Thread went quiet. Time to wake-it-up again.
Plans being made to fly from KSGR > SEATAC > PANC…
(side trip 1) PANC > PAKN > Katmai (Brooks Camp) > PAKN > PANC
(side trip 2) PANC > PTKA > AK06 (Denali) > PTKA > PANC
…PANC > (layover TBD) > PAAT (Attu dropoff) > PANC
Planes (so far):
Dassault Falcon 7x
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
X-Plane 11
That 7X will eat up the miles pretty quickly. And I think it actually has pretty good short field performance if you really wanted to use it all the way.
Loved the Falcon 7X in FSX and after the switch just recently to XP11, looking forward to enjoying it once again.
Just flew the first leg of the Atlantic crossing. Hoping to do it all real-time this year, so I figured I’d get a headstart.
@BeachAV8R where is the screens & AARs topic?
Only ten or fifteen more OrthoXP tiles to download… Good thing I freed up about a terabyte by shifting some things to web-based storage.
Too bad my internet has gotten slower and more frequently drops out. I really, REALLY hate AT&T.
Here ya’ go! Best of luck on the trip!
Think you forgot the link.
Wheels
I did inded…! Thanks - added it to my post too… something something short term memory something…
My major issue with almost all the forklift simulations on the market (whether stand alone or part of another product like Farming Simulator or Construction Simulator) is that they do a very poor job of accounting for the friction between loads as weight is added. Probably a niche problem however lol
I now have this image of @jenrick sitting on his forklift under the night sky on a featureless plain somewhere, thoughtfully taking measurements from the stars with his sextant, then continuing on his way to the distance with the electric engine whirring steadily…
And that’s what I get for having too many tabs open, lol.
No plans for a forklift for tht Xmas flight, but who knows let me see what is available at Avsim and the like lol.
@Bearhedge that literally made me a laugh out loud. I have been planning on using the sextant for the flight, much easier to get good sightings when you’re static.
heh, nice bit of poetry there! funny too!
Back to the topic at hand, I need to give this some actual consideration this time, as far as time, route and commitment goes.
Last year I couldn’t make the trip and the year before I ended up making up lost time in the SR-71, which was fun to try out once but not really how I wanted to do it.
NZWP - PAAT is 5,362NM direct route. A 1,600NM range aircraft would enable an island hop more or less directly North: not very exciting from a landscape point of view but fast:
I could go NW into SE Asia, which would provide a more exciting trip, landscape-wise - although the amount of graphics tweaking I’m likely to do may be limited.
Alternatively I could point the nose NE to start with, see where in the Americas I’ll end up making landfall and trekking up from there. I quite like this plan, but it may require more time than I have.
As to my steed of choice, I’ve been tempted by the Take Command!: Hot Start TBM 900, which has been used by a few for this trip before, I believe:
It isn’t cheap, but looks like a module with quite a bit of depth - it would add a turboprop and a glass cockpit to my hangar selection and at 250kts cruise the trip wouldn’t take forever. Range is 1700NM+ so I could do the direct island trek up North with it.
What are you guys going to fly (or are you leaving it as a surprise?)
Every year I finish the trek in something slow and say ‘next year I will use a faster airplane’, and then I pick something slow when the next trek comes around.
The TBM900 is excellent. You won’t regret buying it.
But you always pick such beautiful, slow planes to do it in…
(Says the guy who’s seriously thinking about doing this one in the Beech 18).
I for one will miss them. They certainly had high entertainment value 
I concur - I hope for more of them for sure!
I’m thinking about either the Bush 172 or the Mu-2 at this point…
I did a tiny bit of planning.
From where I live going north (Spitsbergen, then almost north pole, then Siberia and then to the aleutian islands) is the shortest way.
Problem is that there are not that many usable airports there, and flying over mostly empty russia is a tad boring.
So I might actually go north but then west, flying Norway, Iceland, maybe Greenland, and then through Canada with a few hops. Might be more interesting.
Probably going to use a business jet, aiming for 3000+ (whoops! Kilometers not miles) legs or so. Haven’t decided yet.
