VC10 Super and Transatlantic Service Service Inaugurated.

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 03 Jun 2006, 07:10

VC10 Super Service was Inaugurated today with a flight by Dan Hansen with a flight from London Heathrow to Frankfurt.

Later that same day we had our first transatlantic flight with a VC 10 Super arriving in New York JFK from London Heathrow.

Both flights lost money but as we dial in the fuel consumption we will do better.

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 03 Jun 2006, 08:54

After another flight, using up the surplus fuel from the first flight, VC10 operations are now +9,611,000v$.

For future reference, fuel in Bermuda is cheap at 1.09 per liter.

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 03 Jun 2006, 09:35

Well done guys! Fuel prices will definately come into play quite significantly with the VC10.

Rgds

John

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 03 Jun 2006, 11:47

Hi All

Yes I was asked to do the honors, but unfortunately It didn't go all that well ;-)

First thing: I choose a wrong flight! Cancelled and immediately lost money!

Every thing did go well, as I took off from EGLL on schedule at 19:45 the whole flight soon turned into a night flight as the darkness came when I was over water.

When I approached EDDF, there was HEAVY traffic, which resulted in 3 go-arounds, a lot of fuel burned, and breaking the 250knot speed limit on one of the go-arounds.....

Finally the rwy was clear (7L), and the landing went well...until I applied reverse, and saw that I only had reverse on #1 engine......brakes, brakes, brakes....but that didn't keep from breaking the 25 knot taxi speed limit as I turned off the rwy to avoid running out of asphalt....

While taxiing madly around the airport, I found out that I had lost control over #2,3 and 4...they couldn't be shut off...!......finally hitting parking breaks I managed to switch off the fuel flow to effectively stop the engines....phew.......well...lost money and only did a 90%......real time was now 0330 (FStime 22:12 or so)..so I went to bed, trying to figure out how to make up for the money loss next time...

What an experience....this is not the last time ;-)

Well done to all involved in setting up this new aspect to FS....and a warm welcome to the VC10's at CBFS-VA.

Post by **DaveB** » 03 Jun 2006, 12:00

Well Done to both Dan and Joe

John and I were watching Dan's progress on the flight monitor with bated breath wondering how he was doing for fuel and if the CBFS 1-11 and Argosy in the air at the same time would land before him!!

The 1-11 certainly did and the Argosy was in descent as I headed off to bed.

Despite the massive customer appeal of the VC10, it is obvious that fuel is going to play a huge part in her profitability but while so many pilots are earning good revenue on the Trident and Vanguard runs, we're able to withstand these early losses

ATB

DaveB :tab: