Trans Pacific Flight

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Postby ardypilot » Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:47 pm

After recently flying a Trans-Atlantic flight, there was only one last sim frontier to conquer- the mighty pacific ocean. So, I installed an old Meljet Boeing 772 and got busy planning a 6543 mile long flight from Auckland (NZAA) to San Francisco (KSFO), a route flown daily by our national flag carrier as 'New Zealand 8'. I was going to mimic the flight exactly, setting off at 8.10pm and arriving stateside at approximately 12.00pm that same day, although the flight itself would take just over 12 hours to complete.

Now I didn't sit in front of my PC for that whole time staring at the ocean- I took off, flew the departure from Auckland and set autopilot up for the long cruise- then went to bed- woke up and flew the last hour or so, then the arrival into the famous San Francisco bay with my newly installed FlyTampa scenery (following on the company theme of long distance scenery from my last big flight).

Anyway, below are 22 screenshots (1.61mb) that I took en-route. Not the most interesting as you can imagine with little scenery to look at along the way and a fairly low quality freeware jet to get me from A to B. Also, the world time clock in my sim is out of sync, showing the black night sky at NZAA on departure, even set to mid-summer where the sun wouldn't even have set yet. Oh well, here goes:

Saturday night:






Sunday morning:







Land Ahoy:











And finally, my real-time AI counterpart, in the correctly updated livery:


Apologies to 56k'ers for the many screenies- but this was the longest flight I have ever done so it only seems appropriate to cover it in depth winkyy.gif
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Postby benwynn » Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:56 pm

Nice Trolly!!

Those Flytampa scenerys are just a treat to watch!

Come on, that panel makes me wana puke!! Atleast download a good freeware panel tongue.gif
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Postby Charl » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:46 am

There are flasher panels it's true...not too much wrong with the Meljet model though, is there, after all this time?
I flew the Melbourne - Auckland leg on that (RW) plane a while ago (it goes YMML-NZAA-KSFO).
There was an American couple on board who'd been mis-booked.
They got on at Auckland, bound for KSFO. When they got off at Melbourne they were a little surprised by the weather, and how short the flight was.
ANZ shouted them a business class fare back, heck of a long flight...
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Postby Florian_S » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:21 am

Nice flight Trolly! Forgive me if I ask a stupid question here but how do you take care of the ATC comms when your asleep mate? huh.gif
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Postby ardypilot » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:14 pm

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how do you take care of the ATC comms when your asleep mate?[/quote]
Haha, I didn't. When I woke up I found my flight plan had been terminated just like on my trans atlantic crossing when I left the house. When I got back to it, I simply requested for my IFR plan to be refiled, and I was right on track again.
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Postby Florian_S » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:20 pm

Ah!...nice one! tongue.gif laugh.gif
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Postby Kelburn » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:30 pm

you should use these sceneries for satellite mapping of San Fran:

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=...&CatID=root

Go through the pages till you find San Francisco. I have most of his stuff. Awesome
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Postby scon » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:59 pm

Nice thumbup1.gif

Do you find the Meljet T7 hard to taxi, almost like driving a boat blink.gif
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Postby Mattnz » Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:05 pm

Nice shots Trolly thumbup1.gif

scon wrote:
QUOTE (scon @ Oct 15 2007, 04:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Do you find the Meljet T7 hard to taxi, almost like driving a boat blink.gif


Yeah, I've found that as well...
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Postby AlisterC » Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:40 pm

Nice Trolly! I've done the flight once in real life, and a couple of times on the sim, so I enjoyed the flashbacks brought on by your shots. It certainly is a long way to go.
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