teson1
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Post by teson1 on May 3, 2013 19:05:34 GMT -5
Nice course again, Jimmy. Thanks ! The border provides for a logic and aesthetic route. Brilliant. Fun and intense flying on this leg, skimming the waves and searching for the ideal line. fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?flight=hyE0vaJ0O66DS4uJ8kMMurzeUAnd the next flights will provide quite a few interesting challenges again. And I don't want to even think about that landing along Unuk river... Heads-up to pilots flying later: Sitklan and Kanugunut islands west of Wales Island at the entry to Portland Canal are not represented in (my) FS9. This had me surprised for a second. Attachments:
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Post by kronzky on May 3, 2013 22:40:45 GMT -5
Good run!  I had some really weird winds, and was all over the place. Looks like you got me by 10 seconds (if my math is right)... This is gonna be an exciting race! |
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Post by teson1 on May 4, 2013 6:35:36 GMT -5
Good run! I had some really weird winds, and was all over the place. Looks like you got me by 10 seconds (if my math is right)... This is gonna be an exciting race! 10 seconds. Nice.  |
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Post by kronzky on May 4, 2013 11:23:25 GMT -5
Looks like we were so fast, that we ended up with negative race times, and broke the spreadsheet...  | Racer Name | Declared Aircraft | Race Time | | Jimmy | FSX Aviat A-1 Husky (Stock) | | | teson1 | FS9 American Champion Scout (Tundra) | 12/29/1899 23:58:01 | | Kronzky | FSX Cessna 185 Skywagon (Bush) (Amphib) | 12/29/1899 23:58:13 |
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teson1
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Post by teson1 on May 4, 2013 14:08:09 GMT -5
Looks like we were so fast, that we ended up with negative race times, and broke the spreadsheet... | Racer Name | Declared Aircraft | Race Time | | Jimmy | FSX Aviat A-1 Husky (Stock) | | | teson1 | FS9 American Champion Scout (Tundra) | 12/29/1899 23:58:01 | | Kronzky | FSX Cessna 185 Skywagon (Bush) (Amphib) | 12/29/1899 23:58:13 |
Yes, I have remarked that as well. ;D As this is just the spreadsheet's way of displaying a negative time, e.g. "-00:01:59", everything will be back in order once the sum of the race scores gets >00:00:00. And I doubt we'll be able to fly below reference time on the next legs with these brutal climbs. |
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Post by teson1 on May 7, 2013 19:24:22 GMT -5
Leg 2 is in. Perfect weather on this flight, so flew visual from mountain to mountain without using the GPS. Nice flight (and a brutal climb at the beginning). Two hick-ups on this flight. 1. Turned off at Mt John Jay one bump on the ridge too early, which cut off about 0.5 nm (worth about 20 sec flight time) from the flight length. 2. There's an erroneous Duenna file just before the flight log on the Duenna site. Reason: While setting up for the flight I switched to slew to slightly turn the plane. Duenna which was waiting in auto-pickup mode seems to have detected this even though the flight was not started, and generated an error. fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=Ds5uVnsdx3h0Yyu2bIQKvPaTM0 Mountain upon mountain, and no sign of man to see ...  Diving down  Nice and large meadow to set her down.   |
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Post by teson1 on May 14, 2013 16:45:47 GMT -5
Leg 3
Argh... that was a crash.
With the wingtip on a small bush barely larger than my wheels during the take-off run.
I didn't even consider that the plane could crash on that.
But it's a legit crash. I should have paid attention. Lesson learned (hope so).
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Post by bushflyer on May 16, 2013 22:28:41 GMT -5
A question for you Teson:  I see this on a lot of screenshots out there. Very professional, and it looks cool as... It documents your location and altitude at the time you screen save, by the looks of it. Is it built into some addon? What is it and how do I get one?...lol...thanks... |
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Post by kronzky on May 17, 2013 13:11:11 GMT -5
Leg 3 Argh... that was a crash. With the wingtip on a small bush barely larger than my wheels during the take-off run. I didn't even consider that the plane could crash on that. But it's a legit crash. I should have paid attention. Lesson learned (hope so). I don't know if we should disqualify a run, just because somebody touched some vegetation during taxiing. That's not what racing is about. (And nobody would care about it in a real race anyway - it's just some FS peculiarity that has nothing to do with reality). |
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Post by jimmy on May 21, 2013 21:34:02 GMT -5
Argh... that was a crash....during the take-off run....But it's a legit crash. The rules state that any crash "prior to take off" does not count as a crash, and to re-start the leg. The only reason (imo) for penalizing a crash would be to prevent someone from intentionally crashing mid-way through the flight (or near the end) for the purposes of "bailing out" of the leg when they realize that they cannot make a given time that they have pre-calculated and to "try again". So, crashing during takeoff, or taxi-to-takeoff, should not be penalized. Probably even any time prior to mid-point would be ok, but there exists the possibility of "bailing out" due to a wrong turn was taken... so I thought that the rules stating "any crash prior to or during takeoff" can be restarted made it the most clear without adding too much regulation. |
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Post by teson1 on May 25, 2013 7:24:16 GMT -5
Argh... that was a crash....during the take-off run....But it's a legit crash. The rules state that any crash "prior to take off" does not count as a crash, and to re-start the leg. The only reason (imo) for penalizing a crash would be to prevent someone from intentionally crashing mid-way through the flight (or near the end) for the purposes of "bailing out" of the leg when they realize that they cannot make a given time that they have pre-calculated and to "try again". So, crashing during takeoff, or taxi-to-takeoff, should not be penalized. Probably even any time prior to mid-point would be ok, but there exists the possibility of "bailing out" due to a wrong turn was taken... so I thought that the rules stating "any crash prior to or during takeoff" can be restarted made it the most clear without adding too much regulation. Well, I consider it pilot error. I should have chosen my take-off run far from all vegetation (and I would just have had to taxi 100 ft further to have a clear run, so it was plain laziness), but if that's the rules then - thanks. I immediately reflew the leg for the fun of it. Here's the link to the Duenna site: fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?flight=q0w9JpIKy4r7aR35pCNLoNYXjnM |
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