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USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:16 pm

Important Notification

Make sure to get installed the confirmed aircrafts before hand, to avoid delays or yellow gliders :P

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USA TOUR event | 45th Leg: The Flying Caravels | SAT MAR 5TH 17:00-23:00 UTC

FORTYFIFTH TRIP
Departing Eppley Airfield, (KOMA): Omaha, Nebraska
Arriving General Mitchell International Airport, (KMKE): Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Leg Distance: 370 nm
Competing Aircraft: Any "flying boat" qualifies
Expected Cruising Speed:Unrestricted: Maintain less than 250 KIAS at all times
Expected Cruising Altitude:7500 ft
Expected Duration (en route): 2h30+ en Route
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The Fying Caravels

Hi everyone!

The USA Tour recently arrived to Omaha, Nebraska flying Long Range Propellers, and now it is preparing to fly destination the Great Lake of Michigan.
To make things a bit more spicy, and interesting, this time we will be operating Flying Boats, and we are preparing to both take off and land in water.

Some of these aircrafts are literally flying boats: such as the KM, or the BV138MS. Others are amphibians, capable to operate either on water as on solid runways.
Others, nonetheless have been land aircrafts which were adapted into water operations, such as some float adaptations of the C172p. A more curious class are
the Jet engines boat aircrafts.

Aircrafts

Without further restrictions, if your aircraft is capable of water landing in the Lake of Michigan, near the General Mitchell Intl. Airport: It qualifies.
Let us know your preference, so we can be appropriately prepared to see your model, and snap some real cool set of USA-Tour styled photoframes.

The GCMAP
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Route: GPX | KML

We will be flying towards the Great Lake Michigan following low altitude airways V6 and V216. VOR2 on Des Moines, Iowa City and Janesvilles will mainly guide our route. The GPX file provided can be used to complete the route manager in FGFS.

Speed will remain unrestricted, in case your aircraft is slower, or faster than others, feel free to adjust your speed to a convenient rate for your aircraft. The FGMEMBERS mpserver covers the whole range from departing to arriving airports, so no pilot will become lonely due to speed issues. You may be assigned a recommended speed in order to attempt maintaining a compact pack.

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SKYVECTOR

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BLUFS1.DSM V6 IOW V216 JVL TRUDO HRK LIIME


The Skyvector's NAV log


Mooring

Initially, I had the idea of departing from Carter Lake in Omaha, that is conveniently located in the nearby of the Eppley Field. Unfortunately, this Lake is not simulated in FGFS. So we will be mooring, and taking off from the Missouri river, adjacent to the Eppley Field. Later, I will provide starting locations for the launching of confirmed pilots.

Landing will be simple. We will approach Milwaukee following the Lake shore, and we will water land in the Milwaukee Bay, adjacent to the General Mitchell Intl. Airport. We will water land parallel to the shore, facing either South or North, depending on the prevalent winds.

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PROCEDURES

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  • KPDX: BLUFS ONE Departure, DES MOINES transition

Multiplayer Server

Operations will take place in FGMEMBERS' server. Pilots are encouraged to join in to the group.

To connect to the multiplayer server check the information provided at


Communications

Communications will take place with mumble. Important messages can be relayed on FGChat.
Sincere thanks to Michat for offering the intercom room and channels. This will be located in the FG mumble server:

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server: mumble.allfex.org
Room: USA Tour


To install and prepare the mumble (any OS), see here:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby legoboyvdlp » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:40 pm

Int'rsting.
Uh...
Er....
Um....
I don't know :S
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:24 pm

IAHM-COL will be flying the PBY-Catalina, that is beeing refurbished by the USA Tour consortium :D

I will need to go electoral here (flip a coin), and decide between the civilian or the Colombian Airforce Livery (FAC) on due date
(or maybe you guys could tell me which one of both is best to you)

Colombian Civilian Catalina
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Colombian Airforce (FAC) Catalina
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby legoboyvdlp » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:39 pm

Certainly the civillian :)
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Thu Feb 04, 2016 5:24 pm

legoboyvdlp wrote:Certainly the civillian :)



http://www.michaelprophet.com/News_articles/SuperCat_CachiPorro.html

Skyvector of the Route mentioned in the article above
https://skyvector.com/?ll=4.23356915054 ... 039N07200W
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby Martien van der P. » Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:16 pm

In The Netherlands is a still flying PBY-Catalina with the registration PH-PBY:
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It's painted in RNLAF colors but isn't used by the RNLAF anymore, now it's used for (civilian) sightseeing flights. I could make this livery for it. ;)

Btw: I've made the Grumman Albatross livery selectable and I'm working on a USCG livery for it, it also need some changes in the autopilot. If I got time at March 5th I'll probably flying this one (for this tour the terrasync problem doesn't really matter :lol:).

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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:55 pm

Martien van der P. wrote: I could make this livery for it. ;)

Awesome! :D

I had nt merge into FGMEMBERS yet, but the Catalina-PBY had had lots of changes by JWocky (FDM/Systems), and I had to remap it to make it livery selectable. I also fixed a complete ubershader with normal map; the plane is FG 3.x (2016.x) ready

If you want to prepare more liveries, consider using the remapped version (currently the "refurbish branch"), and the paintkit

https://github.com/JWocky/PBY-Catalina/tree/refurbish
https://github.com/JWocky/PBY-Catalina/tree/refurbish/Paintkit

Btw: I've made the Grumman Albatross livery selectable and I'm working on a USCG livery for it, it also need some changes in the autopilot. If I got time at March 5th I'll probably flying this one (for this tour the terrasync problem doesn't really matter :lol:).


Great! :D
Point me in the right direction for the livery selectable fixes, and I'll update :)
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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby Martien van der P. » Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:15 pm

Here is my updated Grumman Albatross (with one test livery): http://download1646.mediafire.com/oll6q ... atross.zip
or
http://www.mediafire.com/download/jz70k ... atross.zip
Maybe I'll make a GitHub account soon to make it easier.

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Re: USA TOUR Event | SAT MARCH 5TH 17:00 - 24:00 UTC

Postby IAHM-COL » Thu Feb 04, 2016 9:05 pm

Thanks MV-DP
I uploaded it to FGMEMBERS
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/Albatross/commit/ed0588395b12d5f4faa1a06c7b3e9735d457d2a3,
then I completed some cleanup
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/Albatross/commit/47e154eedae32ed46a02ce3d9d8b785e052d3a72 and
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/Albatross/commit/ac3ceafb103e2d91dc0672714826a944dafe09bc

Maybe I'll make a GitHub account soon to make it easier.


If I may, I encourage you. ;)
Also, if you fork from the FGMEMBERS repo, its easier to update both-ways, via, ie, Pull requests.
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