When this thing gets going on Friday, May 1st, I figured this will be the official posting.  Please feel free to post your flight stories, crappy landing scores, braggin, etc here.

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Again good luck gentlemen!

Joe Mini

President/CEO/Chief Pilot for Joe Mini World Wide Tours, LLC. 
"If we get you to your destination in one piece, it's a miracle"  

Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark

Leg 01 – PHLI to HI01

Visibility: 50 Miles               Wind: 5 Knots from 029

Departure: Rwy 3              Arrival: Rwy 23

Flighttime: 23 mins.

Hi all,

My first flight started on Saturday 2 May about 15.25 Local Time.
I decided to fly real weather conditions.
Further I have the realism settings in FS set on high.
For real weather I normally use FS-Meteo. The first thing I noticed, was that the servers of FS-Meteo were down.
So I had to use FS weather.
Weather was: scattered clouds, wind 029 at 10, visibility 50mi.
ATC assigned me to Rw 3 for departure.

            Ready to start the tour - parking 7 at PHLI                                                 Clear to take off runway 3 PHLI

                           There we go...                                                                                On out way to HI01

The flying was good, but the landing good be better. I drift away a little trough the wind.
Next time better I hope.

Greetz,
Jacob.






Regards,
Jacob.

Intel Pentium Core i5
Memory 4 GB
NVidia G240 1Gb
Saitek X52 Pro
Windows 7 x64
FSX de Luxe SP2, Flyingschool2010, Flightsim Commander

Visibility: 83.95 Miles           Wind: 0 Knots

Departure: Rwy: 23             Arrival: Rwy: 16

Flighttime: 24 mins. 28 secs.

So I thought I could be a night in Princeville, but no way!
They told me on the airport I should leave, because they expected a lot of other aircraft these days, so there would be not enough space on the parkings
No sightseeing in Princeville though!

To prevent discussions I decided to leave then.
At 17.35 I started the engine again to leave Princeville and heading to Barking Sands.

                           Leaving HI01...                                                                               ...and climbing to 6000

                        Some nice views...                                                                     ...of flying trough the clouds

                   Some heavy clouds above the see....

The weather was good, a few scattered clouds wind from 58 at 8. I should be there before dark.
The flying did go very well, but the landing not. I'm not content about it.

                         Approaching Rwy 16 PHBK...                                                       ...and here we are, just before dark                                            

For me it looked like a good landing, the only thing I landed about 300 feet before touchdown point
The logbook tells me, "Poor glideslope on visual approach" as only comment, which I don't get. For me the glideslope wasn't to bad at all.
Hopefully it will getting better next time.

So, I'm gonna take a good bottle of wine in Barking Sands and relax a bit. By the way, do you know if the wine is expensive on Hawaii?

I wonder where the other planes are. The only one I've seen is the Beech Baron 58 from Joseph.
Do you know where they are? (Ole may give you some extra points for the right answer )
See you next flight. Screenshots are following...

Jacob.


Regards,
Jacob.

Intel Pentium Core i5
Memory 4 GB
NVidia G240 1Gb
Saitek X52 Pro
Windows 7 x64
FSX de Luxe SP2, Flyingschool2010, Flightsim Commander

Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark

Visibility: 159.79 Miles                   Wind: 6 Knots

Departure: Rwy: 34            Arrival: Rwy: 09

Flighttime: 16 mins. 02 secs

After a fine bottle of wine and a good night rest it is time to go ahead to Port Allen.

At 10.30 I arrive at the airport to start things up. About 11.50 w're ready to go. ATC assigned rwy 34 for departure.

                   Ready for departure rwy 34                                                           Turn right to intercept course

                      Almost on course to PAK

The flight wend good, and also the landing was better than before. At approach I nearly hit the tree at the right of the runway. Mr. Smith keeps telling me "Poor glideslope on visual approach - you can do better". So I ask you, what causes this? For myself I will look at the manual again.

But I'm content for now. Port Allen looks a little small to me, so I don't know if I stay here for the night. Perhaps I'm going to Dillingham today. See you and good luck buddies

By the way: I was so concentrated on approach, so I did forget to make screenshots.

Jacob.


Regards,
Jacob.

Intel Pentium Core i5
Memory 4 GB
NVidia G240 1Gb
Saitek X52 Pro
Windows 7 x64
FSX de Luxe SP2, Flyingschool2010, Flightsim Commander

          I have just seen the pictures you posted. Really good . I would like to do the same but i dont know how to. I got me pics saved in fsx but how do i add them to a post. Maybe you could advice me thanks

Joseph

Use Internet Explorer and click on the image-icon in the top-bar from the edit screen in the forum editor. Then you get a popup screen where you can browse to a local drive/folder to select the image. After that, click on "Add Image" and the image will be uploaded in you forum post.

Hope this helps you out.

Jacob.


Regards,
Jacob.

Intel Pentium Core i5
Memory 4 GB
NVidia G240 1Gb
Saitek X52 Pro
Windows 7 x64
FSX de Luxe SP2, Flyingschool2010, Flightsim Commander

May 03,  Leg 04 PAK to PHDH

Visibility: 150.52 Miles                   Wind: 2 Knots

Departure: Rwy 27              Arrival: Rwy 08

Flight time: 47 mins. 57 secs.

The flight from Port Allen to Dillingham is one of the longest tracks. I decided to leave PAK at about 17:35.  The weather was good, clear and less wind.

                   Departing from PAK (Port Allen)                                                             PHLI in front of us...

                         ...and behind us.                                                                       PHDH (Dillingham) in sight

The flight was going well, a very smooth flight. Landing was also very good, the only thing was that I must be mistaken by the touchdown point, because I was 458 feet away from it. Therefore the low landing score. I will check the landing touchdown points next time.

                          Approaching Rwy 8 PHDH

Good luck all of you and have a save flight.

Jacob.


Regards,
Jacob.

Intel Pentium Core i5
Memory 4 GB
NVidia G240 1Gb
Saitek X52 Pro
Windows 7 x64
FSX de Luxe SP2, Flyingschool2010, Flightsim Commander