Puk 72 Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Great idea; love vintage planes and like to fly the ancient routes. At the moment completely occupied with the so called "Breitling" - tour, organized by our VA, which I'm flying with A2A's Connie. But there're still some beauties in stock. I decided to take one of them on this tour: PMDG's DC6-B (KLM - The Flying Dutchman-livery). Before starting however I've to bring her back to EHGG (Eelde airport) for some maintenance. Is she's as good as new and all the flight planning is done, I'll take her to London Gatwick (EGKK) where I'll start this event. BTW maybe it's an idea for all who plan to make this trip to publish the date and time when planning to fly these legs in advance. I'm intending to fly online on IVAO, so it would be a great opportunity to fly together. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Puk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted September 26, 2017 Author Share Posted September 26, 2017 Please login to display this image. Just landed in Groningen, Netherlands (EHGG). My maintenance engineers will take over from here and will have her ready in a couple of days. Then I'll fly her over to London Gatwick (EGKK). Puk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted September 30, 2017 Author Share Posted September 30, 2017 My mechanics did a very good job and the PH-DFI is as good as it gets to undertake the voyage to London Gatwick. Please login to display this image. So left this afternoon from a cloudy Groningen airport.... Please login to display this image. for the short flight to Gatwick.... Please login to display this image. ... at FL090 ... Please login to display this image. ... leaving the Dutch coast behind... Please login to display this image. .... approaching via TIMBA1J.... Please login to display this image. ... landing on runway 26L... Please login to display this image. ... on the blocks at Parking 172 ... Please login to display this image. .... patiently waiting for the first leg to HEPS Port Said Egypt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted September 30, 2017 Author Share Posted September 30, 2017 Meanwhile my FO, FE and me have to prepare ourselves for the first leg from EGKK to HEPS. Our flightplan looks promissing if the weather condition of today remains the same untill next Monday. We'll see one hour before leaving if the weather is still in our favour. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJay 2 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 I am here to give your compliment back: Great aircraft choice Unfortunately I will not fly the Tour online, so we won't at least meet online. But I will follow you here in the forum anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertorizzo 37 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 DC6 is a great choice. And great pics tooo. Safe flights. Roberto. A2A Connie Breitling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 Monday, October 2nd 2017 - London Gatwick 08:30 H Z Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Excellent conditions to start with the first long leg to Port Said (HEPS). The PH-DFI looks to be in perfect condition, the crew has had a good night sleep, all food and drinks are delivered and stowed away in the pantry and we're waiting for our 34 paying passengers who will joining us this trip. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. 09:22 H Z Cargo and passengers loaded; tarting engines 3 and 4... Please login to display this image. ... and engines 2 and 1... all running smoothly Please login to display this image. Waiting at holding point runway 26L, ready for departure... Please login to display this image. ... 09:35 H Climbing out London Gatwick; whe're on our way Please login to display this image. steadily climbing to our cruise altitude of FL210 Please login to display this image. Leaving England overhead Dover a favorable tailwind of 52 kt Please login to display this image. at cruise altitude over the mainland... Please login to display this image. 12:04 H Z Flying over the Austrian Alps, doing GS271 TAS263; Fuel flow 364.4 GAL/H to be continued... Puk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 14:34 H Z Reaching Greece... pilot and copilot out of the cockpit as it seems Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. no problems at all: a very smooth and relaxed trip so far... Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. to be continued... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 15:05 H Overhead the Isle of Chios, Greece and a clear view on the Turkish west coast... Please login to display this image. and a shining view from the cabin on the right engines... Please login to display this image. ... overhead the isle of Ikaria, Greece Please login to display this image. ...to be continued... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 It's getting dark. Had to pause the simulator for an hour to have my dinner. In the meantime the Egyptian coastline appears on the horizon. Descending to 9000 ft for my approach on Port Said airport (HEPS) Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. The current METAR for HEPS 0216:00 Z 330°10KT 9999 SCT025SCT030 26/22 Q1014 NOSIG= Approach VOR/DME PSD runway 28 Please login to display this image. Welcome to Port Said....and finally after a very long trip the passengers, the crew and me can stretch our legs and enjoy a peaceful evening after having a wonderful smooth flight. Please login to display this image. Hope you enjoyed this flight report in pictures. Perhaps I'll see you somewhere along the way and else on this forum. Regards, Puk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool 10 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 great report and nice pictures ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertorizzo 37 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Wise use of the wideangle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobus 161 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff W 112 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Great night screenshots of the front office of the DC-6. That's my ride too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM 137 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Lovely camera work. And good to see another DC-6 in the gang! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 Tomorrow morning my crew and I will start with the preparations of the next leg of this event. In stead off flying a direct IFR route to Mumbai (VABB), we'll pick up Fogg's route through the Suez Canal all the way south to Aden and fly VOR to VOR at low altitude. A "little" faster than the S.S. Mongolia did, but still more than five hours to fly. Hopefully the passengers will appreciate this sightseeing route. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 9, 2017 Author Share Posted October 9, 2017 Monday evening 09:11 PM LCL Just for a few days now that I discovered something that's totally new for me. While flying legs together with other VA members online on IVAO I was used to operate as the VA photographer, whose pictures (screenshots) appeared on the day after the flight on the VA's forum. If I felt like I did some video footage too using the XBOX-player of Windows10. The other day I discovered that there's an option to share the video. One is never too old to learn new tricks. And I'm at a considerable age, you know . So I tried that out today with good results, I might say. So.... if you like to follow my next flight (Tomorrow, Tuesday the 10th starting from 08:30 H Z) or just like to pop in for a breve period of time, don't hesitate to do so. I'm using the PMDG DC-6B and I'll fly according to my flightplan, mentioned in the former message, from Portr Said (HEPS) to Aden (OYAA), following the river Nile and the coastline of Egypt, Saoudi-Arabia and Yemen. Just open your browser with this link: https://mixer.com/CloggedLamb4293 And of course, I'll regularly file some interesting screenshots along the way in this forum report. Puk p.s. I'm testing out now, so you might give it a try...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 10, 2017 Author Share Posted October 10, 2017 It's not gonna work today; obviously running the Xbox streamer slows down any activity on my computer. Until I've figured out what caused that no streaming video's. Sorry. Try to make the flight tomorrow. Puk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 Tuesday the 11th of October 2017 10:00 H Z. In contrast to earlier plans to fly from Port Said to Aden, I decided to fly straight to Mumbay (VABB) Chhatrapati Shivaji International. Because of the problems (see above) the trip was delayed for a whole day. So I filled my DC-^B up and loaded my 34 paying passengers and left Port Said at 10:08 H Z. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. To be sure, the DC-6B uses a lot of oil, filled up the oil tanks too and logged that I started with a total of 129.99 frame hours. The weather looks good according to the METAR. to be continued... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Though I would like to show you some nice pictures of the scenery along the way, actually there's not much to see over here: Please login to display this image. just sand........ Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. In that case, I'll show you some details from the GPS: ETA 18:00 H Z; that means from this moment on almost 6 hours to fly. Hope my passengers aren't getting bored by looking outside Please login to display this image. at least the crew looks happy... to be continued... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puk 72 Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 5 hours ago, Puk said: at least the crew looks happy... ... that applied for almost one hour before reaching Mumbai. Something that didn't happen to me for at least half a year... FSX crashed. Three angry emoticons are an expression of just a fraction of my real anger. You can imagine what kind of words came over my lips.... Should have sticked to my original plan to fly the shorter leg to Aden. Still... no use crying over spilt milk. I'll think it over what to do: perhaps I'll redo this flight in a couple of days. To be continued.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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