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Attention all DC-3 fans !

FLY THE HUMP ... ABSOLUTELY!

1. Download and install Alex Nicolson's cbixV1.

2. Download and install "roger_wilco_66" CBI scenery mesh and subsequent updates.

3. Put a C-46, C-47, C-54 in your hangar. (PS You should also buy Virtavia's B-24 Liberator with the C-87 & C-109 add-on)

4. Fire up and go flying!

I've been flying "The Rock Pile" for over 18 months now using THE ALUMINUM TRAIL by Chick Marrs Quinn as my "mission planner" as it is a fantastic collection of the aircraft lost over the Hump from 23 September 1942 to 3 November 1945. I fly to complete the missions they never did. To date I have officially logged 487 hours and several hundred "unofficial" hours in test and check flights over it. Right now I'm up to September 1944; so I'm far from finished.

A little something about Alex's cbixV1. You get it all in one, easy to use package. Hundreds of airfields from West India to East China and hundreds of NDB beacons so you can navigate with your ADF. You also get historically accurate flight routes and even some Approach Charts copied from original USAAF documents.

And then there's Mark's CBI mesh downloads. Folks, you haven't seen the Hump using the stock Microsoft program ... once you add this to your computer the Hump suddenly jumps out at you. Magnificent, beautiful, deadly.

#1 A C-47 "ASSAM AIRLINES" climbs for altitude outbound from Sookerating to Kunming on the High Hump
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#2 Here she is, at altitude, 18,000', cruising happily along.
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#3 Here's a C-46 "Curtiss Calamity" heading to Kunming at 18,000'
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#4 Here's another C-46 "Whale" at 15,000' heading back to Chabua from Kunming, just ready to clear the Mt. Tali Monastery.
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#1 Here's a C-54 SKYMASTER at 18,000' approaching Kunming, but it will be another 30 to 50 minutes before she's on the gro
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#2 A good shot of a C-109 (or CEE-ONE-OH-BOOM as she was unfondly remembered) with 6,800 gallons of gas for Luliang, East of Kunming.

#3 This C-46 is just about at the end of her downwind leg for Kunming's Rwy 3. In a few seconds she will make a port procedure turn to about 031'.
Oh, you're at 7,100' and that wall of rock on the Western edge of TIEN CH-IH LAKE is 8,500' tall! Try this in solid cloud cover!!!

#4 Looking Good! She's just coming around to 031* and that's Kunming off your Port wing. She'll be on the ground in 3 minutes!
 

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#1 Gear down, 2 notches of flaps, airspeed 110 KIAS. Heads up! That's a 5,800' hill ahead of you at the end of Rwy 3, so stay above 6,500'!
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#2 Here's what the Tower sees! Pretty sight for them too!
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#3 You cleared the hill, went to 3 notches and pulled power so she just floats down to the runway, nice and easy, nice and slow!
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#4 HOME! Don't get excited, you've got an hour layover while the Coolies unload your ship and drain the "extra" Avgas that Operations says you won't
need on your trip back to Chabua. Grab some chow, maybe a cat-nap; you don't have all that much time! When you get back your ship will be
loaded with mail, passengers or whatever. Doesn't matter, just another flight over the Hump!
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I've been interested in the Hump since I was old enough to know where and what it was. My Dad is part of The Aluminum Trail. He became part of it on 18 March 1945 when C-46A 55-CK #3-47135 crashed on a go-around at Kunming after overshooting a single-engine approach. 1st Lt. William A. Sylvester wasn't scheduled to fly that day, but his basha-mate, scheduled as co-pilot, went on sick call and he volunteered to take the flight. Like so many other pilots and crews, the faster you could get your required hours in, the sooner you got to go home. Sometimes things just don't work out like we plan.

So, if you're interested in a unique experience, go fly the Hump ... and remember all those who are still out there.
 

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Thanks for all of that, Bill Kestell. Will try to set it up and check it out over the holiday break.
 
cavaricooper said:
@Hani-

Thank-you so very much for your. aircraft.cfg modification. I have applied it to my C-47 and now I can sit back and enjoy my slow starts, with confidence that a start is usually possible. It has made a world of difference mate- Ta!

BTW I'm in Stornway and it was a miserable run in, with horrendous weather- sleeting rain , breaking out at 800'. I had a smile plastered on my face for two days :). I fly back to Duckie tonight :).

Best- Carl
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:icon29:
You mean this:

[GeneralEngineData]
min_throttle_limit = 0.01

[piston_engine]
normalized_starter_torque=5.00

[vacuum_system]
max_pressure=5.00
electric_backup_pressure=5.50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIX1pTknyUU&
 
viperpilot:
If you feel so inclined to try your hand at some of the flights you mentioned, there is a place where that can be achieved...

http://dc3airways.com/

There aren't many 'virtual airlines' that cater to a specific type of airplane, but then again, DCA isn't your typical VA.
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This looks like the VA I want to join but is it still active? Their website appears to be a bit dated with little current activity. Anyone have any update on this, or other, vintage Virtual airlines?
 
