Not sure if this will help but, when I taxi I:

• put condition levers full forward
• release brakes
• nudge the power until the airplane gets moving
• Once I'm out of my turn, I pull the condition levers back a bit and watch my TRQ as it creeps up.  Once it gets to about 9ish I'm pulling the condition levers back, slowly to about halfway, looking for a TRQ between 12-13%.  Seems to be a good taxi speed at that setting.

 

 

That's exactly what I do.  I also love the Turbine Duke, can land and take-off just about anywhere and can cruise at 300Kt+ with a tail wind.  I've done very similar adventures as I rarely have enough time to do only about 1-2 hour flights max.  I think the UK will be my next adventure, but most likely in the A2A C-172 when their patch/update is out.  After than I plan a Dash-8 adventure.

 

Thanks for sharing, glad I'm not the only one that enjoys Flight Sims this way.

We just had a Duke convention here in Duluth.  I've never seen one in real life until today (saw about 15 lol)....  It's my absolute favorite aircraft!  How's this for you Gregg?

 

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Boy, would it be cool to go up in that.

I really enjoy stories like this Greg, thanks for posting.  I am guessing your skills in flying various approaches by hand also improved significantly, gotta love the DME Arc approaches when you nail them.

 

Most of my adventures are in jets, last year I flew every Concorde flight on the British Airways Virtual schedule, which were real world flights consisting of all of the commercial flights, several popular charters, two different round the worlds, Tour of Africa and all of the Farewell Tour flights, including the final flights to the museums where the Concordes are now located.  In total close to 90 flights and in that time I really got to know the aircraft inside out which eventually lead me to putting together a video of the KJFK-EGLL flight and then a Fuel training video.

I really enjoy stories like this Greg, thanks for posting.  I am guessing your skills in flying various approaches by hand also improved significantly, gotta love the DME Arc approaches when you nail them.

 

Most of my adventures are in jets, last year I flew every Concorde flight on the British Airways Virtual schedule, which were real world flights consisting of all of the commercial flights, several popular charters, two different round the worlds, Tour of Africa and all of the Farewell Tour flights, including the final flights to the museums where the Concordes are now located.  In total close to 90 flights and in that time I really got to know the aircraft inside out which eventually lead me to putting together a video of the KJFK-EGLL flight and then a Fuel training video.

Yeah, the adventure improved my skills across the board.  Still have more improvvements to make.  Quite a number of the flights were IMC and some close to or at minimums for the approach.  Still have more room for improvement, though.  I don't really care for flying hard IMC but that's where I need the most work.

 

I worked in NYC for 10 years and used to look from my office window, down at the aviation museum on the Hudson where they parked one of the Concords.  From a Concord down to a C-172 is probably the biggest change I could imagine.  I've been thinking about Europe as well, though, I know very little about the rules there apart from the differences in how they handle flight levels. 

 

These adventures make it more interesting, actually gives you more of a reason to fly.