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Hello John. Thanks for your advice. May you post here the LM forum link to your post? CU

Season greetings, folks! My new scenery since two days is Madeira FSX/p3d, and I thought it is a nice idea to walk around the p3d avatar (Shift-Ctrl-E). However, after returning to my cockpit I noticed that the aspect ratio is screwed up: Pressing backspace, not only the view zoomed out to 0.299999, but on top the view is squeezed horizontally. I am pretty sure that using the avatar triggered this. In setting before an after the wide screen tick box is set. It's screwed up independent of bird I am flying: I left an FSLabs A320, but now, loading the Maule at LPMA the same applies. How to fix this? Thanks in advance. Andre(as) Berg --- i7 8700K 12MB 3.7G. MSI Z370 Tomahawk. DDR4 32GB. SSD 500GB and 2TB M.2. MSI RTX2080 DUKE 8G

Did they already adhere to something like this? Or a different agreement? That'd be great, Simon.

Any knowledge on this? 000° to 180° FL190, 210, 230, 250? 180° to 360° FL180, 200, 220, 240?

Again, I assume this support knowing where you are. I'd like to learn more which methods where used to set the right course with the knowledge of your position, deviation from wanted position, but not knowing the winds outside.

Thanx Kyle, this gives the insight. ... but based on some early weather charts? ... right, but the incoming aircraft at EINN just had experienced the latest weather (the weather probe), while those heading from EINN to CYQX had to rely on whatever weather charts.

Ups, the true waypoint across the Atlantic are of course ... EINN 286° 5320N 283° 5330N 278° 5240N 273° 5050N 263° CYQX ... with the 'N' at the end.

Hi folks, waiting impatiently for the FSX DC-6 and after having read many of the 1950s DC-6 timetables (see my other thread http://www.avsim.com/topic/492268-dc-6-routings-timetables-lets-collect/ with most helpful links) now I wonder how navigation was done preGPS and preINS and preNAT. Maybe I should be more specific. Of course I know about navigators using sextants etc. See also on Wiki article on 'Transatlantic flight'. This is on 'Where am I?' My question is more on the *aviate* in aviate-navigate-communicate. If I know where I want to fly to, how to set the heading appropriately? Without GPS or weather charts I know little about the actual wind situation outside and the drift resulting from it. In the aforementioned article we learn: 'To aid aircraft crossing the Atlantic, six nations grouped to divide the Atlantic into ten zones. Each zone had a letter and a vessels station in that zone, providing radio relay, radio navigation beacons, weather reports and rescues if an aircraft went down. The six nations of the group split the cost of these vessels.[47]' However, before these radio navigation beacons, -- and within FSX -- there were/are no navaids. If I take the route from Shannon to Gander as an example, the great cycle is roughly: EINN N5320 N5330 N5240 N5050 CYQX The magnetic headings for 'no wind' are a starting point: EINN 286° N5320 283° N5330 278° N5240 273° N5050 263° CYQX Did the pilots simply fly this route until they picked up first navaids on the other side of the pond? What if the navigator calculates at e.g. 30W that you hit rather 52N or 54N? Correction to 282°/274°? Or rather extrapolation of the last section to the next, not knowing whether the wind is significantly different? Did they make use of incoming aircraft, which just had been probes in the wind at a given, i.e. their crossing altitude? A mixture of 1.-3.? BTW: Did they already fear mid-air collisions and flew altitude separation? If we know the wind, e.g. taken from skyvector.com wind barbs, we can calculate with some trigonomy the heading to fly. Noooooo, I won't ask when the FSX DC-6 will be out.... but I start flying in my imagination! B)

... during daylight yes, but at 1am? I would have tried to oversleep these stops.

Maybe more a question for the hangar chat, but ... looking at the down to 45 minute stop-overs in e.g. Shannon at around 1am before crossing the pond: Did the passengers have to leave the aircraft during the refueling?

Thank you, Matthias! Had not found this one, but now we have plenty of timetables. 1954 the DC-7 more & more replaces the DC-6, so 1953/1954 are the timetables in question. Three days to fly AMS-FRA-Rome-CAI-Karachi-Rangoon-BKK-MNL-TKO... OMG...

Hi Dan, good idea! As well I find the KLM routings interesting. Maybe somebody stores/collects ancient timetables?

