Thorsten42 12 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Hi fellow pilots, after not much time spent in the flightsim the last years I'm back in the cockpit. Currently our small VA is doing a nice race around the US, but nearing it's end I think this around the world trip is a very nice thing to go. Not the first around the world for me but with this historic background a fun thing to fly for sure. As I'm more addicted to the "real" planes - the one with props (and in the best case with radials ) - I will do this tour in three aircraft: - T6 Texan - C47 - Constellation First leg will bring me from London City via Andras Field To Venice in the C47. There I will switch to the Texan with a few hops down the coast of Italy to Brindisi. There I will switch back again into the C47 and Go down to Port Said. Details to follow in the flight reports. Have all fun Cheers Thorsten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobus 161 Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 I find your lack of diary .... disturbing .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazoeller 145 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Remember Thorsten, nothing is done until paperwork is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted December 21, 2017 Aerosoft Share Posted December 21, 2017 Think we lost him. Shall we send a search party? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazoeller 145 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Well, I told him if he would make it to Dublin by Wednesday, 20-Dec-2017 at 09:00z I would fly an online session together with him to Liverpool. Since he didn't show up in time I concluded my flight to London on my own. Guess he is fighting bad weather seasons in Alaska. No need to send a search party out for him. He's like a cat, always falls on his feet. We better go and have a drink or two, if you are still tolerated at the Reform Club Bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobus 161 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 I saw him flying his connie on 3 engines towards new york. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Oh my... what to say... for sure I hate paperwork... but flying wise I was in time until the towards San Francisco leg. In the Aleutes I encountered random CTDs until I even wasn't able to load up initially anymore. So I had to do a full reinstall on p3dv4. Plus realworld business a nightmare before Christmas (nothing new but always refreshing) so I was out of the time schedule. But I did not gave up and just today I finally reached London again. Now back to paperwork and diary Cheers T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 This was the complete tour: Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 First two legs with visit of Andras Field and crossing the Alpes to LIPZ done with the mighty old C-47. VOR to VOR navigation to keep the time spirit up. Leg 1: EGLC London City DVR DOVER (114,95 MHz) LEQ LILLE (109 MHz) LUX LUXEMBOURG (112,25 MHz) SUL SULZ (116,1 MHz) KPT KEMPTEN (109,6 MHz) ANF ANDRAS (115 MHz) EAFS Andras Field Leg 2: EAFS Andras Field OZE BOLZANO (117,05 MHz) TES TESSERA (115,3 MHz) LIPZ Tessera Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 LIPZ change to another nice radial and following the coast of Italy down in a T6 Texan. Some low vis on the way but finally made it down to the south of Italy before going over the med sea. Leg 3: LIPZ Tessera CHI CHIOGGIA (114,1 MHz) RIM RIMINI (116,2 MHz) ANC ANCONA (110,65 MHz) PES PESCARA (115,9 MHz) LIBP Pescara Leg 4: LIBP Pescara FOG FOGGIA (114,2 MHz) BAR BARI (116,4 MHz) BRD BRINDISI (113,2 MHz) LIBR Casale Mil Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 In LIBR switched back to the C-47 to cross the med sea to Port Said. Uneventful flight in fair weather. Leg 5: LIBR Casale Mil ARA ARAXOS (112,7 MHz) SIT SITIA (113,3 MHz) PSD PORT SAID (112,7 MHz) HEPS Port Said Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Port Said the next big radial on the list. The Connie... Next twolonger legs done with the L049 to speed up to India. Leg 6: HEPS Port Said HGD HURGHADA (116,5 MHz) MAK MARSA ALAM (115,5 MHz) PSD PORT SUDAN (113,1 MHz) ASM ASMARA (113,7 MHz) ABI DJIBOUTI (114,6 MHz) HDAM Ambouli Leg 7: HDAM Ambouli KRA ADEN (112,5 MHz) RIN MUKALLA (116 MHz) SLL SALALAH (112,8 MHz) BBB MUMBAI (116,6 MHz) VABB Chhatrapati Shivaji Intl Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 In India I switched back to the C-47 and followed the route via Kolkatta, Yangoon, down to Singapore, up again to Hong Kong visiting Kai Tak and finally getting into Tokio: Leg 8: VABB Chhatrapati Shivaji Intl BPL BHOPAL (117,1 MHz) AP ALLAHABAD (328 KHz) VIAL Allahabad Leg 9: VIAL Allahabad GGC GAYA (115 MHz) CEA KOLKATA (112,5 MHz) VECC Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose