arrvoo - Savoia Marchetti SM.79 - Golden Age

Safely down at Belgrade. Very nice flight, although the first hour and a half was in cloud and rain and headwinds. Once over the Alps though it mostly cleared up and switched to tailwinds so we could take in the scenery and get some nice visual bearings.
 
Nice work fellow Savoia-chap!

Boy, did I pick the wrong SM for speed!:173go1:
 
Thank you Colonial
The SM.79 is a great bird to fly this is a really nice freeware plane and a definate keeper. Just wish i knew a bit more about repaints, yours sure is a pretty plane.
 
Arrived safely in Syria. This was a very bumpy ride right from take off. We were being thrown around a lot which made things very uncomfortable if not actually dangerous. Navigation went very well though and the airport was easy to find (although dead NDB's towards the airport had me worried for a short while)
 
Nice easy flight with no dramas at all. Short on navaids but a short enough flight for it not to matter
 
Tricky long leg. I lost power over the mountains and it took me 15 minutes to figure out my carbs were icing up. A bit of carb heat sorted it out but it left me low on fuel and mileage. I then throttled back for the rest of the way and managed to get into Gwadar International with 35 gallons to spare.

I got an invalid Duenna on this flight. A had to restart Active Sky Advanced and i think it locked up FSX briefly generating an unavailable error. Can someone have a look at this for me and let me know if i need a refly or need to take a penalty. I have also included my Flight Analysis. Thanks
 
This looks fine. Again, we have the Duenna registering a query about the "same aircraft" during a time out. For a second or so, it registered an error. The takeoff aircraft and the "resolved" aircraft are the same. And the position and speed before and after the momentary glitch show that the aircraft movement was normal. Looks like the inevitable small errors we get when making several pieces of software move at the same time.

No penalty.
 
Down safe at Allahabad. The flight ended up being reasonably good despite Active Sky doing its best to scupper me. What with winds not doing what they should, and pressure being way off (went down to 13.31 in/hg at one point) and then creeping up and down constantly making me climb or descend, i'm seriously thinking of throwing it in the bin and going back to FSX's own weather.

All's well that ends well i suppose.
 
Had a complate system lock up about 1.5 hours into the flight. Will have to redo it tomorrow.

Just glad it wasn't 3.5 hours into the flight :)
 
Really nice flight. Tailwinds all the way, and mostly from straight behind. Good weather, good visibility and bang on course. Just about the perfect leg.
 
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