Airliners except Boeing and Airbus | SAT MAY 24TH 16:00 - 24:00 UTC
TWENTYFIRST TRIP
Departing McCarran International Airport, (KLAS): Las Vegas - Nevada
Connecting Mobile Regional Airport, (KMOB): Mobile - Alabama
Arriving Luis Muñoz Marín Intl. Airport, (TJSJ): San Juan - Puerto Rico
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Leg Distance: approx 2800 nm, connecting flight at 1400 nm
Competing Aircraft: Any jet airliners (70 or more passengers), not a Boeing or an Airbus, see
details below
Expected Cruising Speed: 072 Ma | 276 KIAS | 426 KTAS
Expected Cruising Altitude: FL290
Expected Duration (en route): 7 hours, see details below
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Flightgear's USA Tour 21st: USA TOUR reaches Adulthood
Last arrival to Las Vegas received really awesome participation, and was very entertaining. I can't strengthen enough how much I am looking forward for our next event. I am looking forward to meet you (again, if applies) in the air.
This time USA Tour is heading to the Caribbean USA Territory of Puerto Rico, and we will be landing in the fantastically modeled Luis Mu~oz Marin Airport (TJSJ). It does not happen everyday that USA Tour departs and arrives a modelled airport, but now it is happening in 2 consecutives of the Series: PANC - KLAS, and now KLAS-TJSJ.
This time we will be flying a Jet Airliner event, as expected for the lenght of cruise to be at 2800 nm, but we will do it in the mode of connecting flight, with a forced stop at Mobile, Alabama, so basically any airliner can do it (or almost); This includes Regional Jets like the CRJ and the MRJ, as an example. The exception here is that since we have had Boeing and Airbus specific events, this event will exclude any of those families to be participant planes.
The stop at mobile splits this event in EXACT two halves. A pilot can fly either half or both, depending on his/her schedule. We will be departing KLAS a little earlier, at 1600UTC, and fly towards mobile, with an expected cruising time of 3 hours and 15 min. Thus I expect us to be able to have reach Mobile at 19:30 UTC, with comfort. Pilots will taxi to gate and park. Pictures of connection arrival may be taken
. We will make a 30 minutes stop, to accomodate any potential delay from KLAS, and depart Mobile on the mark at 2000UTC. We should be arriving at TJSJ around 2330Z, and I expect we have succesfully finished the event at 2400 UTC. So summarizing this, we will have two halves of 3:30 min each, with an estimated total event duration of 8 hours. Once again, I repeat, A pilot can fly either or both these routes, depending on his availability and interest. We will be departing KLAS at 16:00UTC and departing KMOB at 20:00UTC.
Aircrafts
CONFIRMED PLANES LIST HERE
We have had an event featuring Boeing 7x7 series
USA Tour KBHM -> KBOI
And an event featuring Airbus 3xx Series
USA Tour PANC -> KLAS
This time, participant pilots may choose Any jet airliner that is neither of B7x7 nor A3xx, and that can carry at least 70 passengers quota, and has a range of at least 1500nm. Options are many. Regional Airliners, full range airliners, Small and Large.
I understand many love the B777 or Mark's B707, or the A3xx's but its time for the USA tour to give a chance to the underdogs
[and perhaps to any developer to polish any of these *hint hint*] I also understand they may be not so well modelled, so fit your best shoes, is what I say---But I only fly the *** type of plane!!
It's O.K. If you want to JUST ACCOMPANY the tour, come with your favorite. There are not difference in the "air" benefits of any plane, although some may argue that the B727's have better passenger service and better food
The only difference is that you will be not counted as a participant, but as a companion instead.Think of this like being invited to a costume party. You can still go with your day2day attire. And it's still lots of fun.
Note: The list may be incomplete!
- CRJ700 family
- CRJ200
- Sud Aviation Caravelle
- Douglas dc-8-63
- Douglas dc-8-73
- Douglas DC9-32
- Douglas DC-10
- Douglas MD80
- De Havilland Comet DH106
- Fokker 100
- Lockheed Tristar L1011
- MD11
- Mitsubishi Regional Jet
- Les8of's Tupolev 104.
- Tupolev Tu-134
- Tupolev Tu154
- Tupolev Tu154B
- IL-96-400
[s] - NAMC YS-11[/s]
- Concorde. Caution: Too fast for the event
- Embraer ERJ Family (ERJ170 or ERJ190)
- Omega's Hangar, Embraer ERJ Family (ERJ170 or ERJ190)
Important To avoid yellow gliders, either post below the plane of choice you'll fly or notify via PM to IHCOl. Then Download all confirmed planes
The GCMAP
PART I
Route
SKYVECTOR:
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HOOVER3.DRK NABOB CHEAR SJN DRYHT MAXXO CNX TXO TURKI GANJA SPS BATIK FUZ ADUKE FOSIN AEX MCB SJI
PART II
Route
SKYVECTOR:
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CEW DRABK SZW HEVVN PLYER PIE RSW JINGL DHP WIERS OYSTA ZQA DONEZ ZLS GUANA GTK HARDE.BEANO3
PROCEDURES
The following are important proccedure information.
Ground Charts
- KLAS: http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1405/00662AD.PDF
- KMOB: http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1405/00267AD.PDF
- TJSJ: http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1405/00784AD.PDF
SIDs
- KLAS: HOOVER3 chart here
STARs
- TJSJ: BEANO3 chart here
Communications
Sincere thanks to Michat for offering the intercom room for this event. 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