Pan Am(erican)

Without a shadow of doubt - Pan Am is greatly appreciated.

I've always wondered about the Pan Am DC-3 during the period of the late 50s, when their aircraft flew in the scheme prior to the above noted "Jet Scheme" (big blue ball).

http://tripletails.weebly.com/uploads/3/4/4/3/3443024/9423371.jpg?912

I've never seen a Pan Am DC-3 in this scheme, yet it follows that since they flew them since the late 40s, and had them right until the late 60s, then surely this is what they wore in the 50s, no?

Curious what the airline scheme experts know on this one. And if it indeed wore the "Pan American World Airways" scheme, I'd love to see that scheme ... :ernaehrung004:

cheers,

dl
 
Maj Kong said:
viperpilot:

This looks like the VA I want to join but is it still active? Their website appears to be a bit dated with little current activity. Anyone have any update on this, or other, vintage Virtual airlines?
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Did you check the forum? First item from drop down menu under "Contacts" Maybe you have to be a member, I don't remember.
Did you check the Pireps? Main page last item under "flights" drop down menu.
:)
 
Maj Kong said:
viperpilot:

This looks like the VA I want to join but is it still active? Their website appears to be a bit dated with little current activity. Anyone have any update on this, or other, vintage Virtual airlines?
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Major,

DC-3 Airlines is definitely alive, with a very strong heartbeat! Unfortunately, you have to be a Member to access the Forums.

However, the nature of the VA is to log Flights as you complete them; I usually try to fly twice a month, and that works fine.

There's a set of 6 Training Flights you have to complete; they're about 45 minutes a piece. Once those are done, then you're free to fly either pre-established Routes taken from actual DC-3 Flight Schedules, or do a "Free Flight" from one place to another. Go to the DCA site and click on 'Join', then 'Apply'. Go to 'Training' to get the Type Rating package for your Sim (FSX/FS9).

Hope this helps!

Alan :wavey:
 
I would like to put Manfred's slow start effect into the C-46 COMANDO by Libarrdo Guzman García. I tried it the control panel showed up, but when I click on the start witches in the control panel nothing happens.
I also added this info to the cfg file.

[GeneralEngineData]
min_throttle_limit = 0.01

[piston_engine]
normalized_starter_torque=5.00

[vacuum_system]
max_pressure=5.00
electric_backup_pressure=5.50


What am I missing??
 
delta_lima said:
Curious what the airline scheme experts know on this one. And if it indeed wore the "Pan American World Airways" scheme, I'd love to see that scheme ... :ernaehrung004:
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Here's another airliners.net thread with a postcard image of a DC-3 in the Blue Ball scheme (scroll down), and some commentary about DC-3's and DC-4's in that paint.

Apologies if this is redundant with Alky's link but when I click on that, I'm seeing the older blue on white and blue on silver schemes, but no Blue Ball paints - maybe an issue at my end.

I'm sure there's more out there but this was the first one I came across.

EDIT: Checked again and noticed that the aircraft in the postcard photo - N54705 - is the one that Jankees modeled.
 
yes, that's the one I painted, since it was a C-47.
I found a DC-3 too:
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, but thought the C-47 was more appropriate..
Also, I like this scheme a lot, better than the classic one actually.
I have been thinking of doing N877MG as well, would there be any takers?
 
Thanks.

The question I had was about the SECOND PAA scheme postwar. Alky's links on all but the last show the FIRST postwar (all unpainted metal). The last pic in his link shows the elusive second scheme on Clipper Tabitha May in Dulles. It differed from the first in having a white top and white cheat line along the windows. Also, the nose had a number of blue/white alternating lines - seen here:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqHTYttIcAAvePr.jpg:large


http://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/640/4753_640.jpg

http://airlinersgallery.smugmug.com...MDG DC-3 NC33611 (51)(Grd) IAD (BM)(46)-L.jpg

Additionally, the wording was different. In the first older metal scheme, the wording was "Pan American Airways System" as opposed to the second "Pan American World Airways". Approx date of this middle scheme was 1954-1959, with the entry of the blue ball corresponding with the introduction of the PAA jet 707 and DC-8 fleet. The existing dc-6/7 fleet, and few remaining dc-3s of course were repainted to match - as shown in Jankee's paint.

Anyway a bit of reference and history for PAA buffs out there. A pretty but often overlooked scheme that, though eclipsed by the heady jetset 60s, was the worn by the dc-3/4/6/7 and Convair 240s during the key growth years of the 1950s...

Cheers,

DL
 
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