Author Topic: WILD Division PP Event - progress (Read 38245 times)

EHM-0654 Murray · « **on:** October 16, 2010, 10:22:33 am »

Not sure I believe it, as otherwise the sky is as clear as anything, but X-Plane's real world weather thinks that it's chucking it down (heavy rain) in KELP right now.

UPDATE: Rain cleared just before Rincon, but was all the way from ground to 10,500ft (my cruise)! Funnily enough, ASE says it's not raining anywhere near El Paso.

PIREP: First leg all done. As easy as when I did a practice run last weekend (easier in fact, at least I had AP control this time). X-Plane pilots are warned to watch out for balloons operating near E98, and deer running across the strip when you land

UPDATE: Meant to post this on Saturday, and in much higher res, but I've had no end of problems uploading to the Gallery. I'll update to a higher res version once I get home tonight.

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Here's a photo I took while flying the first leg of the WILD Division PP Event to let everyone see (most of) my current simpit. Going left to right: my HP laptop running Plan-G, my 22" Samsung showing X-Plane (transparent cockpit so I can see the ground somewhat, can't find how to raise the seat like you can in FS), and finally (one of) my 19" LG's which is running FLv4 (the version prior to the one you lucky people all now have access to). Now vertically down from my 22", my GoFlight panels (various controls mapped), my FDS MCP (so I can control the AP), and my yoke, with me all out of focus

What's not visible from this shot, off to my right is my GoFlight throttle, my second 19" LG (the pair of them comprise my PFD when flying heavy iron, I was running Chrome on it when the shot was taken) and my FDS CDU (which was off entirely, as it was not needed

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EHM-1465 Dominic · « **Reply #1 on:** October 16, 2010, 11:12:44 pm »

Nice to see that several pilots have already started the Event successfully

Make sure to share updates and photos here as you go along

EHM-1997 Alexander · « **Reply #2 on:** October 16, 2010, 11:39:28 pm »

Was playing Star Wolves 3 all day - man I got sucked into that!

Out with the g/f tomorrow - how long does leg1 take?

EHM-2625 Jason · « **Reply #3 on:** October 17, 2010, 07:12:47 am »

Quote from: EHM-1997 Alexander on October 16, 2010, 11:39:28 pm

Out with the g/f tomorrow - how long does leg1 take?

Took me about 83 minutes, but that was flying low following the valleys

Bring on leg 2

EHM-2463 Jonathan · « **Reply #4 on:** October 17, 2010, 08:28:51 am »

Hi

Just noticed something strange, I completed the first leg yesterday and landed successfully with no penalties but I am now showing a 50 point penalty in the pro pilot summary page but not on My Flights history. Any ideas ?

EHM-0654 Murray · « **Reply #5 on:** October 17, 2010, 09:47:47 am »

Using FL4 Jonathan? That's not a penalty, that's a bonus, just the website doesn't understand that (and it'd be a tough to make it know the difference).

Since those of you that weren't part of the private beta won't know this yet: in FLv4 (as it exists in the public beta), when you complete a PP flight sucessfully, you score 50 points (added directly to your FAC). If you crash (and only if you crash) you get 0 points added to your FAC.

EHM-2463 Jonathan · « **Reply #6 on:** October 17, 2010, 02:21:17 pm »

Hi Murray,

Nope, I was using the old flogger, but any bonus is gratefully received!

EHM-0654 Murray · « **Reply #7 on:** October 17, 2010, 03:27:00 pm »

Quote from: EHM-2463 Jonathan on October 17, 2010, 02:21:17 pm

Hi Murray,

Nope, I was using the old flogger, but any bonus is gratefully received!

How bizarre... Best I can remember (I was in there not that long ago) there are no penalties that "cost" 50... I'll just go and check again. It's impossible that old FLogger is getting the new FLogger complete PP flight bonus.

EHM-1442 Luis · « **Reply #8 on:** October 17, 2010, 05:04:35 pm »

Hi

Some shots from Leg01

Departing from El Paso

Near Truth or Consequences, nice name for a Town, and next town is Socorro ( that means Help)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico

On destination airfield

Cheers

EHM-1465 Dominic · « **Reply #9 on:** October 18, 2010, 03:43:28 am »

Nice pictures Luis, particularly the second one - the scenery looks very realistic and shows off our new plane brilliantly. I'll post some of my own as soon as I've flown the first leg

EHM-0654 Murray · « **Reply #10 on:** October 18, 2010, 12:08:34 pm »

(*BUMP* finally managed to upload the photo I took on the first leg, don't ask...)

Very nice pictures Luis. Is that default or add-on scenery there? I hope to have some screen shots of my own once I get a little more settled in X-Plane.

