for a memorial flight for @xdave since it is so much related to flightsim. So I started up with the Aeroback Eclipse 550 NG in my favorite livery (near the building next to the control tower). A lot of us seem to have been flying out of the Chicago area.
Skyline left from Cockpit view.
I got into some cloud layer not far from takeoff. Navigation was entirely done VOR to VOR this time.
Here I met Mississippi river not far from Fountain city.
When I reached Minneapolis I overflew the airport since I was still too high and too fast.
I joined a traffic pattern and visited the skyline of Minneapolis.
The 2nd attempt went much more smooth.
Got parked and logged off until start of memorial formation flight.
Lined up at 30L. @Big-IN joined later when we had departed.
At the holding point we managed to get in sync somehow.
@rajo breaking away to the left representing the missing man.
The rest of us continued for formation landing.
Had to slow down to 100 kts and was overtaken by some jet.
Group shot at apron, I was the 2nd one counted from the right side.
RIP @xdave.
Hope to see you again next time.
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58 minutes ago, ghun1 said:
I have taken the liberty of making a LittleNavmap and X-Plane flight plan using two custom waypoints. It may help to see the route on littlenavmap as we go along.
@ghun1 You´ve got hdg 217 in your leg between WP1 and VOR FCM, however @Kumiankka wanted us to fly hdg 215. WP1 must be relocated a little bit more to the North West.
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Hi fellow pilots,
I have just returned from vacation last Sunday on 19:30 local time after piloting a car for 9.5 hours (due to lots of traffic jams, tons of construction areas, and speed limits) which was rather exhausting and thus have not been able to participate live in the last leg, however @Big-IN and I did the flight on last Thursday afternoon.
Here is my PIREP:
After the Safari trip I returned to Chief´s camp with that land rover style vehicle available for XP 11 (with lousy breaks, btw.)
And found the Aerobask Pipistrel Panthera at the hanger.
The first flight thus went from Chief´s camp to nearby Maun (FBMN).
where I met @Big-IN aka Din05 in his Tu144 supersonic jet.
It turned out we had different scenery installed, so he had just a taxiway where I had the runway thus we could start independently of each other.
Departing Maun in a X-Crafts Embraer Legacy 650 with Emirates livery.
The tour took me to VOR Windhoek WHV and then to the South until GEXIP where I joined a STAR and the approach for runway 19 at CapeTown (FACT). I partially applied max Time Warp on the flight to keep up with Din05´s supersonic speed. Had some trouble on approach as usual but made it down.
After getting parked, I jumped into the default Cessna 172 to visit Tabletop mountain. @Big-IN took some helicopter for it.
Finally we turned around and landed at Ysterplaat (FAYP) near the coastline.
Thanks to @Kumiankka for organizing the tour. Next time I will use Time warp more often with those long legs. 😉
Hope to meet you again next Sunday. 🙂
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1 hour ago, pancrecio said:
Hi everyone.
Don't have a clue how to fix this. I get to around 13k and start blacking out. Followed all the checklist. What might I be missing?
Other planes are fine, just this one.@pancrecio I don´t see any incorrect switch, however at about FL140 my Delta P / Cabin press gauges look different (bottom right in your image), and I have to admit that I have hypoxia detection turned off (should have no impact on gauges though).
Make sure you have the latest update of the Eclipse 550 NG using the Skunkcrafts updater (make sure to run it when another aircraft is loaded).
If it already is latest version, you may want to try after disabling additional plugins in the general plugin folder, maybe there is a plugin modifying values.If everything fails, you can turn off the hypoxia detection in Settings, General tab, I think in Flight model section on left side of that popup window.
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Hi there,
thank you for the great shots. Here is a small add-on from my side:
I picked up a X-Crafts Embraer ERJ 145 at Nairobi for the flight. These aircraft are light wrt. flight preparation, I can easily setup and export the flightplan in Little Navmap (at least most of it) and reload it in the standard FMC of the model which is offered in parallel to that Tektron FMC which I personally find a bit strange to use, but this is of course just my personal opinion. The startup procedure is an absolute no-brainer and done in very short time.
I made it an Emirates flight.
Ready for departure. At this time I was alone at the airport, Din05 had not yet appeared anywhere and the early birds had nearly reached Goma already.
Reaching the Lake Victoria.
Again this time weather was getting worse at destination. I was flying via official approach procedure XIBK1V reaching XIBKI then towards GOM to the South thereby around the nearby Nyiragongo (one of the most active volcanos and 20 km away from Goma according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo).
Passed the airport once.
Turned around at some distance and headed back led by GPS.
The airport was barely visible through the fog.
The landing was acceptable.
