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Our progress so far-
Thursday night we will be visiting Turkmenistan in 206 BC during the Han dynasty to help establish one of the most important trade routes in history, the Silk Road.
Thursdays flightplan is as follows:
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenbashi departure (UTAK)
Kizyl Arvat, Kizyl Arvat (UT55)
Dashoguz, Dashoguz (UTAT)
Turkmenabat, Turkmenabat (UTAV)
As always with these Around the World flights the preferred aircraft is the timeless Captain sim C130 Hercules, but feel free to use any cargo prop that can maintain 260 KIAS at around 16,000 ft. Please do Not bring a jetliner to this event because they stick out like a sore thumb and are a distraction. Many suitable free planes are available from Storms skydrive including the excellent Antinov AN-12 and Howard.
Please click this link for a flightplan and handy kneeboard for this flight:
http://msflights.net/forum/showthrea...ll=1#post16274
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Storm was kind enough to document which are the best planes from his OneDrive for these "Around the World" cargo flights. This should help you decide.
Here's a link to Storms Onedrive:http://tinyurl.com/storms-onedrive
There are 4 suitable airplanes. The An-32 is in Modern oddities. The others are in the Vintage Hangar:
- An-12 Most similar to C-130. Most extras (airbrake, autothrottle, paradrop). Russian annotations. Most difficult to fly.
- An-32 Most frame-rate friendly. Best cockpit model. Easy to fly except long spool time. Needs refueling on long flights.
- Howard 500 Easy for piston engine pilots. Best climber. Tail-dragger. Performance tails off at altitude. Poorest frame rates.
- C-119 Boxcar Easiest to fly.
- Re-engined (French) variant: Faster. Normal climb rates.
- Normal engine variants: Slower. Half the climb rate so gets left behind on short-medium length flights.
Comparative flat-out speeds:
Comparative Framerate Friendliness Indices:
Hope to see everyone there!
Happy landings,
Lazer
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