Week Four of the Staff RTW Tour...

[petermcleland]

Week Four is the final week of the circumnavigation and has three legs, two long and one short...The first takes us on from Helsinki, Finland across Sweden and Norway and then crossing the Norwegian Sea to cut across the southern edge of Iceland. Then over more ocean to cross the southern tip of Greenland at Cape Farewell. Crossing yet more ocean to arrive at our first stop at Goose Bay, Newfoundland. Another long leg the next day across Canada and the U.S.A. all the way to Portland, Oregon. The Staff get two Standover days there before we fly our last leg on to McLeland Field on Saturday.


As I set course for this long flight, here is a good view back at Helsinki Airport.


Well the approach was epic as I got behind a stream of military jets...So many that ATC actually lost me while vectoring me for a visual onto runway 34. They cancelled my flightplan and I map read back for the approach. Here I'm on finals...


My flightplan is successfully locked to my GPS today so I can concentrate on other things as we cross the watery terrain of Canada.


Ahhh Bliss!...looking ahead I can see that we are moving out of default scenery and into Holger Sandmann terrain, as we descend towards Portland. That is the Columbia River ahead.


A bit murky in places...


Touching down and noting that my mate is in already!

The very full sequence can be seen by Broadband users by clicking on this address:-

http://forum.fsscreenshots.com/dcboard. ... =full&page

Thank you for following this epic tour and here are a few statistics:-

Number of screenshots taken and displayed on the Tour...279.
Fuel Used...77,131 gallons.
Time Logged...67 hours 29 minutes.
Distance Flown...25,423 nms.
Average Speed...377 knots.

Interestingly that seems to compute at about 3 gallons per nautical mile

[Paul K]

Peter, whats the navigation program you're using there ?

[petermcleland]

That is FSNav Paul...I've used it for many years. I use it to make all flight plans and I use the moving map just for that. I don't use its autopilot. The map is set to appear on my second monitor and I find it extremely convenient

[Paul K]

Ah ok, I wondered if it might be FSNav; its something I've toyed with getting for a while.

Thanks.