ROTODYNES / Rotorcraft around the French Riviera

[Storm]

Get more practice with this amazing, easy-to-fly, VTOL aircraft, this time around Provence and the French Riviera!

Flight plan (116 nmi):

• LFMA, Aix-Les-Milles, 8 helipads.
• LFML, Marseille/Provence, 6 helipads.
• POMEG intersection.
• LFTR, St Mandrier Navy - overflying.
• LFTH, Le Palyvestre Navy/Hyères, 4 helipads.
• STP, Saint Tropez VOR.
• SINRA intersection.
• LFMD, Mandelieu/Cannes, 1 helipad.
• LFMN, Nice/Côte d'Azur, 10 helipads.

Flight plan available here: http://tinyurl.com/storms-flight-plans.

Cruise speed: 170 knots.
Cruise altitude: 1,500 feet mostly. 2,000 feet as required. (2,000 feet all the time for the nervous!)
Helipads: Rotodynes have priority!

Preferred aircraft: Fairey Rotodyne (from my Vintage Hangar) http://tinyurl.com/storms-rotodyne.
Also OK: Helicopters, tiltwings, tiltrotors, and other rotocraft that can sustain a 170 knot cruise.

Please do not bring:

• fixed wing aircraft with no hover ability
• autogyros (as they cannot hover)
• anything with any dimension over 100 feet (i.e. much bigger than a Rotodyne)
• anything that can't cruise around 170 knots (i.e. that can't keep up)

The skies are wide and you can fly those other wonderful beasts somewhere else.

Tip: :eagerness: Download and install the Rotodyne anyway, even if you don't fly it.
Then you'll see others without substitutions of inappropriate aircraft.

Preferred scenery: None. Default is fine.

Full flying instructions for the Rotodyne are included in the manual in my Vintage Hangar.

[Karl]

SkyVector Plan (a couple of points weren't available in SkyVector)

http://skyvector.com/?ll=43.36951841...LFMD:A.LF.LFMN

[Storm]

Thanks, Karl! Here's the full map plus those 2 missing points (LFTR, SINRA), plus the heading table.

[Storm]

End of group flight; Rotodynes on helipads at the sandy French Riviera Nice-Provence airport.

[Lazerbolt]

A few shots. Thanks for another great flight Storm!







Happy landings,
Lazer