EHM-2585 Dan · « **Reply #11 on:** October 18, 2010, 04:08:33 pm »

Here is a photo of my aircraft on the first leg...

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #12 on:** October 19, 2010, 12:09:00 am »

Here's a small impression of my first leg

Take off rwy 26L KELP

Mid Valley in sight!

On blocks:

As you can see, most of the paint is already slapped on in more or less the right place. It's those last 20% that make the work, eh?
Well, at least I now know which parts of the paintkit to paint hehehe...

EHM-1465 Dominic · « **Reply #13 on:** October 19, 2010, 01:03:00 am »

Lovely shots there E-J and I can see that Aerosoft Twotter paintjob is coming along really well

Here's a couple of my own FS9 pictures for the first leg:-

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Turning onto the first leg after take-off

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Lining up on approach

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Time to fill in the paperwork!

EHM-2155 Mariano · « **Reply #14 on:** October 19, 2010, 07:26:44 am »

Great shots all around!

Yesterday afternoon, Trevor (EHM-1829) and I (EHM-2155) met up in KELP on IVAO, and got it under way to fly our first flight together.

It got off to a rough start since I didn't remember much about flying online, luckily everything got sorted out in time to find out one of my engines would not start up. That set us back 10 minutes as I looked for the cause, which I didn't find, so I reloaded the plane and it worked. Both engines running we taxied and took off.
As I have nearly no experience flying VFR, I suggested we flew to the TCS and then ONM VORs, ran smoothly, seen some good sights although most of it being a desert.
Nearing landing, Trevor went in first while I held at about 20 miles away, above WUBBY, as his first attempt was thwarted by some throttle control problems. On his second run he reported having to cut off the engines totally to get the Otter to come down

Soon after I turned in to the airfield and with a semi foggy visual on it, went in over the trees almost hitting several of them on my way. I came down like a meteor and didn't know when I had touched down because the plane sits so high up and the runway is so thin, it's tricky. I am fairly sure my front wheel touched down before the other two. I need some practice

After landing, the worst part of the flight was the fact Trevor's FLogger said it didn't get enough information to submit the flight. This might have been caused by him shutting his engines down mid flight? Rotten luck there as he will have to fly the leg again.

All in all it was a really fun experience.
The next leg is friday and if anyone else wants to join us in IVAO, they're very welcome.

Also, it was a good first experience with the new Flight Logger... worked perfectly.

Here are the photos:

Sitting on the tarmac doing our pre-flight checks, and taxi:

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Trying to do some formation flying, I got a bit throttle happy and left Trevor behind for a while.

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But eventually he caught up

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Trevor starts his descent towards E98.

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Finally sitting on the tarmac

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Here's the flight map:

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EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #15 on:** October 19, 2010, 08:14:12 am »

I left about an hour later than you two. Saw you online, but you were 144nm away from KELP already, so I was not going to catch up!
Great shots, and a nice repetitive holding pattern for someone who claims to be a bit rusty when it comes to flying

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #16 on:** October 19, 2010, 01:06:55 pm »

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The next leg is friday and if anyone else wants to join us in IVAO, they're very welcome

Maybe me a what UTC time? if I could. By the way very nice shots

EHM-1829 Trevor · « **Reply #17 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:30:20 pm »

   Hi folks
   I am planning to fly leg 2 tomorrow (Friday) about 19:00z; (IVAO)
   Hope to see you there.

Cheers
T

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #18 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:42:32 pm »

I'll be at E98 around 19:00 GMT

EHM-1997 Alexander · « **Reply #19 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:52:05 pm »

Just landed in KFMN.

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #20 on:** October 21, 2010, 08:19:35 pm »

On my way there now...
Maybe next week?

EHM-2625 Jason · « **Reply #21 on:** October 21, 2010, 09:53:45 pm »

Landed safely at KFMN, pictures in my album http://www.fly-euroharmony.com/forum/index.php?action=media;sa=album;in=23

EDIT

Forgot to mention - FS2004 with FS Global 2010 terrain mesh

Moderator: Just for comparison with Jonathan below:

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EHM-2463 Jonathan · « **Reply #22 on:** October 22, 2010, 07:36:27 am »

On my way, second leg.

Over Albuquerque

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EHM-0654 Murray · « **Reply #23 on:** October 22, 2010, 06:27:35 pm »

That'd be something for Andrei to get involved in to fix Trevor, but as a workaround I've removed your travelling mode status in the DB, so you should be good to continue as normal.

EHM-1829 Trevor · « **Reply #24 on:** October 22, 2010, 06:41:57 pm »

Thanks Murray, much appreciated

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