Friday night Flights - 9pm EDT - Helicopters to LUNA PARK

[kalo7578]

Aircraft: Guimbal, but any helicopter that can maintain 90 knots indicated will be fine.
Friday June 9th @ 9pm EDT on USA West server.
All welcome, casual flight. Join our Discord if you would like to voice chat (optional).
Discord: msFlights.net
Flight Conditions: All Players, Live Traffic, Few Clouds, 2pm,
Flight lead: Lazerbolt

Hey pilots! Join us Friday night as we explore beautiful Sydney Harbor in helicopters!

I will be flying the Guimbal, but any helicopter that can maintain 90 knots indicated will be fine.

Server: West US
Weather: Few Clouds preset
2pm in game local

Friday’s flight plan is as follows:

Wallacia Airport Departure (YWLX)
-Warragamba Dam
Bankstown (YSBK)
-Anzac Bridge
-Sydney Observatory
Shark Island
-Sydney Opera House
Luna Park

A handy .PLN flight plan file can be found below:
LUNA PARK POI HELICOPTERS03.PLN

Join us Friday for this beautiful flight around Sydney!

Happy landings,
Lazer

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[cyclicalobsessv]

@kalo7578

Guimbal, but any helicopter that can maintain 90 knots indicated will be fine.

Isn’t 90 kias sustained tough in the Guimbal Cabri G2?

Guimbal Cabri G2 noses upwards at high end speed?

Results: Sustainable 85% level cruise yields 90-93 Kts with 25% fuel, cyclic full forward. Increasing collective causes increase in altitude because further forward cyclic not available Turning governor off did not appear to uncouple throttle - manual throttle adjustments up were smoothly backed out by the governor, but may have allowed collective to command 100% power (Not sure if the 100% was with “governor off” light off or on) Adjusting “Additional Elevator Authority” had no eff…

[RagingWombat839]

This looks like fun. Unfortunately I missed the group because the forum software screwed up the timezone conversion. I flew the plan anyway and had a pleasant flight.

[cyclicalobsessv]

My debrief - First Group Event Flight:

What did you do in MSFS today? (Part 2)

MY FIRST GROUP EVENT FLIGHT - Cabri G2 in Australia What a great time I had flying “Friday Night Flights - 9pm EDT - Helicopters to LUNA PARK” Since recently switching to MSFS 2020 from X-Plane, I had only flown the MSFS Cabri G2 a couple times for maybe a total of 30 minutes in the cockpit, so this event was a great “on the job” opportunity to gain experience with takeoffs, cruising, altitude and speed management, formation flying, AND LANDINGS. I “discovered” this event only a day before an…

[kalo7578]

Sorry, I just noticed replies, do you remember what time it said? Hopefully I am putting in the correct time zone information…we usually always do flights at 9 pm east coast USA time on Fridays.

[kalo7578]

Thanks for sharing!

[RagingWombat839]

This forum software has a bug with timezone calcs, maybe because of DST? Anyway there was nobody there at the local time it told me, but when I used a proper timezone conversion tool it told me I was an hour late. So it’s not you putting the wrong time in.