salt_air's Mountain Mission Expedition ... " Looney in a Gooney"
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salt_air
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Leg 16 SPVI - SPLP (refly)
Reflying the leg to Las Palmas Airport at Lima ... awaitng a ruling from Miss Nellie's Director of Maintenance on what points need be incurred ... will reflect on next post.
Computer lock on approach ... then intermittent losses of inputs (I use the keyboard to fly ... talk about old school) ... then regained until short then more of the same behavior ... lock-up(s) and fps in single digits as low as 1 ... sim returned from locked up on a go around ... way high and fast ... frames that slow had me "watching" a slide show at thousand yard intervals ... then only a millisecond to adjust .... then locked up again back and forth rodeo ride .... to crashed ... then desktop ... then drywall repairs added to the honey-do ... (told the missus I was sorry, but I wasn't ... I am now) ... luckily didn't find a stud ...
Should have hit the abort key on the duenna ... but it just ain't natural ... and a restart sometime during the day (18 hours) would have been prudent.
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Out of Vicco out to the coast with several good sized pieces of equipment that need to be repaired or replaced.
Taking Off: SPVI - SPLP
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 22,885
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 400.8
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
Reflying the leg to Las Palmas Airport at Lima ... awaitng a ruling from Miss Nellie's Director of Maintenance on what points need be incurred ... will reflect on next post.
Computer lock on approach ... then intermittent losses of inputs (I use the keyboard to fly ... talk about old school) ... then regained until short then more of the same behavior ... lock-up(s) and fps in single digits as low as 1 ... sim returned from locked up on a go around ... way high and fast ... frames that slow had me "watching" a slide show at thousand yard intervals ... then only a millisecond to adjust .... then locked up again back and forth rodeo ride .... to crashed ... then desktop ... then drywall repairs added to the honey-do ... (told the missus I was sorry, but I wasn't ... I am now) ... luckily didn't find a stud ...
Should have hit the abort key on the duenna ... but it just ain't natural ... and a restart sometime during the day (18 hours) would have been prudent.
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Out of Vicco out to the coast with several good sized pieces of equipment that need to be repaired or replaced.
Taking Off: SPVI - SPLP
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 22,885
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 400.8
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
salt_air
Charter Member
Safe at SPLP
Beautiful day ... take off, turn slightly left and head for the passe on the right and follow the river to the beach.
Of course there were clouds, violent turbulence, lumpy terrain and poor viz around the airport ... that's why we get paid the big bucks fellas ...
Seventh Required Airport
Landed: SPLP
Distance: 90.6
Fuel Used: 321.6
Flight Time: 00:44:15
Maintenance: 0 (pending)
Total Airports Serviced: 16
Total Cargo: 96,000
Total Fuel: 7181.7
Total Flight Time: 12:37:04
Total Maintenance: 0 (pending)
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Beautiful day ... take off, turn slightly left and head for the passe on the right and follow the river to the beach.
Of course there were clouds, violent turbulence, lumpy terrain and poor viz around the airport ... that's why we get paid the big bucks fellas ...
Seventh Required Airport
Landed: SPLP
Distance: 90.6
Fuel Used: 321.6
Flight Time: 00:44:15
Maintenance: 0 (pending)
Total Airports Serviced: 16
Total Cargo: 96,000
Total Fuel: 7181.7
Total Flight Time: 12:37:04
Total Maintenance: 0 (pending)
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salt_air
Charter Member
Leg 17 SPLP - SPHO
After a very cool dip in the ocean ... clears the head and helps put the salt back in salt_air ... me and Sally go back to get the Gooney ready to go to Ayacucho with a miscellaneous load of pier freight and some lost baggage from brought over from one of the "other" airlines at Jorge Chavez Int'l airport.
Taking Off: SPLP - SPHO
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 23,937
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 1452.0
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
After a very cool dip in the ocean ... clears the head and helps put the salt back in salt_air ... me and Sally go back to get the Gooney ready to go to Ayacucho with a miscellaneous load of pier freight and some lost baggage from brought over from one of the "other" airlines at Jorge Chavez Int'l airport.
Taking Off: SPLP - SPHO
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 23,937
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 1452.0
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
Bry Rosier
Charter Member 2014
then drywall repairs added to the honey-do ... (told the missus I was sorry, but I wasn't ... I am now) ... luckily didn't find a stud ...
I know exactly how you felt Austin . I run FSX with loads of memory sapping add-ons on a much out of date old setup , and a seasoned pro at trying to fly with single digit Frames , I completely understand the stuttering frustration ( unflyable IMHO)
If your Missus is like mine then the "Look" you received would be punishment enough
Excellent Flying and all the best for the remaining legs
salt_air
Charter Member
Down safe at Ayacucho
Ayacucho ... Gesundheit!
