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WILD Division PP Event - progress
EHM-1465 Dominic:
Great pictures gents and a really nice video E-J - this is what bush flying is all about ;D ;D ;D
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
The final leg...
After a couple of lock-ups of my FS, I restarted my PC entirely, and then FSX would start as normal again. So some 45 minutes late (sorry Mariano) I arrived at the apron of Thomson Falls airport, KTHM.
Mariano was already sitting there, but a touch north in the trees for me, looking from FSX. I was on the edge of the rwy in his FS9 :)
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We were "late" already, and although there were still 5 Twotters parked in KTHM, we soon decided to take off with just the two of us. No-one had locked a flight from KTHM yet, so off we went.
A bit of fog when we took off
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But soon that cleared away,
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Only to come back again ;)
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I took a wrong turn, and had to climb over some hills to re-join Mariano, northbound from lake Pend Oreille
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Turning south-west over Kootenay Lake. Mariano had by then had an FS crash, so he decided to wait for me at Castlegar. Meanwhile, Bruce (Thomas) arrived at CYCG, and David (Sifuntes) caught up with me from behind. So it was a busy ending after all :)
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Negotiating the west arm was pretty easy in this kind of weather.
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CYCG, however, lies hidden behind a mountain, and comes into view only on 2nm final when approaching from this side. So I came in a bit high, and had a difficult time descending in time. After a long flare, I managed to put her on the tarmac with some 200ft/min, so all in all not too bad. The Twotter can easily handle this.
Parked next to Mariano, with David landing in the background
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And there we are, all three of us @ Castlegar
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A big THANK YOU to the EHM staff for organising this event, and for introducing bush flying to the VA. I have enjoyed myself immensely, and can't wait for another one ;)
I would also like to thank all the fellow EHM-ers that I have had the pleasure of flying with. That makes the experience so much better!
Cheers,
Eric-Jan
EHM-2589 David:
Very nice pictures E-J and see you for the next event, hopefully very soon ;) if it's not possible to repeat the other's pp events ???
Thanks a lot EHM :D
EHM-1829 Trevor:
Due to my work times I will have to fly the last leg to-day about 11:00z-12:00z
or tomorrow,(Saturday) but that would be a tad risky being the last day.
Hope to see someone on line.
Regards
Trevor
EHM-2155 Mariano:
My computer, my FSim, IVAO and my internet connection are all conspiring against me lately. I couldn't fly the last leg cos of an internet disconnection which meant my propilot flight wouldn't record, and then my FS crashed a couple of times, even when waiting at Castlegar doing nothing.
I think there might be something wrong with my FS9, so I might look into flying the last leg only in FSX (which I don't cos of performance issues)
Anyway, congrats to everyone who already has delivered their planes to their destinations, and congrats to EHM for organizing the event. I hadn't done any of these before and it was fun, I'll look to be more active in the future.
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