You know what this means, don't you?

[speedbird591]

YES - WAR!!!!!



Well - maybe after lunch

But it also means that I've finally found a way to install my Captain Sim aircraft into Prepar3d using the installers. I tried to do it the free way by installing into FSX, dragging, dropping and fiddling with dll.xml files and stuff but to no avail. I finally bit the bullet and paid nearly 12 euros for a lovely little program that installs almost any FSX add-on into P3D effortlessly. Even Track IR, which I don't use, but installing it has been causing difficulties for people. The only thing so far that has stumped it is the Reality XP Garmin so it seems like a good investment if you've got some FSX stuff with installers lying around that you want to see in P3D.

Read about it on the P3D forum here: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingle ... pic&t=1101

But there is a downside, I'm afraid. Ben - look away now



Ian

[Garry Russell]

Looks like it was worth it

That's a great shot of s B-52 in the first pic

As for the second pic...that's a great shot of a B-52 in the first pic

[TSR2]

No comment on the flying runt, but you did give me the kick up the backside I needed to do my VC10 and Trident flightplans. they're not exhaustive, I've typed them in from the CBFS VA flight plans, and some don't easily translate into FS flight plans, but suffice to say I've BA VC10's (and the odd transitional one) as well as CAAC trident 2's in Kia Tak now

Out of curiosity, If you were taking a VC10 from Heathrow, was the most direct route to Kia Tak? (i.e. one with fewest stops)

[speedbird591]

Out of curiosity, If you were taking a VC10 from Heathrow, was the most direct route to Kia Tak? (i.e. one with fewest stops)

How about BA920 on a Friday in 1973. Dep LHR 1225, arr Rome 1440/dep 1545, arr Beirut 2045/dep 2130, arr Delhi 0505/dep 0550, arr HKG 1520. All times local. From the 1973 timetable.

That's about the minimum stops you could do with a VC10.

I can also see Rome, Kuwait, Bangkok, HKG. Frankfurt, Damascus, Doha, Calcutta, HKG and Rome, Tel Aviv, Tehran, Bangkok, HKG. You couldn't do that one nowadays - TLV-THR!

Ian

[TSR2]

For an aircraft that had a reasonable range, they are all pretty short hops. I suppose they could service more countries that way

[speedbird591]

For an aircraft that had a reasonable range, they are all pretty short hops. I suppose they could service more countries that way

We didn't have traffic rights in Europe. Frankfurt and Rome were refuelling stops only. Anyway, you wouldn't think they were short hops if you had some of the hangovers we had to endure

Ian

[Garry Russell]

Some BOAC flights from Africa went through Amsterdam...was that a refuelling stop??

Maybe from the days when the range limitations meant they couldn't quite make it to London...the two airports being either side of the safety line??

[speedbird591]

I don't remember ever calling at Amsterdam from Africa but I would have thought that an African service could have made LHR if it could make AMS. I've called at Cairo and Rome and even Paris from Africa. I've called at Amsterdam and Frankfurt from the Far East if headwinds were strong or if LHR was fogged in - and Paris for a medical emergency.

Ian

[Garry Russell]

The Argonauts sure did, it was Rome coming up from East Africa and Amsterdam from West Africa.

Always thought it was a bit odd, but they must have come up Eastern Iberia and kept over land until Amsterdam then across left over from the early days.

Don't know how many other routes went through Amsterdam but BOAC VC 10's were no stranger there and G-ASGO was destroyed by terrorism at Schiphol.

Maybe the 707's didn't go in there and come to think of it I don't recall much mention of them

[TSR2]

I don't think Ian's that old that he'd have been on the Argonauts, but you never know