August 20, 20205 yr Yep! No more. Nothing else to see. The Fat Lady has finished her song in Courchevel! En route from Chambery.. Oh no.. You're not seriously...?? Yes. It's my sim and I'll bloody well fly what I want, where I want.. Let's just say the arrival was NOT pretty, it just sort of happened... I know the big girl needs a lot of rudder to persuade her in the turns, but once she's down to 95 knots or so, I failed to appreciate just HOW much rudder and yoke movement is needed! "Hoskins! Did you feel that cheeky little gust throwing us off on the camber? ", "No, Captain I didn't, not a thing..", "Harsh, Hoskins, very harsh! In fact I'm a bit miffed with your attitude, sonny!".. "Not half as miffed as the Beverley was, Captain!" Made it to the top with the gear intact! Well, the Bev was ably equipped for landing on dirt strips! For an encore she will now depart from Courchevel! The reversing pitch propellers come in very handy for backing her up to maximise the small amount of runway ahead! DAAN..DAN...DAAAH! After that, well.. landing back at Chambery was decidedly uneventful The takeoff and landing distances of the real Beverley were reported as being 790 yards and 310 yards respectively (95 knots over the threshold and use the reverse pitch on the props). NOTAM I do have the reverse pitch toggle function mapped to one of my HOTAS buttons so I don't have to mess with the systems monitor (SHIFT-4) to activate it. Considering the length of LFLJ is 537 metres with the slope obviously helping then I had to give it a go with Mr. Jahn's superb FREE Beverley! A nice little challenge IMO. I had about 80% fuel and 9000lb of payload. If anyone else with the lovely LLH creation Courchevel and the freeware Bev wants to give it a go then please do as I'm sure someone will make a far better landing than I did! Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
August 20, 20205 yr Author MUCH better! Got my approach and landing a bit more squared away I didn't have to use the reverse pitch on the props, such is the upslope helping to drag the speed off this beastie! Cheers 🍻 Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
August 20, 20205 yr Chambery to Couchevel is a classic (and exciting) short flight to try....glad you made it in safely...with Beverley... ..🙂...! [I've LLH Couchevel and do fly it once in a while......(hope to see this exciting "Altiport" in the new SIM)...] Edited August 20, 20205 yr by P_7878
August 20, 20205 yr **BRAVO** What a Performance!!! 100%75%50%d8a34be0e82d98b5a45ff4336cd0dddc Patrick
August 20, 20205 yr 17 minutes ago, Phantom88 said: **BRAVO** What a Performance!!! Indeed...! Forgot add, Mark, touch-down is immensely harder than taking off at Couchevel....(take it from someone, who has had his share of run-ins into that Runway threshold (seen just behind your plane in the last shot)....I've touched down, but, only just before the threshold actually begins....🙂...)....
August 21, 20205 yr Author 15 hours ago, P_7878 said: ......(hope to see this exciting "Altiport" in the new SIM)...] Well it does have a Courchevel as a default and there is a landing scoreboard for the altiport hence my tongue in cheek reasoning for posting my FSX:SE attempts Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
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