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USA Tour Competition | SUN JUN 9TH 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Mon May 27, 2013 8:05 pm

Registered Planes

To simplify the downloading and installing of the planes that are expected in the event I am providing below a list of planes that registered players will be using. I will be updating this list as pilots register and/or
inform me the plane they will be competing/accompanying with, so everyone can obtain these and avoid the yellow/blue gliders, without the need of installing all possible competing planes for this leg.

Confirmed Planes
The list of confirmed (registered) planes will be kept updated here, to simplify installation of necessary aircrafts.


Available and Used gates

Currently Parking Positions T1-5 to T1-10 and all T2 positions (T2-1 to T2-5) are unassigned. If you had not register with the filing form and want to accompany, feel free to use one of these. VERIFY this post before deciding a terminal position. See parking position file below.

See you soon
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Re: USA Tour Competition | SUN JUN 9TH 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Mon May 27, 2013 8:07 pm

USA TOUR competition | 15th Leg : Boise, Idaho | Boeing 7X7 Series Airliners | SUN JUN 9TH : 17:00-21:30 UTC

FIFTEENTH TRIP
Departing from Birmingham–Shuttlesworth Intl. (KBHM): Birmingham - Alabama
Arriving to Boise Air Terminal / Gowen Field. (KBOI): Boise - Idaho

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Leg Distance: approx 1650 nm
Competing Aircraft: Boeing 7X7 series, see below
Expected Cruising Speed: about 425 KTAS | 250 KIAS | 0.75 Mach
Expected Cruising Altitude: FL310 - 350 or 390 depending on Aircraft you bring
Expected Duration (en route): 3h50min
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Flightgear's USA Tour counting 15 entertaining events

During this 15th, we will be, OMG, back to the Northwest (what is going on with this diagonal full-country cruising all along?!), and we will be arriving to the state of Idaho. Expect mountain areas on landing!

Furthermore, we visited the state of Washington, without paying due to one of the biggest USA aircraft manufacturing companies, that was founded in that state: BOEING. Well, better late.

Now, we will be travelling Northwest back using ANY of the very succesful 7X7 series Airliners. Planes of all generations could be competing simultaneously here (from early 60's till now), surprisingly all within a relatively similar specs brackets that allows us to bring any of these together.

Furthermore, Flightgear will offer several "distros" on many of these planes, so really, the choice is yours: large variability in performance, graphics detail, and realism to choose from!. Get your favorite one, I will be waiting for you on Birmingham, Alabama, next June 9th.

Off course, here is one screenshot of our last arrival to KBHM, and below the current state map of USA Tour.

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Flightplan

We will be following High Altitude Juliet Airways, connecting an exclusively VOR2VOR route. Details below:

CALLSING | Boeing 7X7 | KBHM VUZ J52 IGB SQS TKX ADM J21 IRW J98 MMB LBL J52 LAA HGO FQF J116 EKR J173 TCH J15 TWF KBOI | FL310/350/390 @ 430KTAS (approx 0.75Ma)
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Waypoint  Type     Freq   Radial   ROUTE
KBHM     Departing airport. Initial Alt: 4000 feet. then Vectors to VUZ 
VUZ     VORTAC  114.4 261     J52
IGB     VORTAC  116.2 266   
SQS     VORTAC  114.7 269
TXK     VORTAC  116.3 279
ADM     VORTAC  116.7 337   J21
IRW     VORTAC  114.1 292   J98
MMB     VORTAC  115.6   299   
LBL     VORTAC  112.3 300   J20-52
LAA     VORDME  116.9   299   
HGO     VORDME  112.1   307
FQF     VORTAC  116.3 268   J116
EKR     VORDME  115.2 270   J173
TCH     VORTAC  116.8   296   J15
TWF     VORTAC  115.8 293
KBOI     Arriving Airport. Elev. 2871feet      


SID and STAR

  • KBHM SID: Birmingham5.VUZ; Page1 . Page2
  • KBOI STAR:Not available. Arriving from TWF 100 nm Southeast.


Competing Aircrafts

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Every Boeing 7X7 will compete. All "ages" allowed. If you want to company the competing players feel free to bring any aircraft you want to. If you plan to follow us for most of the 4+ hours trip, bring a plane capable of flying at FL310@0.75Ma or more.


Registration

Pilots that are planning to compete are encouraged to complete this very simple registration form.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhIM1NSWnVKZFBvMExRSjl5LWRsZmc6MA

It will allow me to organize the event and provide parking position for competing players on time. Also, I will announce confirmed planes in the original post so we can all prepare by downloading required add-ons on time. Finally, I will send a confirmation email to registered players

Registration is not required, so if you wish, just come by to the event place and time, with a competing plane for join the competition or in any other aircraft to make company to us.

