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What will the next Event be?
EHM-1358 Tim:
I'm thinking a hop list of 3 or 4 routes in a certain country, using the VFA, all flights VFR and we have some A/G towers set up!
EHM-0654 Murray:
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The island one sounds like it has potential but it would be even better in a plane kitted out with floats ... yeah I think sea-plane fun would be cool.
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Digging up an "old" topic (there have been a lot of additions since this morning), but the MAAM DC-3 has a float model :P
(They apparently flew like utter dogs because they were under-powered for the size of float required... Needed a really big length of utterly flat water for take-off...)
EHM-1343 Jonathan:
Red Bull Air Race! ;D
hehe that would be good fun, but hard to monitor....
As I love flying through and above the mountains, the mountain range idea would be brilliant, and I am putting my vote to it!
AS for Aircraft, havent had a chance to fly to DC3 yet, but it looks rather special, however I prefer the modern birds, and maybe the Do328 would be more suited to the longer tours...even though we took a DC3 over America lol!
EHM-1199 Philip:
Thanks for the vote of support guys ... if folks are interested I'd cheerfully put a bit more flesh on the bone (I do have a source of inspiration for this and consequently have a fairly clear idea of the route ...I would just need to test fly and identify the very best of mountain airports.)
Razza, I think for a mountainous flight the DC3 would be just too much hard work especially when you consider the distances involved. If I was flying this I would want a balance between a plane that let me see the sights and a plane that actually got me there in a reasonable time. I would also be looking at a plane capable of some shortfield approaches and departures to ensure we could get in and out of some interesting airports ... (I guess Courcheval would be a must :) ) I think therefore we would be looking probably at Class 1 or 2 or their equivalents in order to make this an accessible and fun event. (VFA would be just too slow for these distances despite being ideally suited and once you go above Class 2, indeed I think even at Class 2, the planes would just be zipping through the high altitudes at great speed and missing the beauty and majesty of our mountainous continent.)
But clearly, all this talk is seriously jumping the gun ... MT need to do some talking and come to some decisions about where, when and how. All I would say is that if folks do land down on the side of a European Mountain Event then I would be happy to put some time to adding detail or being involved in the team who do so :)
EHM-E4S:
How about a route over the mountains, Start in China, go down to Nepal, then over Tibet to Bhutan, then to Vietnam, and then to Thailand, and optional, Singapore, Indonesia or Phillipines, or we could just end in Thailand.
The reason I say this is because China has amazing Scenery, Nepal's Tribbhuvan has amazing scenery around it, Tibet and Bhutan and Vietnam have the highest mountain ranges in the world, and then to get some sea air and some Islands, one of the three selections. I've drawn a route on the picture below.
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