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Post by joscyriacv2 on Jan 28, 2018 12:02:27 GMT
Welcome aboard Austrian Airlines flight 372 from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam to Vienna, Austria. The flight will be performed by Douglas DC-9-51 registered OE-LDL named "Linz". The aircraft was delivered brand new to AUA in 1975 and later served with major US airlines such as Eastern, Continental, Northwest and Delta who retired it in 2008 after an impressive 33 years of service. She's powered by JT8D-17 engines. Aircraft is at gate B14, Schiphol airport alongside an Airbus A321. Flight planning in progress We have 90 passengers and 2.8 tonnes of cargo onboard bringing the Zero Fuel Weight to 40.7 tonnes. Flight planning was performed in accordance to DC-9 performance documents obtained from AVSIM. For a flying distance of 536nm, burn fuel estimated to be 3.7 tonnes. Fuel to alternate airport Prague Ruzyne at FL100 is 2.1 tonnes. HAlf hour reserve fuel at FL100 is 1.1 tonnes. This brings total fuel load to 6.9 tonnes and a gross weight of 47.6 tonnes. We expect tailwinds of upto 65kts. Pushed back and engines started. Lined up for takeoff rw 24. Rotate! Initial climbout Turning on the LUNIX1S SID. Enroute cruise Approach to runway 16 Just before touchdown Touchdown. I did float a while before touchdown. At gate, we estimated that we burned 3.9 tonnes of fuel, a mere 200kg more than predicted from flight planning charts. This plane does fly by the numbers. Happy to see that the designers got this part very right. Flew the HJG DC-10-10CF yesterday on MEM-FLL and the fuel burn numbers were only in difference by 0.5 tonnes. And that was fuel planning accounting for tailwinds. The performance charts for the DC-10 was a little more detailed compared to DC-9. It does bring a joy to the heart when you see the numbers match. The flight was performed for Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines. The pirep can be found here.Thank you for reading the post
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 15:53:19 GMT
Excellent explanations accompanying each of your screenshots!! Specific descriptions of each of screenshots is what makes flight report more efficient!!
Which in the heck software company would put orange taxi lines on the airport scenery unless somebody tells me orange taxi lines do exist in real life??? Anybody can clarify on this?
Regards,
Aharon
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Post by joscyriacv2 on Jan 28, 2018 16:09:17 GMT
Hey Aharon. Thank you for the kind comments. About the orange taxiway lines, its actually yellow. I was playing around with the photo editing software so it looks that way.
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 28, 2018 21:43:01 GMT
That's what I like Presentations by people whom "know what they're doing" (right down to the loading, fuel, and navigation data) .... and how to best do it too Thank you for sharing that .... because George, Mike, and myself do put "a hell of a lot of effort" into trying to make everything work properly/as authentically as possible .... and your commentary (above) "completely justifies" what we try to do, and the way we go about trying to achieve it all too, so as to arrive at the conclusions we currently offer. We can never say (and never do anyway) anything we offer has 100% fidelity with the real world (I actually snicker, to myself, when I read products promoting such) because FS is just "A GAME ONLY" .... and as good as it gets it doesn't replicate all the parameters of flight, so, FS is always "physically" disadvantaged. Thanks to the genius of very clever FDE and panel gauge people though (both George and Mike in this instance) .... and by actually fudging some of the code we apply .... we can trick FS into demonstrating performance that's "very close to" reality, but again, never absolute fidelity due to some of the limitations of FS itself. On the subject of fuel flow .... our fuel burn rate observations are generally authentic (again as close as possible to reality .... and these "do" also differ among different aircraft engine types we offer too since that's all taken into consideration and calculated as well) "at sea level" .... and which is where we start .... then influenced by drag related parameters in virtual flight .... but .... we then always have to "accept" what these indications become (+ or -) at altitude. Again thanks for communicating this .... because you've just made my day .... and completely justified what we try to do as well as the means by which we try'n achieve what we offer Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by George Carty - HJG on Jan 28, 2018 22:19:59 GMT
I appreciate the kind words about our DC-10 – thanks!
And as good as HJG aircraft are they're not in the same league as payware products as they mostly don't have VC: I find it time-consuming enough just doing 2D panels for them...