Communications

We 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.

Parking Gates

  • Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, KBHM Groundnet provides 15 total parking positions located on Terminal. 10 Positions for terminal 1 (T1-1 to T1-10) and 5 positions on Terminal 2 (T2-1) to (T2-2).


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/B/H/KBHM.groundnet.xml ,AND
$TERRASYNC/Airports/K/B/H/KBHM.groundnet.xml
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Re: USA Tour Competition | SUN JUN 9TH 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:27 pm

USA Tour 15: Boeing 7x7 event KBHM - KBOI, 17:00 - 21:30 UTC Tomorrow SUN Jun 9th!

Hi All! A reminder, the USA tour, fifteenth route happens tomorrow.

A few comments and a historical perspective on the USA tour

1. MUMBLE! mumble mumble

Communication is critical for a succesful USA tour. In the USA tour competing pilots have a flight plan as posted above, but communications with other pilots and with myself as crew leader is very important for the following of the plan. Most pilots will use the internal FGChat map to identify traffic positions, but I will vector pilots off route, I will indicate flying speeds and altitudes, and in general help the group through communication. Besides, Its way fun if you talk rather than just sitting there staring each other: HELL! that is why is multiplay anyways, rite?

I lament to inform to all community that my FGChat problems are actually worse than I imagine. My FGchat is useless. Most I can do is read some (not all) of the pop messages. Anything I type will be invisible to any others but to me. Therefore, you will start thinking after you ask me a question that I am to arrogant to answer. It is NOT the case. YOU ARE UNABLE to see all answers I am typing to you!

And also, its way better to fly under voice communication than under text communication (and it simulates better the activity of flying).

vATO offers its very stable mumble server for anyone to use anytime they will. They flight room is for that purpose. During all the event of USA tour I will be connected to the mumble server. Please do so, respectively. First, It will allow us to have voice contact. You may hear or hear and speak, as you wish. Second, it will allow a functional chat where you can send messages that all mumble connected peers will be able to read, and that pop up above the FG screen while flying. Additionally, if I type flying instructions, by being connected to the mumble server, you will be able to properly coordinate and follow.

Thus, very much due to my communication issues with the FGChat, connection to the mumble is rather a requirement, and I apology for this.

RESTATING
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server: mumble-de.cleanvoice.ru
Port: 63453
Room: Flight Room



2. BUT :( I may not have 5 hours! :S

Well, USA tour, bottomline is a competition. And there may be players that enter the competition mood! Still, more importantly, in essence, USA tour is a friendly multiplayer event, and participation is encourage even for those players uninterested in points and ranks, scores and medals :)

Noticeably, pilots that fly the complete event, including take off (on time), cruising, and landing (sucessfully) get the most score of everyone. But part routes are scored as well. Examples: a) you intercept us in the middle of our known route, with the proper plane, I will record your showing time and score you for the time you actually fly with us. b) you can show on time but you don't really have all the four hours, you can still come along for as long as able and drop when necessary. I will record your drop off time and score accordingly. Caution! USA tour may be so fun and interesting with frequency that time may appear shorter than actually is! If really need to drop, set a timer!.

If you are NOT into getting ranked, you can still participate! :) Flyng along is FUN. It is what USA tour is all about. You may come with a plane capable of flying the trip specifications but NOT included in the competing list: That way you automatically rank as a non-competing acompanying player. We will be very happy to have you on board.
Furthermore, you can even chose planes with very distinct features, like a skyhawk or a helicopter or anything you want for that matter, and simply be there at departing time, arrival time, or intercept our route (with caution, avoid collisions). This still generates a dense traffic condition, and we do appreciate getting greeted in the arrival airport by a group of helicopters and welcoming players.

3. Registration

The registration is not required/enforced, but it is welcomed! :D
It will allow me to inform other participants of the aircraft you are intending to bring to the event, thus allowing us to download and install beforehand if necessary.
It will allow me to assign you a parking gate beforehand, and therefore getting the space on the event organized.

I will not share the contact information you provided with no-one, even organizations or other people within flightgear (not even with my own vATO). Still, if you feel unsure about this fact, the contact information field in the form is not required.

Registration Form
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Re: USA Tour Competition | SUN JUN 9TH 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Sat Jun 08, 2013 6:23 pm

4. An Historical Perspective

The USA tour multiplayer events will count 15th when we arrive to the city of Boise.
But milder this number may sound, the previous 14 installments had been relaxed-yet organized multiplayer-fun packed events. Not all of them thou, since some of the earliest trips were flown by me unacompanied, in spite of extensive forum posting and propaganda. When I was close to give up inviting you guys to come along, 1 player, Les8of, showed up in the William P. Hobby Airstrip on an A6M2 willing to go cruising with me across the Southeast via Columbia, South Carolina. Following event was again a solely cruise to Fargo, North Dakota in a very nicely behaved CRJ700, but luckily it was the last of the lone begin of the USA tour events.

