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The most stupid thing to do during an EHM event

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EHM-0471 Peter:
Christian.

Please, register me for the initial Fly-inn. I hope I'll have a time to join the company. I adore this DC 8, but the old boy is full of flying surprises and tricks. See you all!

Peter

EHM-1001 Robert:
The event page is LIVE ! You can start planning the flights ;)


By this small chart you can imagine how much freetime will you have along the Event, and you can desire what days can you fly each legs.

So far we have 7 plane registrations for the Event. There will be enough spares for this one, for those too who might fancy to join after the launch day ;) Registration will be held until the end of 1st week.

And another news: The FSX version of the DC-8 was put up too to the Fleet page. It was tested under FSX SP1.

EHM-1821 Javier:
I've got exams coming up at late april/early may, but i'll still join!! ;D

EHM-1703 Philip:
That's good to hear Javier, as you can see from the event page, the legs are not huge, this is not like the F1 event of last year and some of the short legs are, well, short! LOL

I don't think this will be a taxing event from the time aspect but more from the flying aspect. The DC8 really does not fly anything like a 737 or A320 and the INS needs some working out! It should be  great event with everyone getting the chance to finish it whilst learning some new skills on an old bird!

EHM-2097 Andrei:
I did "my" practice flight yesterday (planned EHAM-LROP but after I was happy with the results I got with the INS, I shortened it and landed at LKPR).

The INS navigation really makes it all very different from anything I knew. The accuracy degradation makes a huge difference from the FS-GPS that is by definition 100% accurate for ever.

INS commands are not very intuitive, especially the DME update part, but by checking ALL documents from the developers site I eventually learned how to do it.

The autopilot is a little weird too, especially as I did this first flight before reading the tutorial in the EHM event page (shame on me :) ), but common sense and experimentation helped sort it out quickly.

One last thing that surprised me was that this bird seems very difficult to get down. Even when leveling after descent, with the throttles close to idle, the speed was very slow to decrease.

But now that I am aware of these particularities of the aircraft, I can hardly wait for the next Sunday!

Andrei

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