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Route 36th: Summary

• City_36: Denver, Colorado
• Route: KILG-KDEN
• Topic: USAF Aerospace Industries
• Date: 06/06/2015
• Pilots: IH-COL(767-200ER KC46A Pegasus), JWocky(StratoFortress B-52F JSBsim), Side(707 AF1),Lesbof (Lockheed Tristar Orbital), F-36 (F-16CJ), AVA0028 (Ray) (B-52F Stratofortress Yasim), Michat(StratoFortress B-52F JSBsim), Legoboy(707 AF1), Skyboat(NAA RA-5 Vigilante), KL-666(707-320 Andino AF1), PH-ONOX(f14b), Falcon N3266G(FA-18)
• Company: JStem2000(Lineage 1000, KILG-KDEN 1hr before), D-07007(AN-225 following Delta group), F-KATS (ec135 on departure), N3266G (773 on arrival), Legoboy (YV-LEgo, F-16CJ on arrival), MD-GRK (Open Radar at KDEN), PH-COR (NAA RA-5 Vigilante on arrival)

A Ranked Tabulation of Participants

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Rank| Pilot| Participations | Remarks
0 IH-COL  |  36 | Out of Contest
1 JWOCKY | 16
1 Lesbof  |   16
2 Side  |  12
3 Skyboat | 11
4 LV-EPM  |  9
4 F-36  | 9
5 Cain | 7
6 Michat   | 6
6 Sbyx |  6
7 MD-GRK  | 5
7 Rick Ace | 5
7 Falcon  | 5
8 Legoboy | 4
8 N22  | 4
8 PH-ONOX | 4
8 STAR  |  4
8 PH-ETE   |  4
9 A-BODY  |  3
9 AVA0028 | 3
9 D-LASER | 3
9 KB7  | 3
9 Someguy | 3
10 Ambro_IT | 2
10 CA-ASC  | 2
10 Cata  |  2
10 F-LANN | 2
10 G-MKNY | 2
10 KL-666  | 2
10 lastmin   | 2
10 MV-DP | 2
11 BAW-5154 | 1
11 Catalan | 1
11 CC-DLV   | 1
11 Circum | 1
11 D-07007 | 1
11 D-LEON | 1
11 Eagle | 1
11 Echo1 | 1
11 F-KIDS | 1
11 F-KATS | 1
11 F-PAUL | 1
11 FMG | 1
11 HerbyW  | 1
11 Kaa | 1
11 Mattila  | 1
11 M-J4MC | 1
11 OOZVY  | 1
11 PALO  | 1
11 Tikibar  | 1
11 Turbo  | 1


Note: Tabulation above only account for pilots bringing participant planes, not company.

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Important Notification

Make sure to get installed the confirmed planes before hand, to avoid delays or yellow gliders

USA TOUR event | 35th Leg: Bush Flying | SAT APR 25TH 17:00 UTC - 22:00 UTC

THIRTYFIFTH TRIP
Departing Tri-State Airport (KHTS): Huntington, West Virginia
Arriving New Castle Airport, (KILG): Wilmington - Delaware

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Leg Distance: approx 340 nm
Competing Aircraft: Bushflyers (See speed restrictions)
Expected Cruising Speed:~ 130KTAS or more
Expected Cruising Altitude:Variable. Up to below 7000 feet
Expected Duration (en route): ~2h40min cruising, en-route, assuming 130KTAS
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Bush Flying <= Click there for explanation if needed

Our past arrival to the state of West Virginia was an insane amount of fun!... as we enjoyed VFR navigation over the south appalacchians, and lots of montaineous formations and lakes. Althought we attempted landing in Charleston, due to accidents of FG scenery, we had diverted to a closer airport, the Tri-State in Hungtinton, West Virginia, where we are preparing our departure next

This time we will be, weather permit, flying VFR at low altitudes, (maybe 300 AGL or so) enjoying the scenery, again, now crossing over the appalaccians, looking for the U.S east coast.

Our destination, the largest city of the State of Delaware: Wilmington. The airport, New Castle, looks alike a capital A, and its quite an interesting layout.
We will procceed our arrival, and hopefully approach VFR landing. In our VFR route we will overfly the potoma river, actually twice

Aircrafts

This time, courtesy of JWOCKY (his original idea), we will be flying bush flyers. I could not avoid laughing at the name, but it is actually very accurate on its meaning. Still, we are heading towards one of the most busiest areas of the Country by population. Wilmington has to the South the cities of Washington, DC and Baltimore, and to the North the City of Philadelphia, and marks some sort of a beginning of the highly populated areas of the East coast. Still we will be arriving there with bush-flyers. Typical transportation of inaccessible and remote areas of the world. Some sort of a funny antagony!

