NMLW Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Cunard Eagle flight 818 is a Vickers Viking 1B on a morning flight from London Heathrow to Ostend, Belgium (EGLL - EBOS). We have 190 gallons of fuel on board for the 125 nm flight of about one hour and 10 minutes. There will be high, thin cloud cover for the entire flight. We will be cruising at an altitude of 5,000 feet. Thanks to: Aircraft: Vickers Viking 1B Model and original textures by Rick Piper. The panel is by Jens B. Kristensen. The Cunard Eagle paint is by Garry Russell. 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. At www.calclassic.com Scenery and Add-ons: MS FS2004 v9.1, MS Windows 7 and: - London Heathrow Airport Version 1 by Tom Gibson and Wolfgang Gersch. At www.calclassic.com - Ostend Airport from the 1961Central Europe - Belgian Airports scenery package by Harry Biard, Nikko Yaginuma, Jaap de Baare, Wolfgang Gersch, Tom Gibson and Bernard Leuenberger. At www.calclassic.com - Cunard Eagle Airways 1961 timetable from the collection of Don Henchel at www.timetableimages.com - Rwy12 and EZ Static Object and Scenery Libraries. At www.flightsim.com - FS2004 Classic Scenery Libraries v4a by Wolfgang Gersch. At www.flightsim.com - REX FS9 w/Overdrive & SP5. - Flight One Ground Environment Pro II - FS Genesis UT Europe. Click to Enlarge . . . . . . 1. Cunard Eagle Airways 1961 Timetable London-Ostend-Luxembourg. 2. Cockpit checks completed, passengers boarded and engines started. 3. Taxiing out to runway 9R for departure with an Airspeed AS-57 Ambassador following us. 4. We are airborne and retracting the gear. 5. Climbing through 1,500 feet with Heathrow behind us. 6. Climbing through 3,500 feet over Wandsworth we see sailboats on the Thames. 7. Now cruising at 5,000 feet near Gravesend. 8. Passing over the Medway Estuary and Marshes about forty miles from the coast. 9. With the city of Ramsgate below we head out over the English Channel. 10. Just a few miles off the coast we see ships in the Channel. More in the reply . . . . . . . . . Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 Click to Enlarge . . . . . . 11. We are about halfway across the Channel. 12. About 20 nm off the Belgian coast we see more ships. 13. Descending through 4,000 feet we turn toward the port facilities northeast of Ostend. 14. Now over Belgium we turn southwest toward Ostend. 15. As we begin to line up our approach to runway 26 we see the tourist hotels and beaches off to our right. 16. On final approach with gear down and flaps full. 17. Touchdown. 18. Finishing the rollout and continuing to the turnoff. 19. Turning off the runway and heading to parking. 20. Parked, systems shut down and passengers disembarked. Thanks for flying Cunard Eagle Airways. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightsimg Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 :pilot: I like when your flight follows the Thames estuary! Gérard Guichard, Dijon, Burgundy, France. i5 Intel processor, 4 Go of Ram, Nvidia GeForce 920MX, DirectX 12.0, and FSX Gold Edition with SP1, SP2. My personal flightsim website is at http://flightlessons.6te.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 So good to see your retro pics on a regular base Larry! great Viking and as always I really like your vintage scenery. :cool::cool::cool: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Great shots Larry! And a lesson for me as well. ;) I knew about the Cunard ship lines and we occasionally travel aboard the Queen Mary II. But I never knew Cunard also operated an airline. Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macroburst Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Beautiful flight! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Gérard, water provides a soft place to put down in case of trouble. Jan, The amount of propliner aircraft and the retro airport scenery are the two main reasons I have stayed with FS9. Blair, your comment is appreciated. Michael, British Eagle International Airlines started in 1948 and underwent several name changes and various reorganizations and affiliations (several included Cunard Steamship Lines0 before declaring bankruptcy in 1968. Interesting read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Eagle Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamb Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Super job with the retro shots as always Larry! :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Glad you liked it Adam. :) Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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