May 17, 20224 yr A week or more ago I mentioned a convoluted and twisted flight I was planning around the world circumnavigating the continents. I finished the flight plan yesterday and this morning will fly the first leg of 251 flights. The first flight is from my home base of Roswell New Mexico to Monterrey Mexico. Some statistics. The flight comprises 251 flight plans and covers 98,932 nautical miles. About 550 hours of flight time averaging 394 miles per flight. The longest flight is an 890 nautical mile over the water flight from Hobart Tasmania to Milford Sound New Zealand. The flight will take 4 hours and 40 minutes. The shortest flight is from Fargo North Dakota to Winnipeg Manitoba; 180 miles in 57 minutes. The flight will be made in my LHC Quest Kodiak averaging 180 knots cruising speed. As soon as I rinse my breakfast dishes and put them in the dish washer I'll be on my way. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
May 21, 20224 yr Author Day 5. I just landed in David, Panama. Tomorrow I fly to Bogota, Columbia. A 3 hour flight at 19,500ft. I'll have to pick up a bottle of Oxygen. I depart North America and enter South America. I don't sit at the computer for 2 or 3 hours. I put it on autopilot and take breaks. But while I'm in the cockpit I look at the scenery and try to find landmarks and close by airports that show up on the GPS screen. I have installed P3Dv3 on my other computer. My two computer desks face each other about 5 feet apart with my office chair in the middle so I can roll back and forth between each one. I plan on loading P3Dv3 with Orbx North America scenery and lots of military air bases and aircraft that P3Dv5 won't accept. Noel Edited May 21, 20224 yr by birdguy The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
May 26, 20224 yr Author Landed in La Paz Bolivia this morning. Been acclimating to the high altitude of the Andes. Flew from Cuzco Peru to La Paz Bolivia at 22,500 feet to clear the mountains. Cuzco sits over 10,000 feet and La Paz over 13,000 feet. Glad the Kodiak has a turboprop engine. Tomorrow I fly to Antofagasta Chile at near sea level. My high altitude flying and oxygen bottles are done until I hit the Himalayas in 5 or 6 months. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 1, 20224 yr Author This morning I rounded Cape Horn and landed in Rio Grande Argentina. Tomorrow my first long over-the-water flight. Taking off and flying to Stanley in the Falkland Islands. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 1, 20224 yr I have never flown to Cape Horn...would like to sim that one some time. I want to do a South America tour at some point. I made a scenery for FSX for the David, Panama airport. I think it would work in P3Dv3 but you're well past that location now anyway. It also doesn't depict the current (2022) airport as I designed it in 2007 when the terminal was much smaller. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
June 1, 20224 yr Author Let me know when you're ready to make the trip, Rhett, and I will PM you the flight plans. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 5, 20224 yr Author Yesterday I flew from Stanley in the Falkland Island to Port Deseado Brazil. It was a rapid flight at 12X slowing down to normal simulator speed about 30 minutes out. This morning I am flying up the east coast of Southern Argentina. Pretty desolate, boring country. But I am maintaining normal simulator speed and doing other things (like writing this) on my other computer. I don't expect things to get interesting until I reach Cordoba on Tuesday. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 6, 20223 yr From Córdoba where do you intend to go? The nicest part is close to the Sierras... Best regards,Luis Hernández Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (with SMT off and CO -50 mV), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5060Ti 16GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS air cooler, Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120-144 Hz (G-sync compatible), Windows 11. Running P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 scenery objects as an additional library, just in case), FSX-SE, MSFS2020, MSFS2024 and even FS9! Lossless Scaling for all my sims. What a godsend...Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there .VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/mobile.
June 6, 20223 yr Author Luis, from Cordoba I'm going east to Buenos Aires and then the following day north to Porto Alegra in Brazil. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 10, 20223 yr Author Yesterday I flew from Cordoba to Buenos Aires. I think I'll spend a long weekend resting up and explore Buenos Aires. I'm going to have a mechanic take a cursory check of things today. I have about 58 ours on the Hobbs since I left Roswell 22 days ago. I'll continue on Monday to Puerto Alegre in Brazil. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 17, 20223 yr Author This morning flew from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Traffic was a bit heavy at Santo Dumas airport but after one go around I was cleared to land. I'll probably spend tomorrow looking around Rio and then head on to Brasilia. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
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