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  1. Speaking of Duxford: https://www.daftlogic.com/information-locations-of-concorde-planes.htm There were 20 Concordes built. Number 101, G-AXDN, is at the Imperial War Museum. https://www.heritageconcorde.com/duxford Did I mention previously that I saw a Concorde at the Farnborough Air Show, must have been 1980 or 81, it did a low flypast (don't think it did a touch and go, but might have).
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    FS2002 Mazda

    https://www.daftlogic.com/information-locations-of-concorde-planes.htm There were 20 Concordes built. Number 101, G-AXDN, is at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England, UK. https://www.heritageconcorde.com/duxford
  3. https://simviation.com//lair/Concorde Flying Notes.htm "FS2000 Concorde copied from FS2000 Help" "Takeoff: 9,000 ft (2,743 m) Landing: 9,000 ft (2,743 m)". That's the nominal default stats, perhaps for a fully fueled and full passenger load. Now, Brisbane International is 9,000 ft. So probably that will be the home base. It also has all the facilities needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Airport https://skyvector.com/airport/YBBN/Brisbane-Airport rwy 01/19 11,680 ft so all good.
  4. Bosss, might have to commission you as a consultant on my Concorde journey. (I pay in Chachapoya dollars!)
  5. In my little Cessna, in the sim, have flown under Sydney Harbour Bridge a few times. Easy. Now, could I get under the Gateway Bridge, Brisbane (that's the bridge over the Brisbane River you see on approach from the south into runway 01. Could I do it in the Concorde? Probably not, but in sim-world, now that'd be a feat. It is a lovely pair of bridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges "the bridge owes its distinctive shape to air traffic requirements restricting its height to under 80 metres (260 ft) above sea level (all features of the bridge including light poles) coupled with shipping needs requiring a navigational clearance of 55 metres (180 ft).". I've stood a few times on the bridge, which provides a great view of the airport, river, CBD, and watched flights on descent into 01, one of the best places to be a plane spotter. (I lived in Brisbane for some years.)
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    FS2002 Mazda

    Starting my learning journey about the Concorde. Research, first thoughts: what is the minimum runway distance for takeoff and landing? Can I use a local airport as its home base, runway is 6,000 feet? Well, one plane did it's last flight into a UK airport, 6,000 ft, but once down could it ever take off from there again? (It went to a museum there, so never intended to take off again.). A quick search for info sites: https://www.daftlogic.com/information-locations-of-concorde-planes.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=concorde+takeoff+distance&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1 https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/241165-concorde-landing-help https://wiki.flightgear.org/images/cache/e/ed/Concorde.html https://www.aerofly.com/aircraft-tutorials/concorde-flight-tutorial https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-46510.html https://simviation.com//lair/Concorde Flying Notes.htm Much bedside reading here.
  7. Melo. Re your trip into Tain Airfield, you say "They were glad to see me again and invited me for a delicious dinner and a comfortable billet overnight." You didn't say anything about phone calls that I presume went around the area, including to the airports, from the authorities re "... an unknown aircraft was observed to make unauthorised passes under bridges, we have some of it on the radar history (before it dropped below radar) but locals observed it, some were enjoying the spectacle, others were aghast, and one RAF commander was livid. Does anyone at your airport know anything about this, who it was, we'd be very interested to speak to the pilot"!
  8. Bosss, think you've struck gold at Kadena. Milk it for all it's worth, stay until the Base Commander invites you over for drinks at sunset and he says something like "So, I suppose you're keen to move on and finally get home, when did you think you might depart, perhaps tomorrow"? You should then take that hint!
  9. Lovely long posts from you guys flying back home from Oz, or for Sirrus, flying in Europe. Haven't had a chance to read all of it in detail. Bosss, I know of the Moulton foldup, well, the alluminium one that came out in early 80s. I was a young fella living in London then. I considered buying one but instead bought a US Dahon, still got it. Haven't been on it for a few years, but any day now ...! I bought it in London in 1988, rode it in London, took it on the aircraft to Israel (it is suitcase size), rode around the Sea of Galilee and in the Negev Desert. Ah the memories, have forgotten half of what I did and knew! Mine's blue and does have the 3 speed Sturmy-Archer gears. A great little bike.
  10. Tnx VP2 and jgf. Yes, have experienced that frustration in previous years, and need to remind myself to regularly 'Save the Flight' manually, as a sequence 1, 2, 3 etc. manually (until I get those gadgets set up for autosave), that indeed would be a bummer, especially for flights approaching an hour plus. Will be awhile before I have RW time to go play with it all. Little steps ...!
  11. TPD. 'Fly with Eli 04 March, 2024. Anchorage - Red Lake - Lock Haven.' Finally got a chance to read your post. Nice pics and story. I also started high school in 1968. (Those towns - Red Lake, Lock Haven, never heard of them, of course, just like the smaller places in Oz for you foreigners, just looked them up in Google Maps, now the route makes sense.) Bosss. Also a nice story of your trip Sydney to Alice.
  12. Thanks guys for the long-flight info. I now have the info and confidence to start into that world myself.
  13. Yes jgf and Melo, that does help heaps.
  14. Melo, thanks for the nice report, great pics. Question (I've asked this before of you guys): I've never done a long flight of hours (nor logged a flight plan in the sim), but wish to soonish. How did you do that one, do you take off and get to cruise in sim real time (t speed), then set autopilot to fly the logged route and switch the sim to faster (2t, 3t, or higher etc.), then leave the sim and go about your RW life, knowing to come back occassionally to check that all is OK (plane hasn't drifted off course etc.), and/or come back to the sim close to descent time, switch back to t time, then manually descend and land? So, perhaps you went e.g. 2t, and each sim hour you came back and checked and took the screenshot, coming back at RW 30 minutes later would be sim 1h (given its running at 2t) etc. So a 6 hr flight, at say 6t, is done in 1 hour, and each flight hour will be in RW time at 10 min, 20 min, 30 min etc. Is that how you do it? Maybe there is some article in this flightsim.com site about that Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) but I'm not aware of any, if so, can you guys point me to it/them, or on another sim site. We long-haul sim newbies need guidance re all this.
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