Around the World lap 4 episode 14 -- Special Assignment : Sci-Fi Movie Night! -- Mongolia

[Lazerbolt]

Hi pilots! Looks like its time for another Around the World special movie night!

On Thursday night HQ is sending us on a massive 2000 mile trek from Western Russia all the way to Mongolia! HQ knows that this is an extremely long trip so they have supplied us with a great Sci-fi movie to keep us entertained.


Thursdays flightplan:

Petrozavodsk Russia departure (ULPB)
Khovd Mongolia (ZMKD)

A flightplan .PLN file for this flight can be found here:
http://1drv.ms/1O4aN5s

This flight will take place in FSD.


What aircraft to fly?

We will be flying fictional Sci-fi aircraft for this sci-fi movie night. :excitement:

There are 3 aircraft to choose from. Each of them is high quality freeware available from Rikkoo and they all come with an installer:

Star Wars Millennium Falcon: The most appropriate for this flight (hint hint...) http://www.rikoooo.com/en/downloads/viewdownload/8/160

Halo Sabre Starfighter: Lots of fun. Easy vertical landing http://www.rikoooo.com/en/downloads/viewdownload/70/636

Orion III space plane from 2001 A Space Odyssey: Great high quality plane from Tim "Piglet" Conrad http://www.rikoooo.com/en/downloads/viewdownload/70/234

Please check out the readme files for each of these AC to become familiar with all of their systems and quirks before the flight.

Storm's quick "How to fly" tutorials:

• Halo Sabre
• Orion III

Mike's model matching for FSD here.

So bring your favorite beverage, pop some corn and join us Thursday as we enjoy an in-flight movie together! (I will supply a link to the movie we will be enjoying with Watch2gether on Thursday.)

Hope to see everyone there!

Happy landings,
Lazer

please visit my Onedrive here:

[Storm]

HOW TO FLY THE HALO YSS-1000 SABRE (for Lazer's flight)



MODES
The Sabre has several modes of flight:

• Normal, taking off and landing like a conventional airplane.
• Hovering, taking off and landing vertically.
• Spaceflight (actually a further 6 modes). You don't need these for this flight so I'm NOT going to cover them here. (We'll stay well below 100,000 ft altitude, so an altitude of 1800 miles or a speed of 2600 kts would not be helpful! For more details on spaceflight modes, read the READMEs, especially rcba-20.txt.)

I suggest you fly Lazer's Sci-Fi Movie Night with a mixture of Normal and Hovering flight.

MODE SWITCH
There are no flaps; the flap control switches you between Normal and Hover mode.

PERFORMANCE (for Lazer's flight)
At 95% fuel, 680 kts IAS, at 35000 ft, ground speed is about 1080 kts (still air), range is over 3000 nmi, endurance is 3 hours.

DO NOT!
Do not set the throttle to 100% nor engage BOOST at any time during Lazer's flight. (99% throttle is OK.) BOOST/100% throttle is only for vertical climb to spaceflight and for very short periods. The fuel burn is too rapid for any other use.

PRIOR TO TAKE-OFF (all flight modes)

• Change view to rear cockpit (WSO's position) to allow accesss to autopilot (left dash). Stay in this view until established level in cruise.
• Load flight plan.
• NAV-GPS = GPS
• NAV = ON
• Set IAS to 500* (was 680) with IAS = OFF (*see post #7)
• Set ALT to 35000 and ALT = ON (automatically sets VERT to 9900 and VERT = ON)

Choose take-off mode:

TAKE-OFF (normal)

1. Apply 90% throttle, parking brake off (B disappears on shift+4).
2. Rotate gently at 140 kts.
3. Gear up with positive rate of climb (G disappears on shift+4).
4. Turn manually approximately onto track and start climb.

TAKE-OFF (hover)

1. Set hover mode mode with flap control (F appears on shift+4)
2. Apply 90% throttle, parking brake off (B disappears on shift+4).
3. Gear up with positive rate of climb (G disappears on shift+4).
4. Turn manually approximately onto track using rudder.
5. When at least 200 ft agl radio height (see shift+5), disengage hover mode with flap control (F disappears on shift+4).
6. Aircraft will gather forward speed and then lose height (a few seconds transition), so compensate with backward stick pressure and start climb.

CLIMB OUT (all flight modes)

• Set AP = ON
• Set IAS = ON

TRANSITION FROM CLIMB TO CRUISE (all flight modes)
Important!

1. When 5000 ft from cruise altitude, reduce rate of climb (VERT) to 3000 ft/min (was 9900).
2. When 1000 ft from cruise altitude, further reduce rate of climb to 1000 ft/min.

Failure to reduce climb rate will result in porpoising +/- 300 ft around cruise altitude indefinitely, unless you intervene manually.

CRUISE (all flight modes)
Virtual cockpit view as required.
Watch movie.

DESCENT (manual, all flight modes)

• Descent can be made at any angle, even vertically.
• Deploy Speed Brake to keep speed manageable (S appears on Shift+4)

Choose approach and landing mode:

APPROACH (normal)

1. Align with runway and glide slope as normal.
2. Gear down. No maximum gear speed.
3. Speed brake optional (allow extra throttle if deployed).
4. Final speed over the threshold (Vref) = 140 kts. (Stall speed = 107 kts.)

