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G'day I'm wondering about navigation on long intercontinental legs in the b377 and how I would go about the world tour. Other option is to use the beech turbine duke but that's not quite as cool. The duke does have the nab equipment required which helps it's case

What's your opinion on what plane I should take?

I would definitely fly the A2A Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (please hope this is not another GA plane ) , the Nav table is superb as long as you have the charts and keeps you busy .

I'd love to see th 377's maintenance log after that trip> he he.

AndrewJamez wrote:

QUOTE (AndrewJamez @ Jun 12 2011,5:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'd love to see th 377's maintenance log after that trip> he he.

Or better still the bill for the maintenance!

Im still trying to nut out how I will navigate. I could try go between vor and NDB which would be interesting but some of the longer oceanic routes would be tricky. Im not trained in navigation over oceans in a 1940s propliner!

Have an Atlas beside you for starters , at least once cruising at alt have plenty off time to sort out destination points , its good to learn nav and fly by instinct .. you realy get to no how it all works by the time we will see you on the eastern horizon , it this type/part the off sim that really makes it superb ... really you can plot and chart a course for any one else to use as well .

Maybe i should setup a pathfinder , do the sectors in pairs , now that would be interesting , good education in old time nav .

Well for the long over water routes you could add either the GPS or CIVA INS unit.
Go to Vroute for the route description etc and then export the plan to FS2004. From there you can eiter load the route into the GPS via the flight planner or covert the route to enter into the CIVA ADEU.
It is much simpler than it sounds.

Of course they were flying these routes long before INS or GPS. It had to be mostly Low Frequency stuff - LORAN comes to mind and VOR's were in their infancy. It'd be nice if you could use the methods of that era.

The Boeing 377 has a very good plotting chart to stay on route at the navigators table , I knew i had them somewhere printed out , telephone book size from FS5(1995) , covered all the VOR/NDBs -Ident Freq/Lat/Long , i,m sure these must be accessible from a site for printout .

Get ya self one of these... http://www.ivao.aero/training/knowledge/e6bcomputer.asp then a good chart of the area, and watch out for wind shifts.

Personally it's the most satisfying thing about flight simming, especially when you get it right.

Did you ever get around to undertaking this mission Cameron? If so how did the B377 perform?