Well. Good thing is these bushflyer machines are quite fun.

What aircraft exactly?

Well any aircraft on this list that is also capable to cruise comfortably at 130 KTS or more, qualifies.

Secondarily, availability for FG is an interest requirement. But as we know, you can pull your skills and make yourself a qualifiable plane too ...

Note: See below...
By information provided by N22, Helicopter pilots could also qualify for participation

Let us know as a post below, or a PM to me which aircraft do you have in mind, so we can be prepared on time, and can avoid the yellow gliders.

An updated list of confirmed planes will be posted sometimes the next week.


Looking forward to bush fly with all of you guys on the 25th

The GCMAP


Route
We will follow a VFR route as indicated below, or default to a NDB navigation if the weather behaves uncooperative. We will maintain at least 2500 AGL, Althought we will cruise along the appalachian mountainous waves, the MSA are not higher than 5.200ft along the fligth-path. Hopefully we get to enjoy nice clear-skies and outstanding views again
SKYVECTOR

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KHTS Origin
KCRW 095DEG  45.6NM 21.1MIN
ELK RIVER 076DEG  31.8NM 14.7MIN
SUTTON LAKE 073DEG 14.6NM 6.7MIN
KEKN 078 40.9NM 18.9MIN
CANAAN VALLEY LAKE 064 33.3NM 15.4MIN
POTOMAC RIVER 072DEG 27.1NM 12.5MIN
CACAPON RIVER 091DEG 16.5NM 7.6MIN
POTOMAC RIVER (AGAIN!) 089DEG 26.9NM 12.4MIN
KDMW 093DEG 38.1NM 13.6MIN
MD31 104DEG 29.4NM 13.6MIN
NEWARK, DELAWARE 090DEG 29.1NM 13.4MIN
KILG Arrival


NDB backup Plan
SKYVECTOR

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RQY CBE APG DQO (VOR)


PROCEDURES

Ground Charts

• KHTS: http://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1504/pdf/00532AD.PDF
• KILG: http://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1504/pdf/00458AD.PDF

Communications

Communications will take place with mumble. Important messages can be relayed on FGChat.
Sincere thanks to Michat for offering the intercom room and channels. This will be located in the FG mumble server:

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server: mumble.allfex.org
Room: USA Tour


To install and prepare the mumble (any OS), see here:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page


Your friend,
IH-COL

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Route 35th: Summary :: A little late but finally here

• City_34: Wilminton, Delaware
• Route: KHTS-KILG
• Topic: Bush Planes (at least 130KTS)
• Date: 04/25/2015
• Pilots: IH-COL(dhc-6), JWocky(Junker Ju 52), Lesbof (Turbo C150 with Bush Tires), N22 (Turbo c172p with Bush Tires), AVA0028 (Ray) (dhc6), Michat(Yak-53), Rick Ace(dhc2), Someguy(Model 17 beechcraft Staggerwing), Skyboat(Commander), MV-DP(Commander), KL-666(dhc6), PH-ONOX(c172p-detailed), F-KATS(ec130b4), Catalan(c172p-detailed), D-07007(dhc6), D-LEON(extra500), Kaa(dhc6),
• Company: Joe(B190D), Ismael(AN-225),

A Ranked Tabulation of Participants

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Rank| Pilot| Participations | Remarks
0 IH-COL  |  35 | Out of Contest
1 JWOCKY | 15
1 Lesbof  |   15
2 Side  |  11
3 Skyboat | 10
4 LV-EPM  |  9
5 F-36  | 8
6 Cain | 7
7 Sbyx |  6
8 MD-GRK  | 5
8 Michat   | 5
8 Rick Ace | 5
9 Falcon  | 4
9 N22  | 4
9 STAR  |  4
9 PH-ETE   |  4
10 A-BODY  |  3
10 D-LASER | 3
10 KB7  | 3
10 Legoboy | 3
10 PH-ONOX | 3
10 Someguy | 3
11 Ambro_IT | 2
11 AVA0028 | 2
11 CA-ASC  | 2
11 Cata  |  2
11 F-LANN | 2
11 G-MKNY | 2
11 lastmin   | 2
11 MV-DP | 2
12 BAW-5154 | 1
12 Catalan | 1
12 CC-DLV   | 1
12 Circum | 1
12 D-07007 | 1
12 D-LEON | 1
12 Eagle | 1
12 Echo1 | 1
12 F-KIDS | 1
12 F-KATS | 1
12 F-PAUL | 1
12 FMG | 1
12 HerbyW  | 1
12 Kaa | 1
12 KL-666  | 1
12 Mattila  | 1
12 M-J4MC | 1
12 OOZVY  | 1
12 PALO  | 1
12 Tikibar  | 1
12 Turbo  | 1


