THIRTEEN TRIP
Departing from Jackon Evers Intl. (KJAN): Jackson - Mississippi
Arriving to Seattle-Tacoma Intl. (KSEA): Seattle - Washington
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Leg Distance: approx 1900 nm
Competing Aircraft: Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
Expected Cruising Speed: about 613KIAS | 1150 KTAS | 2.0 Mach
Expected Cruising Altitude: FL510
Expected Duration (en route): 1h50min
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And The USA tour, Second competition BEGINS
The next twelve USA tour legs will be the Second USA Tour competition, that continues visiting every State within the USA at Random, arriving the Largest Airport within the Largest City of each state. The first competition has counted with amazing participants and we expect this to continue during the next 12 rounds.
The visited States seen here in Blue. The destination state in Red.
As a competition, remember points are assigned, and this accumulates very much per take off, landing and flying time within the competition. Feel free to revise historic posts to understand how the game goes, but briefly we will meet at indicated airports on indicated times on a Sunday, tipically once every 15 to 21 days, as posted. Take off and Fly in groups using planes within a "topic" or "theme", have fun, chat and enjoy flying with great fellows, get points and opt for the Gold Medal in the long run. If you had not enroll, let me tell you, in my humble opinion its really worth a shot
The Medals so far are: Side -Gold-; LV-EPM (sa7k) -Silver-; Les8of -Bronze-. All competitors 1 medal each. Lets see who will continue earning this honorific prize within the FG community.
Flight Plan
This time will be a very special navigation exercise. The STAR and SID are provided to allow pilots to take off, use the STAR to reach cruising speed and altitude and descend appropriately, but all intermediate points are provided in secret. Pilots are encourage to navigate the plane and intersect these secret waypoints with the highest accuracy for maximum scoring. The waypoints are separated by an average of 200 nm and you should be reaching them in about 12 min at the cruising conditions. All secret waypoints are given by a reference of nav frequency, radial and distance, or as an intersect between 2 radials of 2 different nav frequencies. These frequencies will be either a VOR-DME or a VOR-TACAN.
Departing: SID, Jackson 4. You will be scored extra points per your ability of getting the plane at the cruising conditions as indicated
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Waypoint Frequency Altitude Speed Info
KJAN Airport 346' RWY assigned by ATC
JAN 112.6 5000' 250KIAS
SQS 114.7 FL150
CRINK FL350 Ma1.2
MEM 117.5 FL510 Ma2.0
Consider placing these points in the route manager for departure help.
En-route: Navigation exercise. You are expected to be flying at Ma2.0/FL510.
You will be scored extra points 0-10 per your accuracy on navigating the secret fix.
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Waypoint Description
Secret1 Intersect 117.4 Radial 317 with 112.7 Radial 265
Secret2 114.9 Radial 257 DME 61 (FROM)
Secret3 Intersect 112.5 Radial 040 with 113.0 Radial 225
Secret4 116.8 Radial 271 DME 126 (FROM)
Secret5 Intersect 114.5 Radial 333 with 112.1 Radial 280
Secret6 117.8 Radial 255 DME 65(TO); BEGIN DESCEND TO FL400
Arriving: STAR, Ephrata 6.
The STAR details are provide to facilitate arrival and land. Concentrate on Aviate, not on Navigate. I suggest to include these conditions within the route manager. Make sure you keep altitudes as indicated below.
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Waypoint Frequency Altitude Speed
ODESS FL400 Ma1.2
EPH 112.6 FL200 Ma0.8
FLAAK FL150 250KIAS
WOODI FL120 250KIAS
HETHR FL100 250KIAS
Follow Side's instructions at HETHR.
at HETHR Expect Heading 160 if landing northbound
at HETHR Expect Heading 250 if landing southbound
Important
Not only we will be approaching on the fast concorde, but also there is high obstacles that need to be avoided/cleared. Notice the presence of Mount Rainier (14000') and Glacier peak (11000') surrounding our approach. Make sure not to descend below the recommended altitude in the chart above!
The alternate flightplan
If you are unable/unwilling to attempt of identifying the secret flight plan by following the navigation clues, feel free to use the following alternate plan. Pilots following this plan will get the base points, and potentially extra points on the take off and landing, but will get 0 extra points in the navigation section (see below).
