Back to Work...

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 25 Sep 2006, 18:13

I last operated this service from Heathrow to Frankfurt on 7th April 1985 in Trident 3 G-AWZK, but I thought I would reconstruct it today in FS9.

Zulu Kilo in those days would have worn the British Airways livery, but I never liked it much and have used Zulu Juliet today in my favourite BEA livery.

The weather is downloaded real weather with constant update and the textures are GE Pro 2.

On the climbout south of the Thames and heading for Detling and Dover.

Cruising now at FL290 and knocking along quite like old times...The wind is from the South and our Groundspeed is shown on the Doppler as 511 knots.

Well we are getting pretty close now and I can see the traffic on the main road just before the threshold.

There's a Lufthansa waiting for me and quite a queue behind him.

The more complete sequence can be seen by clicking this address:-

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

Thanks for looking at this reconstruction of my way of life 21 years ago :dance:

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 25 Sep 2006, 21:03

Hi Pete,

Nice sequence of shots there. You could of course fly any of your old routes with the VA

. Trident, BAC1-11, Vanguard - they're all there for you to fly. We'd let you have enough time off to get some R&R at Mcleland Field and we'll even let you have ID100 tickets to get there and back.

Rgds

John

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 29 Sep 2006, 11:19

Thanks for the offer John...I did enjoy the Frankfurt trip as I regard it as my very best payware airport and I just love taxying round there and enjoying all the buildings, vehicles and aircraft Traffic. However, joining a VA would really be just too much like going back to work and my time is already filled with various projects.

Very kind of you to mention it though

cstorey · Post by **cstorey** » 29 Sep 2006, 18:35

Very interesting pics, Peter. As a matter of interest,did the Trident suffer mach instability when operated as high as M0.88, and if so did it have a Mach trimmer

Chris

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 29 Sep 2006, 20:09

He had one up to .92 so I would think she was quite stable at .88

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 29 Sep 2006, 20:35

cstorey wrote:Very interesting pics, Peter. As a matter of interest,did the Trident suffer mach instability when operated as high as M0.88, and if so did it have a Mach trimmer

No Mach trimmer Chris and no instability...I'm confident that the Trident would have passed Mach 1.0 with very little problem if one was allowed to dive it at about 45 degrees...The clue is in the exquisite wing shape

I believe the designed cruise Mach was M0.92 but the rapidly rising fuel costs put paid to that idea :think:

jab · Post by **jab** » 04 Oct 2006, 12:02

Fantastic shots peter

what FS Traffic are you using?

James

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 04 Oct 2006, 15:01

jab wrote:Fantastic shots peter what FS Traffic are you using?

James,

I use a lot of my own and a lot of PAI (in fact all of their airline packages and some of their military). I also have the TAi packages installed. I have the default FS9 AI disabled :dance:

jab · Post by **jab** » 04 Oct 2006, 18:03

petermcleland wrote:
jab wrote:Fantastic shots peter what FS Traffic are you using?
James,

I use a lot of my own and a lot of PAI (in fact all of their airline packages and some of their military). I also have the TAi packages installed. I have the default FS9 AI disabled :dance:

Oh right cool I have FS Traffic 2004

James