VC-10 around the world in FS9

[Grace Quirrel]

I've done it! Westbound around the globe in DM's fantastic / brilliant / wonderful / flawless 10. Finished up with Frankfurt - London last night, arriving in pouring rain and, for some reason an inop ILS. The ultimate routing was:

Speedbird 501: London - New York - San Francisco - Honolulu - Nadi - Sydney
Speedbird 717: Sydney - Singapore - Calcutta - Karachi - Rome - Frankfurt - London

All went well, apart from a slightly dodgy moment when I suddenly found myself at 500ft in a diving turn into Rome because I hadn't held the altitude at 1000ft (I think the phone rang...) and got very close to a stall out of Frankfurt because the power setting was too low (and the autothrottles cease at 180kts). Pay attention 007.

Right, I think I may now retire on a huge pension and live in a house on the river, somewhere near Windsor, and drive a six month old Rover P5B. It is 1969 after all and my wife is called Doreen. Or Sybil.

GS

[DaveB]

Well Done Grace ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Grace Quirrel]

.... but, what was the excuse about the auto-throttle???

Er, I used autothrottle for the initial climb-out, but left it on and started to run out of steam. Before I knew it, we were at something like FL200 and airspeed was dropping off...

I expect you'll now b*llock me for using A/T on take-off. Sorry... Won't happen again...

[DispatchDragon]

Welcome to the Virtual Circumnavigators club Grace

I think Dave B may hold the record

<--Did it in HJGs 707-320

I know I know - a heretic - but at least it was Briish Registered and painted

[DanKH]

I think I did it trice at CBFS-VA

Two one way and one the other ;-)

With ASGK of cause....

[Garry Russell]

I done it in a One-Eleven

Garry

[paul26may]

Well done. I would like to fly to Sydney from London. Can anyone advise route etc.
Did JFK to Heathrow last year in a Super VC10. As you can probably gather I am a bit of a novice at this flying business.

[Grace Quirrel]

I would like to fly to Sydney from London. Can anyone advise route etc.

paul26may,

As you see from my original post, I did Sydney - Singapore - Calcutta - Karachi - Rome - Frankfurt - London which was how BOAC did it in the 60s, (according to a June-July 1966 timetable), so you could just do the reverse. You could probably cut out a couple of places and do London - Rome - Calcutta - Singapore - Sydney, but I wanted to do it as per the timetable. Bear in mind I did it in the Super VC-10 too...

Good luck - keep us up to date if you do it! (and watch those autothrottles and that descent hold!) ;-)

[Grace Quirrel]

Tonks - have a safe trip and throttle back a bit would you as you come off 08 - I've just had the windows replaced... ;-)

[speedbird591]

Well done Grace and welcome home!
I'm afraid I can't claim to be a member of the exclusive CBFS round-the-world club :-(

Sadly, I've only ever had the time to do it a few times for real in VC10s ;-) Never mind, perhaps when I retire I'll find time to do it properly but it won't be the same - not being paid to do it!

Ian