FLYING THE GRAND TRAVERSE?

[617sticks]

How would you guys go about flying the Grand Traverse?

In 2002 we did with Air Safari's out of Lake Tekapo which does not appear in the sim. We flew up Lake Tekapo and the Godley River turned left and because of the weather at Mount Cook we could not fly the back route instead we did what is shown in these maps copied from my DVD.



We landed at Glentanner to drop off some tourists and then flew back to Lake Tekapo. Some grand views from the Cessna Stationaire 8 from here:

http://netleygrove.net/Photographic/glacie....html#highlight

There are not a lot of interesections in the sim so how would you find the Franz Josef Glacier on which we hiked. On their web page its co-ordinates are given as S43 28.0 E170 11.5 and in FS2004 thats quite easy to fly as Chuck Dome's co-ordinate GPS is available and a plan could be flown on co-ordinates until it was possible to use the normal intersections or airfields. In the views the Trislander is over the Franz Josef Glacier as a tourist might see it from seat A Row 2 in the cabin. My header view is from the 2nd dickie seat.



In FSX how would you do it out of Pukaki for example? Are you all using some other software planners that you can plot a flight on?

Air Safari's also ran a Nimrod N22 then but I do not seem to find this aircraft anywhere, certainly not in Air Safari paint. Just wondered if anyone knew/had one?

Cheers

[Ian Warren]

The old Nomad would be ideal , seen em parked at Tekapo , on hold for the Wanaka Airshow , seems many the towns people liked to fly in on airshow day , myself did twice in a Dak from Wigram , but your best choice to drop off Terroist would be from the shackles in the bomb-bay of your Lancaster !

[617sticks]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 27 2010, 11:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The old Nomad would be ideal , seen em parked at Tekapo , on hold for the Wanaka Airshow , seems many the towns people liked to fly in on airshow day , myself did twice in a Dak from Wigram , but your best choice to drop off Terroist would be from the shackles in the bomb-bay of your Lancaster !

Yes our Grand Traverse was because we were "doing the Wanaka" and because we were not using the flight with a group we could not get on a Nomad. The left overs came with us, thats why they dropped them off at Glentanner to be bused up to Mount Cook. Be nice from Wigram, had a good visit there also.

No no! Not shackles in the bombay, drop some paratroopers or parafoils and land to pick them up again. But all the Lancasters are in "My Hangar" folder so not flying or accessible today (big hangar). Maybe I should get Sugar out of the hangar and fly the Traverse into Mount Cook and do the drop. I think Sugar is being serviced so it might have to be "Just Jane". I will send you a postcard with some parafoil drop photographs after the flight.

I downloaded the "NewZealand Adventure" and flew that from Fasker in the Trislander. Picked up the "Flying Nun" OK. Oops "Flying Monk".

[617sticks]

They need to be picked up at the top of the Franz Josef Glacier, its a bit tricky landing a JU52 ski plane and not ski-ing down the glacier. I wonder if anyone will fly a chopper from the Fraz Josef heli-pad to the top plateau of the Glacier and find a flat spot to make the pickup.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 28 2010, 01:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The old Nomad would be ideal , seen em parked at Tekapo , on hold for the Wanaka Airshow , seems many the towns people liked to fly in on airshow day , myself did twice in a Dak from Wigram , but your best choice to drop off Terroist would be from the shackles in the bomb-bay of your Lancaster !

Indeed.......

[Ian Warren]

Damn Terrorist ! , always dropping in when ya don,t expect them

Marty , Superb aerial of the Nomad

[617sticks]

Yeh! Pity someone has not made a freebee sim of the Nomad painted like that, great shot.

Found the answer to my own question: FSX allows you to put extra waypoints into a flight plan so you can plot the Grand Traverse or any other flight quite accurately and fly it. Ah well .......!

Over and out.

[Snowman]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ May 28 2010, 05:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Indeed.......

There may not be an Air Safaris repaint for the Nomad around, but there is this NZ repaint available...........



Lawrie.