RTWR Practice #1

[PRB]

Hey All,

I'll be around. Was cleaning the dust off my joystick yesterday and flew my new Carenado 185 - didn't crash - good sign? I hope. First flight in about 6 months - seriously rusty - don't remember which keys do what but it'll come back - like riding a bike - right???

Another question - is this practice short enough to consider running two threads? NOT two teams but just trying to provide more opportunity to fly if someone already has the baton in one thread.

-Ed-

Hey, two threads. I like that idea!

 

[srgalahad]

Hey All,

I'll be around. Was cleaning the dust off my joystick yesterday and flew my new Carenado 185 - didn't crash - good sign? I hope. First flight in about 6 months - seriously rusty - don't remember which keys do what but it'll come back - like riding a bike - right???

Another question - is this practice short enough to consider running two threads? NOT two teams but just trying to provide more opportunity to fly if someone already has the baton in one thread.

-Ed-

Ed, there's so much dust and ash around you, you'll never get it all cleaned out

As for a second & parallel thread, probably not for this one -- it's just a cobweb shaker but we'll have some others coming soonish.

Remember, if there are extra bodies sitting about, there's always weather checks, route scouting, flying wingman, prepping for the next leg...

 

[Milton Shupe]

Yeah, me and Duenna is already slugging it out. It was fussing about Realism settings (Red) but I could not find what was wrong. Flew the first leg anyhow ... pedal to the medal; beautiful flight. Shame Duenna was being so picky.

Can someone tell what Realism Setting is wrong here?

EDIT: OHHH DUH!!!! Allow Collisions ....

 

[srgalahad]

Yeah, me and Duenna is already slugging it out.
Can someone tell what Realism Setting is wrong here?

EDIT: OHHH DUH!!!! Allow Collisions ....

Most likely that's it, but you can deselect "allow collisions with other aircraft"
At the same time we've found that just dragging the sliders to the right sometimes fails to reach 100% so it's best to then click the 'right arrow' a couple of times on each one to get them all the way over.
Edit:
From the .txt file:

Info: Looks like FS2004
Info: Configuration-File: C:\Documents and Settings\Milton\Application Data\Microsoft\FS9\FS9.CFG
Info: REALISM/CrashTolerance: '1.000000' (OK)
Info: REALISM/CrashDetection: '0' (NOT GOOD)
Info: Weather/LoadWeather: '1' (OK)
Info: Weather/DownloadWindsAloft: '1' (OK)
Info: Weather/DisableTurbulence: '0' (OK)

 

[srgalahad]

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso...
A couple of the boys headed back from Rosa's Cantina and decided the 30kt winds would make it fun to fly the Cubs tucked away in the hangar... Well, they land in a pretty short distance, and the hangar roof was well-braced...View attachment 26627

So the next morning when the fog had lifted, the RB-50 was rolled out and set course to follow a practice mission that was due to begin...
Along the Carnage Trail the crew snapped a few shots of a BBQ'd Hellcat at MMZC, View attachment 26628
an airport in a pit at MM0K and a nice extinct volcano just east of MMPB
View attachment 26629View attachment 26630

 

[falcon409]

Rob, where do we find the race route?:salute:

 

[PRB]

Rob, where do we find the race route?:salute:

Moses03's first post in this thread lists the starting and ending airport, the required stops, and other requirements. From there, it's a matter of finding an airport within 750 NM and 2 hours flying time from where the baton was last released.

 

[Willy]

And in the general direction of the next required stop.

I'll jump in for a leg or two when the rush has died down.

 

[jkcook28]

..snip..a BBQ'd Hellcat at MMZC...

yummmm BBQ Hellcat, tastes like chicken...

 

[srgalahad]

Four-engine heavies enroute S. America (dest. SESA)

View attachment 26761

 

[Willy]

Lessons learned from my attempt at a jet leg or having Murphy as a copilot.

First off, the first attempt in Piglet's T-33, I could only get up to about 80% rpm. Not sure what was up with that, but I aborted and switched aircraft.

Attempt 2: Flying the JBK DeHavilland Comet 1 this time. Was able to get full throttle, but when I switched aircraft, I forgot to turn off the autopilot before switching. Which led to serious "Otto" trying to kill me problems on take off. So I shut down FS for a restart to clear Otto as nothing else seemed to be doing it.

Attempt 3: Took off again with Otto behaving this time. About 15 mins into the flight, I checked the Duenna. Seems that with everything else going on, I'd forgot to set it before take off. At this point, I'd had enough and turned the baton over to my wingman which is probably what I should have done from the start.

I stayed on line after that and worked with some jetliners to see which ones had the best RTW potential and what problems they'd have in flight under race conditions. All of my usual jetliners seem to be of similar speed and of the three that I like to fly, I think I'll stick with the Boeing 727 now that I've since installed a newer Otto in it.

Somedays, it just doesn't pay to start the engines.....

 

[Barfly]

test test. Trying to get this Duenna thing to work...

View attachment 27490

 

[Moses03]

The text file looks okay to me. Can you post the jpg graphic as well?

 

[Barfly]

For some reason Duenna is not compiling the jgp - I get a map jpg with the route line, and another with start and end symbols, both in the temp folder. They should end up layered together in the output folder, along with the text at the bottom. The finished output jpg is just a 0 kb placeholder in the output file, it's never put together.

The flight does however get tracked and recorded online:

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=r66Dv38VLkxq4D8d23vsfCJ08g