Where would you fly to...?

[Geert Rolf]

Suppose you have access to a really cute Flight Simulator, Gardermoen is your starting point and you have two hours time:

 

Where would you fly to and (optionally) return?

(and for your choise: do you prefer FS-9 or FS-X scenery and recommend an addon??)

 

 

Geert

[Reidar Fredrik Frydenlund]

Gardermoen-Røros-Gardermoen

FS9, Norway Airports and FFS Saab340A

[Geert Rolf]

My first thought: "Oops, short runway" (1720m) :confused:

 

I don't know how thick the concrete of the Røros runway is? Can it hold an aicraft of 140 - 160 tons?

 

I have not told you one restriction: this Simulator only gives you choise between DC-10 model 10 and DC-10 model 30.

 

Page 23 of http://www.boeing.com/commercial/airports/acaps/dc10sec3.pdf tells us the landing requirements. Without load and with only little fuel left I think we can land. Safely? Hmmmm, very good question.

 

Take-off: at page 19. Can do at full throttle. Allow engines to spool up while holding at threshold.

 

Takk for your response!

 

Geert

 

 

[Halvdan Hellenes]

To Reidars suggestion, I'd switch Røros with Trondheim/ ENVA as destination (TORA/TODA/LDA 09/27 2699/2909/2446 resp. 2564/2864/2424).

 

Agree on the add-ons and simulator already suggested, but would have added both Norway Quality Mesh and Norway Scenic though (both found in the file library here) and hoped for VMC most of the journey.

[Ivar Skaugstad]

No doubt, Ketchikan, AK (PAKT) to Juneau (PAJN) and back! FS9, and ofcourse the all fameous Glacier Bay/Tongass Fjords scenery!

 

Edit: Disregard, didn't see that Gardermoen had to be your orgin. In that case, I would say Molde (ENML).

[Geert Rolf]

Molde requires that all crew members have passed swimming exams and regular training. :grin:

 

Halvdan: Vaernes is on the to-do list. (will explain later)

 

Takk!

 

Geert

P.S. Got another idea from a well known Norwegian FlightSimmer:

ENGM-ESSA-EKCH (short turn-around time at ESSA)

 

 

[Halvdan Hellenes]

Ok, Gert.

 

How about making it simple, safe, but not quite that spectacular on the scenery though?

 

Suggestion Stockholm Arlanda as a destination.

 

Additional add-ons for this trip: GE Pro, UT Europe and last but not least the free beautiful sky- and cloud textures HDE (High Definition Environment) v2.0 by Pablo Diaz.

 

 

[Geert Rolf]

Halvdan: Vaernes is on the to-do list. (will explain later)

 

As some of you may know, the Link Miles DC-10 Simulator in Lillestrøm is interfaced to FS9 (or FSX) for cockpit view only. Although FS9 covers the whole world you can only land on airfields the original Sim software knows about (position of runway, length, bearing, beacons, elevation).

 

Couple of weeks ago we started defining new airports and flew Paris CDG to Gardermoen. (Watch the landing here:

) We can now select Gardermoen Gate 50 as starting position and are testing data for Bergen Flesland.

 

Other airports on the list: Vaernes, Kastrup, Arlanda, Schiphol. There are limitations in number of airports etc and we have a set of existing (mainly US) airports that we want to keep.

 

We now have the plan to make separate disk for European airports (We have Paris CDG and London Gatwick) and more or less start from scratch. That opens more opportunities: Sola, Manchester, some Swedish airports, other Norwegian airports etc etc.

Anyone having suggestions...?

[Anders Merch Grønmyr]

I would fly to Tromsø or Alta without doubt because of the scenery and terrain. I flew ENTC-ENAT in a fullmotion B73G sim at Oxford, Kastrup last year with circle to land rwy 29 Alta. The greatest expirience second after my sons being born

 

So from Oslo I would fly to Tromsø or Alta!

[Gjest Eivind Oterhals]

I would like to fly to London with the DC-10, but if you had a smaller plane, Molde is my biggest wish!

[Even Moe Egenes]

So from Oslo I would fly to Tromsø or Alta!

 

Can Alta really handle a DC-10? I mean, probably with no passengers and almost empty tanks. But getting airborne might be a bigger problem, or is it possible?

[Geir Teigo]

A nice round trip for one evening can be ENGM-ESGG-EKCH-ENCN-ENGM.

This will give you many landings and takeoffs on a relative short period of time.

[Geert Rolf]

Can Alta really handle a DC-10?

 

In theory, I think yes. (see tables in earlier posting)

 

In practice: I think Norwegian FlightSimmers like the challenge of flying in situations where there is no room for error...

 

ENGM-ESGG-EKCH-ENCN-ENGM.

Certainly one we will look into!

 

Takk to all who responded sofar!

[Even Moe Egenes]

In practice: I think Norwegian FlightSimmers like the challenge of flying in situations where there is no room for error... shocked

 

What do you mean? Are you trying to say that landing an A340-200 in Narvik is impossible? :grin:

[Geir Teigo]

We are landing jumbos on carriers...

[Geert Rolf]

Are you trying to say that landing an A340-200 in Narvik is impossible?

 

I'm saying: can land in theory, but safety margins are minimal. no room for error. The crew can take fuel for just a touch-'n-go and fly to a better place or dump fuel to the last drip and land.

 

Dragchute and carrier hooks and cables (takk, Geir) may help.

[Even Moe Egenes]

It´s a great "good-bye-career" flight though..

[Geert Rolf]

It´s a great "good-bye-career" flight though..

 

Reminds me, last summer an EI- registered price-fighter rejected take-off. Can happen... A journalist aboard blogged "the nose-wheel was off the ground". Plane stopped before end of runway. Investigations still in progress - no obvious conclusions yet.

[Magnus Wennevold]

 

Geert;

 

Yesterdays approach RWY13 Kai Tak with DC10-30.

 

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