Note: Tabulation above only account for pilots bringing participant planes, not company.

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Important Notification

Make sure to get installed the confirmed planes before hand, to avoid delays or yellow gliders

USA TOUR event | 34th Leg: Taildraggers | SAT APR 4TH 18:00 UTC - 22:00 UTC

THIRTYFOURTH TRIP
Departing Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (KATL): Atlanta, Georgia
Arriving Yeager Airport, (KCRW): Charleston - West Virginia

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Leg Distance: approx 320 nm
Competing Aircraft: Taildraggers (any number of engines)
Expected Cruising Speed:~[s]150[/s] 120KTAS or more
Expected Cruising Altitude:Variable. Up to 8500 feet
Expected Duration (en route): ~2h50min cruising, en-route, assuming [s]150[/s] 120KTAS
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Taildraggers

After arriving to Atlanta in bomber aircrafts, many of which were from the WWII theaters, we will be departing on the 4th of April to the state of West-Virginia. Our flight will be completed under VFR rules, but we will have a plan to navigate using NDBs if weather comes uncooperative.

We will need to overfly the souther Appalacchian mountains in our route Northbound the US southeast.

Aircrafts

This time participant aircraft need two conditions
1) the aircraft is a taildragger. As I mentioned before in private communications with some USA tourists: [s]The participant aircraft will need to have a nice left kick[/s] (addenda: Inaccurate Statement)
2) the aircraft will need to confortably maintain [s]150[/s] 120 KTS. Our cruising speed will be around that value.

The list of aircraft is long and many of these are really entertaining.

For those unfamiliar, taildraggers, as oppose to tricicle configuration, sit on a little tail-wheel, and their gravity center is displaced towards the tail of the craft. During the rolling proccedure, the aircraft will have a tendency, due to prop-wash and other reasons, to kick to the left or to the rigth depending on the props turning direction, and if the rudder is not properly controlled, the aircraft washes out of runway or twist away with a progressive displacement of its gravity center. But learning to properly take off and handle these planes is really cool too.

A reading, of a taildragger pilot that is really enthusiastic about the general behavior of this configuration here:
Why you must fly a taildragger

Or even more entertaining reading, arguably,
http://www.aerodynamicaviation.com/documents/Taming.pdf

Remember to post below what aircraft you are planing to bring, so we can make sure to have them installed, and avoid delays and gliders

Looking forward to share the skies,

The GCMAP


Route
We will follow a VFR route as indicated below, or default to a NDB navigation if the weather behaves uncooperative. We will maintain at least 2500 AGL, and we will need to climb up to about 8500ft to surpass the southern appalacchians.
SKYVECTOR

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KATL Departure
KPDK  029deg 15.6nm  6min
Lake Sidney Lanier 039deg 24.5nm 10min
9A0  006deg  22nm   9min
KDZJ 007deg  16.3nm 7min
Chatuge Lake 056deg  13.6nm 5.5min
Nantahala Lake 032deg 12.7nm 5 min
Fontana Lake  026deg  14.4nm  6 min
Overfly Clingmans Dome 011deg 9.5nm 4min
KGKT 039deg 8.5n 3.4min
Douglas lake 040deg 6nm 3min
KMOR 021deg 15nm 6min
Cherokee Lake 029deg 5.8nm 2min
KRVN 068deg 24.2nm 10min
KLNP 032deg 36.1nm 15min
John W. Flannagan Reservoir 035deg 15.5nm 6min
Fishtrap Lake 024deg 12.4nm 5.0min
KEBD 034deg 18.3nm 7min
6L4 050deg 14.3nm 6min
Charleston City 031deg 31.3nm 13min
KCRW VFR arrival


NDB backup Plan
SKYVECTOR

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FKV TY JXT RVN HVQ(vor)


PROCEDURES

Ground Charts

• KATL: http://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1502/pdf/00026AD.PDF
• KCRW: http://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1503/pdf/00852AD.PDF

Communications

Communications will take place with mumble. Important messages can be relayed on FGChat.
Sincere thanks to Michat for offering the intercom room and channels. This will be located in the FG mumble server:

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server: mumble.allfex.org
Room: USA Tour


To install and prepare the mumble (any OS), see here:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

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And The USA tour attempted arrival to Charleston

Not that we accidentally fail to arrive Charleston. More like we deliberately failed.

