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WILD Division PP Event - progress
EHM-0654 Murray:
Just finished flying the second leg now, and I have a few proper screenshots:
DetailsPre-flight, on the apron. The only benefit of offline flying; I don't get into trouble because X-Plane starts me on the active.
DetailsDowntown Alburquerque (the obligatory shot of it, yes...)
DetailsWould you believe that there is both a state road and a pretty major river that I'm following down there? Just before the Rio Chama turn-off. Thank goodness for Plan-G.
DetailsOn the ground and secured at Four Corners. I'm on the taxiway parallel to rwy 23, and that's about as good as my default scenery is choosing to be.
Here's a question for our X-Plane expert: I'm happily flying along, at cruise, when all of a sudden a small "tire blown!" pop-up appears on screen. Given I thought I had everything on "no failures", I hit the reset to fix button and it went away. Where did I go wrong?
EHM-1997 Alexander:
Probably mean time to failures, unless you got a birdstrike?
The failure system has two layers, individual setting for each system as well as the mean time to failures on the front page.
Set the number insanely high or untick "use mean time between failures random failures" this setting works in addition to each individual setting.
These are in aircraft->Equipment failures
I personally leave this setting ticked with 10,000 hours mean time. I get an occasional then.
You can also remap reset all to operational as a joystick button for insta-repair ;)
EHM-2155 Mariano:
Leg 2 !
E98 to KFMN
As with Leg 1, Trevor suggested we met up at around 1800z in IVAO at the departure airport, so I started my flight planning earlier, took a shower to freshen myself up and got everything set and ready to go when... I get a PM from Trevor saying his virtual self was stuck somewhere else for 24 hours in travel mode :D
So it looked like the leg had to be postponed for Saturday, but along came a wizard called Murray, who teleported Trevor to E98, so at about 1900z we were starting our engines up and ready to go.
This time I took the lead and suggested we took a more scenic route instead of going from VOR to VOR, and off we went from runway 36
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As we climbed and turned north-east I realized I was gonna fly over KABQ airspace so had to go around it, while Trevor climbed some miles behind. Skies were calm and open, visibility was good, seemed like a good day for flying.
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Onwards, over Albuquerque and around a couple of mountains nearby, we dropped down a little to do some bush flying as we should. The GPWS was going crazy and I was going to turn it off, though I thought I might need it later and I knew I'd forget to turn it back on. The same way I forgot to turn my transponder on up until this point of the flight. :-X
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Continued north flying close to the mountains, through the valleys, indulging in a bit of formation flying cos it's always good fun.
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When Trevor reported an engine fire. While troubleshooting his problem he fell back a bit, but after all it turned out to be an unintended press of the I key which turns on the "Smoke system"... in this plane, a huge trail of smoke behind it, which is enough to scare the hell out of any pilot.
Back to normal flying conditions he quickly caught up.
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Onwards with our flight it was time to turn west through the mountains, over Abiquiu Reservoir, I decided to go down for a look and because of the weird visibility with the plane's panel, almost a splash.
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As you can see there were a considerable amount of clouds ahead, which brought some light drizzle and a bit of turbulence along, so we canceled our visit to El Vado reservoir and headed west directly to the airfield. I veered a little too much to the west (when should have been going west-northwest) because for the life of me I couldn't find the VOR gauge in the panel. Thank goodness for GPS.
Started my descent some 10 miles out, after all wasn't flying that high, but it was a struggle all the way down with the pitch trim and the flaps. It seems that when flaps are deployed and you advance the throttle slightly, the aircraft pitches down violently and this almost made me eat trees a couple of times.
Right over the runway it refused to come down so I bounced over the tarmac like a skipped rock on a lake. It was one scary landing I thought my plane would not walk out of, I guess it has really strong struts.
I need more practice with this one and I'll be sure to get some before the next leg, but in truth I think there's something slightly off with it's flight dynamics somewhere.
Trevor came down after me, waved me hello while I taxied and he landed.
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Parked our planes near the petrol pumps ;D and that was the end of another fun flight. Franz came online at about this time and started his flight... I think he wanted to fly with us but there was a bit of miss communication on the times there...
For leg 3 we should arrange a time and day with some 2 days of notice or so. The more the merrier :D
EHM-0654 Murray:
I know I've just finished offline, but having gotten X-IVAP running I'm going to fly the leg again (now-ish, just as a flight, not as a PP leg) so if anyone wants to get into the air close behind, I'll fly slow for a bit.
EHM-1997 Alexander:
I know it doesn't help with E98 as that default in x-plane 9 has no ramp, but:
Settings -> Operations and Warnings
tick "start each flight on ramp"
Also when selecting the airport you can click on the runway or ramp location of your choice.
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