Vicious - Golden Age - Gee Bee R-6H

Leg #7 - WSSL - WRKK

This is a 1372nm run down to El Tari. Should take me about 5 hours and 20 minutes. The weather looks nice at the moment so it should be fun.
 
Safe at WRKK

A beautiful flight the entire way. There were some bad winds at 11,500 but fortunately the winds was blowing from the tail at 4K, so the last few hours were down low.

Flight time: 5:16:06
Total time: 28:57:03
 
Leg #8 - WRKK-YPDN

A relatively short hop to Darwin. The weather is a bit overcast there at the moment, but it shouldn't present a problem. With the NDB right at the end of the runway it's hard to miss.
 
Since it looks like the SOH server will be down when I land, I'll post the results of the leg on the Avsim server tonight and move them over here tomorrow morning.
 
Safe at YPDN

A nice quick run into Darwin. The weather was perfect at landing except for a 10kt crosswind.

Flight time: 1:41:29
Total time: 30:38:32
 
Leg #9 - YPDN-YBCV

Time to make the 1200nm hop across Aussiland. I should be there in about 4 hours and 42 minutes, with a little luck.
 
Safe at YBCV

I made it without a problem, I just wasn't very fast in doing it. I had over 10kt headwinds most of the way which really slowed me down for a change. Fortunately the landing was quick so I made up a bit of time there.

Flight time: 4:52:10
Total time: 35:30:42
 
Leg #10 - YBCV-YMEN

I'm ready to head off on the final leg of the race. The weather seems ok, but at least it doesn't look like headwinds the entire way.

For the precision race portion I'm going to estimate my flight will be 2:35 in length. I'll need some tailwinds to make this time so if I don't get them I'm going to miss the target by a mile. It should be an interesting challenge. :jump:
 
Safe at YMEN

What a fligth!! The added pressure of trying to get the precision portion on the final leg made this one interesting all the way. I knew that I needed to have some tailwind time to make my schedule, but early in the flight I was fighting moderate headwinds. I kept changing altitude to find better winds but didn't luck out until about 1/3 from the end when I found some 20+ kt tailwinds at about 11.8K. I was trying to get to the runway as quickly as possible knowing I was a bit late. Fortunately I stopped just 29 seconds overdue. :jump:

Flight time: 2:35:29
Total time: 38:06:11

Thanks to the race organizers and all the participants for making this another great event!!!
 
Very nice job!!! and awesome job on the precision time estimate... I thought it would be hard to beat Austin's time, but the very next try did it, wow...

excellent job!
 
Wow, great flying, well done! You've just taken the lead in the Speed race, the Handicap race and the Precision Competition all at once. :applause:

Your times and score are all going to be hard to beat...
 
Nice work! Congratulations to the provisional race winner!
 
Thanks all for the congratulations, but there's lots of racing left so I wouldn't be surprised to see someone steal my lead in at least a few of the categories. I think I've got a lock on the speed class, unless someone else flies the GB, since it's simply the fastest plane in the stable. I thought someone else was going to fly it (Willy?) but I haven't seen any flights yet. As for the handicap race, my eye is on Spookster. His time is ahead of mine at the first checkpoint, so if he can keep it up over the rest of the race he'll beat me there. As for the precision portion, I think if someone pads their estimate by a few minutes they can arrive at the field with some time to spare and then fly a nice controlled approach that will allow them to better target the stop time. In the poll about the precision portion I voted that the winning time would be within 15 seconds and I still believe it will be. So I may be leading in all three categories at the moment, I think I'm going to lose at least one of them before the race is over.

Good Luck to all!

P.S. to the race organizers. Maybe next time we could do precision timing for the entire race and each checkpoint. It's just more opportunities to have fun. :wiggle:
 
I originally entered the QED as I've flown it in these races every time. My problem with it is that 9 out of 10 times, I can land it okay.. But that 10th time, I'm going to rack up some serious crash demerits. I've had a theory for a long time that if Jackie Cochrane hadn't of dropped out of the race in 1934 at Bucharest, she'd have given those Comets a serious run for their money.

I switched to the Beech 18 mainly because I decided that this time out, I wasn't going to take it serious and just have a good time. And the Beech is my main just having fun aircraft.

Congratulations again! :ernae:
 
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