But lets rewind...

We met on the afternoon (18Z) of April 4th 2015 with the aim of continue USA tour planned progress in direction to Charleston, West Virginia.
As some know, the USA tour goal is to land the largest city/main aiport on every state and/or territory of the U.S. And so far we had counted with a clean sheet.

We met in Atlanta airport, World's Busiest, using taildraggers of all sizes, which included the massive Junker-Ju-39, Jwocky JSBsim rendition (Koenigsadler) to the smallest Cessna c170 by N22. from 6 to 1 props!. We were fortunate enough to have blessing weather for our VFR plan, and visibility was un-improvable for all of the leg, which makes navigation via VFR rules not only possible but quiet a pleasurable treat. The USA appalachians structure, with its mountains waving up and down in smooth successions were relieved eventually but the presence of several beautifully shaped lakes, all of which none-seem alike. Little airports with some shy attitude glared between relatively densely forest of this area of the Southwest, and all together a view well worth. Totally recommended trip. The navigation plan is in the first post of this thread, and I will claim this flight to be one of the recommended places to go.

The summit Clingmans dome, one of the tallest of appalacchians was overflown, a few feet to the west, with clear visibility of its canonical shape (although the man -made structure does not exist in FG). After clearing clingmans at 8500, we went back down to about 5500, altitude we maintained to the arrival of Charleston's CRW.

Piloting was rather good. I wish I could say exceptional, but you know: Taildraggers are really something. For those that did not, let me point you to the reading of the first post of this thread: Taming the taildragger pilot. Then after you read that let me tell you. Not every FG pilot is tamed already. I for once had a really bumpy and unstable take off. Others also troubled.
Landing was more gracious, but after landing I allowed the plane to come nose down -- a very unexpected attitude for a taildragger, that is known to have the Gravity center displaced to the tail!!

The flight was phenomenal, the pilots in the group amazing company, and great pals. All to all, and unforgettable experience. One that leavees me longing for more and waiting for the events of Fligthgear's USA TOUR leg 35th, to be announce soon.

Some situations

Wind: We faced an absolutely beautiful clear skies weather, BUT the winds were insane. We had to face headwinds of about 20 KTS average and gusting for most of our flight, north bound. It was so insane that N22 had to abort flying his prepared c170 for a faster TwinBeech. His plane lost the fight with the elements

Airport: CRW airport in charleston is partly buried in mountains and forest, and all runways are obstructed somehow.
We failed to arrived to charleston, fair-well. If we but that mean, land there. But we did make an approach to runway, and aborted the landing at around 500ft AGL, after this we reclimb to 4000ft and headed westernly to a close aiport in the vicinity of Hamilton, West Virginia, KHTS, where we completed succesfully the route, and laugh and the persistent problems with FG scenery in its ws2.0 version.
I am sure the next scenery update is among the most waited FG features.

Thanks everyone for coming and showing the excellent sportmanship of our community

Best,
IHCOL

Now up to some screenshots:

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Route 34th: Summary

• City_34: [s]Charleston[/s] Hamilton, West Virginia
• Route: KATL - [s]KCRW[/s] - KHTS
• Topic: Taildraggers (at least 130KTS)
• Date: 04/04/2015
• Pilots: Ray (AVA0028)(Douglas-DC3), JWOCKY(Junker Ju 39 Koenigsadler C), N-22(c170 at the beginnig, but it was too windy so he switched to TwinBeech Beechcraft C18S on JSbSim), Falcon (N3266G)(Vicker Nene Vicking while his concentration lasted), Rick Ace(A6M2), Side(FW-200), Skyboat(B-17 Condor-Jsb), Someguy(Model 17 beechcraft Staggerwing), IH-COL(Douglas-Dc3), MV-DP(Douglas-Dc3), G-MNKY(Junker Ju 39 Koenigsadler C), Michat(Douglas-Dc3),
• Company: Eagle (Gannet Fairey on the route, S-76C on arrival), Lesbof (Some company departing on the percival petrel and then arriving KCRW on a Bleriot-XI)