Crawl across the tops of the ridges with not many options ... valleys or rivers to follow.
Almost got tricked into a couple of dead end passes ... like driving on ice ... no brakes and no gas ... just float along and hope you can keep from hitting anything with the slight corrections you can make.
Landed: SPHO
Distance: 174.1
Fuel Used: 751.4
Flight Time: 01:09:47
Maintenance: 0
Total Airports Serviced: 17
Total Cargo: 102,000
Total Fuel: 7933.1
Total Flight Time: 13:46:51
Total Maintenance: 0 (pending)
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Ayacucho ... Gesundheit!
Crawl across the tops of the ridges with not many options ... valleys or rivers to follow.
Almost got tricked into a couple of dead end passes ... like driving on ice ... no brakes and no gas ... just float along and hope you can keep from hitting anything with the slight corrections you can make.
Landed: SPHO
Distance: 174.1
Fuel Used: 751.4
Flight Time: 01:09:47
Maintenance: 0
Total Airports Serviced: 17
Total Cargo: 102,000
Total Fuel: 7933.1
Total Flight Time: 13:46:51
Total Maintenance: 0 (pending)
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salt_air
Charter Member
Justa bit ... clear as a bell above 9000' ... nice departing, but no reward for arriving.
salt_air
Charter Member
Safe at Cuzco
Clouds under me on the last four or five flights ... this one had them building overhead.
Didn't quite make it to Cuzco before it got completely socked in ... luckily wasn't extremely dense.
Great time running through the valleys and across the lower ridges along the river.
Landed: SPZO
Distance: 134.3
Fuel Used: 457.5
Flight Time: 00:49:30
Maintenance: 0
Total Airports Serviced: 18
Total Cargo: 108,000
Total Fuel: 8390.6
Total Flight Time: 14:36:23
Total Maintenance: 0 (pending)
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Clouds under me on the last four or five flights ... this one had them building overhead.
Didn't quite make it to Cuzco before it got completely socked in ... luckily wasn't extremely dense.
Great time running through the valleys and across the lower ridges along the river.
Landed: SPZO
Distance: 134.3
Fuel Used: 457.5
Flight Time: 00:49:30
Maintenance: 0
Total Airports Serviced: 18
Total Cargo: 108,000
Total Fuel: 8390.6
Total Flight Time: 14:36:23
Total Maintenance: 0 (pending)
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salt_air
Charter Member
Leg 19 SPZO - SPNP
Going to Puno ... our last stop in Peru.
Cargo for this trip is a "Package Deal" from Evinrude for some tourist outfit on Lake Titicaca ... mostly some outboard motors, but a few small water craft, skis, and they even thew in a few life jackets and what not.
Wouldn't mind helping them test everything out if it wasn't winter ...
Taking Off: SPZO - SPNP
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 23,525
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 1040.0
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
Going to Puno ... our last stop in Peru.
Cargo for this trip is a "Package Deal" from Evinrude for some tourist outfit on Lake Titicaca ... mostly some outboard motors, but a few small water craft, skis, and they even thew in a few life jackets and what not.
Wouldn't mind helping them test everything out if it wasn't winter ...
Taking Off: SPZO - SPNP
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 23,525
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 1040.0
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
MM
Charter Member
Just checked with Miss Nellie and Alonso Contreras, our chief mechanic, about the incident at Las Palmas. They agreed that this was nothing to worry about. Clearly a computer-caused catastrophe. The ruling is no "Maintenance Points" ... merely re-fly the route as you have already done.
Superb screenshot just above!
--Mike (for the Committee)
Superb screenshot just above!
--Mike (for the Committee)
salt_air
Charter Member
Down safe at Puno
Another scenic voyage through the valleys of Peru ... with just a brief scare period of ... oh fifteen minutes of white windscreen ... then back to clear.
It was just like one of those wee hours of the morning sunglasses commercials ... not a minute too soon as the shadows get long this time of year a little earlier than I'm used to ... needed to get on the ground at Ventilla before dark ... would have been very hard to find ... was bad enough at dusk.
After you pass the JUL VOR at Inca Manco Capac (SPJL) you run up to a smaller lake where you turn (almost bisect) towards Lake Titicaca and the airport is out on a point between two small coves ... just so happens if the wind isn't horrific coming behind you, then you will be about lined up for RWY 12 ... soft field ... no lights.
Lots of fun on that trip .... had to briefly climb out of a 15000' cruise, only once.
Spend the night here and take a load of recycled plastics (crushed) down to a plant in Bolivia tomorrow.
This place sorta reminds of a camp I went to as a young'un ... Be a while so I'm not real sure, but I think it was called Lake Run-A-Muck.
