Make sure to get installed the confirmed planes before hand, to avoid delays or yellow gliders
USA TOUR event | 32nd Leg: From London With Love | Hybrid (Civilian or Military): British Manufactured Jets | SAT FEB 21ST 17:00 UTC - 24:00 UTC
THIRTYSECOND TRIP
Departing Cyril E. King Airport,(TIST): Charlotte Amelie, U.S. Virgin Islands
Arriving Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (KLIT): Little Rock, Arkansas
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Leg Distance: approx 1750 nm
Competing Aircraft: Any Jet Aircraft manufactured in the United Kingdom (Hybrid: Civilian + Military)
Expected Cruising Speed:~350KTAS
Expected Cruising Altitude:FL280-FL320
Expected Duration (en route): ~4h40min
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From London With Love
Note: Copyright of the 007 Logo is owned by Danjaq LLC, and United Artists and of the Movie "From Russia With Love" is owned by Eon Productions, Dajaq LLC, and United Artists.
The USA tour arrived another incorporated Territory:The USA Virgin Islands. And we did so, while flying McDonnell Douglas Jets from Manchester, New Hampshire, over the Atlantic Ocean, and crossing the large Bermuda Triangle. The Weather was eerie. Departure happened a few minutes after snowed, with visibility being really low, and mist presence in the air. The taxiway centers were merely visible. After the take off, we find an overcast at just 1900 feet. Luckily the terrain is flat and low and we receive fast clearance to a cruising level of FL230 - FL250. When we entered the Atlantic Ocean, there was an overcast layer above us, and a second one below us, which looked like we were flying into the tunnel that is the doors of the Bermuda Misteries. And we lost two pilots to the secrets: Skyboat's plane suddenly dissapeared (computer crash!) in a location that made impossible any other recovery maneuver but an air launching, very close to the suspected entry of the infamous geometry. IH-COL suffered a power outage that caused his plane to literally dissapear from the multiplayer servers, and then reapper minutes later in a completely different location. The power outage caused his Internet to drop, but his computer operating on battery kept flying regularly until the power was restablished and the internet reconnected. Unsurprisingly enough, his reappearance did occur where one would guess the magnetic horrors of the earthy blackhole are finished!.
The fighter jets F18 were really fuel hungry, but they had available two KC10 tankers. A lot (I mean a lot) of refueling action took place, and we are likely to repeat this feat in our return to continental USA in this the 32nd USA Tour leg. This time we will be flying from our last arrival in Amalie Charlotte, the US. Virgin Islands. We will overfly puerto rico and head in the direction of Bahamas and look for the coast of Florida over Miami. Crossing the Sunshine state over the everglades to head northernly over the west coast looking the Southeast, and finally heading to our destination, The largest and Capital City of the State of Arkansas: Little Rock (the name coming from a tiny stone, not for some dosage of good music!).
The USA tour is looking forward for you (the flightgear pilot) to engage and participate. We invite and welcome everyone that wants to tag along, and we are a friendly and cooperative flying environment: Hope to see you there on the 21st of February, for our sky-sliding appointment.
Aircrafts
This is the first USA TOUR leg that features a Country Specific manufacture.
What Aircraft shall I choose If I want to be considered one of the Elite of USA Tour Participants?! Well this time any participant will be who flies almost any Jet aircraft that has been manufactured by the United Kingdom aviation conglomerates. This aircraft could have been FULLY manufactured by the United Kingdom, or developed in multinational efforts. A list of the planes that I could find available in FG are listed below, and also a list of the EXCLUDED planes, and the reasons for exclusion are indicated below. I did attempt to make the list complete, but if you know of a plane that should have qualified, and is not incorporated, please do not shy out of letting us know. Furthermore, hopefully you may want to fly it with us
Another important point: We had been noticing that certain planes are conflicting on the multiplayer scene and create weird but predictable and reproducible crashes. We do not want to exclude these from participating. On the contrary, if you can leave us a note of what plane you are considering bringing, Let us know, and we will do some background testing and patching if necessary. Fuel patches to make planes more accurate with referenced ranges can be attempted, and for certain planes, we may be able to also make it Air refuelable so we can practice some of that challenging fun over this cruise.
Note: Some Aircraft may be available by either distribution below, but they are likely to differ in systems, models, and performance
- Official Download:
- RAF JAGUAR T4 (Breguet / British Aircraft Corporation)
- BAC TSR2 (British Aircraft Corporation)
- BAE-125 (British Aerospace)
- Blackburn Buccaneer (Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. and Hawker Siddeley)
- Canberra BI8, a.k.a English Electric Canberra or Avro Canberra (English Electric)
- BAC-Concorde (British Aircraft Corporation/Aerospatiale)
- DeHavilland Comet DH-106 (DeHavilland)
- Eurofighter Typhoon EF2000 (British Aerospace / Airbus Group / Alenia Aermacchi)
- Harrier Jump Jet (British Aerospace / McDonnell Douglas)
- Hawker Siddeley Nimrod (British Aerospace / Hawker Siddeley )
- Hawker Hunter (Hawker Siddeley)
- English Electric Lightning (English Electric / British Aircraft Corporation)
- Avro Vulcan B2 (Hawker Siddeley)
- Gloster Meteor (Gloster Aircraft Company)
FGUK Download: - English Electric Canberra (English Electric)
- Avro Vulcan (Hawker Siddeley)
- TSR2 (British Aircraft Corporation)
- Hawk AJT (British Aerospace)
- Harrier II (British Aerospace/McDonell Douglas)
- BAe Sea Harrier (British Aerospace/ Hawker Siddeley)
- De Havilland Sea Vixen DH110 (DeHavilland)
- De Havilland Vampire DH100 (DeHavilland)
- Eurofighter Typhoon EF2000 (British Aerospace / Airbus Group / Alenia Aermacchi)
- Handley Page Victor (Handley Page Ltd.)
- Hawker Hunter (Hawker Siddeley)
- Hawker Siddeley Harrier (I or Harrier Jump Jet) (Hawker Siddeley/ British Aerospace/ McDonnell Douglas/ Boeing)
- Hawker Siddeley Nimrod (Hawker Siddeley)
- SEPECAT Jaguar (Breguet / British Aircraft Corporation)
- Panavia Tornado (Panavia Aircraft GmbH; Italy/Germany/U.K)
- Gloster Javelin FAW9 (Gloster Aircraft)
Unofficially Available for Fligthgear - Vickers Nene Viking (Vickers-Armstrongs / Rolls-Royce Engines)
- Supermarine Swift R-5 (Supermarine Aviation Works - Vickers )
Excluded Aircraft - Airbus (ALL) : Although U.K belongs to the multinational conglomerate that produces these, we have had Airbus specific legs before
The GCMAP
Route
We will be travelling Area Navigation, Over Bahamas, Miami, West Florida, and then over the SouthEast
SKYVECTOR
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TIST [PALCO6] PALCO [RTE6] SJU ROBLL [Y587] HARDE GTK RNDLY PAARR FORRK DONEZ COZIE RAJAY [BR53V] DHP [J55] THNDR [Q110] JAYMC RVERO KPASA CTY [J20] SZW [J41] MGM VUZ [J14] XESSS ARIGY LIT [DCT] KLIT
PROCEDURES
SID
- PALCO6
Ground Charts
Communications
Communications will take place with mumble. Important messages can be relayed on FGChat.
Sincere thanks to Michat for offering the intercom room and channels. This will be located in the FG mumble server:
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server: mumble.allfex.org
Room: USA Tour
To install and prepare the mumble (any OS), see here:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page