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Historic Dutch East Indies Route Event - Reports
EHM-1465 Dominic:
--- Quote from: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on January 02, 2010, 08:43:45 pm ---P.S.: I did manage to merge the EHM model and texture with the DA *.air, and panel. Now my wheels look like they sink into the asphalt a bit, so I'll have to fine-tune the contact points (Bruce ;)) a bit. I'll take some exterior shots again tomorrow.
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Good news E-J - I might be tempted to get the DA Fokker myself at this rate ;)
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
You better be soon then, if you want to get her to do what you want before the Dutch East Indies Tour is over ;)
She comes with a learning curve, but man do I like that curve.
Leg 6 takes us from Gaza to Baghdad. The most politically sensitive leg of all the tour ...
DetailsStable at FL310, over Jordan somewhere.
DetailsFlying into Irak, I got one opposing traffic, passing 3000ft above
DetailsDescending into Baghdad
DetailsDespite what the charts say, a full autoland in ORBI is possible ;) A nice 130kts, -145 ft/min touchown, only a few feet from the centerline.
DetailsOn blocks at ORBI. See what I mean by "I have to tweak to contact points"? I'm just glad that did not trigger a crash, or excessive Gs penalty :)
Safe flights to everyone!
See y'all up there!
E-J
EHM-1749 Hector:
WARNING: be careful after landing in OIBB and parking. Do not use RAMP 1 for there is a fuel truck very close (FS9 default scenery) and FS will refuel to maximum causing that you end up with more fuel than when taking off. I noticed when sent the PIREP. Too late.
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
Thanks for the heads up, Hector!
I am preparing to fly this leg this weekend, so I'm glad you posted this :)
E-J
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
That fuel truck was gone when I arrived (in FSX ;)), so there was no problem for me there :)
Meanwhile, I have arrived in Konarak, without posting any reports here (busy, busy , busy ...).
I am still having some strange issues with the DA F100. Last night, while descending "on profile" during the STAR into Konarak, the AP suddenly decided that I was way too high, and put her in a nose dive. Before I had the AP overruled (still don't have it down which buttons to push / pull in such a situation), I already had acquired penalties 6, 14, and 17 (over speed below FL100, the general "overspeed" penalty, vertical speed > 4500 ft/min) :(
Now, I have already given up aspirations of getting in the PP top 10, but this still does not feel nice. I ended up flying her by hand, and landing safely, but still.
Another issue I have had pretty much every flight so far is the altimeter setting to STD when climbing through FL180. I set the main altimeter to STD, but the back-up altimeter does not change with the primary altimeter. So I also turn the dial to show 1013 mbar, but that does not do the trick. The only thing that seems to work is pressing "B" right after passing FL180. That only works after passing FL180, and needs to be done, I believe, before FL185, so that comes pretty close as far as timing is concerned. Missed that one a couple of times already. (Thanks for your PM on this, Hector ;))
I think I solved the third issue: I had flown the last two legs with the speed brake slightly deployed. Now, the speed brake has only two positions in the DA F100: on and off. So how can it be 30% deployed? And only when airborne? What I did to solve this was to load another airplane, deploy spoilers (!), retract them again, and load the F100 again. I saved that flight for the next leg, and then took off. The speed brake remained retracted as it is supposed to be. Let's see how that works when I load the saved flight again...
Well, I better get to work now ... ;)
See y'all up there!
Eric-Jan
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