In Leg 10: VECC Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose In CTG CHITTAGONG (113,4 MHz) PTN PATHEIN (115,6 MHz) VYYY Yangon Intl Leg 11: VYYY Yangon Intl DWI DAWEI (112 MHz) STN SURAT THANI (110,6 MHz) VTSB Surat Thani Leg 12: VTSB Surat Thani HTY HAT YAI (115,3 MHz) VKN KUANTAN (113,7 MHz) VTK TEKONG (SINGAPORE) (116,5 MHz) WSSS Changi Leg 13: WSSS Changi VPT PULAUTIOMAN (114 MHz) TSN TANSONNHAT (HOCHIMINH) (116,7 MHz) VVTS Tansonnhat Leg 14: VVTS Tansonnhat DAN DANANG (114,4 MHz) SYX SANYA (112,5 MHz) ZJSY Phoenix Intl Leg 15: ZJSY Phoenix Intl MLT DONGMULANTOU (HAIKOU) (112,7 MHz) CH CHEUNG CHAU (HONG KONG) (112,3 MHz) SC STONECUTTERS (HONG KONG) (236 KHz) RW HONG KONG (377 KHz) VHHX Hong Kong Intl (old) Leg 16: VHHX Hong Kong Intl (old) SWA SHANTOU (112,6 MHz) XMN XIAMEN (114,5 MHz) FOC FUZHOU (116,8 MHz) SHY SHUYUAN (113,6 MHz) ZSPD Pudong Leg 17: ZSPD Pudong FUE FUKUE (115,8 MHz) IWC KUGA (114,3 MHz) CBE CHUBU (117,8 MHz) LHE HAMAMATSU (110 MHz) HYE YOKOSUKA (116,2 MHz) RJTT Tokyo (Haneda) Intl 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Then following the discussions with others and Toby making some calculations I decided to do the via Alaska to San Francisco tour and not going via Hawaii. First really long leg now from Tokio to Adak in the Aleutes. And what to say, the Connie is such a beautiful plane. Long nice flight into the cold and dark Aleutes. And yes for the ones taking a closer look, the plain white of the body wasn't that nice so it got a grey belly in Lufthansa style making it much more attracting. Leg 18: RJTT Tokyo (Haneda) Intl ADK MOUNT MOFFETT (114 MHz) PADK Adak Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 ...and reaching the Aleutes I made a very bad decision. What about not doing a quick long jump with the Connie to San Francisco... instead follow the Aleutes and Alaska down to KSFO. A lot of scenery testing both new installs of Otter and Antonov plus some Beta tests going on brought my system down to its knees. So doing some hops with the Otter later on reaching PAEN I had do reinstall my sim cause it was rendered unusable with random ctds. And that was the moment I was dropping out of the race Leg 19: PADK Adak PAAK Atka Leg 20: PAAK Atka IKO Nikolski AS Leg 21: IKO Nikolski AS DUT DUTCH HARBOR (113,9 MHz) CDB COLD BAY (112,6 MHz) PACD Cold Bay Leg 22: PACD Cold Bay PDN PORT HEIDEN (109,5 MHz) AKN KING SALMON (112,8 MHz) PAKN King Salmon Leg 23: PAKN King Salmon ENA KENAI (117,6 MHz) PAEN Kenai Mun Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 With knowing I wouldn't make it in time and additional realworld business going berserk before the holidays plus heavy colds on the complete family it took time to reinstall the sim. I could have bailed out then but I decided nonetheless to continue in the fresh stable and fast setup and finish the tour. The Otter was nice but too slow. So back in the C-47 and following the coast down to Ketchikan while visiting some really nice places. Weather was horrible and I had to go really low most of the times because of the huge cloud masses. Carefully watching for icing and carb heat needed a lot. Wonderful nice atmospheric "dark" flights. Leg 24: PAEN Kenai Mun JOH JOHNSTONE POINT (116,7 MHz) YAK YAKUTAT (113,3 MHz) PAYA Yakutat Leg 25: PAYA Yakutat SSR SISTERS ISLAND (114 MHz) CGL COGHLAN ISLAND (212 KHz) PAJN Juneau Intl Leg 26: PAJN Juneau Intl LVD LEVEL ISLAND (116,5 MHz) CMJ CLAM COVE (KETCHIKAN) (396 KHz) PAKT Ketchikan Intl 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. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 At Ketchikan it was time to move to something faster back again. Connie time One long leg down to KSFO: Leg 27: PAKT Ketchikan Intl YZT PORT HARDY (112 MHz) TOU TATOOSH (NEAH BAY) (112,2 MHz) ONP NEWPORT (117,1 MHz) PYE POINT REYES (113,7 MHz) SFO SAN FRANCISCO (115,8 MHz) KSFO San Francisco Intl The flight itself was uneventful and accusim giving me some nice career boost on this flight. All systems working like a charm and weather was getting better going down the coast. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Then I waited too long and the real weather on the East Coast was getting bad. If I would know about the next flight before leaving KFSO I would have quit before. But hey... We always love some challenge. Next leg from San Francisco to La Guardia following the original route: Leg 28: KSFO San Francisco Intl MVA MINA (115,1 MHz) TCH WASATCH (116,8 MHz) MBW MEDICINE BOW (111,6 MHz) BFF SCOTTSBLUFF (112,6 MHz) OBH WOLBACH (114,8 MHz) OVR OMAHA (116,3 MHz) IOW IOWA CITY (116,2 MHz) JOT JOLIET (112,3 MHz) DJB DRYER (113,6 MHz) SAX SPARTA (115,7 MHz) LGA LA GUARDIA (NEW YORK) (113,1 MHz) KLGA La Guardia A bit foggy on departure I was climbing to cruise altitude. Usually I stay at FL220 with the