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-----------ALIEN INVASION!-----------
The area surrounding Joao Pessoa Brazil has been the site of thousands of Extra-terrestrial sightings and abductions dating as far back as 1947. HQ is sending us into the hot zone to fight this disturbing breach of intergalactic treaty made long ago with the offending aliens.
Between 1947 and 2013 the Alien offenders have been waging a massive coordinated abduction operation dubbed "Terrestrial Inhabitant Nabbing". Our top scientists have been working for decades to put an end to this wave of T.I.N. by seeking a method to disrupt the alien abduction beams.
HQ has made a major breakthrough with the development of headgear designed to foil the aliens T.I.N. technology.
Our mission Thursday night will be to deliver these T.I.N. foil hats to the inhabitants of northeast Brazil and end this reign of alien terror.
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This flight will take place in SimLink. See here for details:
Thursdays flightplan is as follows:
Salvador, Brazil Departure (SBSV)
Santa Maria, Brazil (SBAR)
Maceio, Brazil (SBMO)
Joao Passoa, Brazil (SBJP)
A flightplan .PLN file for this flight can be found here:
http://1drv.ms/1O4aN5s
Required Scenery file: Click the link below to grab the required scenery file. Simply drop this .bgl file into "addon scenery/ scenery". As usual, you will know if its installed correctly if you see a large radar dish at the starting airport:eagerness:
We will be flying relatively low and fast for this Hercules flight. Our altitude will not exceed 3000 ft to avoid the alien dampening field. Please bring an appropriate cargo-prop.
AIRCRAFT
The preferred aircraft is the C-130 Hercules. Alternatives include the C-97 Stratofreighter, the Antonov An-12 and An-32, the C-133 Cargomaster, the Howard 500 and the Boxcar - or any cargo prop that can do 270 kts IAS at around 16,000 ft.
No Jets.
Recommended SimLink type codes when you connect using vPilot:
| If you're flying | Enter the Type Code |
| C-130 | C130 |
| An-12 | AN12 |
| C-97 | C97 |
| An-32 | AN32 |
| C-133 | C133 |
| C-119 (Boxcar) | C119 |
| L-188 (Electra) | DC4 |
| Howard 500 | DC3 |
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Not sure what to fly?
For those who don't have or don't want to fly the C-130, Storm was kind enough to document which are the best planes for these "Around the World" cargo flights. This should help you decide.
- C-97 Stratofreighter Popular, quality freeware that comes with an installer (v2) available here, or without an installer (v3) but with extra models and separate optional extra mods and liveries here (look in the Cargo props section).
- C-133 Cargomaster Largest aircraft with massive payload. Easy to fly (with practice). Keeps up with the C-130. Download it here (look in the Cargo props section; install both v1 + cumulative v1.3 upgrade). Warning: a small number of pilots have frame rate problems when flying this aircraft.
- An-12 Most similar to C-130. Most extras (airbrake, autothrottle, paradrop). Russian annotations. Most difficult to fly. Download it here (look in the Cargo props section).
- An-32 Most frame-rate friendly. Best cockpit model. Easy to fly except long spool time. Needs refueling on long flights. Download with an installer here.
- Howard 500 Easy for piston engine pilots. Best climber. Tail-dragger. Performance tails off at altitude. Poorest frame rates. Download it here (look in the Cargo props section).
- C-119 Boxcar Easiest to fly. Download it here (look in the Cargo props section).
- 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:
Happy landings,
Lazer
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