PhrogPhlyer
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Thanks Macro. Truly enjoyable to just take off and fly wherever you heart leads you. So much nature to enjoy out there.
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Oh to be young and with your squadron at happy hour!
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May we never lose the sense of pure wonder that is flying.
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Nice pic, but where's the plane? Just kidding! Looks great.
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For those who would like a very in-depth study into how approaches and other parts of the United States Standard for Terminal Instrument Procedures (TERPS) are developed, below is the link to the actual FAA Order 82603E for this matter: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/Order_82603E_CHG-01_Consolidated.pdf I have found it very interesting and useful to my understanding of how procedures are developed.
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By todays standards, not sure if this a good thing or not?!? Can't wait for the next FlightSim karaoke night!
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"On top of old Smokie..." Go ahead, sing along! Great pics as always Bill.
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I do not know the answer to this specific question. Hopefully someone else might be able to respond.
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Top of page, "Browse" then select "Online Users." My only point is that by seeing what others online are viewing, it tweaks my interest in different searches I might not have considered. I am strictly offering my opinion of the advantage seeing what others are viewing as a means to expand what I might view. The benefits of commenting or refraining from commenting on threads is a separate topic, perhaps for another day. Not sure what this has to do with my post, I didn't say anything about age. I was lucky with CAP as a cadet and as a Sr. member in that we had various aircraft through the years. As a high school kid we rebuilt two cubs, maintained and flew a Champ and an Ercoupe, and then later a C-150. -
Loving this thread, sharing all these is giving me new places to visit that I mat have even thought of trying.
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Laughing.
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This is the 16th in a series of repaints for countries that flew the North American T-28 in their military. Haiti received 12 ex-French Air Force FENNECs none of which had weapons or hard points. This specific aircraft however, in 1964 was stolen in the US from USAF storage, made airworthy with hard points added. It was then sold illegally to Haiti for use agains ground gurilla targets. The individuals who stole, refurbished, and sold the aircraft to Haiti were arrest by the FBI and served jail time. It now is registered as VH-VBT and is in Australia.It is flown in South Vietnam Air Force scheme as 50-221, aka "Little Joss. You will need the FSX North American T-28D VT-5, vt-5-0915.zip. Original model by Tim Conrad, Updated by Bob Chicilo, Repaints by PhrogPhlyer This series includes: FSX North American T-28C VT-6 ( T28C VT6.zip ) FSX North American T-28D Cuban Air Force ( T-28 Cuba AF.zip ) FSX North American T-28D Congolese Air Force ( T28C Congo AF.zip ) FSX North American T-28D Taiwan ROC Air Force ( T28 ROC Taiwan AF v1aF.zip ) FSX North American T-28 South Korea ROK Air Force ( T28 ROKAF.zip ) FSX North American T-28 Royal Moroccan Air Force ( T28 RMAF.zip ) FSX North American T-28 Uruguay Naval Air Force (T28 UNAF.zip) FSX North American T-28 Philippines Air Force (T28 Philippines Air Force.zip) FSX North American T-28 Royal Thai Air Force (T28 Royal Thai Air Force.zip) FSX North American T-28 France Fennec 119 (T28 France Fennec 119.zip) FSX North American T28 Equadorian Air Force (T28 Equadorian Air Force.zip) FSX North American T28 Brazilian Navy (T28 Brazilian Navy,zip) FSX North American T-28S Fennec Argentinian Naval Aviation - Repaint (T28 Argentinian Navy.zip) FSX North American T-28S Fennec Ethiopian Air Force - Repaint (T28 Ethiopian Air Force.zip) FSX North American T-28B Japan JASDF - Repaint (T28 Japan JASDF.zip) FSX North American T-28B Haiti Air Corps - Repaint (T28 Haiti Air Corps.zip) More to come. -
Great pics of a great view. Which scenery package is this?
