Author Topic: Tropical Traders Event; the whole story in pictures (Read 62283 times)

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #25 on:** January 19, 2013, 12:51:53 pm »

Still have some time to sign up http://www.doodle.com/msh4w2ast7se3x7w for the fifth leg of our Tropic Traders Tour; as for now we (David, Eric-Jan and myself) will fly on the 22nd of January at 19:00 houres Zulu time.

Peter

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #26 on:** January 21, 2013, 04:01:45 pm »

Four Traders are flying the fifth leg of the Tropic Traders Tour on the 22nd of January at 19:00 houres Zulu; route: WADD - MTM (114.50) - NQ (305) - NMA (115.10) - WATO; 280

Untill tomorrow,

Peter

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #27 on:** January 23, 2013, 06:43:27 am »

We tried to do some formation flying during this leg WADD-WRKO (WATO):

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Peter had lost his Mumble connection here, but he's still connected to IVAO for saying cheese (yes, and wine, David

) on UNICOM

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Thank You , guys, for yet another great Tropical Traders adventure!
And David for leading us there

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #28 on:** January 23, 2013, 08:48:15 am »

BTW: Formation Flight settings in IvAp can be changed with the sliders at the bottom of the picture on this page:
http://academy.ivaousa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=149&Itemid=131&limitstart=4

At a cost of higher bandwidth consumption, and higher CPU load ...

(promised I would look this up

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EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #29 on:** January 23, 2013, 10:13:22 am »

My screenshot contribution of our flight yesterday evening. As before, you'll find the rest of the images in the Gallery!

Thanks again David for straighten out our path and EJ for the tip of the settings of formation flying. Hope to meet you on leg 6!

Peter

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #30 on:** January 23, 2013, 10:49:43 am »

Sign up for leg 6 of the Tropic Traders Tour by using this link: http://www.doodle.com/q2wryiv6iipdxsqi

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #31 on:** January 24, 2013, 04:33:38 pm »

Untill today the four diehards have signed up for the next leg of the Tropic Traders Tour! If all stays the same, we'll be flying WATO to WAAT on Wednesday the 30th at 19:00 houres Zulutime.

As usual I took some time to prepare the route. First of all - I'm the owner of just a VFR-chart of the BENELUX - I explored Skyvectors to set out the route and found out that WAAT is not recognized. No problem, that happens all the time, especially when it concernes small airfields. The second and to my opinion more reliable source is Ourairports.com! Makale airport (WAAT) is known... 4.4nm SSE of WAWT (Pongtiku airport). Zooming in on the mapview, no airfield, airstrip is found. Maybe Makale is ressorting under Pongtiku airport! The third source, Aviationtools, tells me different: WAAT and WAWT are two different airports, with different locations!
FSX shows only WAWT.

Problem?.... no problem at all! Just created an airstrip, platform and some local buildings and hangars! Makale airport excists from now on! Who said that the world isn't makeable. The question remains and perhaps will be answered when arriving to Makale airport, will Flightlogger except this destination or not. If not, Pongtiku is just 4.4nm further away and perhaps within F
lightloggers range?
I hope this doesn't cause that much trouble as WATO did... or was it WRKO! $:-\$

Meet you again next Wednesday on Mumble!

Peter

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #32 on:** January 24, 2013, 07:30:40 pm »

This airport changed ICAO codes between FS9 and FSX, and never got upddated in X-Plane.

FS9: WAAT
FSX: WAWT
XP9: WAAT
XP10: WAAT
Airport name in all sims is Pongtiku, in the "city" of Pongtiku

(Same situation with WATO: only WRKO in FSX)

So there is no need for additional scenery packages; the airport exists in all sims, under different names, maybe. And Flight Logger, should be able to handle the ICAO aliasing correctly.

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #33 on:** January 28, 2013, 12:00:30 pm »

The current condition of who's flying leg 6 of the Tropic Traders Tour and when is as follows: Eric-Jan, David, Gian and Peter will try to reach WAWT on Wednesday the 30th of January at 19:00 hours Z.
Feel free to join!

See you then guys!

Peter

EHM-2589 David · « **Reply #34 on:** January 28, 2013, 09:19:03 pm »

Ah, don't forget to join us by IVAO

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #35 on:** January 28, 2013, 09:45:40 pm »

And remember: every one can use the Company Channel, any time! You don't even have to be flying

http://www.fly-euroharmony.com/forum/index.php/topic,7244.0.html#new

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #36 on:** January 31, 2013, 09:45:09 am »

As usual... here and in the Gallery some screenshots of yesterday's flight. Gian, David, Eric-Jan, Trevor and me started a little later than planned at Komodo Airport for the sixth leg of the Tropic Traders Tour. After a pretty long trip over sea, we finally reached mainland and set course to Pongtiku, which was a bit hard to find. EJ ran out of fuel at the end of the runway (like a true penny-pinching Dutchman), Gian's FSX crashed just before landing and I had to make the approach three times, not able to see the runway due to the clouds. The pictures show that in the end we all savely landed!

