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"Wings Over Holland" Groupflight
EHM-2589 David:
Ok guys after a week in the real mountains near our departure and with ATC around us... Tuesday 29 is the final decision 2000 zulu at Sion. ;)
Flight-plan simplified for IVAP: (Exit route E2 / E1 [it depends ATC] and follow Rhone and Rhine rivers until Lake Constance) See you then :)
EHM-2589 David:
Could be snow around Andermatt, but rain all the route :P http://www.meteosuisse.admin.ch/web/en/weather/detailed_forecast.html See you tonight by IVAO and Mumble. (LSGS-LSZR)
EHM-2758 Peter:
No snow, but some rain during our "Wings over...."-event of last night. A very nice tour, initiated by David, brought us to Sion Airport (LSGS) for a 1:15 hour during flight through the - still green - Swiss mountains to our destination airport St.Gallen (LSZR). With the help of Swiss_radar we took off around 20:00 H Zulutime and climbed up to 95000 ft that gave us a great view on the landscape. Apart from some engine failures of E-J's Diamond we savely arrived at our destination.
Thanks again for this beautiful flight David, and I surely hope next week to fly in a different but equally nice part of the sky!
Meet you on Mumble!
Peter
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
A great flight indeed. and some stunning pictures there, Peter :)
I took the opportunity to use this flight as a benchmark for how well the DA-20 model of Aerosoft (KatanaX) models the performance of "my" plane (Aquila A210). I made a performance planning (time / distance / altitude / fuel burn) based on the actual POH of my own airplane, which is rather similar to the DA-20. Airspeeds for the DA-20 should be 5 - 10% lower with the same power settings, so I expected to take a little longer than planned. But much to my surprise, When I started my descend after 01:17 of flight, and tried my best to stay on the planned descend rate, I seemed to exactly touch ground at LSZR. It's that I thought I had to slow down at reporting point S, to go fly 80 KIAS with flaps 1, so it eventually took me 4 minutes longer than planned. I also used up only 25 liters of fuel, where I had planned 29 liters. Maybe the DA-20 was running a bit lean? But then I would not get an engine failure from carb icing at 5000 ft (7 °C AOT), since leaning too much makes the engine run hotter... Ah, well, I don't know. What I do know is that the performance figures were actually pretty accurate, and I am happy with that. The flight characteristics are reasonably similar (a touch less responsive to control inputs), so the KatanaX is a good FSX alternative for as long as there is no sophisticated Aquila model available yet, for practicing circuits, cross-wind landings, and now also navigation exercises :D
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