From Fargo to Birmingham, Alabama, a bird pack of enthusiastic, and great sim-pilots had made trains of birds accross USA. One goal, visit every State and U.S territory, one at a time. We always arrive to the largest city (most populated) of every state, and land to its largest available airport. (yup, some cities had more than 1 option!). The next location remaining a top-secret until the next event, happening at around 3rd week since previous event, on a Sunday afternoon (UTC time).

We had visited, therefore 15 states. Interestingly, we had cruised around 12000 nm above the skies of USA. There is always a plane or a plane topic that is featured in this events, and competitors are compelled to use the planes featured to accrue points. This is with the goal of exploring the varied features that our flight simulator, fligthgear has to offer. Additionally, I always consider the characteristics and length of flight in the choosing of the airplane topic to be featured. Additionally, we also explore different navigation modes such as IFR, VFRs, VOR2VOR, and secret waypoint modes. So USA tour is really entertaining, varied and challenging.

This is a complete map of the USA tour trips till date
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GCMAP
The distance in nm and the speed in 1 Mach. 20 hours of 1 Ma flight :O

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DATE      DEP      ARR      MODE/PLANE            IAHMCOL FLEW
08/26/12  KPHL    KOKC    NONE/Citation X         Citation X
09/02/12  KOKC   KIAH/KHOU  NONE/Seneca II  Seneca II
09/16/12  KHOU   KCAE   NONE/A6M2                A6M2
09/3012   KCAE   KFAR    NONE/CRJ700            CRJ700
10/21/12  KFAR   KSLC    NONE/Fokker 50          Fokker 50
11/11/12  KSLC   KCYS    NONE/Cessna 337       Cessna 337
11/18/12  KCYS  KIND      Twin Engine Airliners: Rear Fuselage mounted   717-200
12/02/12  KIND   KJAX     Twin Engine Airliners: Wing mounted     Omega's A320neo
01/06/13  KJAX  KMSP     Historic Jet Airliners    DC9-32
01/27/13  KMSP KICT      Civ. Multiengine props above 200 KIAS   EMB120
02/17/13  KICT   KFSD     VFR:WWII Warbirds     F6F
03/10/13  KFSD  KJAN     Low Altitude:Cold War Bombers  B52 Stratofortress
04/14/13  KJAN  KSEA     Secret Flight Plan: Supersonic Civ. Transport   BAC-Concorde
05/19/13  KSEA KBHM     Soviet Airliners          Tupolev 154B2
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Re: USA Tour Competition | SUN JUN 9TH 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:42 pm

The Boeing 727-tribute arrived to Alabama and it is ready to be commanded by IAHMCOL via KBOI! :D

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Re: USA Tour Competition | SUN JUN 9TH 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:06 pm

Departing KBHM in just a few minutes!
Winds 18008KTS, RWY 24 via A:A7
Left turn then direct to VUZ RAD 261
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Re: USA Tour Competition | SUN JUN 9TH 17:00 - 21:30 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:17 am

Arrived to Idaho! :D

After a long trip with Boeing Airliners 7X7 series, the USA tour arrived to Boise, Idaho.

The trip was really entertained, and featured Michat's Boeing 727-230 tribute. Also, the challenge was accepted by Side (M. Kraus' git 707) and PH-ETE (747-200), this later flew for about 2hr reaching the vicinity of Oklahoma City. There were numerous accompanying pilots, keeping the multiplayer spirit of the USA Tour. Les8f brought his newly designed Tupolev-104 and flew most of our ways across USA. We also had multiple interceptor fighters that escort us for part of our journey; Star (F16), BIXZ (m2000-5), D-HF47 (Typhoon), and D-Laser (F16/UFO) feautured.

Images can be seen below that shows the interesting diamond formation we achieved on the beginning of our journey, and also the awesome bees' group we got when we were reached by the party of interceptors :)

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Descend was begun on the north shore of the great salt lake (Utah), as we reach South of state of Idaho. With a continuous descend rate of 1500 fpm, the arriving pilots (Side, Les8of, BIZX and IAHMCOL) reached the vicinity of KBOI and landed safely on RWY 28.

The updated score sheet for USA tour can be seen here

SCORE SHEET


I will be looking forward, once again, to our next USA tour installment, and I expect it will continue being this great fun. Thanks everyone! :D
Next USA tour (16th leg) will be announced soon, and it is expected to be scheduled for Sunday June 30th 2013. Mark your calendar ;)
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