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Highmike / QEA / Boeing 377 / Pacific Route

Fewer islands further east!

Flying the Stratocruiser from NTAA-NTGJ

TOW = 130,086 pounds
Payload = 28,020 pounds

Those Tahitian girls were very accommodating overnight, but I'm going to have to climb back into the sky and make fond memories of them.
 
Ok, that’s funny. When I typed “Great Circle Course Correction” in that Google thing, I got this site. I’ve concluded that your “Queensland Windage” method is a bit easier to manage, and pretty darned clever! I’ve always wondered how the FS flight planner calculated the course to a location very far away. If it was simply the initial course, it would be pretty useless, the more so the greater the distance. BTW, there is a way to figure a constant course to a point across the globe, it’s called a “rhumb line” course. I learned that at the site linked to above… Still don’t know how to gonculate it. I’m going with your Simple GCCC (SGCCC) method!
 
Landed safely at NTGJ

Landing Weight = 118,796 pounds
Fuel Used = 11,290 pounds
Time Elapsed = 3 hours 17 minutes
Penalty = 0 hours

A beautiful approach, but I couldn't help feeling how lonely this place is. Funny how quickly the GCCC thing appeared on Google Paul. Those bots are nosey little blighters!
 
Paul thats what I got the other day and I had it working for the first leg with his calculator from the main page.

Problem was the second leg did not work

I figured I fat fingered an entry in the lat / long settings and that is what made it correct.

His information maybe very correct for the real world but Highmike's works better in FS9 and FSX.

Congrats Mike for another successful leg.
 
Hi Mike!

A thousand thank yous, oh wise one, for coming up with that GCCC! If you look my YBBN-NWWW ground track, you will see why! You know... I have seen this on IFR Enroute Charts where there is a difference in Heading from one VOR to a second, but never understood why it was so (mag. var. didn't account for Heading diff.).

Mike... I seriously considered not flying the Australia Route because I didn't know how to compensate for the "southerly drift" (w/ or w/o winds) and thought my only hope would be the Sextant (it's installed but no clue how to use it).

Again thanks for sharing this... you have no idea how gratifying it was for me to see "the needle" come alive roughly when it should have and just a very small on-course correction. What a pleasure!
 
Aww, shucks Rob. I'm feelin kinda self conscious. :redf:

I might add a slight correction to the method appearing in the Tall Tales of the Alvear thread. Before you divide your enroute time by the number of degrees you have to turn you should add 1 to the number of degrees to ensure that you complete your turns before your get to your destination.

In my previous example I divided 458 minutes by 8 degrees, but I should turn 1 degree every 458 / 9 = 51 minutes. This will make very little difference, but it could be significant on the really long legs.
 
Into the wild blue yonder

Flying the Stratocruiser from NTGJ-SCIP

TOW = 140,345 pounds
Payload = 28,020 pounds

This will be the first of two very long legs. This one to Easter Island is 1403 NM.
 
Highmike said:
In my previous example I divided 458 minutes by 8 degrees, but I should turn 1 degree every 458 / 9 = 51 minutes. This will make very little difference, but it could be significant on the really long legs.
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Actually Mike... I decided to base it on the enroute distance, so on that first leg I was compensating -1º per 100nm. This next one (NWWW-NFNA) appears to be -1º per 125nm. We'll see! :isadizzy:

Again, thanks! :applause:
 
Nerve wracking!

Great Ozzie said:
Actually Mike... I decided to base it on the enroute distance, so on that first leg I was compensating -1º per 100nm.
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Cool!

Landed safely at SCIP

Landing Weight = 121,343 pounds
Fuel Used = 19,002 pounds
Time Elapsed = 5 hours 6 minutes
Penalty = 0 hours

I was a tad heavy on approach, so I had to go a way downwind to burn fuel. You don't want to fly 5 hours under race conditions too often - it's no good for the nerves!
 
Excellent, Mike.

Those two long Pacific legs look daunting. But with the GCCC, they may be manageable after all.
 
Ay Caramba!

Flying the Stratocruiser from SCIP-SCTI

TOW = 146,652 pounds
Payload = 24,020 pounds

This will be the second of two very long legs. This one to Santiago is 2031 NM. The flight planner recommends I set aside 7 hours and 54 minutes for this one. Ouch!
 
Gruelling!

Landed safely at SCTI

Landing Weight = 121,257 pounds
Fuel Used = 25,395 pounds
Time Elapsed = 6 hours 44 minutes
Penalty = 0 hours

Good luck to the other Pacific flyers. It's not an easy leg, but what a relief when you see that Duenna stop.
 
Time for a little diversion

Flying the Stratocruiser from SCTI-SGAS

TOW = 130,089 pounds
Payload = 28,020 pounds

Thanks to the committee for making this concession to my mistake. This will be my third night flight.
 
If it is any consolation Mike, I would have done the same thing. When MM posted the new commercial centers, I heeded his admonition to re-check routing. I realized I was short one “Addition Comm. Ctr.” and had to add NTTO. I had it in my head NTGJ was a “required ctr.” :isadizzy:
 
Great Ozzie said:
If it is any consolation Mike, I would have done the same thing. When MM posted the new commercial centers, I heeded his admonition to re-check routing. I realized I was short one “Addition Comm. Ctr.” and had to add NTTO. I had it in my head NTGJ was a “required ctr.” :isadizzy:
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Thanks Rob.

Landed safely at SGAS

Landing Weight = 118,252 pounds
Fuel Used = 11,837 pounds
Time Elapsed = 3 hours 22 minutes
Penalty = 0 hours
 
The Home Stretch

Flying the Stratocruiser from SGAS-SAEZ

TOW = 124,946 pounds
Payload = 28,020 pounds

Just a couple of hours now and I'll be warming to the home-coming cheers of those generous Argentinians.
 
Bienvenido a casa heroicos aviadores!

Landed safely at SAEZ

Landing Weight = 116,932 pounds
Fuel Used = 8,014 pounds
Time Elapsed = 2 hours 24 minutes
Penalty = 0 hours

To the tumultuous cheers of the adoring fans Qantas Empire Airways arrived in Buenos Aires with a generous measure of grace, style and panache.
 
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