EastWest Airlines (VA) Australia Forum

Scanno · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

I have spoken with the RD for Europe and he has put out a call for ATC for both your next departure from Marseilles and arrival at Rome.
Hopefully you will get some local ATC for the next leg.
I will continue to contact other local facilities and advise of the EWA Group Flight so that they can arrange ATC if possible.
Terry

BarryWard12345 · First Officer Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 33

Oh no!!

Barry

David Humble · First Officer Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 31

roscoe · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject:

Hi guys,
Well I have not upheld my promise to make Saturday, as I will now be in Perth all weekend with work leaving Friday. I will make it to one of the darn things soon enough.

Sorry.
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Ross King
Chief Pilot
EastWest Australia VA
EWA003

GM_EWA · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:38 am Post subject: Flight Plans - LFML-LIRF

http://eastwestva.org/fs9plans/IFR_LFML-LIRF_VOR.PLN
David's VOR-VOR FS9 plan, taking a more scenic route. Loads into FS9 GPS. No doubt preferable to our Virtual VFR colleagues.

http://eastwestva.org/fsnav/LFML-LIRF.fsn
Paul's FSNav flight plan. Loads into FSNavigator. (See route below.)

Image of the FSNav route.

http://eastwestva.org/fs9plans/LFML-LIRF.PLN
Paul's FS9 plan based on FSNav route above. Loads into FS9 GPS.

FS9 plans - right click on link; choose Save Target As and save to your My Documents\Flight Simulator Files folder. You then load the plan into the FS9 GPS.

FSNav plan - sorry, I don't know the path to save these files to. Paul, can you elaborate, please?
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Andrew Watson
Liaison
The EastWest VA Group
EWA2/EWF2/VHABW

BarryWard12345 · First Officer Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 33

Hi Andrew

FSNav plans go into FS9/Modules/FSNavigator/Plans folder.

Regards

Barry

stevejames · First Officer Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 33

G'day fellas, well I finally made it here Very Happy

I'm looking forward to this weekends flight.. I've been reading up on the FSS dash 8's fmc and I don't think I'll be using it this weekend but I'll get there eventually!! I've been looking at the flight plan and this will be an interesting flight for sure.

Thanks Rosscoe for the scenry links you've been posting, I'd already downloaded the Rome one from ISD but I installed the Naples airport you've suggested as a diversion airport and it looks pretty good too.

Steve

BarryWard12345 · First Officer Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 33

I have downloaded and installed some 75 meter freeware mesh from this site
http://www.simviation.com/fsdterrainsrtm.htm It is quite good because you can simply download a piece for the area that you want ( which you can see on a map of the world) and then delete it when the flight has been done ( for Broadband users only though!

We should get a good view of the Corsican mountains on this flight.

Barry

pphibbs · Captain Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 63

Hi Guys,

The FSNav plans go into the following folder:

Flight Simulator9\Modules\FSNavigator\Plan
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Regards, Paul Phibbs (EWA512)

pphibbs · Captain Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 63

Hi Guys,

Enjoy this weekends flying - tonight I'm off to Canberra for a naughty weekend. I'll catch up with you all next week.
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Regards, Paul Phibbs (EWA512)

tom · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject:

Good luck to you Paul Wink

I've just got back into town, and will be up against it to fly tonight (properly prepared). Will maybe get there as an observer. Have a good one guys - last week's sounds like it went exceptionally well. Sorry I couldn't make it.

Cheers, Tom.

DP · First Officer Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 47

Not long finished leg 2 of this special lot of flights. I just downloaded scenery for Rome!! Wow the ISD stuff is fantastic & it's free & has virtually no loss of frames!! I'm glad I found it before we depart there next week. Does anyone know anything about the frequencies listed for nav2 re. parking bays? I noticed the "batman" directing my dash8 into one bay but I haven't noticed that setting nav2 to 116.1 or 109.1 (in the dash) does anything??? Other than that there are buses moving about & even excavators digging up the soil in construction areas! It's cool, grab it before next weeks leg. I've decided to fly the rest just using ground stations as the original flight would have done it that way. After saying that I suppose where we encounter ATC I will probably have to factor in SID's & STARS, but that's no drama. By the time this group flight ends we will have had lots of fun. Too bad I didn't remember anything from my French lessons at school, it would have been handy departing LFML tonight. Smile

Thanks for the company enroute tonight.

DP · First Officer Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 47

For what it is worth I noticed that the PSS Dash8's FMC will use plans created in the default FS flight planner. It's only a click of one FMC button & it's up & running, but don't ask me which button because I don't remember which one I clicked when I made the discovery (might not be new to you guys but it is to me). I'd guess it's somewhere where we load the flight plans. That should make life very easy for those who don't like planning.

BarryWard12345 · First Officer Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 33

Hi DP

Yes - it will load up a default FS9 plan.

In the Flightplan FPL page, you have the option to "Load Route"

When that page opens, you have either the option to select a previously saved Dash8 FMC plan or to load a FS9 plan.

Baz

stevejames · First Officer Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 33

last nights leg (LFML - LIRF) was a great experience, I enjoyed every moment of it...
here's my full report of the flight
http://virtualvfr.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1174698813/0#0