[FREEWARE] Flight Of Passage - Bush Trip across the USA v1.1.0

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Welcome!

This bushtrip is based on the book “Flight Of Passage” written by Rinker Buck, describing his coast to coast flight with his older brother Kern back in the summer of 1966. The brothers, aged 15 and 17, had no radio, no transponder and no navigation equipement beside a compass and a roadmap. The took their self-restored Piper Cub reg. N4971H, nicknamed 71H, to the skies during Independence Day weekend and finished the tour in 6 days.

I have completed this tour myself in FSX, P3D and MSFS and tried to retrace the route as accuratly as possible. Still, not all legs of the route are described in great detail in the book and in such cases I decided to take some liberties to guess the most likely route. An external map application (like LittleNavMap, Google or Bing) is highly recommended to be able to navigate properly along the rivers, railroads and roads used by Kern and Rink.

My thanks go out to @BuffyGC for the BushTripInjector and his help during designing this trip. Also, to @thedudeWG and @masszukidad for their help in creating N4971H and getting me started in Blender. And finally to @Krasniye1 for his wonderfull repaints of the Piper Savage Cub.

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Blue Skies, Pontiac51 - www.pontiac51.com

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Oh, this is gonna be FUN! Thank you for this!

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Hmmm Leg 27 appears to be blank? 0 minutes, 0 miles and no start or destination. I am using the NON-71H, regular package.

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Thank you for your feedback. There was a bug in there we thought fixed but it seems it is still there. I’ll try to get a fix ready as soon as possible.

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across America

Sorry sir, you meant, across United States of America. It feels offensive calling a country like a whole continent.

That said, I would love to read that book and fly that route! specially considering now USA has better ground textures. Thanks for the work!

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Thx for your advice. I am neither a citizen of the USA nor a native speaker, so these errors happen. I apologize.

I thought “Race across America” is named in that respect so I could not go wrong. But I did. I am sorry.

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I am certainly NOT offended by you refering to the US as a continent.
And IMO anyone who is, is nitpicking in the extreme!

Great post.
Thanks for the route.

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Also, Leg 13 has the origin, but the destination is blank. It may be related to the same cause as the last leg?

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OK, a new package should be available soon. Sadly, you have to delete your save for this work, either

STORE version:
C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\MISSIONS\ACTIVITIES

STEAM version:
C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\MISSIONS\ACTIVITIES

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Thx I will check that as well.

:edit: Issue found.

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Flying coast-to-coast across the United States of America means you have also flown coast-to-coast across North America.

That said, people from the USA are called “Americans,” and it is common to refer to the country as “America.” Wikipedia has a good article about the history of the term “American”: Demonyms for the United States - Wikipedia

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Yup. That’s why I didn’t start this until it’s fixed. :wink: Just checked the mission and the legs in the overview.

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VERSION 0.9.2 UPLOADED!

I am really sorry for this. Seems I overstressed the BushTripInjector by using more then 26 legs (A-Z). The Leg13 error was my own fault, I added another waypoint without renumbering.

All fixed now an reuploaded.

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Thank you! I just got the book you mentioned. I love to know more about the places I visit in-game, this is going to be a great journey! thanks again!

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@MaxiARG4147 Have fun reading. I have read it a couple of times now (once for the making of this trip) and I would recommend it to anyone who has the faintest interrest in flying. Its a travel back in time.

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No worries! Thank YOU! I am just glad it’s sorted out.

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Hopefully it is for good. It’s a steep learning curve for me.

Please do not hesitate to contact me on any more findings.

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Work on N4971H is progressing.

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Some cleanup to do (yellow spots here and there), but otherwise finished!

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Thanks to @masszukidad and @thedudeWG for their help on getting me started with painting.

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■■■■ this looks amazing, are you the same pontiac that also did Pelican Narrows? If yes, that my go to test developments on my Beaver project :slight_smile:

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