This scenic adventure sees us taking off from Port Morsby and flying across mountainous terrain to the east coast in the Alotau region. We will perform a number of Touch and Goes at several bush strips and perform a Full Stop along the way. This is very unforgiving terrain and the bush strips are very small dirt or grass areas. A challenging experience.
Details to follow. All welcome, hope you can join us.
Regards, Paul
ATTENTION Aussie Flight Group Participants …
Group Flight: 2020-11-20T09:00:00Z
PLEASE DO NOT SPAWN ON THE RUNWAY. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE STARTING POSITION ON THE RAMP.
Route: AYPY (Port Morsby) - DOO (Dorobisoro Airport, Kwikila) - NDI (Namudi Airport) - SFA (Safia Airport) - AYPQ (Pumani Airport) - AUP (Agaum Airport, Alotua) - RBP (Raba Raba Airport, Alotau).
Altitude: The route can be flown at 12,500’ but you can vary the altitude to suite the terrain. 5,500 up to DOO, climb to 10,500 to clear the Owen Stanley Range near Mt Obree, 12,500 to clear the Owen Stanley Range near Mt Suckling.
Airport details:
Port Morsby (AYPY)
Elev: 116’
RW 14R/32L Asphalt
RW 14L/32R Asphalt
Dorobisoro (DOO)
Elev: 1,750’
RW 08/26 Grass
Namudi (NDI)
Elev: 1,044’
RW 06/24 Grass
Safia (SFA)
Elev: 412’
RW 11/29 Dirt
Pumani (AYPQ)
Elev: 401’
RW 02/20 Grass
Aguan (AUP)
Elev: 3,237’
RW 06/24 Grass
Raba Raba (RBP)
Elev: 78’
RW 12/30 Grass
Aircraft: Select the Cessna Caravan for the event.
IMPORTANT: In the interest of keeping it REAL, please refrain from selecting inappropriate aircraft, like airliners. This only detracts from the immersion of the flight.
Seeing Aircraft Correctly: You need to do two things to ensure you can see the other pilots in the event and see them in the aircraft they selected.
Select the same server: To do this, proceed as follows:
Turn off Generic Planes: To do this, proceed as follows:
Voice Room: Discord for Official MSFS Community: Event #1 or Event #2 are the voice rooms available to us. I need to see which is available on the day and reserve it. I will be in the room and get it authorised for our use. Just look for my Userid: VHFIB to determine which room to enter. Until the room is open only one person can be in the room. In the past we have needed to use a PTT (push to talk) button. This is no longer required, so you can use voice activated comms. Some people prefer to use their phone or ipad etc for Discord comms.
Note: if you are new to the Discord Server for MS FS, you will need to “react” to get access to the voice rooms.
To “react”, once in the Discord for Official MS FS, click on the Important - Info option and at the very bottom, click on the button (last item at the bottom of the screen) to react and provide access. Note: clicking on the button accepts the conditions etc., which you can read via the available links.
Weather/Time: We will set the time 12hrs prior, i.e., 8am. This will allow us to fly in daylight and choose CLEAR Weather, so can enjoy the scenery:
Note: The terrain and weather that often ensues will make it very challenging to get into and out of airports.
We can start departing from 8pm. There will be no need for official radio calls. Lets just have some fun taking in the scenery and the social aspects of the event.
Multiplayer Map: Currently, the VFR map won’t show Live players, so if you get lost, it’s difficult to find where the other flyers are. The free multiplayer map, will show the other players (that are using the map) and allow you to see their heading, speed, altitude and callsign. But it will only show those using the map. The below map tool is excellent but only as good as the volume of people using it.
Not mandatory but if you would like to use this map, see the below for details:
Link to moving map: https://events.flighttracker.tech/ 12 13 23 17 22 32
Once viewing the map, click on Join to download the client that connects MSFS for tracking your flights. Note the .NET Core Windows Runtime requirement that needs installing also.
Let me know if there’s anything else that I’ve missed that you need to know.
Regards, Paul
looks great
I’ll try to come on for this one.
I’ll have to set a reminder though haha
Would love to be on tonight as loving flying in PNG but unfortunately won’t be able to make it.
Hope everyone has a great flight and see you all next week.
Is this flight over? Or is it 4:00 pm today EDT? I am confused.
Sorry, it’s over. What made you think it was the time you stated? I want to determine any issues with the stated time. By the way, the event runs each week ap 8pm Sydney time (daylight savings time) or 9:00z on Friday.
No. It’s my bad. It’s just that 4:00 am is a little early for me. I will have to go to bed earlier.
Here’s a couple of pics of the “flying tree”, don’t know what causes it but it sure does make for some interesting sights
