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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Sun Aug 23, 2015 1:17 am

legoboyvdlp wrote in Sun Aug 23, 2015 12:37 am:@JOHAN - that didn't really work - it was just an mp overload. 30ish planes.


I suggest that you do the whole 9 yards, to prevent MP overload, that will help you

1. Do not install the heavy models. Such as the ones you listed. --rather specially not if they give you trouble and someone is going to fly with them. If you do not have a model to load, that will keep your system to load detailed 3d models (cabins and stuff, it all counts)

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git submodule deinit Aircraft/{777,757-200,tu154b}


2. Go to the Artificial Intelligence folder in FGData and rename the Models of any possible culprit

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cd $FG_Root/AI/Aircraft/
mv tu154b tu154b-inactive -vi  #in Linux. Adjust to your respective OS


3. Once in MP, the aircraft line will show orange. To go the extra yard, click the last square to ignore the dangerous aircraft

If you complete these 3 steps, you can escort a fleet of Tupolevs, and you will be just fine
(well... they will be invisible to you and your system.... but you'll be Just Fine!)

;)

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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby Side » Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:52 am

Great fun even with the crashes!

Some pics,

A new "constelation" has been made by USA Tour
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And final meeting
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Cheers!!
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby SHM » Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:53 am

First time in the USA tour and had loads of fun with the convoy. :)

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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby Johan G » Sun Aug 23, 2015 12:28 pm

Seems the event had quite some turnout for you guys. I counted already impressive 20 aircraft on one of the screenshots above, and later saw even "30ish" mentioned. I am impressed. :mrgreen:
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby legoboyvdlp » Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:36 pm

Indeed, it seems to be the largest ever!
@IAHM -- I did that on the day.... I renamed the 757 and tuplovevs both aircraft and AI and that fixed the crash but *I guess* due to so many planes it froze on me (stopped responding)
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby LesterBoffo » Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:44 am

Well this was a first with so many planes in the air with me. I did manage to make it nearly all the way to Toronto before my 2nd FG crash, and after re-spawning @ CYYZ, there were no real problems with the usual East Coast terrain either. I even had a smooth go around on my first aborted final at Burlington.

I did turn down the MP/AI view distances so I didn't see aircraft until they were at least a N-mile distant. And the TU154 and 757 were loaded as simplified AI 3D models. Having AC3D with a simplify mesh boolean function helped.

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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:13 am

Hi All

This is a selection of my screenshots.
For a complete set, fetch: https://github.com/IAHM-COL/USATour-Screenshots

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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:59 am

And the USA Tour made its way to Vermont

Oh Yes. We did mention our Maple Syrup breakfast while getting there. but let me do a bit of the narrative of the event :mrgreen:

As scheduled, and honoring a clean sheet record of "being on time", we met in Billings Montana: Starting at around 16Z, pilots started showing up and preparing for a comfortably long flight. Fuel preparations, cups of coffee, friends remeeting: chatting and mumbling..

Weather came to our attention. Wind was blowing hardly on Montana, and we had to face crosswinds of up to 30KTS with gusts of 37KTS. I selected RWY 28R as active (the long one), as we collected our Narrow body aircrafts in the passenger terminal apron area. Althought that being the largest apron in KBIL, suddenly things started to feel a bit overwhelming, including AFL94's tupolev 154b floating above JWocky's B722. Quite a sight from my perspective.

At 17Z, I released the departing instructions. We were to taxi to RWY 28R via A, hold and wait for instructions to line up and take off. After departure we were to climb continuous to an initial clearance of 15000, turn right to 360 degrees, and finally head direct to MLS, our first way point. No need to wait for the last pilot, we were going to just make a line of pilots evenly separated accross the northern-west US Aerospace. Once each pilot reached MLS, we were cleared to climb continuous to FL330 and reach Ma082. It was somewhat a very specific and long set of instructions, and we had the weather adding additional hardship. Surprisingly thou, every pilot pull off a clean take off, as instructed, while IH-COL released one pilot after the next, while giving them +1 minute separation.

After the cleanly performed departure, we could see all the planes neatly organized along the airway J34 distanced rather evenly and en route. It was quite a sight! From the head to the tail almost a mind-buggling 200 nm separation made the pilot list of every participant just a sample of what was going on, and only mpmap (see images above) could tell a rather complete history.

The convoy collected a few more pilots along the lines including some companionship with a few B777 and a Citation X. In addition to KIWI 34 that attempted to complete a flight over the Atlantic on an A380, we also had a few OpenRadar towers along the way offering refueling services if any pilot happened to need that. Only MV-DP was in need of refuel, but unfortunately his FG crashed before he could succesfully made it to ground.

Maybe with an slightly overloaded MP server, the group faced a few crashes, that were ressolved by assisting the pilots to find a close departing airport; where they take off again and rejoin the long caravan of Airliners. Fantastic fun.

