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Ben_Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 6. "RE: Proposed Route Feb 15 0300z Mul..." 02-10-04, 22:00z  > Both Routes are interesting to me. Let's fly one February 15 and the > other February 22! Lets get some other opinions as to which flight we do > which week. I propose we go with your Feb 15th plan and then Vic's on the 22nd. Any seconds? > Maybe later on we could start at Catalina! Sounds like fun! > I can do a nice > table of the Lake Tahoe route similar to the one I did for Moffett. I'm > thinking the ATIS frequency might be a good addition after the field > elevation, although the format I modeled the table after had Magnetic > Variation in that location. FS 2004 doesn't seem to offer Mag. Var. in > the map view popups, and the ones on the old Sublogic maps I have is > probably out of date. All that's really required is magnetic course or better yet, VOR radial. Once you have either of those magnetic variation is only of academic value. > I'm not familliar with all the tweaks involving things like fuel mixture > and calculating the flights fuel burn to the point of having only a > reasonable margin of safety reaching the destination. Without cruise charts, it's too much work trying to come up with good numbers. > Both probably keep > my speed down a bit. I would much prefer cruising at 85 to 95 percent > and having a bit of throttle range so I can catch up if I start to fall > behind. Being 5 miles from the tiny dot representing anouther plane > isn't nearly as much fun as being about half a mile away and being able > to see the shape of the plane and it bank turning at a waypoint. Using > the Simulator rate or CTRL-SHIFT-F feels a bit like cheating. > CTRL-SHIFT-F tends to result in a collision to often too. I flew the P-38 with the drop tanks last Sat and boy-o-boy, do those things create a lot of drag. I resorted to bypassing waypoints and flying direct to "keep up" with you guys! Ben -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Ben Chiu -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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