SITREP - 2006-04-26

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Registration almost ended. It means we added the following airplanes to the ProPilot fleet:

PH-UKF - EHM-0361 Karsten Frederiksen
PH-UDK - EHM-0502 Desmond Klein
PH-UMC - EHM-0654 Murray Crane
PH-URS - EHM-1001 Robert Szikszo
PH-UPR - EHM-1199 Philip Rolt
PH-UTY - EHM-1358 Timothy Berry
PH-UTB - EHM-1417 Tamas Biro
PH-ULN - EHM-1442 Luis Nunes
PH-UJH - EHM-1500 Jim Hoyle
PH-UCB - EHM-1651 Christian Bakke
PH-UPN - EHM-1703 Philip Nutt
PH-UCO - EHM-1798 Conrad Oldcorn
PH-UJG - EHM-1821 Javier Goh
PH-UTT - EHM-xxxx Thomas Thake
PH-UEA - yet empty
PH-UEB - yet empty
PH-UEC - yet empty
PH-UED - yet empty
PH-UEF - yet empty
PH-UEG - yet empty

You can see, tail-IDs are following your monograms. Please do not "steal" others airplane if possible, not only on the start, but during the whole event. There are 6 more spots for last minute-ers, or replacement for very early crashes

The MAAM repaint is available to download. Check the Fleet page

[EHM-1442 Luis]

To practise,  i did some EHM World Tour leg's with the DC3....

And i did 2 modifications on the aircraft.cfg, that i want to share with you.

1- [brakes] toe_brakes_scale = 0.7  //Brake scalar ... I changed it from 0.3 to 0.7. Because with 0.3 the brakes were weak.

2- [autopilot] default_vertical_speed=500.000000.....I changed it from 700.......to 500....And now when descending on AP, the default os 0.5 fpm

http://www.fly-euroharmony.com/site/manu/ssLibrary/ssDepot/000759_hr.jpg

A lot of DC3 iformation here :

http://www.dc3airways.com/entry.html

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Thanks Luis, it is superb info. Although the DC-3 needs only 5000' for a nice landing run with the default brakes. I am sure all the runways along the route are equal or longer.

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Airplanes appeared on the ProPilot system, you can start lock your flights

Again, please do not lock your fellow pilot's "private" tail-coded airplane. Thank you. Good luck for the event ! See ya at JFK on the opening on-line flight.

[EHM-1671 Ben]

PH-UKF - EHM-0361 Karsten Frederiksen
PH-UDK - EHM-0502 Desmond Klein
PH-UMC - EHM-0654 Murray Crane
PH-URS - EHM-1001 Robert Szikszo
PH-UPR - EHM-1199 Philip Rolt
PH-UTY - EHM-1358 Timothy Berry
PH-UTB - EHM-1417 Tamas Biro
PH-ULN - EHM-1442 Luis Nunes
PH-UJH - EHM-1500 Jim Hoyle
PH-UCB - EHM-1651 Christian Bakke
PH-UPN - EHM-1703 Philip Nutt
PH-UCO - EHM-1798 Conrad Oldcorn
PH-UJG - EHM-1821 Javier Goh
PH-UTT - EHM-xxxx Thomas Thake
PH-UEA - yet empty
PH-UEB - yet empty
PH-UEC - yet empty
PH-UED - yet empty
PH-UEF - yet empty
PH-UEG - yet empty
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PH-UEA - EHM-1671 Ben Contreras

(Somehow after saying three times I'm flying I'm still not registered!!!)

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Sorry Ben,

but some days ago you had a Virtual Pilot Association signature image with name: Thomas Thake on it. That was the reason I could not find you on the database, although I asked several times your pilot-ID...sorry for calling you Thomas anyway.

Afterall, your plane will be the UTT if you do not mind, or choose another from the end of the list.

[EHM-1821 Javier]

will the plane be locked throught the 3 day period until u fly it.cos if i start on 10/4 and i lock directly after that,24hrs means until 12/4 but the 2nd leg starts on 13th.

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Well, not really. You can lock the plane for the next leg only on the first date of that leg. So in the example, on 13th, then on 16th, etc... That is why I wrote, that please respect each-others airplane.

And of course : if you crash your airplane during the event, PLEASE do not continue locking with somebody else's airplane !

Some mistake was found in the MAAM texture installer. The included BAT file is not perfect!!! After you run it, it will not change the CFG file. You will find it inside the texture.ehm folder, and you should manually move that to the root directory of the MAAM DC-3 and replace the old one. I will correct it in the installer as soon I get home. Thanks !

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

... also, don't forget to see if you have the MTL library for a standard DC-3

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Hi Bruno, By Standard do you mean the Air France MTL mandatory model? I can't see a "Default" plane in the MTL, they are all airline specific.