Hi folks, flying the J4100, 737NGX and 777 I often follow real timetables. In the advent of the DC-6 I'd like to collect in this thread former DC-6 routings and timetables. Google doesn't find a lot, e.g. http://airwaysnews.com/html/timetable-and-route-maps/european-airlines-timetables-route-maps-and-history http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/264543/1955-klm-routing/ Who can provide more? ==================== (Here part of the content of the second link with Constellation, DC-6, DC-3. Huh, 8 stop-overs from AMS to TYO...) KLM’s Routing in 1955 Northern Summer season service is the following: AMSTERDAM – ASIA – SYDNEY **KL821 Amsterdam – Dusseldorf – Damascus – Karachi – Bangkok – Jakarta Constellation, First Class, Day 1, arr 2 days later **KL861 Amsterdam – Geneva – Rome – Cairo – Baghdad – Karachi – Colombo – Bangkok – Manila – Tokyo Royal Super Constellation, First/Tourist Class, Day 1, arr 3 days later **KL823 Amsterdam – Zurich – Rome – Beirut – Karachi – Calcutta – Bangkok – Singapore – Jakarta Constellation, SleepAir First Class only, Day 2, arr 2 days later **KL825 Amsterdam – Frankfurt – Cairo – Karachi – Rangoon – Bangkok – Jakarta Constellation, Tourist Class, Day 3, arr 2 days later **KL853 Amsterdam – Geneva – Rome – Beirut – Basra – Dhahran DC6, First/Tourist Class, Day 3, arr 1 day later **KL827 Amsterdam – Dusseldorf – Rome – Beirut – Karachi – Calcutta – Bangkok – Bangkok – Singapore – Jakarta Royal Super Constellation, SleepAir First/Tourist Class, Day 4, arr 2 days later **KL827 Bangkok – Tokyo Royal Super Constellation, SleepAir First/Tourist Class, Day 6 **KL881 Amsterdam – Geneva – Rome – Cairo – Baghdad – Karachi – Rangoon – Bangkok Constellation, SleepAir First Class only, Day 5, arr 2 days later **KL851 Amsterdam – Munich – Rome – Cairo – Abadan – Dhahran – Karachi DC6, First/Tourist Class, Day 6, arr 1 day later **KL843 Amsterdam – Rome – Beirut – Basra – Karachi – Bangkok – Manila – Biak Constellation, Tourist Class, Day 6, arr 3 days later **KL829 Amsterdam – Beirut – Damascus – Karachi – Calcutta – Bangkok – Singapore – Jakarta Constellation, SleepAir First Class only, Day 7, arr 2 days later **KL845 Amsterdam – Frankfurt – Rome – Cairo – Karachi – Rangoon – Bangkok – Manila – Biak – Sydney Royal Super Constellation, SleepAir First/Tourist Class, Day 7, arr 4 days later, night-stop in Karachi and Bangkok **KL828 Jakarta – Singapore – Bangkok – Calcutta – Karachi – Baghdad – Beirut – Rome – Amsterdam Royal Super Constellation, SleepAir First/Tourist Class, Day 7, arr 1 day later **KL882 Bangkok – Rangoon – Karachi – Beirut – Rome – Geneva – Amsterdam Constellation, SleepAir First Class only, Day 1, arr 1 day later **KL852 Karachi – Dhahran – Baghdad – Cairo – Rome – Munich – Amsterdam DC6, First/Tourist Class, Day 1, arr 1 day later **KL862 Tokyo – Manila – Bangkok – Colombo – Karachi – Cairo – Rome – Geneva – Amsterdam Royal Super Constellation, SleepAir First/Tourist Class, Day 1, arr 2 days later **KL830 Jakarta – Bangkok – Calcutta – Karachi – Abadan – Cairo – Rome – Dusseldorf – Amsterdam Constellation, SleepAir First Class only, Day 3, arr 1 day later **KL844 Biak – Manila – Bangkok – Rangoon – Karachi – Dhahran – Cairo – Frankfurt – Amsterdam Constellation, Tourist Class, Day 4, arr 1 day later **KL822 Jakarta – Singapore – Bangkok – Calcutta – Karachi – Basra – Beirut – Rome – Amsterdam Constellation, First Class only, Day 4, arr 1 day later **KL824 Jakarta – Singapore – Bangkok – Calcutta – Karachi – Damascus – Beirut – Zurich – Amsterdam Constellation, SleepAir First Class only, Day 5, arr 1 day later **KL846 Sydney – Biak – Manila – Bangkok – Rangoon – Karachi – Cairo – Rome – Frankfurt – Amsterdam Royal Super Constelation, SleepAir First/Tourist Class, Day 4, arr 3 days later **KL846 Tokyo – Manila – Bangkok Royal Super Constelation, SleepAir First/Tourist Class, Day 5, arr 1 day later **KL854 Dhahran – Basra – Beirut – Rome – Geneva – Amsterdam DC6, First/Tourist Class, Day 4, arr 1 day later

I know. Therefore I asked for the task on how to port DC-6 from X-Plane to FSX.

Still no indication from Kyle... Are you on holiday? :smile: