westerly around the world attempt

[Lewis - A2A]

Great job Alan, quite the journey so far I've been watching on and off when I can

cheers,
Lewis

[alan CXA651]

LEG 11 RJCC/RJSS about 280NM direct , complete , actual 302NM done.
This flight took me from one of the jananese isles to mainland japan , uneventfull flight weather was good for a change , aircraft landed with no faults , oil/fuel topped up , ready for next leg .
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/65347047
Regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
LEG12 RJSS/RJTT about 200NM complete , actual 217NM done only problem with this flight , was for some reason a temporary internet failure , so brief i never noticed , until i came to log the file and had a problem , then i noticed , not one , but two twitch videos of this flight , which confirmed the internet loss . going by theses twitch videos , it seems it happened about 1 hr into flight , when this as happened before , it has caused a crash of the programes.
as for the flight only real problem , was the weather at RJTT , with cloud base going lower than atis said it was , aircraft landed with no recorded faults ,oil/fuel topped up ready for next flight.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/65439665
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/65443857
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
LEG 13 RJTT/RJFK about 526NM direct , complete , actual 556NM done. This flight was not good for a few reasons , thunderstorms on takeoff at RJTT , that followed me almost to my destination , my internet disconnected AGAIN and i was off line for 2 min while router rebooted up , i knew about the disconnect as VPILOT gave a beep and the green connect button was not on , time of disconnect was 20.22.58 , and managed to reconnect at 20.24.23 , surprisingly TWITCHTV did not do a restart of stream but as recorded to the end , FSACARS i saved before i sent , just incase of problems , but did not give any this time .
Weather at RJFK was really bad , atis forcasting low cloud at about 500/700 but ASN giving zero cloud base , saw some high ground coming towards me , out of the mist , as i was getting prepared for landing , flaps at this stage was at first position , and i just pushed the mixture full rich and throttle to full as i started to climb away from the obstruction , only for ASN to put aircraft tim way out of ballance and gave a masive headwind , causing aircraft to stall, got the aircraft under control , and turned ASN off , but trim was still not working correctly , managed to get the aircraft down ,then turned ASN back on , on the after flight check , the aircraft eng oil was lower than normal , in the hangar it showed an oil line leak , and also right brake worn , these faults where fixed and oil/fuel topped up ready for next flight.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/65467869
Regards alan.

[Lewis - A2A]

So the repairs you are carrying out as and when they come up? Will you let anything less critical wear down during your adventure?

thanks
Lewis

[alan CXA651]

Hi Lewis.
In answer to your question , it depends on the nature of the fault ,weather,destination,length of trip , as to what i would consider safe to carry, using my aircraft engineering background to guide my decisions .
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-5830NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-14
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-61.39 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 14 RJFK/ROAH about 366NM direct , complete , actual 388NM done.
Weather AGAIN was absolutly bad , zero vis winds 12g25 slight crosswind on rwy , preflight showed no faults , i had to switch ASN on/off twice during climbout , as it was interfering with trim/autopilot , evan after taking manual control , trim was moving under its own steam , till ASN was switched off , once aircraft was stable at cruise , i switched ASN back on , but it still tried to crash the aircraft , by putting it in a dive , so switched it of again , and took manual control till i got the aircraft stable again, after about 15 min i turn ASN on again , this time it behaved its self untill i took over manual flight at my destination , i was on base could see the airport clearly , switched a/p off and ASN decided to instantly put a thick cloud around me , and no vis ref to the airport , so turned ASN off till i was lined up on finals , then turned it back on , and the cloud base should have been 1500ft but ASN clouds followed me down to 500 ft , makeing it very difficult to see.
Thunderstorms/high headwinds/turbulance for the entire trip.
Once down and parked , i had noticed on taxi in , the aircraft was pulling to right , seeing as night before i had replaced the right brake due to wear , i susspect left brake now needed replacing , in the hangar i was proved right , left brake replaced ,oil/fuel replenished ready for next leg.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/65623311
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-6376NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-15
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-66.43 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 15 ROAH/RCKH about 515NM direct , complete , actual 546NM done.
Weather thunderstorms at takeoff but winds where lighter than skyvector was predicting , so made better headway than expected , now in taiwan , flight was a lot smoother than of late , and uneventful in the main , only concern was someone prating about at departure airport , not useing any radios ,and same person flying both a mil aircraft and pax aircraft , and when i first caught sight of him , was as he was taking off as i approached the runway threashold , to do my mag checks.
Aircraft original destination was a mil airport , so changed destination to RCKH , aircraft landed with no reported faults oil/fuel replenished ready for next leg .
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/65793260
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-6869NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-16
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-71.44 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 16 RCKH/RPLL about 492NM direct , complete , actual 493NM done.
Weather at RCKH was according to atis ok , but in reality it was nasty , had to turn ASN of just after take off as it generated winds that where higher than atis stated , and almost stalled the aircraft , once i had aircraft stable , i reactivated ASN , had to turn ASN off again about 1 hr into flight , as the speed dropped instantly to almost stalling speed , left ASN of for about 10 min , then reactivated it again , and was ok for rest of trip , i suspect corrupt weather downloads as cause , other than that flight was un eventful , aircraft landed at RPLL with no faults , oil/fuel topped up ready for next leg .
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/65835783
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-7420NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-17
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-77.08 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1