Doodle for next leg: http://www.doodle.com/zwxse6fte46mchkr

Peter

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #37 on:** January 31, 2013, 10:49:52 am »

Thank you, Peter, David, Gian, and Trevor

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Ready for departure rwy35

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Trevor on my "7"

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Peter on my "1"

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... and David on my "10"

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I had some troubles getting my RH fuel switch turning through the "off" position from "Main" to "Aux"... So I had no RH engine for a while, and this is the flight path you get when you bury your head deep inside the cockpit, to fiddle with the switch

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Everybody was strugling to find the runway. The view from in the air was like dense fog ... non-existent...

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I really had no reserve fuel! Had to pushback to vacate the runway ...

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Peter scaring off some birds

I had a real nice time! Too bad Gian's FL needed a re-install, and that his FSX crashed right after the moment he caught up with us. Better luck next leg, Gian!

EHM-1882 Gian · « **Reply #38 on:** January 31, 2013, 11:18:07 am »

Thks Peter for your pictures and support

.. This FSX sudden crash is really the most frustrating one, in particular when you are almost done! In the end I could restart and complete the flight, and found that Trevor and David were still on line. They stayed tuned until I landed. Thanks to them. Hope better luck next time!

Gian

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #39 on:** February 03, 2013, 07:21:03 am »

Tomorrow the 4th of February at 19:00 Zulu Eric-Jan, David and me will startup our DC-3 engines for an online leg 7 of the Tropic Traders Tour.
Wants to join? Please do, you're more than welcome!

Peter

EHM-1882 Gian · « **Reply #40 on:** February 03, 2013, 09:08:49 am »

I should be in too!

Gian

EHM-1829 Trevor · « **Reply #41 on:** February 03, 2013, 10:39:19 am »

Will be there, looking forward to it.

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #42 on:** February 04, 2013, 07:24:56 pm »

Sorry guys, last-minute work thing got in the way ...
Better luck next time

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #43 on:** February 05, 2013, 10:05:25 am »

Never mind EJ; hope you will be present the next time the Traders will fly! The other four did enjoy themselves very much and reached WAMG savely! As before, here some screenshots and the rest you'll find in the Gallery.

The Doodle-link for leg 8 (WAMG-WAMT): http://www.doodle.com/vcg2kwypktv7saur

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #44 on:** February 06, 2013, 06:17:37 am »

Did the leg yesterday. Ofline ... Alone ...
Way not as much fun as flying together with you guys!
Looking forward to the next leg already

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #45 on:** February 09, 2013, 12:36:37 pm »

Leg 8 (WAMG-WAMT) of the Tropic Traders Tour is planned for next Monday the 11th of February at 19:00 houres Zulutime!

Even if you didn't sign up on the Doodle-link http://www.doodle.com/vcg2kwypktv7saur and if you're still interested in flying with us online, don't hesitate to join us! For those who would consider to fly, but don't like to be under Air Traffic Control: little to none change there's ATC in this part of the world at 19:00 houres Zulu = 03:00 AM local.

Peter

EHM-1882 Gian · « **Reply #46 on:** February 09, 2013, 02:51:53 pm »

I'm in. See you on Monday

Gian
Ehm-1882

EHM-2758 Peter · « **Reply #47 on:** February 11, 2013, 01:20:51 pm »

Leg 8 (WAMG-WAMT) of the Tropic Traders Tour, scheduled for this evening at 19:00 hours Zulu: Proposed route: Gorontalo (WAMG) -> MWB (Manado) - 114.80; 71dgrs-133nm -> Ternate (WAMT) TRN 112.60; 100 dgrs-149nm. Should take us to our destination in about 1 hour 42 min.!

See you all this evening!

Peter

EHM-1829 Trevor · « **Reply #48 on:** February 11, 2013, 01:35:28 pm »

Hi Folks
Will have to miss the party tonight due to back shift

Have a good flight, with no disconnections.

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan · « **Reply #49 on:** February 11, 2013, 07:51:47 pm »

For you to decide: should I continue, or should I turn back?
(see attached weather map; red areas are thunderstorms)

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