USA TOUR competition | 14th Leg : Birmingham, Alabama | Soviet Airliners: Tupolev | SUN MAY 19TH : 16:00-21:30 UTCFOURTEENTH TRIPDeparting from Seattle-Tacoma Intl.
(KSEA): Seattle - WashingtonArriving to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth Intl.
(KBHM): Birmingham - Alabama **********************************************************************
Leg Distance: approx 1900 nm
Competing Aircraft: Soviet Airliners, see below
Expected Cruising Speed: about 405 KTAS | 225 KIAS | 0.71 Mach
Expected Cruising Altitude: FL370
Expected Duration (en route): 4h40min
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Flightgear's USA Tour will be arriving to Alabama, Sweet Home AlabamaThe USA tour has begun its second competition using the unpopular BAC Concorde!. Only IAHMCOL adventured using this plane to crosscountry from the state of Mississippi, to Northwest on the State of Washington. Taking off was smooth, but it took a few miles to actually achieve cruising speed and altitude, beyond the expected location in MEM. In spite of that, being a closely controlled flight, once the conditions of flight were reached everything else went nicely ordered, descending over the Northwestern Sierras, in a heavily spiked region on a partly overcasted skies. The concorde reached the correct altitude and speed on approach, but it failed to properly intersect ILS causing an out-of the runway touchdown. Well, I guess IAHMCOL is now infamous for his unusually unaccurate landings during the USA tour, so it all goes within the plan
And the trip was not completely alone! I was accompanied by STAR and PH-ETE who both flew MA2.0 capable military type planes!. Thanks Guys!
Here we can see an arrival screenshot to Seattle-Washington:
Next destination for the USA tour will be the the Southern state of Alabama. We will be cruising back to the South-USA, which represents a full return from our coming to Washington from Mississippi. The route and the types of plane use will vary greatly thou. Now, competitors will be flying any Soviet airliner capable of keeping a cruising of 0.7Ma at FL350-370. Several Tupolev models had been developed for flightgear and I encourage our Flightgear Multiplayer enthusiast to join in one of these competing planes. The route we will follow is now fully disclosed and it will take us in an almost perfect diagonal accross continental USA for 1880 nm, therefore the cruising time will be 4h40min. Considering that we will have to take into account departing and arrival times, an estimate time of 5h30min had been estimated for this LONG USA tour event. I will be very happy to see my flying buddies again, and I am looking forward to see your registrations and your coming by during the next USA tour. We are going to "Sweet-Home Alabama"
Flight PlanWe will follow the flightplan indicated here. See
Skyvector details.
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WAYPOINT Type freq HEAD DIST ROUTE
KSEA Dep. 163 11.9 SUMMA7.BKE
NEVJO FIX 144 40.3
SUMMA FIX 104 205.5
BKE VOR 115.3 117 104.1 J54
BOI VOR 113.3 087 160.6
PIH VOR 112.6 088 235.4
CKW VOR 115.0 091 87.5
LAR VOR 117.6 086 43.6 J175
CYS VOR 113.1 081 10.0
MOCTU FIX 115 72.3
LEWOY FIX 115 131.0 Q148
CUGGA FIX 119 71.2
PENUT FIX 112 66.5
KIRKE FIX 118 136.4
BVO VOR 117.9 102 98.3 Q128
RZC VOR 116.4 105 118.9
PAMMO FIX 110 96.5
MEM VOR 117.5 116 173.1
VUZ VOR 114.4 129 9.8 J41
KBHM Arr. 1872.7nm
Competing AircraftsIn principle, any Soviet Airliner capable of flying at 470KTAS | 0.7Ma at FL370 will be competing!. Interestingly enough, as can be seen from the list below, only Tupolev models are modelled within flightgear, therefore this time competing pilots will likely shown in one of the tupolev models indicated below.
Non competing players are welcome to come by in any aircraft of their choice.
See you all soon!
Modelled in FlightgearCompeting aircraft yet not Modelled in Flightgear- Antonov 24
- Antonov 28
- Beriev Be-30
- Ilyushin Il-62
- Ilyushin Il-86
- Ilyushin Il-114
- Tupolev Tu-124
- Tupolev Tu-334
- Yakolev Yak-42
- Yakolev Yak-48
- Yakolev Yak-77
CommunicationsWe will attempt to communicate via mumble this time. Friendly, easy to handle and install, and for those like me that love this: "open source".
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server: mumble-de.cleanvoice.ru
Port: 63453
Room: Flight Room
Feel free to try it out. Flying with voice communication is quite easier than texting. For those unwilling/unable, we will remain answering on FGText while the speed of this fly allow.
STAR and SIDSID, SUMMA7.BKE: Seattle-Tacoma Intl.
STAR, not available
Parking Gates- Seattle-Tacoma Intl. Airport, KSEA. Groundnet provides 30 total parking positions located in the different gates on Terminal A,B,C,D, North or South Satellites.
To install these groundnet files, simply download and copy in the folders appropriate to your system and installation. You will need to identify and ubicate your $ROOT folder and your $TERRASYNC folder (if using terrasync) respectively. After installing, parking positions will be available thru FGRUN, FGX, and/or command line launcher 'fgfs'.
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copy the files in (i.e):
$FGROOT/Scenery/Airports/K/S/E/KSEA.groundnet.xml ,AND
$TERRASYNC/Airports/K/S/E/KSEA.groundnet.xml
If we gave everybody in the World free software today, but we failed to teach them about the four freedoms, five years from now, would they still have it? Probably not, because if they don’t recognise their freedoms, they’ll let their freedoms fall