Landed: SPNP
Distance: 175.2
Fuel Used: 639.2
Flight Time: 01:04:21
Maintenance:0
Total Airports Serviced: 19
Total Cargo: 114,000
Total Fuel: 9029.8
Total Flight Time: 15:50:44
Total Maintenance: 0
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Another scenic voyage through the valleys of Peru ... with just a brief scare period of ... oh fifteen minutes of white windscreen ... then back to clear.
It was just like one of those wee hours of the morning sunglasses commercials ... not a minute too soon as the shadows get long this time of year a little earlier than I'm used to ... needed to get on the ground at Ventilla before dark ... would have been very hard to find ... was bad enough at dusk.
After you pass the JUL VOR at Inca Manco Capac (SPJL) you run up to a smaller lake where you turn (almost bisect) towards Lake Titicaca and the airport is out on a point between two small coves ... just so happens if the wind isn't horrific coming behind you, then you will be about lined up for RWY 12 ... soft field ... no lights.
Lots of fun on that trip .... had to briefly climb out of a 15000' cruise, only once.
Spend the night here and take a load of recycled plastics (crushed) down to a plant in Bolivia tomorrow.
This place sorta reminds of a camp I went to as a young'un ... Be a while so I'm not real sure, but I think it was called Lake Run-A-Muck.
Landed: SPNP
Distance: 175.2
Fuel Used: 639.2
Flight Time: 01:04:21
Maintenance:0
Total Airports Serviced: 19
Total Cargo: 114,000
Total Fuel: 9029.8
Total Flight Time: 15:50:44
Total Maintenance: 0
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salt_air
Charter Member
Just checked with Miss Nellie and Alonso Contreras, our chief mechanic, about the incident at Las Palmas. They agreed that this was nothing to worry about. Clearly a computer-caused catastrophe. The ruling is no "Maintenance Points" ... merely re-fly the route as you have already done.
Superb screenshot just above!
--Mike (for the Committee)
Thank you!
Please pass on to Alonso and the fine Miss Nellie, that I was pleased to find out how the incident was considered.
Back out in the AM to make CC AA even more money!!
The screenshot was taken during a particularly tight maneuver to follow the valley trail I had committed to AKA the river ... thanks!
salt_air
Charter Member
Leg 20 SPNP - SLLP
Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and now we'll take Miss Nellie's vision into the highlands of Bolivia ... first stop, La Paz.
Yeah ... I didn't think this was plastic, these are old tin cans going back to the smelter to get incorporated with what is coming out of the mines there ... hope they don't get any ideas about this plane.
Sally, grab a few extra "clips" and the 12 gauge out of the under floor storage compartment ... shells too.
Taking Off: SPNP - SLLP
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 23,225
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 740.0
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and now we'll take Miss Nellie's vision into the highlands of Bolivia ... first stop, La Paz.
Yeah ... I didn't think this was plastic, these are old tin cans going back to the smelter to get incorporated with what is coming out of the mines there ... hope they don't get any ideas about this plane.
Sally, grab a few extra "clips" and the 12 gauge out of the under floor storage compartment ... shells too.
Taking Off: SPNP - SLLP
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 23,225
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 740.0
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
salt_air
Charter Member
Safe at La Paz
Dream ride across Lake Titicaca ... 15000' almost arrow straight out of Ventilla RWY 12 to El Alto Int'l RWY 10 and a flight path of roughly 115 +/-.
Keep an eye on the barometer ... proximity to water, altitude, time of day or any combination of those and other conditions lead me to hit the "B" key about every five minutes with hundreds of feet to adjust in altitude each time.
Need to watch that close on a flight that's only at the most 2000' AGL and still dark on the ground.
Yeah ... reset the time after first takeoff hoping to get some nice snaps and wound up setting the clock back a little too far.
Did manage to grab the sun's first peek over the mountains of this region's Altiplano ... at roughly the same time as crossing the border at the east end or side of the lake.
15 kt tailwinds all the way to put some salt and pepper on the eggs .... hey wait a minute, it's breakfast time!
Eighth Required Airport
Landed: SLLP
Distance: 116.3
Fuel Used: 365.4
Flight Time: 00:39:23
Maintenance: 0
Total Airports Serviced: 20
Total Cargo: 120,000
Total Fuel: 9395.2
Total Flight Time: 16:30:07
Total Maintenance: 0
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Dream ride across Lake Titicaca ... 15000' almost arrow straight out of Ventilla RWY 12 to El Alto Int'l RWY 10 and a flight path of roughly 115 +/-.
Keep an eye on the barometer ... proximity to water, altitude, time of day or any combination of those and other conditions lead me to hit the "B" key about every five minutes with hundreds of feet to adjust in altitude each time.
Need to watch that close on a flight that's only at the most 2000' AGL and still dark on the ground.
Yeah ... reset the time after first takeoff hoping to get some nice snaps and wound up setting the clock back a little too far.
