Melo965

Actually the same file is here at Flightsim.com.

Kit, I think this is what you are looking for. https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/13878/fsx-english-electric-canberra/

One more flight to get her home safe to Tain.

Me neither. Saw a fair amount of traffic in Australia, but none since I started flying west toward Scotland.

Great pictures. Thanks for gathering so many Canberra's in one place. An awesome lineup!

Glad you like the reports and pictures. Doing all this with FSX Acceleration: My process is to first setup the flight plan in LittleNavMap (free program) on my second screen. (Just start with the ICAO codes for the starting point and the destination) I often add a waypoint or two near the destination airport so I will be lined up for a good arrival on the main runway. After I am happy with the flight plan, then I open Active Sky 2016 and add the flight plan there as well. Then I can look at the weather map and see what real world weather there is to deal with. Then I go into FSX and load the aircraft in the parking place where I left it after the last flight. Do my pre-flight check and load appropriate fuel. Then taxi over to the runway and take off. Some of the others use an autopilot so that they can task the aircraft to follow the set course. My LittleNavMap does not have that ability, so I have to keep an eye on things most of the time, or at least at frequent intervals. For most of the Australia flights I have added a free floating autopilot gauge. I just use that for maintaining cruise altitude and making turns to stay on course. Before the Australia Rally I flew almost everything just by hand real time. And even now all my flights are real time, but I am retired now so that bit is much easier than it used to be. Hope this helps!

RAF Masirah (OOMA) in Oman to RAF Akrotiri (LCRA) in Cyprus Engines started in the rain. Had the brakes recalibrated by the Airframe Fitter. Working perfectly now. This PR9 still wants to keep moving, but it is managable now. And she lands just right, on longer runways of course. Ready for takeoff on runway 17 after a long taxi from the other end of the airfield. Wheels up in a moment. Climbing out and away from the Base. Close to on course and at cruise altitude of 20,000 ft. Had to swing around after takeoff to get on course. 6 minutes this time. One hour of flight. 90 minutes. Spotted the Moon on the left. Two hours elapsed time. Not much to see below. Third hour. Leaving the Middle East behind. Over the Mediterranean now. At Top of Descent point. Destination ahead. Descending. At 3,500 ft. Cockpit view. Airport in sight. Lined up for Runway 28. Over the numbers. Full stop landing, brakes working well. Parked at RAF Akrotiri next to the BIG guy. One more flight to go in this Canberra PR9. She flies very well. I will miss her! The final destination for Marham Rose Canberra PR9 is Tain Airfield (EGQA) in Scotland, UK

Oddly there was not another aircraft in sight anywhere. Yesterday afternoon or this morning. Maybe they were all flying an exercise somewhere? I hope to have more company at RAF Akrotiri.

Sutan Sjahrir Air Force Base (WIMG) in Sumatra to RAF Masirah (OOMA) in Oman Ready to start engines in the rain. Had the brakes tuned up by the Airframe Mechanic. Ready for takeoff. Leaving the Base behind. Steep climb out and into the clouds by 3,500 ft. On course at cruise altitude of 20,000 ft. It took the Canberra 3 minutes to get up here. Not much to see down below with the cloud cover. But the pitch oscillation is minimal at this altitude, which is great. I burned a lot of excess fuel on the last flight with the pitch oscillations. 1 hour flight time. Smooth sailing with no problems this time. 2 hours flight time. Still overcast below. Flying over the Bay of Bengal. Third hour. Over India but you would not know it. 3.5 hours elapsed time. Finally can see India below. 3.75 hours. Leaving India behind and back over the Arabian Sea. Fourth hour. Still over the Arabian Sea. 5th hour. More of the same. Hour Six. Almost there. The wind is from the south so about to swing north and land on Runway 17 at RAF Masirah. Close to 3,000 ft. Still on a long Downwind leg. Hope I break out into the clear air soon. Runway 17 in sight. Over the numbers. Parked at RAF Masirah. A good flight with no problems. Brakes were a bit strong on landing after all, so had the Airframe Fitter adjust them again. Next stop is RAF Akrotiri (LCRA) in Cyprus.

I used to take off in a Cessna from Meigs field, and if I timed it just right - flew between the two radio towers on top of the Sears tower in Chicago.

I did notice as soon as I looked, been busy flying. Pretty impressive to get that high.

FSX Scenery-- Meigs Field June 11, 2013 filename = KMGS_JD.ZIP

The Meigs Field file here in the library with over 3,000 downloads looks pretty good in FSX. Only issue is if you ask to start on the active runway, you start on the taxiway beside the runway instead.

