Kelburn's Round the world tour

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Postby VH-CC1 » Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:57 am

victor_alpha_charlie wrote:
VH-CC1 wrote: not picking or anything like that, but why go round the world on 4x/16x speed?

Because its so freakin' boring at normal speed.. Who is really going to sit at their comp for 16 hours straight? :P It's not as if you're missing anything, the scenery on fs2002's not anywhere near real life

Mike and i have flown 80/90hrs, from NZ to somewhere near hong kong on normal speed. ( the true FS'er coming out )
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Postby creator2003 » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:16 am

And a simulator that does is...?
fsx now has some ships going past ?
nice water but that is all there is to it in the end and 2m photo real :(
80-90 hours yes but we did that in GA not a bus ,if i was in a bus id be speeding up the boaring times too,, the best thing is landing them
st maartens great place very cool landings over the water ,all we gotta do is put a beach at the end of nzaa and welly and we have our own st maartens :lol:
kelburn if not a map a nzaa -yssy -??? would be cool ..
would be cool to have a round the world flight with all the nzff members online fsx fs9 fs2002 all together on one huge flight
anyway see you at the next airport kel
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Postby Brennanx » Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:53 pm

I would never fly a trip longer than 30min without going 16x I use 8x to go to hamilton from auckland. Not that keen watching fake scenery go past. All the straight flying is for real flying.
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Postby victor_alpha_charlie » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:48 pm

VH-CC1 wrote:
victor_alpha_charlie wrote:
VH-CC1 wrote: not picking or anything like that, but why go round the world on 4x/16x speed?

Because its so freakin' boring at normal speed.. Who is really going to sit at their comp for 16 hours straight? :P It's not as if you're missing anything, the scenery on fs2002's not anywhere near real life

Mike and i have flown 80/90hrs, from NZ to somewhere near hong kong on normal speed. ( the true FS'er coming out )

How did you survive? :lol:
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Postby VH-CC1 » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:44 pm

easy. flights ranged from 1 to 12hrs each leg
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Postby G-HEVN » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:58 pm

126 hours, Oxford to Oxford, at normal speed...

30 hours (so far) Back to Blighty, at normal speed... (okay, I will admit going shopping during the Christchurch-McMurdo leg, but I was technically a passenger ;) )

I dunno, young people today... no stamina! :P


16x on a 30 minute flight? Where do you find the time?
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Postby victor_alpha_charlie » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:08 pm

VH-CC1 wrote: easy. flights ranged from 1 to 12hrs each leg

so that means some legs must have been near on 12 hours? Where do you get the time? :lol:
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Postby scon » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:09 pm

Longest I have ever done is 3hr NZAA-YSSY otherwise 4X or 8X
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Postby benwynn » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:50 pm

Wow Really!! I never fly on More than Normal Rate- Even long hauls NZAA-KLAX! I quite often leave PMDG running overnight on some tho :D
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Postby VH-CC1 » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:10 pm

victor_alpha_charlie wrote:
VH-CC1 wrote: easy. flights ranged from 1 to 12hrs each leg

so that means some legs must have been near on 12 hours? Where do you get the time? :lol:

weekends, mornings, nights.
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Postby Kelburn » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:31 pm

St Maarten to Rio De Janeiro

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Taxiing to runway,

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There's that famous fence!

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Turning onto track

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On final approach

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Braking!

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Again, slowing down

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There's those mighty reverser's

Had a long taxi to the gate then shut down waiting for my next flight.
(Hint Rio to S.A.)
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Postby ardypilot » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:45 pm

Some cool screenies- is that the Meljet 777?

Just for the record, Im a 1x simmer through and through. Everyone is different, but I personally get a great deal of satisfaction after landing either a small prop or large jet after a long flight in the sim ;)
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Postby ZKTOM » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:57 pm

I'd reccomend for long flights that you just take the plane off configure for climb and use the direct GPS thing. Go away and do something for a few hours and come back. I used to do longhaul flights between the USA and NZ.
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Postby ardypilot » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:03 pm

I'd reccomend for long flights that you just take the plane off configure for climb and use the direct GPS thing. Go away and do something for a few hours and come back.

But as the earth curves, you will find yourself heading miles of course on your original heading.

I prefer flying VOR to VOR, with ATC adjusting my heading slightly every now and then.
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Postby creator2003 » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:55 pm

Yeah im using the gps less and less these days just get a heading and fly there ,sometimes its good to have it going if say you go out for awhile ,as i really only do long haul flights online with buddys i sit it out chatting with them next thing you know you are at the next stop over ,i recomend it :thumbup:
sweet flight so far
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Postby scon » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:23 pm

I just go high Alt airways select GPS on the panel and hit nae and if flys by it's self,

that is if I am using default aircraft other wise I use L-nav
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Postby ZKTOM » Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:49 pm

Do you have any more screenies over Rio?

Yay 150th Post :lol:
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Postby Duckman » Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:59 pm

Was enjoying watching this trip, but what's happened? Too boring for you to finish or something? It's certainly been a while since the last leg. :sleepy: :thumbup:
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Postby Kelburn » Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:07 pm

We'll I'm in Heathrow but I got a bit off-track also I hit a bug coming across Africa where the world suddenly turns blue and there's no scenery so yeah. I do have some screenies but am too lazy to upload them
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Postby ZKTOM » Wed Jul 04, 2007 2:38 pm

Kelburn wrote: We'll I'm in Heathrow but I got a bit off-track also I hit a bug coming across Africa where the world suddenly turns blue and there's no scenery so yeah. I do have some screenies but am too lazy to upload them

See what all the addons do??? :lol:
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