First flight complete!
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First flight complete!
Just finished my first flight for CBFS! It was only in a Dove but everyone has to start somewhere
Now im not sure how to make my pictures under 800X600 so i'm just going to post the links for now. I took some screenshots of the flight along the way.
EDIT: Don't worry, I worked out how to do thumbnails
Ready to go at Liverpool
Starting engines
Taxying down
Lining up
Leaving Liverpool
clouds beginning to form ...
Very quickly!! :o
my first sighting of the airport
Thanks to the lack of visibility, i was blindly guessing at base and final, as you can see it wasn't a very good guess
Through a bit of luck and skill... mostly luck, i managed to get lined up just in time
Not a bad landing..
Parked up at the gate in one piece
Looking at the briefing.. I made a whole -15v$! and my landing wasnt as soft as I thought -167 fpm
just 5 more flights to go ...
Now im not sure how to make my pictures under 800X600 so i'm just going to post the links for now. I took some screenshots of the flight along the way.
EDIT: Don't worry, I worked out how to do thumbnails
Ready to go at Liverpool
Starting engines
Taxying down
Lining up
Leaving Liverpool
clouds beginning to form ...
Very quickly!! :o
my first sighting of the airport
Thanks to the lack of visibility, i was blindly guessing at base and final, as you can see it wasn't a very good guess
Through a bit of luck and skill... mostly luck, i managed to get lined up just in time
Not a bad landing..
Parked up at the gate in one piece
Looking at the briefing.. I made a whole -15v$! and my landing wasnt as soft as I thought -167 fpm
just 5 more flights to go ...
Jonathan Price
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Re: First flight complete!
Well done that man
No worries it's 'only a Dove'....you still have to do all the right things.....just a little more gently
Garry
No worries it's 'only a Dove'....you still have to do all the right things.....just a little more gently
Garry
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Re: First flight complete!
Yup.. well done Jonathan. The first one is always the worst
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Re: First flight complete!
That's the ticket The Dove is a really great tool for learning how FSA works being not to fast (no worries about exceeding 250kts below FL100 though you still have to be careful not to overspeed while taxiing) but fast enough to get around in a nice fashion
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Re: First flight complete!
Congrats and welcome to the wonderful world of CBFS VA. I'm curently enjoying the delights of Guernsey, never been here before, quite a tight little airport... How on earth did that DC-10 freighter that I saw parked up get in I wonder... More to the point, how's he going to get out again? Nearly as mad as all the China Eastern flights I see parked up in various UK airports. I think my Traffic has got a bit screwed...
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Re: First flight complete!
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As you rightly say.. getting in is one thing.. getting out is something completely different
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As you rightly say.. getting in is one thing.. getting out is something completely different
ATB
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Re: First flight complete!
Good to see anyone improving (especially myself).
However, just a little RW advice.
Don't concentrate too much on greasing it on, all you do is use up runway (risk of going off the other end), so put it down at the correct point on the runway (maximum stopping distance available) firm, but not hard (if the runway is wet you need to break the st to avoid any chance of aquaplaning).
There's an old adage somewhere about some of the most useless things in aviation - runway behind you and fuel in the bowser being two of them.
Happy landings
Nige
However, just a little RW advice.
Don't concentrate too much on greasing it on, all you do is use up runway (risk of going off the other end), so put it down at the correct point on the runway (maximum stopping distance available) firm, but not hard (if the runway is wet you need to break the st to avoid any chance of aquaplaning).
There's an old adage somewhere about some of the most useless things in aviation - runway behind you and fuel in the bowser being two of them.
Happy landings
Nige
"Speed building both sides.....passing one hundred knots.....V1..rotate...oh sh*t..."