A Ranked Tabulation of Participants

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Rank| Pilot| Participations | Remarks
0 IH-COL  |  34  | Out of Contest
1 JWOCKY | 14
1 Lesbof  |   14
2 Side  |  11
3 LV-EPM  |  9
3 Skyboat | 9
4 F-36  | 8
5 Cain | 7
6 Sbyx |  6
7 MD-GRK  | 5
8 Falcon  | 4
8 Michat   | 4
8 Rick Ace | 4
8 STAR  |  4
8 PH-ETE   |  4
9 A-BODY  |  3
9 D-LASER | 3
10 KB7  | 3
10 Legoboy | 3
10 N22  | 3
11 Ambro | 2
11 CA-ASC  | 2
11 Cata  |  2
11 F-LANN | 2
11 G-MKNY | 2
11 lastmin   | 2
11 PH-ONOX | 2
11 Someguy | 2
12 AVA0028 | 1
12 BAW-5154 | 1
12 CC-DLV   | 1
12 Circum | 1
12 Eagle | 1
12 Echo1 | 1
12 F-KIDS | 1
12 F-PAUL | 1
12 FMG | 1
12 HerbyW  | 1
12 Mattila  | 1
12 M-J4MC | 1
12 MV-DP | 1
12 OOZVY  | 1
12 PALO  | 1
12 Tikibar  | 1
12 Turbo  | 1


Note: Tabulation above only account for pilots bringing participant planes, not company.

[IAHM-COL]

Important Notification

Make sure to get installed the confirmed planes before hand, to avoid delays or yellow gliders

USA TOUR event | 33rd Leg: Propeller Driven Bomber Aircraft | SAT MAR 14TH 18:00 UTC - 22:00 UTC

THIRTYTHIRD TRIP
Departing Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (KLIT): Little Rock, Arkansas
Arriving Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (KATL): Atlanta, Georgia

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Leg Distance: approx 400 nm
Competing Aircraft: All bomber aircraft driven by propeller engines (any number of props)
Expected Cruising Speed:~130KTAS or more
Expected Cruising Altitude:13000-17000 feet
Expected Duration (en route): ~3h15min cruising, en-route, assuming 150KTAS
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Bombers in Props

Recently USA Tour Leg 32nd arrived to Little Rock Arkansas using an all British Jet Fleet. It was not the first, but actually the second route played with aircrafts all belonged to a single country manufacture: The first being the "All Soviet Airliners" USA TOUR leg. The 29th USA TOUR leg was completed last November with a Fleet of Bombers with Jet engines.

On the 33rd leg we will be heading to Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport: The Busiest Airport of the world ever since the year 2000! with an estimated passenger traffic of 96 million passengers in 2014.

Aircrafts

But we will not travel on airliners. This time, participant aircraft includes all propellers bomber aircraft, regardless of the number of engines. There is an interesting set of this equipments manufactured for Fligthgear.

Note: Some qualified aircraft may be available in Flightgear and not listed below. I don't guarantee completeness of this list. If you wish to use such qualified non-listed aircraft, feel free to propose it

The GCMAP


Route
We will follow Victor Airways using VOR2VOR navigation, at altitudes below the TA to MERIDIAN (MEI), and then enter the LAGRANGE (LGC4) ARRIVAL;
SKYVECTOR

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KLIT LIT V74 PBF GLH MHZ V18 MEI MEI.LGC4 KATL


PROCEDURES

STAR

• LAGRANGE4
  
  Ground Charts
  
  • KLIT: http://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1501/pdf/00233AD.PDF
  • KATL: http://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1502/pdf/00026AD.PDF

Communications

Communications will take place with mumble. Important messages can be relayed on FGChat.
Sincere thanks to Michat for offering the intercom room and channels. This will be located in the FG mumble server:

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server: mumble.allfex.org
Room: USA Tour


To install and prepare the mumble (any OS), see here:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

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[quote="cossack90";p=235315]wow that is awesome)))[/quote]

Agreed, Cossack90.
It was quite a fun flight!


And The USA TOUR arrived to the Busiest Airport of the world

Yet, we did so, not using the expected traffic: Airliners.
We came from Little Rock, Arkansas, flying bomber aircraft whose thrust is got by prop-engines.

