sfojimbo Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 aka: Tenzing–Hillary Airport ICAO: VNLK Found at 27°41'9.56"N 86°44'3.70"E in Google Earth. I'm starting this thread to move the conversation between Neilends and myself here instead of in the "where did you fly..............." thread. My suggestion for getting a 172 down: Line up about a mile and a quarter out near the canyon wall west of Luka at about 9300 ft and 100kts or so, this is about a thousand feet above the runway. Use two notches of flaps, leaving another notch so that you can still add more drag if needed. Mid valley, 85kts; about 1/8th mile from the trees (at 75kts) reduce power to 10% and come over the trees at about 50 kts; adjust power as needed from there. If you do that, you'll have a safe landing every time. But don't stop in the middle of the runway or you'll have a fight to get going again. You may have to coast backwards and turn sideways on the runway in order to get a rolling start uphill, so that you can take off again. Next comes the TBM 930, which is not so easy, but doable. TBM stall speeds with a light load: Flaps up 70 Half flaps 66 Full flaps 57 With the TBM you need to hug the west canyon wall at 9300 feet and 120kts with landing gear already down to reduce workload, putting in full flaps as you line up to the runway. Mid valley you should be trying to stabilize the airspeed to about 80kts; at the trees, 74kts. Let's hear suggestions on how to make getting down in one piece more likely. Next comes the Caravan and whatever else anybody wants to try. Then let's see if anybody can get the 747 to land and roll on the runway. i7-10700K, ASUS Prime Z490-P motherboard, 32 gig, GTX 1080 Ti, 1TB M2 drive, Thrustmaster T16000M, Logitech Rudder Pedals , xbox controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cianpars Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Haven't found it in msfs yet, but i do remember flying it in fsx and that it was quite challenging. Ryzen 5800X3D, Nvidia 3080 - 32 Gig DDR4 RAM, 1TB & 2 TB NVME drives - Windows 11 64 bit MSFS 2020 Premium Deluxe Edition Resolution 2560 x 1440 (32 inch curved monitor) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doering1 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) Here is a video I did in the TBM a few months back. Complete flight path into Lukla described from Tumlingtar, Nepal. Please consider a subscription to the channel if you like the content. Thanks in advance! Edited January 29, 2021 by doering1 My latest video at The Flight Level - TOP GUN | MSFS | F-14 Tomcat (Heatblur & IndiaFoxtEcho) + NAS Miramar 1986 (Sundownersim) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfojimbo Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) Cianpars Just input the ICAO code: VNLK. Edited January 29, 2021 by sfojimbo i7-10700K, ASUS Prime Z490-P motherboard, 32 gig, GTX 1080 Ti, 1TB M2 drive, Thrustmaster T16000M, Logitech Rudder Pedals , xbox controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilends Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Can't wait to try it out! doering, I enjoyed your video and subscribed. I would really love to see you or anyone successfully land a plane at Rudraprayag. Wiki claims that there is no airport, but that's not true and MSFS has an air strip in the town. Intel Core i7 10700KF (8-Core 5.1GHz Turbo Boost), RTX 3070 8GB, 32GB Dual Channel at 3200MHz, 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. Monitor: Samsung C49RG9x. VR: Oculus Quest 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfojimbo Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) The airport that FS shows is at 30°17'6.29"N 79° 9'34.84"E, which is about 10.5 miles upriver (east) from Rudraprayag. It is a 4,000 ft paved runway. The location is at the town of Gauchar, not Rudraprayag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauchar Edited January 29, 2021 by sfojimbo i7-10700K, ASUS Prime Z490-P motherboard, 32 gig, GTX 1080 Ti, 1TB M2 drive, Thrustmaster T16000M, Logitech Rudder Pedals , xbox controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilends Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 The airport that FS shows is at 30°17'6.29"N 79° 9'34.84"E, which is about 10.5 miles upriver (east) from Rudraprayag. It is a 4,000 ft paved runway. The location is at the town of Gauchar, not Rudraprayag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauchar Good research. I only looked at the FS internal database for what FS labelled, I think, Rudrapayag. Many of these small villages are considered holy. My dad went on a religious trip that involved hiking many of them by foot. Intel Core i7 10700KF (8-Core 5.1GHz Turbo Boost), RTX 3070 8GB, 32GB Dual Channel at 3200MHz, 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. Monitor: Samsung C49RG9x. VR: Oculus Quest 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doering1 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Can't wait to try it out! doering, I enjoyed your video and subscribed. I would really love to see you or anyone successfully land a plane at Rudraprayag. Wiki claims that there is no airport, but that's not true and MSFS has an air strip in the town. Thanks very much for subbing! I have added this airstrip to my future destinations! So cool to try these new locations and no need to add scenery! My latest video at The Flight Level - TOP GUN | MSFS | F-14 Tomcat (Heatblur & IndiaFoxtEcho) + NAS Miramar 1986 (Sundownersim) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthorson Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 As a passenger, I flew in and out of Lukla in 1992 in real life. I can't remember now if it was in a Twin Otter or a Dash 7. The two things I remember: on landing, the stall alarm sounded for about half a minute before we touched down; and on take off we didn't have enough airspeed to lift off but just dropped into the valley until we picked up enough speed. Both of those things were routine and part of the plan. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfojimbo Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 The stall warning information is interesting. In the sim, I set up my approaches quite slow and I have been mushing most of the way across the valley, but in real life that is a dangerous practice, lest a tailwind gust occurs and causes a stall. So I find out from you that actual Luka trained pilots do start their approach slow. Unfortunately, the sim has placed trees at the end of the runway, and we have to zoom a bit to clear them, that's a bug and should be reported to Asobo. i7-10700K, ASUS Prime Z490-P motherboard, 32 gig, GTX 1080 Ti, 1TB M2 drive, Thrustmaster T16000M, Logitech Rudder Pedals , xbox controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg C. Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 I'm trying to get a decent score on the Lukla landing challenge, but the rain is blurring my vision something horrible and I don't know where (or if) the windshield wiper control is. Anybody have a hint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashmon Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 I've flown into Lukla several times, using progressively smaller aircraft and could not trigger the Uphill Achievement, (12 degree rise). Finally discovered from the video, that Lukla is only 11.7 degrees... ONLY 11.7 degrees?? it's like trying to land on the uphill side of a roller coaster. Is there any other airfield other than Bugaloo (Bugalaga, LOL!) that meets the 12 degree incline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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