We reached the lake Michigan and faced slightly North before our last approach to Burlington. We held altitude until Burlington (KBTV_TW) came in radar, and then initiated an initial descent to 14000 feet, and from there we were cleared to a final approach to ILS RWY 33. Noting that the arrival to Burlington is not lack of excitement with terrain in the vicinity reaching as much as 4500ft, while the airport is located as low as 350ft MSL. That makes quite an impressive terrain avoidance arrival, and definitely a recommended approach to all FGers. :D

Landing happened, surprisingly, as smooth as departure. We lost KIWI34 in the tower due to computer problems. Then IH-COL tried to take over the arrival position, but unfortunately his internet service began flickering and put me out of buzz... therefore SHM and subsequently KB7 took over the control of the arrival and assisted one after another a long list of at least 20 pilots that made the flight thru... while we saw F36's B752 distance along halifax into the long blue North Atlantic -- clearlly without enough fuel to reach the next coast.

Thanks everyone that participated, for your great sportmanship, and for being really fun pilot-pals.

I am looking forward to our next USA Tour leg, the 40th; which will be announced soon


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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:53 pm

Route 39th: Summary
  • City_39: Burlington, Vermont
  • Route: KBIL-KBTV
  • Topic: Narrow Body Airliners
  • Date: 08/22/2015
  • Pilots _ 23: AFL940 (Tupolev tu154b), Ambro (Boeing 757-200), ClrCoda AVA28 (Boeing 737-300), Cain (Boeing 757-200), F-KATS (Boeing 707), F-36 (Boeing 757-200), FGAF_P3 (Boeing 757-200), IH--COL (dc8-63), Joe (Boeing 707), JWocky (Boeing 727-230), KB7 (Boeing 757-200 ), Lesbof (dc8-73), MD-DP (Boeing 717-200), Miguel (Boeing 707), N-SCOT (Boeing 707), OOKAMI (Boeing 757-200), PA76 (Boeing 707), Side (Boeing 707), Skyboat (Boeing 757-200), SM (dc8-63), YV-123B (A321-231), YV-187 (Tupolev tu154b), Legoboyvdlp YV-LEGO (Boeing 707)
  • Company _ 19: ACA987 (Boeing 777-300ER), d-laser (UFO Obs), JJJ333 (CitationX), KABD_TW, KMKE_TW (OpenRadar), KAJ1337 (CitationX @ KBTV ), KB7 ( OpenRadar @ KBTV), KIWI34 (OpenRadar @KBTV ), Leo_Soa (Boeing 777-300ER ), MSA523 (Boeing 777-200LR arriving KBTV ), N2937R (Boeing 777-300ER), Falcon N3266G (Boeing 777-200ER ),NG (Boeing 777-200), NHSH77 (Citation X ), PH-ONOX (UFO@ KBIL. UFO @ KBTV), SM (OpenRadar @ KBTV), US-JPM (Airbus A330-200 @ KBTV ), VH777 (c172p @ KBTV ), Legoboyvdlp YV-LEGO (Boeing 727-230 arriving KBIL)

A Ranked Tabulation of Participants
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Rank| Pilot| Participations | Remarks
0 IH--COL  |  39 | Out of Contest
1 JWOCKY | 19
2 Lesbof  |   18
3 Side  |  15
4 Skyboat | 14
5 F-36  | 12
6 Cain | 9
6 LV-EPM  |  9
7 Legoboy | 7
7 Michat   | 7
8 MD-GRK  | 6
8 Sbyx |  6
9 AVA0028 | 5
9 Falcon N3266G| 5
9 KB7  | 5
9 Rick Ace | 5
10 Ambro_IT | 4
10 D-LASER | 4
10 MV-DP | 4
10 N22  | 4
10 PH-ETE   |  4
10 PH-ONOX | 4
10 STAR  |  4
11 A-BODY  |  3
11 KL-666  | 3
11 lastmin   | 3
11 Someguy | 3
12 ainnuz AIC | 2
12 CA-ASC  | 2
12 Cata  |  2
12 D-07007 | 2
12 FGAF_P3  | 2
12 F-KATS | 2
12 F-LANN | 2
12 G-MKNY | 2
12 Joe454 | 2
12 Yesrev YV-187  | 2
13 AFL940 | 1
13 BAW-5154 | 1
13 Catalan | 1
13 CC-DLV   | 1
13 Circum | 1
13 DELTA265 (VladFlyer) | 1
13 D-LEON | 1
13 Eagle | 1
13 Echo1 | 1
13 F-KIDS | 1
13 F-PAUL | 1
13 FMG | 1
13 HerbyW  | 1
13 Kaa | 1
13 Mattila  | 1
13 Miguel | 1
13 M-J4MC | 1
13 N-SCOT | 1
13 OOKAMI | 1
13 OOZVY  | 1
13 PA76 | 1
13 PALO  | 1
13 SM | 1
13 Tikibar  | 1
13 Turbo  | 1
13 YV-123B | 1


Note: Tabulation above only account for pilots bringing participant planes, not company.
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby AA_1881 » Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:28 am

Guys when is the next event?
My favorite Aircraft:
Boeing 767 https://db.tt/OhYzdLRK (you must have the 757-200 installed too)
Boeing 707 https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/707
Boeing 787 https://github.com/omega95-aircraft/fg-boeing-787-8
A320neo https://github.com/artix75/A320neo
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT AUGUST 22ND 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby legoboyvdlp » Thu Sep 03, 2015 1:51 pm

Uh heres a challenge for you go out into the multiplayer forums and look for a USA tour on the 26th of september. In future look before posting
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