Leg 2: KUVN - KBKL

[EHM-1500 Jim]

Atleast this time i flew the right plane!!
Hope you like the shots, getting a bit better at handling the old girl now.

Lined up at KUVN:



Climbing out:



Turning to the west:



Weather closing in a bit:





Beginning descent, houses to the left, coast to the right:




Final approach with a stiff sea breeze:







Touch down:



Parked and what a great view:



All comments gladly accepted. Cheers guys, Jim

[EHM-1365 Benjamin]

Great pictures, Jim.

Looks like an interesting landing there with that wind

[EHM-1199 Philip]

Is it just me or is that airport deceptively similar in grography to Chicago Meigs - the old default airport of MSFS?

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Very nice pics Jim ! What a terrible weather at Cleveland for a VFR flight

Well, Burke Lakefront is similar to Meigs Field. It is built on a small peninsula on the lakeside. It is used as a CART Racing track. I think Jim landed on the start/finish line...the pitlane is the long taxiway to the right

Nice flight, nice photos ! Good luck, for the Chicago ride

[EHM-1798 Conrad]

Well, i just landed there for the second leg, this was the weather i had on IVAO

[EHM-1343 Jonathan]

hehe...maniacs i tell you maniacs....
Nice approach Jim, well held. Is it me or does the DC3 just never really stop;D
Weather looked nasty for VFR, you should have heard Conrad on MSN, he was nearlly having a heart attack, at least we're all down safely

[EHM-1671 Ben]

Wow, I'm thankful if I can stop the DC3 before the end of the runway, how do you land in such horrible weather?

[EHM-1798 Conrad]

um, having good eyes and watching the FSnavigator map constantly lol, or to be very professional, charts, vors etc etc

But yes i was kind of having a heart attack as its such an old plane lol

[EHM-1001 Robert]

There was a nice idea of dynamics tuning, on the main discussion forum of this event. You can strengthen the brakes and surely will be able to stop ! Also try to touch the ground at 80...90 kts max, with full flaps.

[EHM-1671 Ben]

Thanks for the advice, certainly will try it sometime! Although my FLogger STILL isn't working, so it looks like I won't be flying the event. Sorry guys!!

[EHM-1417 Tamas]

Quest over Allegheny mountains. First flight all engine faulire, and neverendig cycle restart experimental. EHM logger shot down, and crashed into the mountain. Few hours latter final complecte flight, and not problems.

Why not see EHM-DC3? Why Adria A320?



Thunderstorm end.



Bellefonte morgen.



Sillence life.



Lights and shadow.  Snow and green vegetations.



Clearfield (KFIG), Susquehanna River



Philisburg farmland.



Good morgen America! :-))



Who found pilots?



VFR minimum, heawy rain.



B&M Raiilway Junction near Dubois.



Allegheny.



Captain lock see you eyes 11 o'clock, and safety landing please.



Turning final.



Dear passengers, welcome on Cleveland.



Finaly full stop. :-)

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Well its my turn to have fun! I've had a lot of problems with my PC, it's been warmer here today and it has been overheating so it looks like I will be getting that new Graphics card sooner rather than later! Anyway, I digress, I'm on the leg now and wow, do I have some penalties. Max V Speed, and Overspeed! Hit some Towering Cumolonimbus clouds outside of Cleveland and the turbulance sent me in to a dive! anyway, I'm currently skimming along at 2500ft which is only about 800ft AGL at the moment! I'm shooting video on this leg, so expect a little movie in a day or two!

EDIT*** Click on the picture for the Low Res video, it's a WMV Stream of about 15mb. (Sorry if it's slow!)

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Phil... two words for you (and a paragraph thereafter): air duster

Give your machine a good clear out of dust with an air duster. And a great trick - have a vacuum cleaner running closeby to catch all the dust. *DO NOT*, under *ANY* circumstances, put the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner anywhere near the inside of the PC though. They [vacuum cleaners] generate pretty major negative  (positive? I can never remember which) charges while running and can easily blow motherboard conmponents. But leaving the open, running nozzle nearby while air dusting the filth toward the nozzle saves later work...

I have a "every 5 secs" FS video of this leg myself (flown yesterday morning)... I'll go through it today sometime and pull a few shots out. Other than a strong cross wind at landing, and a 20kt headwind the whole way, the weather was great for me (current Active Sky user, using the AS hi-res datafeed rather than the VATSIM feed...)

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Thanks Murray but unfortunately the problem is not dust. (my machine is cleaned weekly) It's an early version of a good graphics card (Saphire ATI X800XL) and they used poor quality, inefficient fans. I can try to replace the fan but as the manufaturers fan is "GLUED" on it is very rare that you can remove it without damage. (I've been reading forum posts about this card for months now!) I guess that will be my first step but have to resign myself to the fact that I will be replacing it sooner than I had hoped. I was hoping I could replace it at the end of the year when the new DX10 cards come out, oh well!

[EHM-0654 Murray]

OK, have you considered additional localised cooling?

http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/casefanaccessories/br123ff1

with a big 120mm slow spinning fan:

http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/casefans/fan-120

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Thanks for the links Murray. I have something similar. Currrently my PC has a total of 12 fans: 2 PSU, 1 CPU, 1 Northbridge, 1 Southbridge & 1 GPU. Then there is a total of 6 case fans for improving airflow. (Coolermaster Cases are great for that but its sounds like a CFM56 when you start it up) One of these case fans is directly above the Graphics card with a copper air duct to remove warm air from the PCI-E expansion slot area. I think the actual problem lies in the compound used on the original GPU fan. It apparently goes off over time and becomes less efficient thus there is nothing actually cooling the GPU as the chip is encased in a steel box used for mounting the fan..... I'll have a go at replacing the fan next weekend when I have some time and Overclockers UK are open so I can run in and buy a new Graphics card if it all goes pear shaped!!!!