USA TOUR Event | SAT NOVEMBER 19TH 18:00 - 22:00 UTC

[IAHM-COL]

The red Biker Baron
A documentary


Certainly: Im Westen nichts Neues....

[IAHM-COL]

Just made it to KPVD, in my return from Edinburgh, from the Festival

EGPH->BIKF
BIKF->BGSF
BGSF->KJFK
KJFK->KPVD

[LesterBoffo]

haha
What plane is this with glass FMS?

This is the Albotros-CI. I stole the EADI/EHSI out of the BAe-125, and the Magnetic Compass came out of the Ryan Navion.

You know I don't recall if the CI has it in ..Models/Panel/Instruments/ but there should be a lower wing mount magnetic compass in the compass folder.

Actually I like your fix, it's good for night flights . Better than holding a penlight in your mouth or mounting a few Christmas lights run off the Sidcot flight-suit heater generator, in the cockpit, like some crews did for night bombing.

[LesterBoffo]

@ Jowocky: Concerning the JSB DRI..

Needs to have the volumetric efficiency reduced drastically in the engine .xml (like some where near 0.48~0.42) and you need to have a min and max-pitch settings that are the same in the prop .xml in /Engines. Try 40 inches as a starting point.

The aileron animation is backwards, and why is the mixture set to 0.0 as startup?

[jwocky]

Well yeah, and I will definitively not touch that before the Tour after this plane was sitting for what ... about five years ... sitting in the barn.

[KB7]

Since we're looking at needing VFR for Saturday, time to delve into the forecast. So far we are looking at a nice and just-in-time flying day, but do wear your thermal underwear aloft....

Forecast for Saturday, KPVD and KBOS:

Saturday
A slight chance of showers after 4pm. Sunny, with a high near 60. Light and variable wind becoming east 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

000
FXUS61 KBOX 180226
AFDBOX

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Taunton MA
926 PM EST Thu Nov 17 2016

.SYNOPSIS...
High pressure will bring dry and mild weather Friday. Low
pressure will intensify as it passes across central and northern
New England this weekend, bringing rain showers. Cold and
blustery conditions will push in later Sunday, bringing a mix or
change to snow showers which may continue Monday, mainly across
the higher inland terrain. Blustery and cold conditions will
remain through Tuesday, then high pressure will build across for
mid week.

&&

...

.LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
Highlights...

* Dry conditions and mild temperatures expected Saturday
* Low pressure will approach Sat night & Sun, bringing periods of
rain showers
* Much colder temps Sun night, with a mix or change snow showers
over the higher terrain
* Blustery and cold conditions continue Mon-Tue then beginning to
moderate around mid week

Overview...

12Z model suite and ensembles in good agreement, though some
timing issues still in play mainly with the intensifying low
pressure that will push across mainly N New England this weekend
into early next week. This will bring some of the coldest air so
far this season.

H5 cutoff low pressure associated with this surface feature will
move to the Maritimes early next week, but it will remain blustery
and cold into Tuesday behind the system. The mid level steering
pattern across the lower 48 remains progressive through
Thanksgiving, with temperatures moderating close to or a bit above
seasonal normals. broad ridging building quickly across Tue into
Wed. Another H5 short wave in this progressive flow will push
toward the region Wed night into Thanksgiving, which looks to
bring scattered rain and/or snow showers.

Details...

Saturday...Amplified H5 ridge will progress E during the day.
Associated surface high will also shift offshore, but could see
some clouds work into the Cape and islands with the general E-NE
wind flow in place. Some of the models show these clouds working
westward from low pressure south of Nova Scotia, which has been
signaled for several days.

Clouds will also approach from the W as digging H5 trough works E
out of the Great Lakes as it extends into the mid Atlc states by
late in the day. Will be another mild day with temperatures
reaching to the mid 50s to lower 60s, mildest across the CT valley
into N RI and interior SE Mass.

Saturday night through Sunday night...

The strong, digging H5 trough will push E Sat night, with
developing H5 cutoff low forming across NY state by 12Z Sun. This
feature is further N than depicted in the last several model runs.
The trough also showing a negative tilt, though remains
progressive. Surface low pressure will elongate, oriented closely
with the negative tilt trough. This will shift slowly E-NE through
the weekend, bringing an area of rain showers. However, not much
in the way of moisture is available with the system. Noting only a
PWAT ribbon of 0.7 to 0.8 inches that streams up the coast from
the Gulf of Mexico. Also noting patchy dry slots working into this
system as the cutoff low remains N of the region. QPF totals look
to range from about 0.1 inches across E MA/RI up to 0.25 to 0.5
inches across western Mass into NW CT. The best shot for rainfall
will be from Saturday night through Sunday, but there will be
breaks in the precip as well.

...

&&

.AVIATION /02Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
Forecaster Confidence Levels.

Low - less than 30 percent.
Moderate - 30 to 60 percent.
High - greater than 60 percent.

...

Outlook /Saturday through Tuesday/...

Saturday...High confidence. VFR. May see brief patchy fog with
local MVFR-IFR CIGS/VSBYS early Sat morning.

Saturday night through Sunday...Moderate confidence. Mainly VFR.
Areas of rain showers and patchy fog may result in scattered
MVFR-IFR conditions. Rain showers change over to snow showers
Sunday night as colder air moves in across the higher inland
terrain. Winds shift to W Sunday, gusting up to 25-30 kt, highest
across the higher inland terrain and along the S coast, continuing
Sun night.

...

&&

$$
SYNOPSIS...KJC/EVT
NEAR TERM...Frank
SHORT TERM...KJC
LONG TERM...EVT
AVIATION...Frank/KJC/EVT
MARINE...KJC/EVT

[KeithHadden]

I downloaded the linked Caproni and when attempting to run the sim I get the following error:-

Error reading aircraft: not well-formed (invalid token)
at /mnt/FlightGear/Aircraft/Caproni-Ca3/ca3-set.xml,
line 3, column 1

[IAHM-COL]

Hi Keith

I fixed this.

You can download it again, or git pull. It works now




IH-COL

[IAHM-COL]

@KB7

Thanks for the detailed report. I'll make sure to go with very thermal, late-20th century clothing then

[KeithHadden]

Hi Keith

I fixed this.

You can download it again, or git pull. It works now




IH-COL

Thank you, Loaded successfully