LANDING (normal)

• Braking is good and ABS available as normal.
• Reverse thrust is available.
• Taxi as normal.

APPROACH (hover)

1. Descend to level flight at around 500-1000 ft above landing site elevation.
2. Slow to 200-250 kts within 1 nmi of landing site.
3. Ensure wings are level.
4. Set hover mode mode with flap control (F appears on shift+4).
5. Aircraft will come to a positional stop in around half a mile, but apply throttle to control height loss.
6. Gear down.
7. Control speed and position up to 50 kts laterally with forward-back/left-right on stick.
8. Control heading with rudder.
9. Control height with throttle.

LANDING (hover)

1. Select landing site with overhead view (Shift+3).
2. Descend on the throttle.
3. Maneuver laterally on stick and rudder.
4. Monitor RadioHeight (Shift+5).
5. Touchdown gently at RadioHeight of 6.2-6.7 ft, depending on weight.
6. Note that overhead view (Shift+3) stops working when RadioHeight is less than 20 ft.

[N404]

Model matching for FSD




Follow readme.txt for easy installation

TypeCode="HALO" ModelName= HALO Sabre
TypeCode="FALC" ModelName= SW Millenium Falcon
TypeCode="ORIO" ModelName= Boeing 7072 Orion Supersonic transport

You need all three fictional Sci-fi aircraft from Lazerbolt's post above instated !

[Storm]

HOW TO FLY THE BOEING 7072 Orion III (for Lazer's flight)



This model of the Boeing 7072 Orion III (as originally seen here in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey) flies more like a supersonic airliner, not a spaceplane! There is no hover mode and no spaceflight mode.

PERFORMANCE
At 95% fuel, Mach 1.77, at 25000 ft, ground speed is about 1060 kts.
However, do climb to 35000 ft (same as Halo Sabre) with slower cruise speed.
Range and endurance are both huge and do not affect us.

LIMITS
Flaps 1: 300 kts
Flaps 2: 235 kts
Flaps 3: 215 kts
Flaps 4: 215 kts
Gear: 220 kts.

RECOMMENDED MOD (before flying)
In the SimObjects\Airplanes\B-7072 folder, edit the aircraft.cfg file as follows. Change the line:

autothrottle_max_rpm =90

to read:

autothrottle_max_rpm =1000

and save the file. Without this mod, you may find that the autothrottle does not work satisfactorily.

AUTOPILOT SETTINGS

• Set NAV-GPS switch = GPS
• Set ALT to 35000* and ALT HOLD = ON
• Set VERT SPEED to 9900 (can be less if required)
• Set IAS/MACH to 500 (or M1.38)* (touching the C/O button if required). (* See post #7)
• Set A/T switch to ARM

To activate:

• Set SPEED = ON
• Set VOR LOC = ON (CMO A comes on)

FINAL APPROACH SPEED (Vref)
Max weight = 190 kts
Min weight = 160 kts
When in doubt, approach at no less than 190 kts, full flaps, gear down.

LANDING
Braking is good and ABS available as normal.
Reverse thrust is available.
Taxi as normal.

[Lazerbolt]

@ N404Mike: This flight was originally to be flown outside of FSD, (mainly because aircraft matching would have been a problem) but with this new model matching package you have kindly provided, I can see no reason NOT to use FSD on thursday. Well done and thank you!


@ Storm: You have once again outdone yourself by providing these fantastic and detailed tutorials. Thank you so much for all of your hard work on this!

[N404]

here is texture repair for SW_Falcon - FSX/DX10 (tested), possibly P3D (untested)



replace texture folder inside of "SW_Falcon" folder

[Storm]

Lazer has informed me the movie may be 2¼ hours long (instead of the 1¾ hours I'd originally thought). We need a slower ground speed of around 800 kts; 1060 kts is too fast. Please set your IAS to 500 kts (not 680) or Mach 1.38 (not M1.77), and please let us all cruise at 35,000 ft (not 25,000 in the Orion III). That will give us 795 kts ground speed (in still air) and get us there in 2 hours 35 minutes from top of climb/start of cruise, enough for the movie + intermission + descent.

The tutorial posts have been adjusted accordingly (BLUE bold above).

[Storm]

A handy chart for tonight's cruise times vs. required speeds.

[Lazerbolt]

A reminder for tonight's Around the World Movie Night Special:

We will gather @ Petrozavodsk Russia (ULPB) for a 9pm departure. Our movie presentation will begin at 9:10 sharp, and anyone who might be running a bit late to the party should have no problem catching up.

Don't forget to pop some corn, grab a drink and join us for this fantastic Sci-fi movie night with friends!

Hope to see everyone there!

[Cube]

Thanks for the flight it was fun as always.

My photos:
m.imgur.com/a/DI72K

My favourite:

[Prdude62]

Here are some pictures of a great movie flight. http://imgbox.com/g/C7kcvXcPM4