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Damn I thought I had caught a potential new planner! You barely escaped on that one!
More seriously OK I'll do the planning. However this is definitely not that difficult so I'd gladly help if you ever want to have a good look at the charts.

Happy flying,
David

Hi captains,

Nice one from http://www.flightaware.com !

Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com

Keep cool, It's a real one. Still have to wait for the P-51.

Regards, Romain.

Homework for next flight:

http://www.scribd.com/full/33076716?access_key=key-2kvitvjig1dic6eh79q8



This is a very good original document describing the C-1 Autopilot operation.

Romain.

Mother Nature uses a powerful GPU indeed. I also heard that everything is totally simulated to the tiniest particle and in real time! Impressive!
The screenshots from the team last Saturday were very nice already, and required way less computing power

Happy flying,
David

Oh my, that screenshot must have been taking from the latest pc with quantumPhysX!!!

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Lukas

KSKLYUS


Nice flight, thanks all for flying. Time to bed now...

Kind regards, Romain.

Flight from Forrest YFRT - Alice Springs YBAS via Ayers Rock (Uluru )

Flt lvl 27500 ft

Sorry no line up shots
Nice and close those flights through the week are paying off Don well done



Contrails



As seen through the flight the Squadron is getting better well done girls & boys







Nice





Our little friends Thanks guys for sticking with us slow pokes lol







On with the flyin





Droping down to 4500 ft looming out of the desert Ayers Rock ,"The Rock" as we say in Oz







Out to the West the Olgas



Back to The Rock, this is where the fighter's refueled







Opps that's close Oh I didn't know you cared lol OH MY





Back to the job at hand going around the rock

















Heading for Alice Springs and climbing to 15500ft















More close up fighters







B-17 & Spitfire









P-47





Back to those mad pilot's lol





Starting decent to Alice Springs RWY 12, ILS 109.5





Radar station







Staying with the turn



Heading for Final







Down with at lest 4 B-17's landing behind @ the same time and a Spitfire coming for a low pass



Debrief









Thanks to every body who flew its was a great flight, see you all next week

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Ron
B-17 AIRFRAME 710 HRS PLUS AND CLIMBING




GIGABYTE X58A-UD5 MB, INTEL I7 950, 12GB DOMINATOR-GT DDR3 RAM, WIN7 64, GIGABYTE SUPER OVER CLOCK GTX 560 TI 1GB GGDDR5 1000Mz, CORSAIR 850W PS, NOCTUA NH-D14,
TRACKIR 5 & TrackClipPro

Forrest (YFRT) to Alice Springs (YBAS)

Unfortunately, I could only join in later, but I still managed a good last hour of the flight, and it looked like a very very good one!

In formation







Close form on Snowy





Nice overview



Coordinated turn with Ron



With followers



Flyby over Romain



Under and through a formation of B-17's on final



P-47D Taxiing



Nice nice nice B-17 joint landing!!







Squared away, debrief. Very nice line-up





Cheers!

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Lukas

Very nice pictures ! I appreciate.

Here is a debrief of our new take off procedure.

Procedure described in David's flight plan :


Using FS Recorder (http://www.fs-recorder.net/) and Plan-G, I took some screen shots to see how the procedure was performed.

1/ All B-17 at runway heading (180°), following fligth leader.

A/C should have been equally spaced (10 sec between each plane).

2/ Starting the 180° turn. (90° on the picture).


3/ Join-up


I think it was quite good for a first trial. Mastering this kind of "accusimed" procedure requires some training and good coordination between squadron members. It's also a good challenge like dead reckoning is for navigation.

That's the way to do it (for pg.31 of A2A B-17 manual)


Kind regards, Romain.

What a view!




This Jug started smoking heavily right after passing me, I suspect my side gunner






Yes we did land this close to eachother! Nice spitfire buzzing btw!

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Tore Johansen
member of VPA - Virtual Pilots Association

all great shot's hoping all pilots will have all the right B-17 & Fighter textures by next weekend

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Ron
B-17 AIRFRAME 710 HRS PLUS AND CLIMBING




GIGABYTE X58A-UD5 MB, INTEL I7 950, 12GB DOMINATOR-GT DDR3 RAM, WIN7 64, GIGABYTE SUPER OVER CLOCK GTX 560 TI 1GB GGDDR5 1000Mz, CORSAIR 850W PS, NOCTUA NH-D14,
TRACKIR 5 & TrackClipPro

Hello Romain,

Thanks for the flight analysis. I was a bit worried but you're right we did quite after all
Should be quite good with some practice. I'll increase the separation time for the take-off to 30s.

Best regards,
David

Roger that Wing Commander.

Perhaps we could mix with Ron's proposition with simultaneaous deparature by group of 2 or 3 like fighters.
This could reduce the distance between first plane and last one. But I decline any responsability in case of rejected take off.

Some more pictures:

Bob has sent me some pictures of our T.O. from Forest.


Bombardier's view


Tail Gunner's view. Get ready to serve a coffee to Lukas


One time, he'll be too low


Have a good week, Romain

Wanna bet?

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Lukas

Outstanding pics all!