Connie. This flight I had to avoid some higher cloud layers and was going up and down between FL180 and FL250 giving the pressurization systems a hard time going to its very limit. And what to say. Just in the middle of this long leg. Search the image for funny things: Please login to display this image. With engine 4 out I got into trouble with the high altitude and had to go down into the turbulenes. But hey. Its one of the nicest three engined planes so lets go on. Things got worse approaching NY. Nearly no visibility due to heavy snow fall, night time at landing, winds around 30 kts gusting a lot and giving a big crosswind component coming in from the side with both engines running it was my worst ever landing with the Connie. Passengers screaming loud as I nailed it down half on the runway half on the grass. Ah lets forget about the flight. The mechanics stated later I had a rare and sudden engine failure. Nice to know. But on the other hand, wow thats why I love this plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Waiting for the bad weather to calm down a bit the Connie got a new engine number 4 and we where ready to continue. One more stop in Newfoundland and the then straight on to Queenstown (overflying Cork ) and into Dublin. Next two legs Connie legs again. Leg 29: KLGA La Guardia BOS BOSTON (112,7 MHz) YQI YARMOUTH (113,3 MHz) YQY SYDNEY (114,9 MHz) YYT TORBAY (SAINT JOHN'S) (113,5 MHz) CYYT St John's Intl Leg 30: CYYT St John's Intl CRK CORK (114,6 MHz) DUB DUBLIN (114,9 MHz) EIDW Dublin Intl The flight to St. John was easy peasy an nothing special about. Passengers where peaceful on landing and crew forgave me the landing at La Guardia. And then on boarding in St. John for the hop over to Dublin, Betty calling out we have a VIP on board. Ms. Monroe herself. Oh boy. Don't mess this flight like the La Gardia one. On a sidenote my fellow VA pilots and me were discussing in a chat group about how she would actually look like today or if we had some Zombieroe on board of one of our planes. Long uneventful flight mostly above a dense cloud cover but nearly no turbulences and kissed the ground at Dublin. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Speaking of coming to an end of the nice round the world trip the next day our good old C-47 was waiting for the last two remaining legs from Dublin to Liverpool and back into Lodon City. Weather at Dublin and Liverpool was ok with some reduced visibility but the nice English weather made the last two legs IFR with the end of the journey in London was a landing into the London foggy soup. Leg 31: EIDW Dublin Intl WAL WALLASEY (114,1 MHz) EGGP Liverpool Leg 32: EGGP Liverpool BPK BROOKMANS PARK (117,5 MHz) EGLC London City Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 To sum it up, it was a very nice tour with a good background story but for me definetly set into a bad timeslot in realworld. With October to mid December the busiest months in the IT with all wanting to get their projects finished and out before the year changes I had to search for free time slots a lot. Plus my own personal nightmare of having to resetup the sim completely I was out of the race. Anyway I wanted to finish it and at least share some of the nice and great moments. It was a lot of fun indeed. Cheers Thorsten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobus 161 Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Good stories T, if a bit late . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazoeller 145 Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Good Thorsten that you didn't post the zombie picture of Marilyn. Young flight sim fellows watching this forum might have been shocked. If some of your lady passengers will read your posts you might get some invitations for 5 o'clock tea. They will love your stories. Fully respect your endurance although the race already officially was closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Oh no not the Zombie picture again. That was indeed scary. Yeah Betty said on leaving the plane she's very proud of working for the captain (me!) so I think it will not be a lonely night at London except that I missed the main party. Perhaps she brings Heidi with her On the other note as I said, better finish late than never Cheers T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupert 20 Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Enjoyable trip Thorsten! Like you, I used to hate it when work got in the way of pleasure! Being retired for a while, I'm noticing i don't seem to spend as much time at pleasure as when I worked. Now instead of going to work, I go to to the doctor(s)! Truth be known, going to work was better. Come on in! I'm buying!! Rupert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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