FSX Vulcan Scramble

[Mayfly]

ports - goodness me I can't fly when I'm sober never mind after a couple of ports

[Jigsaw]

[Mackrick]

[Tom.com]

what time will the room be open?

and if you and SM are in the iris one we wont be able to get proper screen shots

[Wedgy]

Room will be open from just before 8pm I guess

All tested, if you have a Vulcan but not the IRIS vulcan, it will substitute for a Vulcan anyway

[Tom.com]

ok thanks

re-installed the vulcan, do you have any idea of numbers?

[Wedgy]

Departed Edinborough at 20:14 with SM, Tom and Nick

[Tom.com]

good fun tonight, thanks

will put pics up tomorrow!

[Nickolas]

Can any one do flight plans??????? Then I'd have a bloody clue where we were going!!

Great evenings entertainment!!

SWMBO thought we were all a bit sad

[Saracenman]

flight plans are fairly straight forward - as long as you know where you want to go!

agreed re the sortie - superb fun! i would like to make it clear, before Wedgy posts his comments, that i had awful trouble with my graphics on approach for landings - my screen kept freezing

sm

[Wedgy]

The 1st FSX Vulcan Scramble
Wednesday 13th May 2009. Departing 2000hrs
Route data in red is a substitution, where no airfield exists at the original location.

EGPH: XM597 - National Museum of Flight, East Fortune Airfield, Lothian, Scotland (Edinburgh)
Departed: 20:14

SM in 426, Wedgy, Tom.com & Nickolas in 558


EGNT: XL319 - North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland Airport, Tyne & Wear (Newcastle)
Arrived: 20:34
Distance travelled: 39nm
Flight Time: 20mins
Some lovely formation turns



EGNC: XJ823 - Carlisle Airport, Cumbria
Arrived: 20:59
Distance travelled: 118nm
Flight Time: 45mins


EGCD: XM603 - Avro Heritage Society, BAE Systems Woodford, Cheshire
Arrived: 21:32
Distance travelled: 217nm
Flight Time: 1 hour 18 mins


EGWC: XM598 - RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire
Arrived: 21:50
Distance travelled: 259nm
Flight Time: 1 hour 36 mins
SM decided to use his Vulcan as a dart in the dartboard tower

SM and Tom.com decided to change aircraft. VC10 as always for SM, Nimrod for Tom.com


EGBW: XM655 - Wellesbourne Mountford Aerodrome, Warwickshire
Arrived: 22:15
Distance travelled: 296nm
Flight Time: 2 hours 1 min

This was Nickolas' last stop.


EGBE: XL360 - Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport, Warwickshire
Arrived: 22:24
Distance travelled: 308nm
Flight Time: 2 hours 10 mins



EG74: XH558 - Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire
Arrived: 22:35
Distance travelled: 322nm
Flight Time: 2 hours 21 mins

This was Tom.com's last stop.

EGNX: XM575 - East Midlands Aeropark, East Midlands Airport, Leicestershire
Arrived: 22:51
Distance travelled: 344nm
Flight Time: 2 hours 37 mins



EGXY: XM594 - Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire (Syerston)
Arrived: 23:02
Distance travelled: 363nm
Flight Time: 2 hours 48 mins




EGXW: XM607 - RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Arrived: 23:17
Distance travelled: 380nm
Flight Time: 3 hours 3 mins




EGSH: XM612 - City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich Airport, Norfolk
Arrived: 23:40
Distance travelled: 452nm
Flight Time: 3 hours 26 mins



EGSU: XJ824 - Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Arrived: 23:57
Distance travelled: 507nm
Flight Time: 3 hours 43 mins


EGWU XL318 - RAF Museum, Hendon, North London (RAF Northolt)
Arrived: 00:12
Distance travelled: 545nm
Flight Time: 3 hours 58 mins



EGMC: XL426 - Southend Airport, Essex
Arrived: 00:24
Distance travelled: 587nm
Flight Time: 4 hours 10 mins




Scramble Stats
Distance travelled: 587nm
Flight Time: 4 hours 10 mins
SM 4 crashes
Nickolas 1 crash
Tom.com 2 crashes
Wedgy 1 crash

On a personal note, I am genuinely gutted at crashing on landing at Northolt. Wasn't so much of a crash, more just a heavy landing - didn't even look like I crashed, but FSX obviously thought I did I guess it was pilot fatigue at that stage
I had nursed 558 through 1.5 tanks of fuel and thought of this sortie as one of endurance.

Still great fun though - MUST do it again

[Mayfly]

Well done all ...would have been far too long a sortie for me tho'

How long did I say it would take SM?

[Hungry Haggis]

Well my 2.5 hour guess was a little low then must try harder .Tried to join last night from Edinburgh to Carlisle but once on Gamespy The Iconic link wouldn't let me in locked and asked for the sesion password .would that have been because my username wasnt on the list at the time.

[Wedgy]

Thats a shame HH. Sometimes gamespy 'remembers' a password from weeks ago even though there is none. If it ever prompts you, it will always be "arse"

I too thought it would be 2.5 hours, but I think the fastest it can be done is around 3.5 hours. The more people join, the slower it is due to waiting for everyone at the next location + this time we had to wait 4 times for SM to restart

[Hungry Haggis]

flight plans are fairly straight forward - as long as you know where you want to go!

agreed re the sortie - superb fun! i would like to make it clear, before Wedgy posts his comments, that i had awful trouble with my graphics on approach for landings - my screen kept freezing

sm

in that case SM don't keep it in the freezer .And please refrain from trying to demolish towers on flyby use a bulldozer instead.

[Saracenman]

it was dreadful - completely unflyable!

i must admit though that my crashing into the control tower last night was largely shite flying, but the other bent Vulcans were simply due to the graphics freezing on approach - when unfrozen again, i was six inches off the deck!

today, with only Wedgy and me, was even worse - i sat completely frozen in my Meteor at the end of the runway, whilst Wedgy took-off, did a circuit and landed!

anyway, some screenies...

the four of us before taking off from somewhere, to somewhere else


somewhere else again


various other airfields with just Wedgy and me taking off in formation












Wedgy landing over the top of me (graphics problems showing a grey Vulcan )






all good fun

sm

[Mayfly]

thats exactly how my graphics were before I reinstalled FSX SM - bloody pain

[Tom.com]

my pics from yesterdays flight


SM incoming

SM landed

Our line up

My landing when looking behind, I did it properly on the runway without crashing!

[Wedgy]

Much better shot than mine of 'SM the Dart'