Idleline86, known to his friends as Doug, passed away on September 24th. Please read these event details carefully and reserve Friday evening for his memorial flight.
The banner picture (clickable) shows a US Army Piper L-21 Super Cub as flown by Doug.
Scenery
Special freeware scenery is essential for this event. Download it from here. To install, unzip it and copy into Addon Scenery\scenery (7 files) and Addon Scenery\texture (1 file), and restart FSX. This will add helicopter parking to KHUA, and add scenery and landing areas for EASY and REST. Many thanks to Lazerbolt for creating this scenery at short notice.
Note also that FS Genesis US landclass (payware) greatly improves the accuracy of the Huntsville area. Doug found that without it Huntsville was barely recognizable.
KHSV, 3M5 and KMDQ are Orbx freeware airports. If you have FTX Global, you can download the NA/EU freeware airport pack here.
Flight Plans
This flight is in two phases:
- The flight plan for Phase 1 you create yourself (see Flight Schedule below).
- Download the flight plan (PLN file) for Phase 2 from here (see maps below).
Flight Schedule
- Phase 1 (individual and small groups) Your home to KHUA
- US and Canada residents:
- Please fly from the airport nearest to your home* to Redstone Army Airfield KHUA at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. *Use the nearest airport to your home that is suitable for your chosen airplane.
- Time your arrival at Redstone for no later than 9:45 pm eastern. Arriving earlier is fine.
- Choose an aircraft that can easily make the journey.
- The speed is your choice.
- Calculate your departure time from your home airport according to your chosen aircraft and speed. Allow extra time for the journey if needed.
- Break up the journey into several parts on different days if needed. Plan ahead!
- If you are flying a military aircraft, please choose US Army livery if it's available.
- Note: There is no ILS at KHUA. If you need ILS please arrive instead at KHSV, 5 nmi away.
- Pilots living outside US and Canada: Choose a port of entry on the US coastline and fly from there, according to the guidelines for US and Canadian pilots above.
On arriving at Redstone please switch to a helicopter for the remainder of the memorial flight. US Army livery is preferred if you have the choice.
. - US and Canada residents:
- Phase 2 (altogether) Around Huntsville
At 10 pm eastern we will fly around the Huntsville area in helicopters, according to the flight plan (see above for download link). We will be visiting:- The site of Easy Money, the Chinook that Doug flew in while serving in Vietnam and that is currently displayed at Redstone Arsenal (landing).
- Doug's Huntsville home (overflight).
- The place where he was laid to rest on September 29th (landing at the northern edge only where there are no monuments).
- In addition we'll visit some other local airports that he frequented (depending on how much time we have).
Helicopter choice for Phase 2
We will not exceed 100 knots and the distances are short. Therefore fly anything you like. US Army livery is preferred if you have the choice. However...
Small helicopters (like the OH-6 Loach) preferred because of final landing area size!
(See final diagram in this thread.)
Simulator: Whichever suits you! Doug always flew in Classic/Boxed; flight lead will therefore be in Classic/Boxed. Our Boxed server and NA and Aus Steam servers will be set to -7 hours offset. We will not be running cross-platform applications such as FSCloud, FSHost or DAFSIM for this flight.
Weather: Server weathers have been set to "fair" (Boxed server, NA and Aus Steam servers). This is because the live forecast for Huntsville is for low cloud and showers. Moreover, inbound pilots from the East Coast may already be experiencing the effects of hurricane Joaquin.
ATC: None. Please make only essential traffic calls.
Teamspeak: The Teamspeak group flight channel will be manned from around 2:00 pm EDT onward with pilots flying their individual Phase 1 flights. (Flight lead will be inbound from Colorado at that time.) All inbound traffic is invited to converse during their flights.
THIS IS A MEMORIAL FLIGHT.
PLEASE MAINTAIN RESPECTFUL TEAMSPEAK BEHAVIOR AT ALL TIMES.
PLEASE MAINTAIN RESPECTFUL TEAMSPEAK BEHAVIOR AT ALL TIMES.
Maps and charts
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