Most Aircraft used, as seen in the previous slide-shows in this thread were planes used in different fronts of WWII. With a single exception: The SPAD that N22 brought. This, also know as the Douglas AH1, was a plane very similar in configuration to some of the skydivers of the WWII conflagration, but it saw its birth, and its operation some years past, in the also infamous Korea War, that culminated with the split of the country into the North and South Korea, and that it was the anteroom of the also infamous Vietnam War.

So, briefly, the USA Tour arrived to Atlanta flying warbirds, the ones of the "Heavy" category.

The participants were, all of them, great flying pals. Very entertaining conversation, and lots of new great facts about birds of the era were shared. Also very good aviators. This time, even IHCOL flying the Superfortress was able to pull some sort of an "emergency" landing, and roll off the runway doing some grass-mowering in the mean time. But lets talk a bit about departure first.

We met, as established, a few minutes before departing time and got everything ready to go. We had relatively calm winds for a northbound departure, RWY 04 L/R in KLIT, but there were low level overcast, at around 1500ft, that remain layering till way past the 10000 ft. We've chosen, therefore to fly above those layers at around 15000. We could maintain a good 165 KTS cruising speed. I requested all participants to make a caravan of aircrafts in the taxiway and wait for departing instructions, but a large group of participants, very eager to get started just entered runway and rolled away. Stampede behaviour!!!

Someone asked me. Had you instructed departure? And I said ... It was not me!
Anyways, those pilots still on ground, we manage to maintain the calm after the nervous birds took off, and then we organizedly departed after singular take off clearances. Pilots climbed to 5000 made a right turn and then enter the planned airway after a brief downwind leg. Simple procedure, and we were expeditely on our way.

Some pilots did have issues with the aircraft of choice, thou, but once a few tests, everyone was safely established on the cruising conditions.

Arrival was performed very simple. We came from Southwest via the Lagrange STAR. We overflew the airport at 4000 passing over ATL VOR and entered a right turn downwind. Each pilot was assigned a Rwy, either 27 L/R 26L/R. The abundance of landing strips allowed us to bring all eight planes in parallel approaches, two pilots per strip, and avoided the sometimes necessary holding patterns when we are coming down in smaller single strip airports. It was fun. Easy. Organized.

Well... one exception thou. Rick, really attempted to bring some chaos to the arrival, popping in the RWY 27R, just before the first pilot on arrival touched down on it. Or, on top of Rick. Crazy stuff. It is bewildering that a seasoned Flightgear pilot will come up automatically on a runway, let alone a runway where another pilot is clearly established. Luckily, Skyboat--the landing pilot--- is a very seasoned veteran of flight simulation, and he pulled an amazing trick. He deviated his curse for a landing in the parallel 27L strip. aborting His ILS approach for a visual landing, and still coming down on the numbers. The Runway threshold numbers. The touchdown speed and flaps numbers. What a landing! oh sirs. And Rick got time to take off his big 747 before any other pilot needed that strip again, anyways.

After the last pilots cleared runway and approached the final apron, we took a few minutes to snap the arrival pictures that can seen above

The USA TOUR is getting ready for its next leg

I am preparing the announcement of the next USA Tour leg. Everyone on his seat, expecting for the announcement.

Best,
IHCOL

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Route 33rd: Summary

• City_33: Atlanta - Georgia
• Route: KLIT - KATL
• Topic: Bombers in Props
• Date: 03/14/2015
• Pilots: Ambro (B-29), Cain (He-111), Cata - CHT0013 (B29), F-KIDS (B24), F-PAUL (B17), JWOCKY (FW200), KB7 (B24), Lesbof (HP-Hampden), N-22 (A-1H SPAD), Side (D3Aichi Val), Skyboat (FW-200), N3266G - Falcon (BV170), IH-COL (B29)
• Company: MD-GRK (fw-200 on departure, OpenRadar as KATL OBS on Arrival), PH-ONOX (p51d, for a short lapse encruise), NASA (GR1-Harrier), Rick Ace (B748 popping up in RWY on KATL while pilots made a descent)