Did manage to grab the sun's first peek over the mountains of this region's Altiplano ... at roughly the same time as crossing the border at the east end or side of the lake.
15 kt tailwinds all the way to put some salt and pepper on the eggs .... hey wait a minute, it's breakfast time!
Eighth Required Airport
Landed: SLLP
Distance: 116.3
Fuel Used: 365.4
Flight Time: 00:39:23
Maintenance: 0
Total Airports Serviced: 20
Total Cargo: 120,000
Total Fuel: 9395.2
Total Flight Time: 16:30:07
Total Maintenance: 0
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salt_air
Charter Member
Leg 21 SLLP - SLCB
Salteñas - Only eaten in the morning. A warm savory pastry that holds a juicy combination of chicken or meat, greens and sauce, and is cooked in an oven.
Hope these bad boys don't have a short fuse on them ... tasty, but no time today for frequent stopping ...
Bolivia is the highest (altitude) capital city on the planet ... that's nice, won't have to climb out so far.
Sounds good, but my charts are showing the highest peaks so far coming up on this next leg to Cochabamba .... but I don't see any rivers running in that direction ... makes me wonder if I'll have valleys to run in like I've been doing so far.
This could get interesting ... let's check the weather reports too ... could get real interesting.
Going to run some prisoners (heavily guarded) and equipment to a work farm just a few miles from Jorge Wilstermann Airport.
Taking Off: SLLP - SLCB
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 23,224
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 739.7
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
Salteñas - Only eaten in the morning. A warm savory pastry that holds a juicy combination of chicken or meat, greens and sauce, and is cooked in an oven.
Hope these bad boys don't have a short fuse on them ... tasty, but no time today for frequent stopping ...
Bolivia is the highest (altitude) capital city on the planet ... that's nice, won't have to climb out so far.
Sounds good, but my charts are showing the highest peaks so far coming up on this next leg to Cochabamba .... but I don't see any rivers running in that direction ... makes me wonder if I'll have valleys to run in like I've been doing so far.
This could get interesting ... let's check the weather reports too ... could get real interesting.
Going to run some prisoners (heavily guarded) and equipment to a work farm just a few miles from Jorge Wilstermann Airport.
Taking Off: SLLP - SLCB
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 26,200
Takeoff Weight: 23,224
Empty Weight: 16,145
Fuel: 739.7
Payload: 6,000
Crew: 340
salt_air
Charter Member
Safe at Cochabamba
Thinking I wouldn't find a "safe" valley to operate in ... I climbed out to 17000' and just tried to keep the needle centered on the VOR at Jorge Wilstermann, but was actually able to locate a valley just left of intended flight path before the clouds set in.
The floor was quite lumpy with some tall peaks so I held out till around thirty minutes out of La Paz to start a descent.
After a break in the cloud cover it was obvious I could make the descent steeper ... one last hump in the way ... right or left? ... went right and set up for clear visual on RWY 31.
A little longer approach than needed, but was able to enjoy tailwinds at 20+ kts, so I spent the savings on a safer altitude and downwind to look at terrain around the airport.
The terrain's not too bad, but it would be enough to bust you up if the viz was bad.
Feel like a few more hops ... but we'll just let the aging GPU cool off a while, dump these caches, reset memory (mine as well) ... maybe grab some lunch.
Great day for winds ... better not stay too long.
Ninth Required Airport
Landed: SLCB
Distance: 128.1
Fuel Used: 425.1
Flight Time: 00:47:19
Maintenance: 0
Total Airports Serviced: 21
Total Cargo: 126,000
Total Fuel: 9820.3
Total Flight Time: 17:17:26
Total Maintenance: 0
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Thinking I wouldn't find a "safe" valley to operate in ... I climbed out to 17000' and just tried to keep the needle centered on the VOR at Jorge Wilstermann, but was actually able to locate a valley just left of intended flight path before the clouds set in.
The floor was quite lumpy with some tall peaks so I held out till around thirty minutes out of La Paz to start a descent.
After a break in the cloud cover it was obvious I could make the descent steeper ... one last hump in the way ... right or left? ... went right and set up for clear visual on RWY 31.
A little longer approach than needed, but was able to enjoy tailwinds at 20+ kts, so I spent the savings on a safer altitude and downwind to look at terrain around the airport.
The terrain's not too bad, but it would be enough to bust you up if the viz was bad.
Feel like a few more hops ... but we'll just let the aging GPU cool off a while, dump these caches, reset memory (mine as well) ... maybe grab some lunch.
Great day for winds ... better not stay too long.
Ninth Required Airport
Landed: SLCB
Distance: 128.1
Fuel Used: 425.1
Flight Time: 00:47:19
Maintenance: 0
Total Airports Serviced: 21
Total Cargo: 126,000
Total Fuel: 9820.3
Total Flight Time: 17:17:26
Total Maintenance: 0
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