My MTL Library has:
Air France, Austrian, Avianca, Continental, Cathay, Aero Campeche, Swiss, Delta, Finnair, Iberia, LAN, Northwest, Olympic, Qantas, Sabena, Saudi, Aerotamatan, Tropic Air, TAP, Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense & Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo.

I will probably fly the Delta Livery as it is the oldest US airline there and I guess we want to keep the theme.

Cheers,

[EHM-1671 Ben]

Oh, sorry about that Robert!!! Haha, a bit of misunderstanding there. My VPA account was deleted because I did not make a flight with them, so someone else got the signature. Sorry about the misunderstanding!!!

And yes, -UTT is fine

[EHM-1001 Robert]

I did the flight in Continental livery, as in real world we used to work a lot for the Continental company...although not the airline, but the tyre company...err, TEVES division (ABS sensor manufacturing). A little bit of advertisement

So, the MAAM payware istaller is now fixed. I did the flight on the default DC-3 and I was struggling on the 1st half of the way If I have not used FSNAV for checking waypoints, I would probably had been lost...

[EHM-1199 Philip]

Oops ... didn't check these pages yesterday and realised I have inadvertently locked your plane Jim ... can we swap tail numbers for the duration of this event?

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Hehe,

I think no problem if you remember it

Anyway, I updated the downloadable flightplans, and added the FSNAV flighplans too for each leg. Although I did not add any new info into the attached TXT. Use them as you wish

[EHM-1821 Javier]

does anyone know if i speed up, will the effect of the turbulence be less?(not wake turbulence)

and is the sudden wind that blows you down called wind shear?

i am confused about the two of them:%

[EHM-0654 Murray]

If it's cumulus cloud induced turbulence (ActiveSky user Javier?) you can attempt to descend under it or climb over it (climbing is the more "difficult" option because cumulus cloud is associated with updrafting), assuming there is sufficient "room" above/below the cloud cover. As they say in the real-world, cumuloform clouds are a pilots worst enemy, since they are usually associated with large air movement, and in all three dimensions.

And as for shear, the term can be applied to any sudden wind not from the general wind direction. Many US fields suffer from shear as a result of local building effects... The terms that are specific to vertical wind movements are up and down drafts

[EHM-1001 Robert]

I think it happens only in an F-16 fighter, and in movies, like Iron Eagle, that the plane will be more stable at higher speed...but surely will not happen on a DC-3

[EHM-1821 Javier]

Originally posted by Murray Crane (ActiveSky user Javier?) ...

no.i am not using active sky.i still cannot find any add'ons or anything:%

[EHM-1500 Jim]

Oh BALLS!!! Sorry guys, like Phil i didn't read the above page before locking my first leg and have just realised i flew Tim's plane!! Sorry Tim, i did take good care of her. I have now locked my own craft for the second leg, sorry for mistake guys and happy flying.

[EHM-1199 Philip]

Ditto Jim ... my own plane is now locked ready for leg 2. (BTW ... I also took good care of the first plane despite a foray into slightly wild moves through experimenting with the autopilot.)

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Thanks to Tamas Biro, some eye-candy was added to the flightplan page of the event. Check it out, it is a map, that hopefully will help in VFR navigation...if you like it, each leg will get the same style map later

[EHM-1199 Philip]

That's a really fantastic piece of work! I for one have printed it out and will try to follow this plan as my route (although I think I'll pop the destination in the GPS just in case I get lost, a reflection on me not the map).

Thanks for sharing this Tamas and thanks for signposting it Robert

[EHM-1703 Philip]

I Agree, Fabulous, superb job Tamas.

[EHM-0502 Desmond]

My "personlised" tour plane has been stolen from KUNV.  I went to lock my flight for leg 2 to find my plane PH-UDK was missing. It seems that pilot 1628 Jarle Bronstad decide to use it. Can it please be returned so I can continue the tour!

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Des,

Steal Jarle's plane, thrash it about, do some "donuts", race it round the ring road all night...

Folks, everyone got their own, specially tail ID'ed plane for this event for a reason; to try to prevent this sort of thing happening.

[strike]Des, in all honesty, if Jarle's plane is still at KUNV, best thing you can do is take it to KBKL so that the two of you can "swap back" for leg 3.[/strike] Forget that, just took a look at the DFT and it appears Jarle doesn't have a personalised plane. He must have flown one of the "spares" to KUNV (or not, and has just "taken" a plane mid-tour...)

Des, looks like you'll need to fly a spare, and there are no "unclaimed" spares at KUNV. Robert, can we get the remaining spares at KJFK "airlifted" to KUNV? (Or even, and this doesn't really need to be discussed here, but couldn't the spares follow behind automatically, "flying" to each new DEP airport once the one they are at closes to the tour?)

Once there, we can all have words with Jarle...