LEG 17 RPLL/RPMD about 519NM direct , complete , actual 551NM done.
Flight was uneventful except for my internet going down for a split second , but had to wait 2 min for router to boot up before i could reconnect to vatsim time of disconnect was 16.30.48 reconnect was 16.30.54 aircraft landed at RPMD with no faults , oil/fuel replenished ready for next flight.
There is 3 twitchtv streams for this flight due to the internet momentary outage.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/66165730
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/66189074
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/66190426
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-7763NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-18
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-80.28 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 18 RPMD/WAMM about 342NM direct , complete , actual 343NM done.
Thunderstorms all the way from departure to arrival , windshear in a few places along the route , that came close to causeing a stall , visual reference on arrival was poor , i had ils tuned but good old ms never did one for this airport , which should have had one on each runway , aircraft landed with no faults , oil/fuel replenished ready for next flight.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/66406507
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-7925NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-19
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-82.13 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 19 WAMM/WAMT about 154NM direct , complete , actual 162NM done.
This and next few legs , are easterly as i head for papa new guinea , then round coast of australia , thunderstorms all the way on this leg , with occastional windshears to mess with the aircraft , WAMT was more sparse than plan had led me to believe , just an unlit runway , difficult to see at night with thunderstorms , sadly had a very heavy landing , which i was not happy with , but thankfully no damage done , no faults on afterflight checks , so oil/fuel replenished , ready for next leg.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/66597748
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-8347NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-20
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-86.20 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 20 WAMT/WASR about 414NM direct , complete , actual 422NM done.
Flight and weather uneventful , one of the calmest flights i have had, first flight since installing orbx GLOBAL BASE/VECTOR night lighting and coastal a vast improvement from default FSX .
Aircraft landed at WASR with no faults , oil/fuel replenished ready for next flight.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/66755060
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-8682NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-21
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-89.45 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 21 WASR/WABP about 279NM direct , complete , actual 335NM done.
Flight was ok thunderstorms most of way , a bit of turbulance , cloud at destination was a bit lower than min approach alt , but a gap opened up allowing me to see airport to line up ok ,on landing i could not see the taxi line off the runway , turns out they stop at the taxi stop line so in the dark its very hard to see turn off from runway , good job it was quiet , on afterflight check no faults recorded , oil/fuel topped up for next leg.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/66796168
Regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-9001NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-22
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-93.12 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 1
oil change x 1
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 22 WABP/WAKK about 318NM direct , complete , actual 319NM done.
Well lightening all the way on this flight,in about 3 places along the route , aircraft was hit with windshear , that came close to stalling aircraft , and vs up/down like a yoyo , as was the speed , weather ok at destination ,aircraft landed with no after flight faults , so oil/fuel replenished ready for next leg .
Also this was the first flight using my new saitek trim wheel , test proofing was ok.
https://www.twitch.tv/cxa651/v/66959370
Regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
TOTAL NM FLOWN TODATE:-9445NM
TOTAL LEGS FLOWN TODATE:-23
TOTAL FLT TIME TAKEN:-97.38 HR
TOTAL AIRCRAFT FAULTS TODATE
plugs changed x 2
oil change x 2
oil pipe leak x 2
oil filter replaced x 1
worn L/flap parts x 1
worn R/flap parts x 1
L brake worn x 1
R brake worn x 1
LEG 23 WAKK/AYPY about 443NM direct , complete , actual 444NM done.
Flight was ok till decent then something caused a/p to go a bit silly , had to take manual control , asn giving different weather to vatspy or skyvector , so i suspect asn is not getting weather updates in this part of world , aircraft landed with no faults , but afterflight walkaround , the oil seems a bit darker than normal , so before next flight i will do an oil/plug change , fuel topped up ready for next flight to oz.
Regards alan.