And I was able to stop before reaching the potentially destructed area and could taxi to the apron.
Chas1 arriving here
also had a nice landing.
Next Din05 who had started late but took a Tu-144 to catch up arrived.
Followed by Chaser.
Finally we all had a break @Vega66, me, Chas1, Chaser, Merlin, and @surfintucson.
For the 2nd flight I went ahead and used warp 2 given the fact that Din05 was using supersonic speed.
Tried to fly near Kilimandscharo mountains. Not sure how accurate the X-Plane rendition is. I was surprised to learn in Wikipedia that this once belonged to the German Empire, particularly German East Africa (of course back in colonial times in the 1880s) and was considered Germany´s highest mountain and the Uhuru peak was once called Kaiser Wilhelm Spitze (Emperor Wilhelm peak) until 1964.
Reaching the sea again then flying official STAR via UDNUR and IMTOM, IMVIV towards Zanzibar city.
Nice view with lots of buildings.
The plugin was happy
When I got parked, @Quintao was on final.
There I called it a day and logged off.
Looking forward to read your reports in the next few weeks. 🙂
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Hi all,
it seems we cannot start early enough to not end up as the last participants enroute with these super long legs. 🙂 I continued the flight from Juba (HJJJ or HSSJ) to Djibouti (HDAM) with the Zibo mod Boeing B737-800 and it seems I still need some extra training lessons on it.
After departure the autopilot refused to get enabled for a while but finally I got it running.
I came along to pass the Lake Dandi near waypoint GETIN while enroute. Lakes seem to be very rare in this part of the continent.
When I arrived near destination following official approach procedures, @rajo had just aborted his 2nd attempt for landing and was going around again.
While snapping some images I realized too late I was not on the approach path for some reason. Anyway my attempt to correct flight path and then land failed and I tried to go around then.
Possibly I broke the engines by applying too much power. Then things got worse and I crashed into town. 😬
Well. don´t try this in real life. I restarted a bit off in Berbera (HCMI) and then made a little flight to HDMA with time warp for a 2nd attempt while most of the others were already heading for next refueling stop. Under the impresssion that the ILS was most likely not correct, I went full manual and at least could walk away after the landing which was anything but good.
After landing I reloaded ...
... and piloted a X-Crafts Embraer Legacy 650 from there on.
Here holding short for @Big-IN before going to line up. Din05 managed to get the bird off the runway in the very last second.
While passing Djibouti, I noticed somebody else at the airport, but any attempt to contact him failed later, he was neither on Teamspeak nor did he react on Admin frequency in X-Ivap and alike.
A last view of the seaside.
Then sunset began to kick in.
Close to destination Din05 had a go around and then went off to missed approach holding point at VOR Stony waiting for me.
Kept on flying, just a few turns around the corners and we would be there finally!
Runway in sight with a few clouds illuminated by landing lights.
The day is saved, the plugin was happy. 😉
Taxiing to parking with @Big-IN on final in his B747.
Got parked with @rajo, @surfintucson and @Big-IN.
Logged off there. The view at night is very nice with that scenery.
Hope to see you again at least on next Sunday. After that I will most likely be offline for some weekends due to a family visit at my hometown.
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Hi all,
like many I did the full tour including Gbadolite. Started off with @Big-IN from Douala (FKKD) to Bangui (FEFF). I had found Cote d´Ivoire livery for Zibo´s B737-800X so took that one for the flight. Dizzy weather with some rain showers at Douala.
At first destination I was so close to @Big-IN because the FMC did not really follow the planned path but took some abbreviation. I landed when he had not yet left the runway and since reversers did not come alive, I had a full touch & go instead.
Of course that required an extra pattern.
The second attempt was bad as well, but I could stop in time then waiting for @Vega66 to arrive at the turntable since he was already on approach.
Later taxiied to the small apron and got parked. In the background @Kumiankka had just turned from runway to taxiway.
@surfintucson on final here
and there was still some room for him left. After he got parked, @Big-IN and I prepared for the next leg.
This time in an Embraer Legacy 650. This tour was nightmare since the autopilot refused to do anything. It was on, but whatever I did, HDG, NAV, ALT HOLD, FLC etc. it just failed to act accordingly. Maybe the earlier loaded B737 tweaked some unexpected setting in the depth of X-Plane secrets. I had to fly the whole leg manually 😬 and I could not get the aircraft balanced with engine throttle settings and alike.
I somehow managed to land ok, unfortunately had forgotten to install the custom scenery. Thus @Big-IN is showing up on a single taxiway of a default airport and the rest of the gang on the grass. Sorry for that.
After reloading and repositioning things looked much better.
