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[Bell417]

FS Version: FSX
Location: Alaska
Duration of Flight: Roughly 2 Hours

Departure: Gustavus (Take Off 16:42 Local)
Arrival: Teslin (Landing 19:22 Local)

Route: PAGS GUMLE YSQ CYZW (IFR)
Link to Flight Plan:

Time of Day: 16:40
Meteorological Conditions: IFR: Overcast, 3-4000ft ceiling, moderate turbulence, winds 13kts gutsing @ 17kts, visibility 20NM.

Description: Hop 10 is the last flight in Alaska before flying to a new region. This is a senic flight from Gustavus Alaska to Teslin, British Columbia flying over several mountain ranges and lakes in worsening weather with ever-diminishing visibility. I had no problems with the Maule M7-235 but you can certainly tell when you are fully loaded (I took off at 2lbs below MTOW). Next time I might take a twin engine aircraft, but the Maule was very fun.

Screenshots:














I had to edit this one (below), and all of the ones after it so that you would be able to see much of anything. The lighting and weather made flying this approach very challenging, but fun!






Thhe landing was a little rough because their was an almost direct crosswind at 16kts.






If you enjoyed this, please comment as I've put about 4½ hours of work into this. Thanks!

[Bman.]

I enjoyed it!  

4-1/2 hours?!....  what have you been doing, rebuilding the airplane engine

[Bell417]

Well I spent about 30 min setting up the flight (most of that was weather; I set up several seperate weather stations along the flight), 2 hours flying it, 30min editing, resizing, and converting the pics to JPEG, and almost 15min writing the post and uploading the pics, so it was probaly closer to 3¼ hours of work. 4½ was just a guess.

Anyway, I'm glad you liked it!

Edited by Bell417, 24 June 2008 - 10:43 AM.

[usnchris]

Wow, that looks like a beautiful sunset flight there! I'll try out the area!

[franthree]

Nice flight-Bell417-nice to see the Maule-but I cannnot find Teslin British Columbia -on FSX-----your own private airport??  

[Bell417]

cfschris, on Jun 24 2008, 03:55 PM, said:

Wow, that looks like a beautiful sunset flight there! I'll try out the area!

Yes it was a very nice flight, I haven't enjoyed a long flight like that for a while.

franthree, on Jun 24 2008, 04:37 PM, said:

Nice flight-Bell417-nice to see the Maule-but I cannot find Teslin British Columbia...

Teslin is a default airport, the identifier is CYZW.

franthree, on Jun 24 2008, 04:37 PM, said:

...your own private airport??  

Haha! I take it you've been reading the "My All New Airport" thread? Speaking of which, everything's completely done with that, except for AI.


Now that you mention it, I think I will modify the default Teslin airport...and maybe Gustavus too. That SDK is so addicting!!  

Edited by Bell417, 24 June 2008 - 03:57 PM.

[franthree]

I will look for it!-----Since I have these shots---we drove from Teslin BC--to Vancouver International and off we go to Thailand---next hop

Edited by franthree, 24 June 2008 - 03:59 PM.

[Bell417]

Umm, each hop should have it's own thread.

[franthree]

Maybe BMAN can put this post somewhere else! Sorry Bell417

Edited by franthree, 24 June 2008 - 04:07 PM.

[Bell417]

No problem. Oh, and just so you know, I believe each hop's thread is supposed to be layed out in a pre-determind setup--for mine, I looked at the last two hops and followed their pattern.

Edited by Bell417, 24 June 2008 - 04:12 PM.

[franthree]

I was thinking the departure on each  person's hop should be the prevoius flight's destination---sound good---But maybe people want to do thier own thing!!-

Edited by franthree, 24 June 2008 - 04:16 PM.

[Bell417]

franthree, on Jun 24 2008, 05:16 PM, said:

I was thinking the departure on each  person's hop should be the prevoius flight's destination---sound good---But maybe people want to do thier own thing!!-

Umm, you're free to do you're own thing, but this series of "hops" is supposed to be like a relay. If you mean the part about the car trip to vancouver, I think that's OK, but I don't think it would all right for you to start in, say, Australia.


Oh, and just for fun I decided to show you guys what my approach really looked like.
Original:

Edited for lighting:

Edited by Bell417, 24 June 2008 - 04:21 PM.

[franthree]

That's why we are flying Thai Airlines

[usnchris]

Say, this makes the final of the alaska series right? How about Bman makes a vote for next continent, then region.

[franthree]

cfschris, on Jun 24 2008, 09:15 PM, said:

Say, this makes the final of the alaska series right? How about Bman makes a vote for next continent, then region.

Okay -Thailand small nation anyway-hint Australia has lots of different topogaphy and scenery and FTX  Australia mesh   http://fullterrain.com/  -- I have it already would look great in the sceenshots--Tileproxy Bman has----Bman a vote ?

Edited by franthree, 24 June 2008 - 08:44 PM.

[Bell417]

cfschris, on Jun 24 2008, 09:15 PM, said:

Say, this makes the final of the alaska series right? How about Bman makes a vote for next continent, then region.

Yes, this is the last of the AK series. A vote sounds good.

Edited by Bell417, 25 June 2008 - 08:31 AM.

[franthree]

Bman already done that----//www.flightsimhq.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=148436

Edited by franthree, 25 June 2008 - 08:35 AM.

[Bell417]

Oh good, I hadn't seen that.