Skyvector
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Waypoint Frequency Altitude Speed info
KJAN Airport 346' RWY assigned by ATC
JAN 112.6 5000' 250KIAS
SQS 114.7 FL150
CRINK FL350 Ma1.2
MEM 117.5 FL510 Ma2.0
SLN 117.1
DDY 116.2
DLN 113.0
ODESS FL400 Ma1.2
EPH 112.6 FL200 Ma0.8
FLAAK FL150 250KIAS
WOODI FL120 250KIAS
HETHR FL100 250KIAS
Follow Side's instructions at HETHR.
at HETHR Expect Heading 160 if landing northbound
at HETHR Expect Heading 250 if landing southbound
Competing Aircrafts
This time topic is Supersonic Civilian Transport Aircrafts (SST). Not many options indeed; The oldest one, a really pretty plane, the Tupolev-144 is currently not available in Flightgear, although some attempts to create it had been made.
See the Tu-144 forum topic
The first SST plane ever
The Other SST plane is the Aerospatiele BAC Concorde. Not only modelled in Flightgear, but also one of the better modelled planes within flightgear. Download the plane here. Read a very complex and comprehensive manual here.
The concorde
GUYS!! STUDY and PRACTICE will be key here. This plane is hard to handle and you may struggle if try to master it on the go.
Pilots willing to accompany us but not competing may come in Any plane capable of keeping up with the pace. We will be (trying to) fly-ing at Ma2.0
Registration
Pilots that register using my easy to fill up form help me a lot to organize the events. I will provide a particular parking gate to registered players by email at least 24 hrs before event begins. Other players will be welcome by just showing up to the event on time with the competing aircraft. I will anounce which parking gates are occupied by competing players soon.
Communications
We will attempt to communicate via mumble this time. Friendly, easy to handle and install, and for those like me that love this: "open source".
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server: mumble-de.cleanvoice.ru
Port: 63453
Room: Flight Room
Feel free to try it out. Flying with voice communication is quite easier than texting. For those unwilling/unable, we will remain answering on FGText while the speed of this fly allow.
Control center and scoring
This time we will need to depart with some time distance, in a rather controlled manner. Side will manage controlling as Tower (ATC) in both KJAN and KSEA, and additional "on the way" post that will remain unannounced. The ATC will not be fully realistic. Delivery not necessary. Just expect authorization to taxi to RWY or terminal, taxiways, take off and landing clearances. Expect Side to control pilots to depart with a minimum separation of 5-10 minutes among each other.
As a control center he probably will remain as observer, thou he could help in case navigation becomes way too hazardous. Remember you maintain navigation on your own!
He will assign an score for the following items to all competitors
1) Take off (additional 0 - 50)
2) Aircraft handling up to cruising conditions (height + speed) (additional 0-50)
3) Accuracy in navigating through the waypoints (additional 0-70; 0-10 per each secret point)
4) Landing (additional 0-50)
Pilots will still have the following base-points: 50 points take off; 50 points land; and 100 points en route (2 hrs), for a total of 200 base points for all pilots able to complete the route.
IMPORTANT NOTE
To assist in the scoring, I request all participants to log in mpserver12.
Recommendation
Guys!, Keep in mind that 2 accidents (one Tu-144 and one Concorde, both in Paris, France) were enough to completely cancel the SST programs. Fly with caution!
STAR and SID
SID, Jackson4.MEM: KJAN, Jackson-Evers Intl.
STAR, Ephrata6.ODESS: KSEA, Seattle-Tacoma Intl.
Airport Diagrams
KJAN: Jackson-Evers Intl.
KSEA: Seattle-Tacoma Intl.
Parking Gates
KJAN
It provides 5 gates on West Terminal (West1-5) and 4 gates on East Terminal (East 1-4).
KSEA: Seattle-Tacoma Intl.
To install these groundnet files, simply download and copy in the folders appropriate to your system and installation. You will need to identify and ubicate your $ROOT folder and your $TERRASYNC folder (if using terrasync) respectively. After installing, parking positions will be available thru FGRUN, FGX, and/or command line launcher 'fgfs'.
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copy the files in (i.e):
$FGROOT/Scenery/Airports/K/J/A/KJAN.groundnet.xml AND
$TERRASYNC/Airports/K/J/A/KJAN.groundnet.xml