A Ranked Tabulation of Participants

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Rank| Pilot| Participations | Remarks
0 IH-COL  |  33  | Out of Contest
1 Lesbof  |   14
2 JWOCKY | 13
3 Side  |  10
4 LV-EPM  |  9
5 F-36  | 8
5 Skyboat | 8
6 Cain | 7
7 Sbyx |  6
8 MD-GRK  | 5
9 STAR  |  4
9 PH-ETE   |  4
10 A-BODY  |  3
10 D-LASER | 3
10 Falcon  | 3
10 KB7  | 3
10 Legoboy | 3
10 Michat   | 3
10 Rick Ace | 3
11 Ambro | 2
11 CA-ASC  | 2
11 Cata  |  2
11 F-LANN | 2
11 lastmin   | 2
11 N22  | 2
11 PH-ONOX | 2
12 BAW-5154 | 1
12 CC-DLV   | 1
12 Circum | 1
12 Eagle | 1
12 Echo1 | 1
12 F-KIDS | 1
12 F-PAUL | 1
12 FMG | 1
12 G-MKNY | 1
12 HerbyW  | 1
12 Mattila  | 1
12 M-J4MC | 1
12 OOZVY  | 1
12 PALO  | 1
12 Someguy | 1
12 Tikibar  | 1
12 Turbo  | 1


Note: Tabulation above only account for pilots bringing participant planes, not company.

[IAHM-COL]

Important Notification

Make sure to get installed the confirmed planes before hand, to avoid delays or yellow gliders

USA TOUR event | 32nd Leg: From London With Love | Hybrid (Civilian or Military): British Manufactured Jets | SAT FEB 21ST 17:00 UTC - 24:00 UTC

THIRTYSECOND TRIP
Departing Cyril E. King Airport,(TIST): Charlotte Amelie, U.S. Virgin Islands
Arriving Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (KLIT): Little Rock, Arkansas

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Leg Distance: approx 1750 nm
Competing Aircraft: Any Jet Aircraft manufactured in the United Kingdom (Hybrid: Civilian + Military)
Expected Cruising Speed:~350KTAS
Expected Cruising Altitude:FL280-FL320
Expected Duration (en route): ~4h40min
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From London With Love


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Note: Copyright of the 007 Logo is owned by Danjaq LLC, and United Artists and of the Movie "From Russia With Love" is owned by Eon Productions, Dajaq LLC, and United Artists.

The USA tour arrived another incorporated Territory:The USA Virgin Islands. And we did so, while flying McDonnell Douglas Jets from Manchester, New Hampshire, over the Atlantic Ocean, and crossing the large Bermuda Triangle. The Weather was eerie. Departure happened a few minutes after snowed, with visibility being really low, and mist presence in the air. The taxiway centers were merely visible. After the take off, we find an overcast at just 1900 feet. Luckily the terrain is flat and low and we receive fast clearance to a cruising level of FL230 - FL250. When we entered the Atlantic Ocean, there was an overcast layer above us, and a second one below us, which looked like we were flying into the tunnel that is the doors of the Bermuda Misteries. And we lost two pilots to the secrets: Skyboat's plane suddenly dissapeared (computer crash!) in a location that made impossible any other recovery maneuver but an air launching, very close to the suspected entry of the infamous geometry. IH-COL suffered a power outage that caused his plane to literally dissapear from the multiplayer servers, and then reapper minutes later in a completely different location. The power outage caused his Internet to drop, but his computer operating on battery kept flying regularly until the power was restablished and the internet reconnected. Unsurprisingly enough, his reappearance did occur where one would guess the magnetic horrors of the earthy blackhole are finished!.

The fighter jets F18 were really fuel hungry, but they had available two KC10 tankers. A lot (I mean a lot) of refueling action took place, and we are likely to repeat this feat in our return to continental USA in this the 32nd USA Tour leg. This time we will be flying from our last arrival in Amalie Charlotte, the US. Virgin Islands. We will overfly puerto rico and head in the direction of Bahamas and look for the coast of Florida over Miami. Crossing the Sunshine state over the everglades to head northernly over the west coast looking the Southeast, and finally heading to our destination, The largest and Capital City of the State of Arkansas: Little Rock (the name coming from a tiny stone, not for some dosage of good music!).

The USA tour is looking forward for you (the flightgear pilot) to engage and participate. We invite and welcome everyone that wants to tag along, and we are a friendly and cooperative flying environment: Hope to see you there on the 21st of February, for our sky-sliding appointment.


Aircrafts

This is the first USA TOUR leg that features a Country Specific manufacture.



