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Post by almguy1 on Aug 27, 2011 18:02:29 GMT
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Aug 27, 2011 20:25:05 GMT
BOY OH BOY .... you're game .... getting that low and close to Fuji-San .... and get away unscathed !  One of the last commercial flights to try doing that (BOAC B707-436 G-APFE FLT .... 911 on March 5th 1966) wasn't so lucky. They broke up in midair upon encountering absolkutely viscious turbulence. The Japanese apparently have a saying .... "When the skies are blue Fuji is angry".The mountain generated wind vortex on its lee-side is apparently something quite legendary  .... and best avoided too ;D I'm also wondering if you might be anble to find a better mesh terrain for Fuji-San than the default MSFS version   .... maybe something in terms of a mesh terrain for just the Tokyo region, or, perhaps the entirety of Japan itself ! Just comming back to the March 5th 1966 BOAC B707 accident near Mt Fujiama for a moment .... That week was a particularly bad one in Jananese civil aviation history .... because a CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES DC8-43 (CF-CPK) had undershot the RWY landing at Tokyo killing most of the 72 PAX and crew aboard only the previous evening. In fact the CPA wreckage was perfectly visible to the BOAC crew and PAX as they taxied out for T/O that day (I have a rather poignant photo of G-APFE taxiing past this wreckage that day). Little did the BOAC PAX/crew know .... a similar desiting awaited them within the following 30 minutes. Mark C AKL/NZ |
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.... and best avoided too ;D
.... maybe something in terms of a mesh terrain for just the Tokyo region, or, perhaps the entirety of Japan itself !