AWESOME! Congratulations!

Hello Kit, thanks but I just got it sorted out. Did a quick brake upgrade, then a test flight and landed and stopped before the taxiway turnoff. All set now.

Flying general aviation I almost always stay below 12,500 ft, hence no need to worry about oxygen requirements. Flying warbirds, I tend to fly up to about 30,000 ft, although my Spitfire Mk XI has been up above her usual service ceiling of 44,000 ft. Flying Big Iron (which I rarely do) tend to fly between 30,000 (FL300) and 40,000 ft (FL400). I have also been known on occasion to be up over 70,000 ft in a U-2, SR-71, or something even more exotic! In a very old Chuck Yeager simulator I did manage to get a X-15 up over 314,000 feet routinely!

RAAF Darwin International (YPDN) to Sutan Sjahrir Air Force Base (WIMG) formerly Tabing Airport. Engine started at RAAF Darwin. In the rain. Ready for takeoff. Raining pretty hard. Lucky to be flying IFR. Leaving Darwin behind. It was a very enjoyable time in Australia. Lots of fun flying and very good company too! Cruise altitude of 50,000 ft. It took the Canberra 7 minutes to get up here. There is a consistent 200 feet oscillation in pitch up here though. I tried disengaging autopilot and adjusting elevator trim, but with marginal improvement. Not much to see down below with all the cloud cover. You can faintly see Australia behind us now. Shortly after this point I made a huge blunder and completely trusted George to fly the aircraft. Came back to check on the Canberra only to find her way off course and at about 12,000 ft altitude. While I was away there was a problem with the fuel transfer switch - switching from an empty fuel tank to the next full one, and the left engine quit altogether! Causing us to swerve off course pretty drastically and lose a bunch of altitude. I very quickly got to work getting both engines running smoothly and made a gradual climb up to 20,000 ft. Also adjusted my heading and got back on course. (After TPD's excellent tutorial on extending range, at the beginning of the flight I made the rather rash decision to try to skip WIMG and make it all the way to OOMA in one go.) My multiple in flight problems put that crazy idea firmly to bed. I also adjusted the flight plan to more sensibly point toward WIMG. Here is my flight track for this flight. You can clearly see where the left engine cut out! Recovered and stable again at 20,000 ft and on course for WIMG. Passing Belitung Island just east of Sumatra. Down to 27% fuel remaining after 3 hours of flight. Veiw from the cockpit. Three and a half hours of flight time so far. Only 5% fuel remaining. Because of the previous issues during this flight I was also coming to realize that my fuel state was getting critically low. Eased back on the throttle to conserve more fuel. 1 percent fuel remaining. Airport is ahead above the red arrow on the coast. Short final for runway 34. Going to make it after all! Brakes definitely not strong enough. The ONLY reason why I stopped before running out of runway is that the engines both quit from fuel starvation! Calling for a tow over to the terminal. Sigh . . . Parked in the rain at Sutan Sjahrir Air Force Base (WIMG) Next stop RAF Masirah (OOMA). But before that I am going to stop here for a bit and get a mechanic to fix the fuel transfer pump and do a full inspection on those brakes!

MAD1, no worries at all. After you see my latest flight report later today, you definitely won't ask me to fly the Concorde.

Great flight, and thanks for the fuel and endurance lesson too.

Hi MAD1, I am the one flying the PR9 Canberra. Hope to get a few legs done today. Best regards, Melo

My Route home. I will be flying Canberra PR9 Marham Rose first. Darwin International Airport (YPDN) in Australia Sutan Sjahrir Air Force Base (WIMG) in Sumatra RAF Masirah (OOMA) in Oman RAF Akrotiri (LCRA) in Cyprus Tain Airfield (EGQA) in Scotland, UK Then flying CMC Leopard G-KITS Tain Airfield (EGQA) in Scotland, UK Dean Forest Regional (EGDF) UK Then flying Supermarine Spitfire XI PL965 Dean Forest Regional (EGDF) UK Tain Airfield (EGQA) in Scotland, UK And then on northward and westward. The Mk XI Spitfire has leading edge wing tanks so the Gander route etc. will not pose any problems. Final destination is Bremerton National (KPWT) Washington, USA

WOW! Very cool! Look forward to the flight report.

Nice descriptions and great pictures!

That was my shortest Rally flight ever. Less than 30 minutes in my usual Spitfire from Burbank (KBUR).

I use FSX Acceleration mostly. Occasionally MSFS 2020.