What Aircraft shall I choose If I want to be considered one of the Elite of USA Tour Participants?! Well this time any participant will be who flies almost any Jet aircraft that has been manufactured by the United Kingdom aviation conglomerates. This aircraft could have been FULLY manufactured by the United Kingdom, or developed in multinational efforts. A list of the planes that I could find available in FG are listed below, and also a list of the EXCLUDED planes, and the reasons for exclusion are indicated below. I did attempt to make the list complete, but if you know of a plane that should have qualified, and is not incorporated, please do not shy out of letting us know. Furthermore, hopefully you may want to fly it with us

Another important point: We had been noticing that certain planes are conflicting on the multiplayer scene and create weird but predictable and reproducible crashes. We do not want to exclude these from participating. On the contrary, if you can leave us a note of what plane you are considering bringing, Let us know, and we will do some background testing and patching if necessary. Fuel patches to make planes more accurate with referenced ranges can be attempted, and for certain planes, we may be able to also make it Air refuelable so we can practice some of that challenging fun over this cruise.

Note: Some Aircraft may be available by either distribution below, but they are likely to differ in systems, models, and performance

Official Download:

• RAF JAGUAR T4 (Breguet / British Aircraft Corporation)
• BAC TSR2 (British Aircraft Corporation)
• BAE-125 (British Aerospace)
• Blackburn Buccaneer (Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. and Hawker Siddeley)
• Canberra BI8, a.k.a English Electric Canberra or Avro Canberra (English Electric)
• BAC-Concorde (British Aircraft Corporation/Aerospatiale)
• DeHavilland Comet DH-106 (DeHavilland)
• Eurofighter Typhoon EF2000 (British Aerospace / Airbus Group / Alenia Aermacchi)
• Harrier Jump Jet (British Aerospace / McDonnell Douglas)
• Hawker Siddeley Nimrod (British Aerospace / Hawker Siddeley )
• Hawker Hunter (Hawker Siddeley)
• English Electric Lightning (English Electric / British Aircraft Corporation)
• Avro Vulcan B2 (Hawker Siddeley)
• Gloster Meteor (Gloster Aircraft Company)
  FGUK Download:
• English Electric Canberra (English Electric)
• Avro Vulcan (Hawker Siddeley)
• TSR2 (British Aircraft Corporation)
• Hawk AJT (British Aerospace)
• Harrier II (British Aerospace/McDonell Douglas)
• BAe Sea Harrier (British Aerospace/ Hawker Siddeley)
• De Havilland Sea Vixen DH110 (DeHavilland)
• De Havilland Vampire DH100 (DeHavilland)
• Eurofighter Typhoon EF2000 (British Aerospace / Airbus Group / Alenia Aermacchi)
• Handley Page Victor (Handley Page Ltd.)
• Hawker Hunter (Hawker Siddeley)
• Hawker Siddeley Harrier (I or Harrier Jump Jet) (Hawker Siddeley/ British Aerospace/ McDonnell Douglas/ Boeing)
• Hawker Siddeley Nimrod (Hawker Siddeley)
• SEPECAT Jaguar (Breguet / British Aircraft Corporation)
• Panavia Tornado (Panavia Aircraft GmbH; Italy/Germany/U.K)
• Gloster Javelin FAW9 (Gloster Aircraft)
  Unofficially Available for Fligthgear
• Vickers Nene Viking (Vickers-Armstrongs / Rolls-Royce Engines)
• Supermarine Swift R-5 (Supermarine Aviation Works - Vickers )
  Excluded Aircraft
• Airbus (ALL) : Although U.K belongs to the multinational conglomerate that produces these, we have had Airbus specific legs before

The GCMAP


Route
We will be travelling Area Navigation, Over Bahamas, Miami, West Florida, and then over the SouthEast
SKYVECTOR

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TIST [PALCO6] PALCO [RTE6] SJU ROBLL [Y587] HARDE GTK RNDLY PAARR FORRK DONEZ COZIE RAJAY [BR53V]  DHP [J55] THNDR [Q110] JAYMC RVERO KPASA CTY [J20] SZW [J41] MGM  VUZ [J14] XESSS ARIGY  LIT [DCT] KLIT


PROCEDURES

SID

• PALCO6
  
  Ground Charts
  
  • TIST: http://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1413/pdf/05005AD.PDF
  • KLIT: http://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1501/pdf/00233AD.PDF

Communications

Communications will take place with mumble. Important messages can be relayed on FGChat.
Sincere thanks to Michat for offering the intercom room and channels. This will be located in the FG mumble server:

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server: mumble.allfex.org
Room: USA Tour


To install and prepare the mumble (any OS), see here:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page