The subject motivated by the movie, Amelia is the duplication of Amelia Earhart's flight around the world where she was never heard from again. The challange is to duplicate her flight, and complete it back to Oakland. I presently am at the point of completing the last six of her twenty-nine legs plus continuing where we lost her.The following downloads are found in FlightSim, but may be on this site as well"1. The plane: l10eae01.zip2. The panel: ael10vc1.zip. If you are like me, you probably will want to customize a bit.3. The flightplans: ae2k2v01.zipNote: If you have FSNavigator (FSNav), the plans are already set up for that fine contribution.Note: If you implement ActiveSky for real weather, you will not be able to fly the aircraft in the following area due to declining barometric weather:OOMS will read: 29.97:OPJI will read: 21.39"OPGD will read: 14.99"OPOR will read: 14.98"OPKC will read: 0.00"OPMK will read 7.47"VADS will read 23.91"VAJB will read 29.90"You will find that you don't have enough manifold pressure and power to keep the Electra in the air. Best solution to me is to resort back to the FS default upgrading weather which does not have this problem while in this region, and then return back to ActiveSky when out of the region.I highly recommend these downloads. You can make the flights in several ways.1. Get out your old E-6B flight computer, plotter, and maps for some dead reckoning and fly as nearly as possible like Amelia did.2. Try to stick to the method above, but monitor your progress with your GPS (Awfully hard not to cheat a bit, but don't fly by the GPS, just monitor). Particularly the RXP is nice to look at simply for terrain and waypoint object identification.3. Upgrade tha avonics in the Electra and fly the legs by today's standards.Hope this interests and helps someone.Respectfully:RTH

No wonder it's so interesting. I've always tried the route with the FS Design Berlin Lockheed Electra ported over to FSX without success, ending up crashing precisely 3 legs prior to the leg where she disappeared. The issues with the fuel tanks that just isn't too compatible with FSX, due to the load manager completely non functional with the latter, and that it doesn't really work out with the default fuel window, it ran out just 30 minutes into the leg. Dave.

Always thought this would make a good 'Mission', as it's very challenging and you don't really know what your outcome will be. Too bad about the movie - felt it was not well written.

Just completed the trip and landed at KOAK. Was a lot of fun, but I would make a few suggestions:1. Go ahead and originate flight plans for each of your legs before starting your trip. My reason for saying that is that depending upon your resources, you may have a problem or two to work around. The easiest method is implementation of the FSNav plans that are included in the flightplan link included above. Several waypoints and airports are installed from FSNav that are not in the default FS provisions. I am sure there is another way to add them, but it probably would take a bit of work. A number of NDB's and airports are added by FSNav. There are also a few that were not listed in the documenation included for the flightplans. I don't know if they already existed in FS or were installed by the FSNav adder. In any case they make navigation a bit easier than it probably was for Amelia.2. I was not able to include LAE in my flightplans. I landed and took off at AYNZ which is very close nearby.3. If you use PFE/PF2000, all communication will be dead relative to HWAE and possibly a few other locations. Probably more realistic anyway. I somewhat doubt that many locations had ATC available in 1937.4. I found on my bird that with no crosswind conditions that I still needed to add two or three degrees to my headings to stay on track.5. Not knowing what Amelia's intentions were if she had arrived at HWAE, I chose to make the flight from there in three legs: HWAE to PLCH, PLCH to PHNL, then PHNL to KOAK.6. I chose to ignore the short extended legs listed as an option and stuck to the 29 legs Amelia flew.Attached is a picture of the real thing which looks a lot cleaner than pictures of the bird Amelia flew. I snapped the picture at AirVenture50 a few years ago at OshKosh. You could eat off of the plane it was so imaculate.Happy flying:RTH