Hello fellow simmers

 

12th part of my world tour, 1 035 nm between Yeniseysk and Chelyabinsk. Last stop officially in Asia, because Chelyabinsk is located right in the East of the Urals Mountains

It's almost routine: parking brake check, battery on, strobe and nav lights on, fuel pump on which makes a pretty irritating noise.

Mixture and propeller maximum, and turn the key. Almost as simple as starting your car.

We are allowed to taxi to runway 17, the opportunity to greet 2 Mi-8 (whose company I do not identify, perhaps Tyva Avia)

Shortly after take-off, nice view on the Yenissei river

While reaching FL200, I am surrounded by two IL76 which cruise thousand feets above my little Legacy. A military on his way to Bratsk, a civilian freighter Royal Flight Airlines (former Abakan Avia) going to Orenburg

Further on, a Lufthansa aircraft whose type and destination I cannot remember

About halfway, the weather radar shows big red spots : things are getting rock n' roll 80-100 nm ahead. At Muromtsevo, I request vectors. to get around the storms

The brave little Legacy gently sneaks around massive, threatening Cumulus with incredible number of lightning flashes.

Too busy finding my way, I don't even notice the kind of plane that taunts me up there, well above the storm

By the time I go back to my route, I did between 50 and 100 nm of deviations that cost me a lot of fuel. But in the end, that's not the problem: by reducing the throttle, I could have caught up with the planned fuel. The real concern at this point is the red OXYGEN QTY light that came on, indicating that my reserves have dropped below 20%. That is about 30 minutes of oxygen at FL200. I decide to wait 15 minutes before descending to FL120 at 2000 ft/min. At that level, no more need for oxygen. I choose an economic cruising profile to catch up the planned fuel.

Direct ILS approach on RWY 27 after a straight STAR. I begin the approach almost 40 minutes late, but with fuel reserves in line with what I had calculated (a little more than 6 gallons)

The debriefing shows the fuel consumption stall, caught up as soon as a more reasonable cruising speed was adopted at FL120. 

Edited May 7, 20188 yr by RockOla
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Love the pics with the contrails!  My favorite addon still, to date.  With the turbocharged engine and O2 you can really get above the weather, or at least get high enough to go around it.