RTW Retro Flight #21 Mandalay to Calcutta . . . . . . . . . 1962

[NMLW]

Indian Airlines flight 317 is a DC-3 flying fom Mandalay Burma to Calcutta, India’s Dum Dum airport (VYCZ - VECC). We have 500 gallons of fuel onboard and the flight time is about two hours and nineteen minutes for the 489 mile trip. We expect fair-weather with moderate cloud cover en route.

Thanks to:
Aircraft: DC-3 is FS9 standard with Trev Morson updates and painted by Kalyan Mukherjee.
Propliner AI & Traffic: CalClassic & FS Aviator - Tom Gibson, Mike Stevens, Jason Krogmann, Manuel Jagmann, Bill Towers, Nikko Yaginuma, Richard Wright, Frederick Coleman, Dave Jones, Paul Haak, Marty Lochmiller, Ake Lindberg, Harland Sandberg, Richard Wright and Gary Harper.
Scenery: FS9 Standard, and:
- Mandalay Chanmyathazi Airport from Mike Stevens’ 1962 Indochina scenery package including airport surfaces created with AFCAD2, by Lee Swordy.
- Calcutta Dum Dum Airport by Wolfgang Gersch with help from Tom Gibson.
- Airland v1 Runway/Taxiway textures by Nazim Ali Patel.
- Rwy12 and EZ scenery libraries.
- HDE 2.0 Cloud and ground texture enhancements by Pablo Diaz.


1. Boarding passengers and conducting preflight checks.


2. The hatch is buttoned up and engines are started.


3. Taxiing out to the turnaround for Rwy. 1.


4. We’re off and the gear is coming up.


5. Climbing over Mandalay City.


6. Turning on course for Calcutta.


7. Climbing through eight thousand feet.


8. Cruising at our assigned ten thousand feet.


9. We’re now about one hundred and ten miles out of Mandalay.


10. We’ve climbed to twelve thousand feet to clear the mountains of western Burma. Passengers are warned to remain seated and relax to conserve oxygen.





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[NMLW]

11. After about twenty minutes we have crossed the mountain peaks and are descending back to ten thousand feet.


12. Just passed the southern tip of Mizoram Province of India we are now just south of Chittagong, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) nearing the far northern part of the Bay of Bengal.


13. Now over the fertile delta where the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal.


14. We are in Indian airspace now and Calcutta ATC asks us to begin our descent.


15. We receive final vectors for our visual approach to Rwy. 1 at Calcutta’s Dum Dum Airport.


16. Three miles out we line up our approach.


17. Touchdown at Dum Dum.


18. We’re off the runway and taxiing to parking.


19. Parked and passengers disembarked.


20. Thanks for flying Indian Airways.

[lifejogger]

Outstanding shots Larry, one of your best flights. I like the DC-3 and the scenery, great job.

[NMLW]

Thanks John. Much appreciated.

[aircav1970]

Loving this one Larry,I'm with John on the DC-3,ya just can't get any more "retro" than a Dak!

[wolf2]

i agree, absolutely one of your best - very immersive, just had to look a few times!

[dannypr]

Nice set of shots!!

[azzaro]

So realistic, I can taste the curry! Very nice one Larry! — Bob

[Smutley]

Wonderful set of shots Larry.

[jeh]

Marvelous flight, pics and commentary. The brief caption for each picture makes you feel like so much more a part of the flight. I always enjoy your retro flights.