With the rest of the party already enroute we took off and settled for Juba (HJJJ).
As mentioned by @Kumiankka we were running out of daylight soon. The FMC fooled me once again when I tried to reprogram it to a more distant point to enter the ILS path. After some extra ride I got on course again and had an acceptable landing, was even streaming it on Discord.
@rajo, @Big-IN . @surfintucson and @Vega66 were still around for a few minutes.
Stopped here after really long flights.
See you soon, hopefully. 🙂
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Hola,
finally got some free time for the PIREP.
@Big-IN aka D-IN05 and I started where we left off at the airport Abidjan (DIAP) since we had run out of time during the previous fly-in.
I desperately tried to get my JRollon CRJ200 running, but when the plane was loaded and pushed back, I started the engines and found that despite they were runnning ok at initial values, I could not accelerate - the throttle had nearly no effect. I had no idea what was going on 😬 and once again decided to use the Embraer ERJ 145XR instead. That worked nearly out of the box (thanks to @Steve.Wilson at X-Crafts) and for the stuff not working so well I have at least workarounds or learned about patches that do the job.
@Big-IN on takeoff roll in his B747, seems to be his favorite at the moment 😄
Landing at the intermediate stop Cadjehoun (DBBB) was a no brainer.
We refueled and started to main destination Sao Tome.
After quite a while the island came in sight.
Had to follow the North coastline to get to the airport, but then after passing the airport went into a 180 degree pattern as per STAR / approach.
That did not work well, there was insufficient distance to get aligned and I required some very hard turns and steep descent.
Somehow I managed to get down.
But only on the left side of the runway. After some attempts I could stabilize the aircraft and came to a hold in time.
Waiting for D-INO5 to arrive.
There he landed. He had switched to a Falcon 7x for this flight (until Falcon 8 is out from Aerobask, I suppose).
Then I tried to reprogram the FMS for the flight to next intermediate stop. I didn´t fully manage and started with direct navigation. More about the problem below.
In FMC there was no SID for this airport, so I just entered the runway. For destination I entered runway and STAR that started at waypoint IPOVO:
I ended up with this discontinuity between departure airport and the first waypoint which is as said already part of the STAR.
Whatever I tried, I was unable to close it. The FMC refused to delete the discontinuity. And I could also not just click on IPOVO with left button and then click on left button next to the discontinuity. it just refused to work.
Does somebody here know how to solve this? If yes, please drop me a note (it is the standard XP 11 FMC).
Finally landing at Douala International.
I hope to be able to join on next weekend.
See you soon! 🙂
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@Steve.Wilson Hi Steve,
I am experiencing an unstoppable repeating "Glideslope! Glideslope!" warning flying ERJ 145 XR.
I have recorded a short video for you showing this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12y9kklS7g-XCqDnPaEJBG7NZc8SleOYb/view?usp=sharing
There is no warning button lit that I could press, also nothing special visible on the displays.
All I can say is that I landed on some airport (FPST) with ILS tuned in. After landing I taxiied again to runway and took off. Wanted to climb then using FLC but that did not work as expected from the beginning (aircraft descended, had to manually jump in and fix it, during that time I had some issues wrt. overspeed and some other warnings etc.). Finally fixed it, turned AP on again, and climbed via FLC. I noticed I had still dialed in the ILS on NAV1 and then changed frequency, but that did not stop the audio warning.
I believe there is some error wrt. plugin scripting of the aircraft.
Could you please have a look at this please?
879th fly-in: Santiago de Cuba (MUCU)
in Flight Operations
Posted · Edited by ostkamp
Hi,
I am most likely the latest with a PIREP after a busy week.
Just for the record: Dino5´s account is @Big-IN, if you are using what appears to be natural, you are just creating a notification bell for the wrong person. 😉
We have been starting up at La Havane Jose Marti Intl. (MUHA) and then visited a couple of airports on our way from North West to South East.
I was flying the Aerobask Eclipse 550 NG.
@CHASMAN2014 was also starting up at a different hanger on the same airport.
Our first leg went to Vila Acuna Intl. (MUCL).
Getting ready for the next one.
The next stop was at Abel Santamaria (MUSC).
Dino5 had issues with his front gear as you can see on the image.
Passing the North Coast we spotted this US flagged carrier. Uh oh ...😬
Next we landed at Jardines del Rey (MUCC).
The last leg then went to Santiago de Cuba (MUCU). Dino5 was on final to runway 10 here while I was flying a pattern to get into position for runway 01.
This was Dino5´s aircraft.
Hope to see you next Sunday.
@cyl8 I can also put my aircraft somewhere, if that helps to check your Swift installation. I should be available via Discord. PM here is also possible.