Willy's Golden Age flight to Oz in the Twin Beech

Leg #20 YTNK - YCCY

Heading out to Cloncurry. NBDs are getting kind of scarce around here.
 
Leg #21 YCCY - YBCV

After having taken Friday the 13th off, it's time to head on to Charleville.

Forgot to add, using FS9 Real Wx with 15 minute updates as always.
 
Final Leg YBCV - YMEN

Heading out to the Finish Line at Melbourne. Precision time guesstimate is 3:35:00
 
Most strange.. About 1:20 into the flight, my comp decided to reboot. I'll restart here in a bit.

And it was going so well too!
 
Final Leg Pt II YBCV - YMEN

Okay, going to try to get to Melbourne again. I don't think it's going to be close, but as I'd already called it, I'll stick with my original Precision Time Guesstimate of 3:35:00.
 
Drat!!! It did it again about an hour into the flight. I'm leaning towards the psu at this point. Or better said the fans in the psu. They've been making a lot of noise for a while now and quieted down a bit a few days ago. Just checked and there's no air blowing out of the psu and the top of the case is pretty darn warm right now. This 480w psu came out of Mrs Willy's old comp and is as old as my comp. I guess 7 years is a bit much to expect out of a psu.

Time to put the race on hold and order some parts. :banghead:
 
Willy said:
Drat!!! It did it again about an hour into the flight. I'm leaning towards the psu at this point. Or better said the fans in the psu. They've been making a lot of noise for a while now and quieted down a bit a few days ago. Just checked and there's no air blowing out of the psu and the top of the case is pretty darn warm right now. This 480w psu came out of Mrs Willy's old comp and is as old as my comp. I guess 7 years is a bit much to expect out of a psu.

Time to put the race on hold and order some parts. :banghead:
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Tough break dude.. But I've been there.. MANY years ago, I overclocked my 486-DX2-66 to 133 Mhz and it went on fire on me running fs4 or 5 i dont remember.. :)
 
Nothing overclocked here. Just a psu with a dodgy fan that's been making noise for a couple of years now. Going to go get a new one here in a bit.
 
Final leg YBCV - YMEN Pt III

Got a new psu, installed it and it sprang to life, then died about 3 seconds later :banghead:.

So I put the old one back in, left the "cowling" (side cover) off and am running it until I can get back to the shop where I got the new one tomorrow. It's running a lot cooler now than it has for a long time.

So, I'm going to try and finish this thing again. El samo precision time guesstimate of 3:35:00.
 
Well done Willy! Congratulations and welcome to Melbourne. Beech seems to be a precision animal. A drink to you.
best
Olli
 
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