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vgbaron Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 4. "RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul..." 02-10-04, 06:14z  > Does that estimated time enroute allow for: > > > 1 Limited to 250 knots from 6268 ft to 10,000 ft after departure > At 250kts the P-38 can climb at 2000 fpm > 2 Reduced speed during remainder of climb see above > > 3 Not cruising at 100% throttle so other planes can catch up with the > lead plane instead of being strung out in a line so far apart the > trailing plane can't even see the multiplayer tag for the lead plane > If takeoff spacing is right - shouldn't be a problem assuming the pilot knows how to get the max out of the a/c - should easily cruise at 325kts > At 300 kt cruise speed that might take almost a full hour, not allowing > the additional time between different planes takeoffs and landings. > About same as last flight - should take about an hour with no problems > Is tha PRB waypoint part of a published approach? If a plane is flying > VFR would there be any reason not to fly directly to CREPE from ROM? And > if runway 29 is the active runway at KSBP wouldn't we substitute an > intersection ESE of KSBP for CREPE too? > No, PRB was snuck in there to make it easier for tb to find his way <G>. For our flights, I am not concerned with the active rwy - time dictates we use 11. > Is it normal in the real world to include aproach waypoints in the filed > plight plan, or to refer to the onboard plates once the controler > assigns the flight to an destination airport runway? With the new GPS > units in FS 2004 we now have approach procedures available during > flight, although I'm not sure to what extent the autopilot will respond > to a procedure selected during the flight. > Might be fun to setup a flight sometime with the GPS but tb would have a problem. I've set up approaches in flight on the GPS and the AP has handled it fine. As I said, I don't care which one we fly - Vic -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Vic Baron -OLR.PL v1.83- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Multipl...    RobertVA       02-08-04              RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    vgbaron       02-08-04       1            RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    RobertVA       02-09-04       3                 RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    vgbaron       02-10-04       4                      RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    RobertVA       02-10-04       5                           RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-10-04       6                           RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    vgbaron       02-11-04       7                                RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    tb       02-11-04       8                                     RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    RobertVA       02-13-04       17                           RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    PL965Melo       02-12-04       9                                RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    RobertVA       02-12-04       10                                     RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-12-04       11                                          RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-12-04       12                                               RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    PL965Melo       02-13-04       15                                                    RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-13-04       18                                                         RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    PL965Melo       02-15-04       22                                                              RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-15-04       24                                                                   RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    PL965Melo       02-19-04       26                                                                        RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-20-04       28                                               RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    RobertVA       02-13-04       16                                                    RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-13-04       19                                     RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    PL965Melo       02-13-04       14                                          RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-13-04       20                                               RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    PL965Melo       02-15-04       23                                                    RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    Ben_Chiu       02-15-04       25                                                         RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    PL965Melo       02-19-04       27         RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    andor       02-09-04       2         RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    tb       02-13-04       13         RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    andor       02-14-04       21            RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul...    DylanK       02-24-04       29

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