Hahaha.   You forgot to extend the arrestor hook. Nice screenshots! Honestly, big respect for trying, Lou.  

If you ever wanted a really great carrier with folks on deck and amazing night lighting, choose this one. AI CARRIERS 2 & JAVIER'S USS NIMITZ & IKE 2 http://fsxblueangels.com/aicarriers%20download%20template.html It comes with the complete surrounding fleet and reacts to a small tool which allows a placement and movement. And it's free.  

Well, I only flew the Goshawk (freeware) and F-18 (payware) to those, but why not try the 747?  


And I see Ahmet was trying BIIS again. Well, I'm still around that location and will try too. The 737 is a nice plane for that country in my eyes. And the routes are short, so I have plenty of landing action.

In the meantime.. I've found a spare plane for us folks landing in the water.   So in between the CS737 sessions, there is this!  


Thanks to a tip form an Avsim member, I've stumbled upon this plane and another one even pointed out the freeware model. I've added the 707 sounds to those 8 pods and roarrrrrr.  


Did you even know they were on to some of those things?   540 tonnes and up to 644 km/h. they should have told us. 

Wow. Didn't know that. They already refer to that monster? 

Well, expect me 'cruising' at some 50ft now, 350 knots. Looks pretty fast when being so close to the ground, but I have trouble seeing the landmass ahead and the turn radius is huge, so, sometimes, I 'land'. 

Nuts again, but cool.   I will try too!  Congrats on the landing. Now check the catapult.  

'Name a typical carrier based aircraft.'
Boeing 727!  


I think you can also choose different deck setups. Looks so clean. Or did you keep the folks away because you were coming in with a 727, needing some room to manoeuvre?   Make sure to really pick the addon Nimitz in that tools menu. Otherwise it uses the FSX default carriers.


If you can't get enough, there also is a freeware LSO. I think he will talk down any plane (when configured), which I'm about to try.   http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=4915.0


I wonder if we could attach some hook to the normal planes. Must be something in the aircraft.cfg.

The Nimitz in Melbourne.. Harbour. Well, I'm working on the details, ok?



Yeah, I know, default trike. Lets change that one to the 737.  

CoolP wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2012 at 4:35pm:


Its a sad story. Guys who worked on it ended up with no money and forgotten by everybody after USSR collapse. Ekranoplan was damaged during wrong takeoff procedure, and was never restored.

Some of EU or USA guys made offer to buy wreck and start international project in the beginning of 1990s, but RU rejected it because of "TOP SECRET MILITARY" crap.

Put the war guys off the board, get ekranoplan, and you can make pretty good money in overseas cargo transportation!!! Cheaper than B748, much faster than the ship.

One thing it dont like - high waves.

too bad though

CoolP, how do you get all the planes on the deck to appear. I don't see any commands in the SHIFT/J for that.

Lou

I'm still shocked by BIIS, but we have another candidate to be mastered. The very nice part about this one is the free nature since there's some good freeware out to allow flying to Bhutan, Paro.

The ICAO for that one is VQPR and you won't find that one in the default FSX selection. It isn't there! It's there, but not pretty. So, first, check out the airport itself in this video.


Find the link to the FSX freeware scenery in the video description. https://rapidshare.com/#!download|228p12|3021509571|PARO_Bhutan_VQPR_Package.zip... You will get the airport as an installer and some charts.
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We are talking about the Himalaya mountain range. Check the MSA.

Expect very high surrounding terrain with the airport itself already being at 7333ft.  

The current temps being at 25/16°C and the QNH reading 1016 lead to a density altitude of 10300ft. Keep that in mind when planning on the available 'power' of the plane in use.

The approach is a tip from an Avsim thread, find it here. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/383751-crazy-approach-to-paro/

Now, on the approach itself, there's a cool video explaining it for a 737. I'll tend to fly our fine CS737-200 in there, if I succeed.  

Note. The video is from FS2004, we will be using FSX and the freeware was made for our sim. I find the video to be an excellent help, so really watch it closely if you are interested in not crashing.  


The rw folks are flying different planes in there. The local Drukair airline had BAe 146 jets and now operates an Airbus A319 setup. However, Boeing was also testing their NG back then, right at this airport. So find some more details on the testing and challenges in this doc. http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_23/737-700Bhutan.pdf

I recommend reading it, it explains the location a lot better than I do and it also offers some more charts.

For a rw approach in the mentioned Drukair A319 watch this video. The proximity to the terrain is amazing and having in mind how slow they have to fly to make the turn, while still banking pretty hard, adds to it.


For more stuff on how the folks from Avsim did there, more info and things, check the thread where the tip came from. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/383751-crazy-approach-to-paro/