RTW Retro Flight #111 Antwerp to London . . . . 1960

Sabena flight SN 601 is a Convair 440 Metropolitan on an early March morning flight from Antwerp Deurne to London Heathrow Central (as it was known then) (EBAW – EGLL). We have 400 gallons of fuel on board for the 184 nm flight. We will have moderate cloud cover for the entire flight. Our cruising altitude will be 10,000 feet.

Thanks to:

Aircraft: Convair 440 Metropolitan. The model and original textures are by Tom Gibson & Greg Pepper. The 1960 Sabena repaint is by Wim Demeyer.

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:

- Antwerp Deurne Airport is from the 1961 Central Europe – Belgian Airports scenery package by Harry Biard, Nikko Yaginuma , Jaap de Baare, Wolfgang Gersch, Tom Gibson and Bernard Leuenberger. At www.calclassic.com

- London Heathrow Airport is from the 1961 London Heathrow Scenery by Wolfgang Gersch and Tom Gibson. At www.calclassic.com

- The 1960 Sabena timetable is from 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.

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1. Sabena Timetable effective January 23 to March 31, 1960.

2. Passengers boarded, cockpit checks completed and starting number one.

3. Ground control sends us out to runway 29 for departure to London.

4. Wheels off the runway, but we will keep them down a bit longer.

5. Climbing on a westerly course over the River Scheldt that links Antwerp to the North Sea by the river’s estuary.

6. Now climbing through 6,000 feet about 7 nm from Antwerp.

7. At our cruising altitude of 10,000 feet we see the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium on the coast of the North Sea.

8. Now over the North Sea about 20 nm from the Belgian coast.

9. We are about half way across the North Sea.

10. Now about 10 nm from the coast of England.

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11. We make landfall just north of Ramsgate.

12. Near Gravesend we begin to descend to 6,000 feet.

13. We have been routed to the south of Heathrow and can see the airport about 12 nm off to the right.

14. That is Farnborough Airport below our right wing.

15. About 5 nm past Farnborough we turn to the north having been assigned runway 9R at Heathrow.

16. Lining up our approach a little less than 4 nm from Heathrow descending through 1,500 feet with gear down and flaps 30.

17. Now on short final at 200 feet with flaps 40.

18. Touchdown. The Qantas B-707 was holding short for us as was the BEA Viscount hidden by the right wing.

19. Taxiing to parking we see a line of BOAC aircraft including a de Havilland Comet, a Bristol Britannia, a DC-7 and some others down the line.

20. Parked, all systems shut down and passengers disembarked. Thanks for flying Sabena.

Larry - Nice pics and well presented!

Rick :cool:

+1 on that.

Col.

Great shots!

Enjoyed flight

@Larry, I used to have my FSX in retro mode but changed it back but I still like the older aircraft, so I recently changed my FS2004 to retro, I installed a lot of the older aircraft and got some ai flying.

I'm slowly building it up, will take a while to get anything like what you have but I'm enjoying it, I found a website with some old ai flight plans so I'm using some of those as well, plus editing some modern ones.

Col.