George
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 28, 2018 23:47:58 GMT
You all wait until you see the systems George has successfully renovated into our new DC-10 panels You won't find better DC-10 panels than these .... trust me .... and that's all "THANKS" to George and a lot of other valuable real world assistance/"ex-hands-on" expertise and resource As for VC's .... and although we do offer a couple of these .... I don't really care for them given the amount of work they actually require, but which, we don't necessarily have the ability to provide .... and that "IS" where the payware trumps us, but, not to worry, because I don't .... in the very least. OH .... and .... did I say previously ? Our new DC-10 panels will be FS2004 and FSX compatible Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by joscyriacv2 on Jan 29, 2018 4:38:36 GMT
You all wait until you see the systems George has successfully renovated into our new DC-10 panels Eagerly waiting! DC-10 is an aircraft I fly quite frequently since I'm also at FedEx Virtual.
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Post by joscyriacv2 on Jan 29, 2018 4:40:31 GMT
I appreciate the kind words about our DC-10 – thanks! And as good as HJG aircraft are they're not in the same league as payware products as they mostly don't have VC: I find it time-consuming enough just doing 2D panels for them... George Never really been a fan of VC. I only use 2D panels. The only time I used a VC was the Project Airbus A380/ VASFMC merge and that was because there was no other option. Although the design was great, absolutely hated having to work in the VC.
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Post by Nathan Ford - HJG on Jan 29, 2018 7:59:59 GMT
Sweet, fabulous photo story with great details on your flight Cheers, Nathan.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 15:02:20 GMT
Never really been a fan of VC. I only use 2D panels. Me too but I use VC only only for screenshot taking but I never use VC for flying. Prefer 2D panels. Once again, very glad to see other person creating screenshot flight report with extremely extensive well-detailed explanations for each of screenshots. This is what I always believe in and have been doing so for past 10 years only to see Photobucket destroying all my hard work with their extortion attempts. Regards, Aharon
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Post by George Carty - HJG on Jan 29, 2018 15:41:24 GMT
Once again, very glad to see other person creating screenshot flight report with extremely extensive well-detailed explanations for each of screenshots. This is what I always believe in and have been doing so for past 10 years only to see Photobucket destroying all my hard work with their extortion attempts. You didn't keep local copies of your screenshots, in case your web imaging host pulled a stunt like that? George
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Post by Herman on Jan 29, 2018 17:21:08 GMT
Very nice indeed.
Herman
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Post by mzoe on Jan 29, 2018 18:15:22 GMT
Thank you for that! Very rare to see the flag carrier of my origin country in screenshots. Makes me feel to make also a new advanture with AUA Caravelle or B720, even in colours of Montana Air (i think they flow LOWW to KJFK)
Very nice pics and also nice seeing you where at Vatsim for this flight.
Regards
Michael
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 22:07:11 GMT
You didn't keep local copies of your screenshots, in case your web imaging host pulled a stunt like that? I do keep backup copies of 10 years worth of screenshots in my external pocket size portable hard drives. BUT the problem is that who wants to REUPLOAD and RE-POST ten years worth of flight screenshot reports back into various flightsimming forums. I am talking about my few hundreds of thousands of screenshots (300,000 or 400,000). That is why I am surprised when Mark of HJG said he is working on re-uploading his screenshots back to HJG forums considering the fact I do not know how he can manage to re-upload his hundreds of thousands of screenshots that he posted past 15 years. Regards, Aharon
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 29, 2018 23:20:26 GMT
I do it when I can .... and only as my "free time" (a rarity for me) permits. All imagery within both my ARJ/BAe and B727 forum manuals have already recently been fully restored .... as has that within my AIR NZ DC-10 history too. The rest will eventually be restored by me .... "processu temporis concedit/as time permits". In my own case this "does not" involve "hundreds and thousands" of images. Again .... it's simply "a lack of time" .... on my part .... due to the realities of my real world personal and professional responsibilities (some of us have to work in order to be able to eat and pay the bills .... and FS freeware simply doesn't aid this, so, it takes a pretty low priority in my own scheme of things) .... that's prevented my accomplishing these tasks sooner, but, that's the way it "IS" .... and "HAS TO" be. I do retain copies of "all" my imagery .... and George is "quite right" in regard what he suggests .... because many others (for whatever reason/imposition) simply don't. Mark C AKL/NZ
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