Mach Loop

Dimus said:
I have watched a few videos on youtube with RAF Typhoons and first did it in P3D with ORBX Wales. I have made a rough flightplanView attachment 85595 This is doing two rounds of the loop and on the second round leaves the area to go back to EGOV.
Hope this helps, it is indeed great fun if you master it.
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Sure does help, Dimus, thanks very much ! First time i was able to atleast finish the loop more or less (afraid with the other flightplan i've been flying it the wrong way around..). Your plan is much clearer although i did get lost a couple times. The waypoints do have odd numbers here and there but i just follow the little triangles. (no connecting line neither, no time found to install and try the GNT750) I'll be doing this for a couple of hours with the plan on the GPS (with the sun in the back the prop anim of the SR22 takes all the fun out of it.. :sour:) and then try visual only with maybe a bit faster plane.

Really feel i'm getting the hang of it now although still more or less.Hehe, Thanks a lot again, Dimus ! :encouragement:
 
DC1973 said:
I made this video a while back, but it's accurate to the Mach Loop route, as is the airspeed used through the low-level area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiDYLIF-0Eg&t=114s
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Fantastic, Dean ! :cool:

Good thing for me is that it's starting to look pretty familiar now. Found my Waterloo there at 'the Fork', didn't know which way to turn.. :indecisiveness:

I know better now.

Thanks again, Dean, hope to Loop your Tomcat around there someday ! Love it! :applause:
 
Javis said:
Looks like they love it ! : https://youtu.be/Lsfg8ug2egk



I've read somewhere that there's atleast one important ristriction: the weather !
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I don't think they do love it, the people that you see in the video are visitors (quite a few people climb the hills to watch), but a lot of the locals aren't so keen. If my memory serves me correctly, a few years ago one farmer painted a non too welcoming message on his barn roof.
 
As I remember that had the opposite effect to the one he'd requested...the barn became an obligatory overflight...
 
IanHenry said:
I don't think they do love it, the people that you see in the video are visitors (quite a few people climb the hills to watch), but a lot of the locals aren't so keen. If my memory serves me correctly, a few years ago one farmer painted a non too welcoming message on his barn roof.
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No doubt and very understandable. (the message probabely contained a couple of F's and possibly a U and atleast one O, maybe even a C and K, haven't seen it myself..) And no doubt there are Wales' politicians that will try to put a stop to it. Personally i certainly wouldn't mind having a cottage there, right on top of the hill. I just thought Twice43's comment was a good cause to throw that video into the group.. ;-)

I live right underneath the ILS Runway 19C EHAM Schiphol. Only one person in the neighbourhood here that loves it, the rest hates it.( of course i would rather see and hear Connies, Convairs, DC-3's,-4's,-6's, and -7's coming over but one has to row with the oars at hand)
 
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Thanks again, gentlemen !

Thanks to you i can now proudly tell you that i have just flown the Mach Loop in the T-6 for the first time without the flightplan and without a GPS all together. You may now congratulate me. :cool:

Nah... don't bother, still two situations where i am not really confident which way to go. I might still mess it up when i'll try it in the L-39. I might take along the flightplan again and the Garmin (i can't seem to get that thing working correctly..)

Then there's the lake :
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Do i turn left here or go across it to finish the loop ?

I seem to remember having seen both these options in the videos ?....

Thanks !
 
This one of the most exciting turns in the loop. Just before the lake a sharp turn left if you want to complete the loop. You can go straight to leave the area and reach the coast.
 
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