GREAT 48! Grand tour of US states. Week #36: South Dakota - 160 kts

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Rushin' more slowly this week, at 160 knots.

Week 36: South Dakota Stops: KIEN>49B>9D2>KDIK Full: KIEN>RUSHM>OQWIK>49B>CEN59>9D2>BOD>DI>KDIK FLIGHT PLAN Our starting airport has very few parking spots. Please vacate quickly. All legs have one or more additional GPS waypoints. We may change course on approach, according to surface wind. Waypoints RUSHM and CEN59 are user defined waypoints, not intersections. Download the PLN flight plan file here. Flight plan in tabular form, flight maps and airport diagrams to come. CRUISE Speed: 160 knots Altitude: 6000ft VFR (using your judgment to avoid obstacles) AIRCRAFT Small* airplanes or rotorcraft. *Small = wingspan or rotor diameter of less than 60 ft. Fixed wing aircraft must be capable of take-off and landing on 3,800 x 60 ft runway. Examples of suitable aircraft: Default: Baron, Caravan, Extra, (Goose: OzX HP only), Kingair, Mooney, P-51 Storm's OneDrive: Modern Oddities: BD-5, Sus Scofa, Stingray Vintage Hangar: Beech 18, Beaufighter, Orion, Spartan I will be flying the Spartan, see picture below. RESTRICTIONS No aircraft with more than 60 ft wingspan/rotor diameter. WHICH VERSION, CLASSIC OR STEAM? We will be using Classic, not Steam. We will continue to use Classic in future weeks for the Great 48! until I can assure pilot security for the flight, at which point we'll include Steam in joint Classic/Steam flights, leaving no one behind! WEATHER To be decided. SCENERY Default OK. Highly recommended: FSgenesis US landclass (inexpensive payware). FTX Global 1.30 and Vector 1.20 good but optional (expensive payware). Vector users please see recommendations here. RECOMMENDED SCENERY ADDITIONS FOR FTX GLOBAL USERS You can download the whole series of freeware FTX global airport packs here. This week there are 3 OrbX airports: KIEN, 49B and KDIK. :eagerness: Looking forward... For week #37, we'll be flying Curtis JN-4D Jennies at 60 knots through North Dakota.

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Flight plan, flight map and airport diagrams.

Download the PLN flight plan file here.


Flight plan in tabular form:




Flight maps:








Airport diagrams:

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Reminder: Join us at KIEN for a 9pm departure this evening.

Trivia: What have the following movie clips and other pictures to do with our flight tonight? Answers and guess during the flight itself please.

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A few snaps!

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was a little late to the meet, but still fun with storm interesting facts nice sunset, and we just made it to final destination before complete darkness :chuncky:

[Prdude62]

Here are some pics. http://imgbox.com/g/OmEHBwyBWj

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Wonderful pics guys! Thank you so much. :eagerness: For those who missed the answers to the clues, they were:

• Howard Keel (as Wild Bill Hickok) and Doris Day (as Calamity Jane) singing The Black Hills of Dakota from the movie Calamity Jane. Day also sang Deadwood Stage in the movie.
• Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in Hitchcock's movie North by northwest, the end sequence of which takes place at a mock-up of Mount Rushmore.
• Dead Man's Hand, reputedly the poker hand Hickok held when he died at Deadwood. Hickok and Jane are buried next to each other at Deadwood.
• The sign at Fort Meade that tells of their being the origin of regular use for The Star Spangled Banner. (See pic below)
• Sue, the largest, most extensive and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex, discovered in South Dakota in 1990 by paleontologist Susan Hendrickson, and now a permanent feature at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Click on the sign for full more readable detail:

[Coast]

Only took one screen capture during this flight.



-Coast