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Let me start with thank you Cas! Without your question I would not have known this excellent add on was available. I added the FMC to the FSX King Air (my go to aircraft to test/compare things with 1000+ real hours in type). The FMC worked exactly as the pdf directions suggested. I will be adding this to all of my most used aircraft. And now to Scott's initial question... In short, no the FMC does not calculate landing speed. I'm not sure if other systems do so either. I calculate landing speeds using the aircraft specific reference manuals. I found it interesting that the vnav speed on the FMC for the last leg of the flight plan route is the "over the fence" speed I used in the actual King Air. See below screen shots: 1. FMC Route Page, 2. Diagram (annotated) from King Air training manual with speeds for each phase of the approach. 3. Excerpt from POH for landing procedure. I hope this is helpful.
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Concur!
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WOW! For once, I'm speechless. Your post says it all.
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Cas. You've now got me intrigued. I just downloaded the Honeywell FNC for FSX and will give it a try latter today. Here is a YouTube I found that looks promising, which may or may not be useful since you've already been using this for a while. Also, my comments were not meant to downplay anything anyone is doing here, I always say the same, remember to have fun. I was attempting to state the sim flying and real flying are very similar, especially in the basis of knowledge needed to advance in skills and complexity, And please feel free to reach out to me, Larry or any of us at any time. Our intentions are the same, to help everyone do their best here and again, Have Fun!
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Excellent explanation in the preceding Larry. One thing I take away from reading this thread and other similar forum threads with questions regarding system usage, is that for many of the non RL pilots there is a lack of understanding of the overall ATC system (airspace, rules, procedures), not enough basic hands-on flying (stick and rudder), and an overdependence on the autopilot. Add to this the desire to fly the biggest and most sophisticated aircraft and it is a recipe for confusion. Might I offer some advice, as I did to my students when I was instructing, 1) learn to hands-on FLY first (keep it simple, C-150, C-172, PA-28, etc). 2) learn the basics of flying by reference to instruments (round gauges, low alt. routing, VORs, ILS), then 3) flying with GPS (approaches, EFIS, MFD, high-alt routing, SIDs, STARs,). A solid understanding of the basics along the way will allow for a better understanding and appreciation of the next step.
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I'd think a larger chin bubble or observation port in the cabin deck would be a heck of a lot easier. That a really unique experience you had!.
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On one laptop with a standard hard drive it take 3-6 HOURS per update. With another and a SSHD it takes 5-10 minute per update. MS has never given even a slight acknowledgement to this issue, even with dozens and dozens of people asking about it on the MS support pages.
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Sorry, I caused the confession. I wrote Hobbs when I should have said Tach. So Tach Time is the issue. Can it be ret, and I added the question of where is this data stored.
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The Hobbs meter, yes. I removed the C-172 from the simobjects folder and restarted FSX. Ended FSX and added the C-172 to the simobjects folder, restarted FSX and I had 0000.0 on the meter. I also tried this with two other aircraft, and they did not reset. A couple thoughts since I could find very little literature concerning the Hobbs on the internet. 1) does the tach time equal the same time your logbook shows for the aircraft, perhaps that is where this data is saved/retrieved. 2) have you cleared cache? This data might be saved there. and 3) It could possibly be a setting in the actual gauge design, to save and/or reset. I'll keep searching the online literature and if I find out anything, I'll p.ost here.
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On Final, yet high in the sky.
PhrogPhlyer replied to budreiser's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 General Discussion
This can actually occur in real flying. I was flying a C-12 (military version of KingAir) from Okinawa to Iwakuni Japan. At FL210 (21000 ft), directly over our destination, we again asked the Center for a decent. He immediately responded that we were cleared direct to the airfield. Pulling the power to idle and nosing over, we maintained 270kts in the decent and tightly circled the field. At around 6000' we contacted Iwakuni tower who cleared is to land from our present position and to maintain speed. Adjusting the circuit slightly we were able to land and never touched power during the decent. One heck of a roller-coaster ride.,
