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The Windsor's Watering Hole

A planned routine flight from Rangoon down to Singapore turned into anything but... Nice smooth departure and headed for the Myeik ndb , climb to 9000`and hit a little turbulence and a small thunderstorm , then cleared up through Myanmar and Thailand passing the ndb`s as planned . Then passing the Samui NDB i could see more storm clouds looming , then WALLOP.... 1 1/2 hrs of the most violent weather I`ve had in FSX . Otto had no chance so had to hand fly through some of it and was convinced my plane was going to be broken into many little pieces . The IAS was swinging +/- 30 kts !!! Active Sky depicts Hurricanes and I`ve flown through them for a giggle but they were nothing like this turbulence:jump: Then it passed and the weather was lovely all the way to singapore :) Great fun this leg
 
Some Kodaks. 1) Headed for Baghdad in darkness. 2) Headed south from Baghdad the next day. 3) Final approach to Bushehr (OIBB). 4) Parked the Lockheed next to the Motel 666 by the airport for the evening.
 
Here's the pics from my Marseilles to Brindisi flight.

1) First sight of Corsica
2) Had to airdrop a package to the Chief's Mess on the Lexington (CV-2) off the coast of Italy
3) Just to show that I'm flying with a load of cargo instead of an empty plane
4) large crate behind the copilot
5) somewhere over Italy
6) the parking ramp at LIBR
 
Looking at the crate in pic 4 Willy I would be very wary of turbulence and heavy landings :isadizzy:. Would make sure the landings were verrrrrrrry smooth.

Cheers
Pat
 
Great thing about that crate..... Customs don't even want to open it up for a look ;)


Some historical data on nitroglycerine...

http://cprr.org/Museum/Newspapers/Nitroglycerine.html


The last seen of these gentlemen alive, they were standing near the box, with several other employees, having tools as if about to open the box. It is supposed they made the attempt, when the explosion took place by concussion, which resulted in a terrible loss of life and destruction of property
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Don't mess with my crate....
 
Some Kodaks from a great flight Lyon - Rome.

1. Waving hello to the family.
4. Meige and Rateau mountains.
6. Flyby Monte Viso.
7. Down the italian coast.
 
Had a good uneventful flight from Miildenhall to Marseille. Upon passing somwhere over Lyon saw a beautiful tower on a mountain (my wife sais it's called Toure le Flambeau or something like this). Was flying in pure DR, but I know the area and had a good paper map of France - +Made some kodaks of LFML from a heli before the flight. Anyway, hit the Mediterranean shore right near Marseille. Was worried about the fuel, but still hadabout 20% of it left. Will continue to LIRA soon.
 
Mildenhall to Bucharest

This flight was a few days ago, but I now have time to post a few pictures. Navigation was fairly easy as there were plent of NDBs to keep track on. Weather was fine to start, then got very cloudy over Germany, but then cleared again crossing into Czech Republic and Romania.
  • Engine start, Mildenhall
  • Leaving the English coast
  • Over the Channel
  • G-AEXF in original livery
  • Into Holland, with Rotterdam docks just to the north
  • Over several large German cities
  • Crossing mountains into Czech
  • My panel, with NDBs live off both wings approaching Bucharest
  • Turning final for Rwy 07 at Bucharest
 
Had a great tailwind from Baghdad to Jask but we got a late start and had to land in the dark. Worked up a good sweat getting her down in one piece.
 
Great Dawn/Dusk Enviro Textures Moses....

Flight from Yangoon to Thailand, over some hills that on almost met the bottom of the dc3 at 6,000ft. no need for change in altitude, some nice valleys leading into Bangkok. No visibility issues on this very short leg, but the headwinds were horrible... Quartering headwind at as much as 18 knots.... at 6,000 feet!!! then crosswinds, but a sustained quartering headwind at 12 knots... most of the trip, then in the last 20 minutes, a slight tailwind... (Thanks....)
 
Watch Out!!

Running joke about hitting granite trees or granite filled clouds not all that funny when you come up on one....:isadizzy:.

Check out this monument to Mother Nature I found, almost the hard way, as I started getting close to Selaparang (WRRA).

There's a shot is of me climbing out during take off from runway 9 at WRRA, on my next leg, and the "tree" I'm talking about is at my 7 o'clock on the small island just before Lombok.

If you drew an imaginary line out into the water behind the airport to replicate the flight path you would be on for final to RWY 9,,,,and,,then drew another line from the far end of that one to Singapore it would pass directly through that monolith.

Good thing I was off course (one) and (two) a good thing I had clear skies because a soon as the Mataram NDB (330.0 GA) at WRRA came into range (75NM) and I turned, to a course that was just a bit right of the signal to allow for a straight in final, that also had me headed right for it!

[Note] Terrain issues on the North and west sides of WRRA. If you're instead thinking of an approach to RWY 27 make sure you do a left turn pattern South of the airport with a shallow downwind and short base say 3 to 4 NM radius of the airport. I think much more may find trouble for you....:blind:

If your reading this and if you plan on flying a leg from Singapore to Lombok (WSSL-WRRA),,,,Watch Out!! I used FSNav for planning and it doesn't show at all. The thing has got to be at least 9000' and over 2 NM across the base.

The city at the Selaprang airport has the name Rambang and I'm sure that the locals gave it that name in the early years of flight due to all of the noises that were made by aircraft running into this mountian in the middle of nowhere...:icon_lol:.

Happy Trails
 
We had to leave one driver behind as he's got commitments 'at home' but he sent us all a nice photo so show he's doing fine without us..

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Go Mark, go!
 
Latest Kodaks: 1) Flying over the Straight of Hormuz, next to the desert. 2) Landing at Jask, on the coast, near the desert. 3) Flying over the deep desert. 4) landing at another airport in the desert (OPGD). Can’t wait to get out of the desert!!
 
Hey All,

Rob you should have taken him with you - he ain't gonna catch my guy - Jimmie Johnson! :bump:

-Ed-
 
Yangon International, Burma(VYYY) to Seletar, Singapore (WSSL)
This was another long leg and i was risking it a bit as there were headwinds forecast all the way. But throttling back did the trick even though we only had 22 gallons of fuel left. Navigation was nice and easy even with a couple of stretches over open water.
Nice flight.
A few pictures from along the way
1. Dawn at Yangon
2. Leaving Yangon with my fiance watching over me
3. Clouds over the ocean
4. Chumphon, Thailand. Now i know i'm on course
 
Made it to the first checkpoint despite Duenna. Right now I'm having a run in with Customs and the race inspectors. Seems they can't make up their minds whether they want that crate opened up or not. I've already told them that I'm just delivering it to Melbourne. If they want it opened, they're going to have to open it while I go stand a long ways away.....
 
Well, time to jump over to Melbo to watch salt_air come in, but I'm not sure we will... the 1/10th mile of vis may deter the screenshots, but the pourin grain may keep the lens clean.

Press crews have been alerted!
 
Rather amazing that Moses could leave Jask, I could pull a Melrose out of some camel-lot on the Pakistani coast and Dave could run all night from ORBS (with a pause) and we all arrive in OPKC within 10 minutes of each other.

Camera ran out of film just before landing.. why did I bother with those desert pics??

Lots of barren land from OPJI...
 
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