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Post by jimmy on Apr 28, 2013 13:05:28 GMT -5
The second race course is now posted live for flying during the month of May. This course is a little more "brutal" than the previous course, starting off with a 75-mile wave-top run. Keep that altitude in check for nearly half an hour with no autopilot. As discussed elsewhere, this course has a steep climb-out on legs 2 and 3, with a required altitude of 5k and 6k feet to reach the first mandatory checkpoint within just 2 or 3 nm from takeoff. Most aircraft will probably have to do a circling climb, which puts the slower aircraft at a disadvantage using the handicap system. I will continue to use my slower Husky to see if we can get some better "data points" to implement possible improvements down the line. Get all details on the main site and sign up using the sign-up form. |
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japo32
Student Pilot
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Post by japo32 on Apr 29, 2013 10:17:32 GMT -5
Do anyone know how to introduce coordinates inside the Reality XP garmin 430?
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Post by jimmy on Apr 29, 2013 11:37:43 GMT -5
Pshaw... Theres no gps in bush piloting!!! :-) There are lots of tools that allow you to plug in waypoints, including lat/long coords, and spit out a .pln file. When you load a flight from a .pln file, your gps will display a line along your route. I used to have an excel spreadsheet that would do that. I was recently told about simroutes.com, but I haven't tried it yet... www.simroutes.com/fb2/ParseRoute.aspx In theory, once you make your route in simroutes, it gets saved so that others can use it also. |
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teson1
Commercial Pilot
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Post by teson1 on Apr 30, 2013 4:29:10 GMT -5
Do anyone know how to introduce coordinates inside the Reality XP garmin 430? The US CAN border is displayed in the Fs default GPS. It may be in the Reality XP one as well. So for the border run it may not be needed to enter a separate flight plan. Although I'm with Jimmy regard use of the GPS for bush flying I'll make an exception for the border run. Even for the unlikely case that the summits are clear of clouds some of them are too little individualised to allow to fly visual, or follow compass course and stay on the border. |
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Post by kronzky on May 2, 2013 10:26:28 GMT -5
There are lots of tools that allow you to plug in waypoints, including lat/long coords, and spit out a .pln file. When you load a flight from a .pln file, your gps will display a line along your route. I used to have an excel spreadsheet that would do that. I was recently told about simroutes.com, but I haven't tried it yet... www.simroutes.com/fb2/ParseRoute.aspx In theory, once you make your route in simroutes, it gets saved so that others can use it also. I tried using coordinates with SimRoutes a while ago, but it seems to not be able to deal with decimals in the lat/long data, so that made it sort of useless... It also expects a very different format from what's generated by SkyVector, so a lot of manual editing is involved. Did you ever successfully convert coordinates from SkyVector on SimRoutes (or anywhere else)? I finally gave up, and wrote my own little utility... It's pretty basic — it can't deal with airports (since SkyVector doesn't pass the coordinates for them), and you can only import it into Plan-G (or perhaps some other flightplanning tools; but not directly into FSX), but it still came in handy at times. If somebody wants to try it, you can download it here. Just paste the SkyVector link (that long string with all the coordinates) into the dialog box, and it will create an FSX flightplan called "SkyVector.pln" (in "My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files"). |
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