Author Topic: A new tour in preparation (Read 17116 times)

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **on:** May 13, 2012, 11:24:59 am »

Hi all,

We are about to release a new tour; preparations are on "short finals" now, so it's still a surprise for a (short) while.

Instead of bluntly announcing the location and details, I will allow myself to "leak" some clues to see who can guess what this is all about - and where.

Clue #1 is:

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The second time, you do it twice.

Andrei

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2012, 09:03:12 pm »

Difficult one Andrei $:-\$ to tell you the truth is like an scrambled home or something like that

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2012, 09:09:20 pm »

Oeff!
Does that mean I have to do the first time first, Andrei?

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2012, 06:06:12 am »

Indeed, the plot is not obvious... yet. If anyone had guessed the tour by my first clue, I would have checked my house for bugs already.

So here is clue #2:

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2581

@Eric-Jan: as a general rule, one doesn't need to, but YOU may WANT to

Andrei

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2012, 07:44:01 am »

EHM-2581 Dirk, do you have the answer... maybe

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2012, 10:56:58 am »

Has it got to do with South-African insects, perhaps?

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2012, 03:10:32 pm »

I can boldly state the tour has nothing with South-African insects!

However I cannot that easily dismiss David's suggestion, it's a strange coincidence indeed... or is it?

Andrei

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #7 on:** May 15, 2012, 03:42:48 pm »

Maybe is something that I really like to fly and I missed twice: the US Airmail Pioneers Event, cause I'm an "old newbie"... nevertheless, as you wrote Andrei, Second clue: 2581 or 2586, could be NM and if it is, this is the distance between KJFK-KSFO. So I guess US Airmail Pioneers third version, but in a tour. Actually, I've a little question, just arrived @ KSFO, is possible to fly one of the lovely DC-3 (PP-A41; PP-A43; PP-A48; PP-A50; PP-A52 Douglas DC-3 Operational @ KSFO) in PP flight

. Thanks for your help.

EHM-0654 Murray · « **Reply #8 on:** May 15, 2012, 04:02:02 pm »

Hmm, if memory serves, the DC-3 (my favourite plane in the fleet, it really must be said, and X-P just got a stunning looking DC-3) is in the museum fleet, so not available for PP (or is it... Alex/Dom, care to comment?). Dear Daddy Dom, please can we run the Airmail Pioneers event one more time, please?

EHM-1465 Dominic · « **Reply #9 on:** May 15, 2012, 05:56:32 pm »

All Museum planes can be flown as if they were Main Fleet planes of the equivalent 'rank' so you can fly a DC-3 on any Class 1 route, including PP flights

And if enough people would like to fly the Airmail Pioneers Event again then of course we can do that in due course... But let's get back to the new Tour

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **Reply #10 on:** May 15, 2012, 06:41:25 pm »

Sorry to disrupt your otherwise very interesting chat about DC3s and the Airmail Event (which I also missed twice, sadly), but this is not what the new tour is about. And I prove it with clue #3:

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Athens (yes, THAT one) and Faranah (hmm.. where is that ?) share a common particularity regarding this tour

@David: ~2581 nm between KJFK and KFSO, now THAT is a coincidence.

Andrei

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #11 on:** May 15, 2012, 08:05:12 pm »

Me of course, I'm ready and really like to fly for the first time the US Airmail Pioneers Event with my DC-3 (MAAM)

Faranah... Guinee... It could be a dessert storm tour

or another Crosière noire

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #12 on:** May 15, 2012, 08:22:11 pm »

Hehehe, you are all over the place, aren't you, David ?

We'll park the Airmail thinghy for now, and incorporate it in our future plans (it's got my vote, too, because I had to stop after leg 2 already), so we'll get back to that in due time.

For now, it's got nothing to do with the suspense Andrei is hinting at. And no, it's not another 007 tour

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **Reply #13 on:** May 16, 2012, 05:42:25 am »

Faranah, Guinea is correct... but packing only summer clothes for this tour is not.

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **Reply #14 on:** May 17, 2012, 05:46:18 am »

No more guesses? Anyway, clue #4 is

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150

Andrei

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #15 on:** May 17, 2012, 08:19:49 am »

150, are you sure?
shouldn't that be 160, as that is 2 times 80?

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #16 on:** May 17, 2012, 07:30:09 pm »

or two times 75

anyway LGAV-GUFH 2886 mi

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **Reply #17 on:** May 18, 2012, 06:02:47 am »

I couldn't agree more on the fact that 2 x 75 = 150, unfortunately this doesn't get us any closer to the tour business. Maybe clue #5 will:

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Really big.

To give a "sub-clue" as well, I really expect clue #5 to ring a bell for all those who did it the first time.

Anyway, this is the final clue, and your last chance for a guess (be it an educated or a wild one), this week-end the tour will open and everything will become clear.

Andrei

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #18 on:** May 18, 2012, 12:17:41 pm »

A really big, maybe 150 legs... is another or new World tour

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **Reply #19 on:** May 18, 2012, 06:48:36 pm »

Good guess David!

~~Now if you could wait just a bit to hear the whole story...~~

The whole story already published by now, check the announcement here

Andrei

EHM-2097 Andrei · « **Reply #20 on:** May 18, 2012, 08:00:06 pm »

Now if anyone wonders about the clues:

#1 "The second time, you do it twice" - Should be pretty obvious by now, for anyone who reads the tour announcement and details

#2 "2581" - This was indeed a reference to our colleague Dirk Uys, as he had recently completed the original world tour and expressed his feelings about it in the forum. This tour has been in preparation for a long time but releasing it now means a special message for Dirk: "no, it's not over, you have to start it all over again!"

#3 "Athens and Faranah" - That was a bit tricky. Athens is the starting and ending point of the tour. Faranah is where the two laps around the world cross, which means these are the (only) two places to be visited twice.

#4 "150" - I expected this to ring a bell for all who are familiar with the world tour

#5 "Really big." - This should have rang an even louder bell. Note the final dot within the quote. The full quote is "The world is big. Really big." and it is the beginning of the tour description for the first Euroharmony world tour (a long time ago, before I joined for sure)

Andrei

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #21 on:** May 18, 2012, 08:15:39 pm »

And "all over the place" was also meant as a hint.
Of course " twice around the word" in two times 80 legs was also meant to point you in the right direction

So nice, those little games ; D

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #22 on:** May 18, 2012, 09:01:31 pm »

Finally guessed

and thanks for the big gift

However I've a little question, is possible to fly the vfr or some of the vfr fllights with the DC-3

and thanks again for the gift

EHM-1465 Dominic · « **Reply #23 on:** May 19, 2012, 12:35:17 am »

Hi David,

The choice of aircraft for the Double World Tour is yours - fly what you like as long as it is suitable for the trip distance and the runway length at each end!!!

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2012, 04:04:19 pm »

Thanks Dominic, but the only problem is that the DC-3 doesn't appear in the aircraft list

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Author Topic: A new tour in preparation (Read 17116 times)