It's high time to get those birds in the air again and do some online flying together like we used to do. So after a chatsession on IVAP with David and Trevor, I promissed to look into a possible tour in Scotland. At first, to prevent having inventing a wheel, I searched the net for an existing one. There are some small tours, but what the hack, let's make a new one.
Exploring Scotland: don't know yet how many legs, but let's get started with a first one: EGPH (Edinburgh) to EGPK (Glasgow Prestwick), in normal conditions and in a hurry a 49nm distance, that can be done in 25 minutes. But we're flying VFR and plan to do some sightseeing. So if you look at the flightplan and the Visual Reference Points we have to follow up, it will take us 1H30 to reach Prestwick. Depending on the weather of course.
To enjoy the landscape at its most, I suggest we fly a single prop plane with an average cruising speed of around 120kts. Our Aeroclub fleet gives us the possibility to choose from the Cirrus SR20, the Piper Cherokee Arrow III and the Cessna172.
I prefer to take the "low wing wonder" Piper Cherokee I purchased from A2ASimulatios some time ago. It's as real as it gets!
I put some information in a zip file that is available via this Dropboxlink:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/le9qm6al88vec4l/ScotlandTour2014.rar?dl=0It contains among others the flightplan with VRP's, a picture of the route, charts and some information about VRF-flying. Be sure to read the readme.txt file first!
To get things organized properly, here's the Doodle-link (Times in Zulu):
http://doodle.com/ncpw9gp4vggs2q8gAnyone who likes to join, please do.
I hope to meet you all next week on Mumble!
Peter
p.s.
Forgot to mention:
sceneries for FSX:
http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx/uk.htmlsceneries for FS2004:
http://www.freewarescenery.com/fs2004/uk.htmlI can recommend for FSX: ORBX EU Scotland (payware); UK2000 Edinburgh Extreme