Oops. There’s a lot to unpack here. 
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Come to the dark side, Luke!
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When you believe everything you read on twitter this is the outcome.
Pop over the official www.machloop.co.uk webpage for your information and please for the love of the Welsh don’t ever say it’s in Scotland again.
You trying to get eaten by our dragon or something
Were you part of the SBS (like SAS but boat)?
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Hmmm…is it possible the screenshot wasn’t taken from a Canberra either? 
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Yeh walked right into that one… never reply to socials before 6th espresso of the morning 
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I heavily modified my route, I didn’t do the actual loop. Just had trouble setting the way points.
Always appreciate @thorung posting the points via text file, I wish it was possible to enter in long/lat on xbox to make certain things easier, I tend to just try to eyeball it for the most part.
I was looking at joining you folks online tomorrow, got myself an ultimate game pass for a month and a headset, then everything worked against me. The headset isn’t working right so it has to go back, the game pass hasn’t shown up yet either.
That and by the sounds of things by this section of the board tomorrow seems like it would be a bit more chatty rather than a more enjoyable flight so I think it would be best that things worked out the way they did.
Hi Seedy, any info on the cruise speed?
, thanks
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Hello @minpat1uk,
A cruise speed of 250+ knots is recommended. Because of the theme of this particular flight, we’re suggesting a fast military jet like the Super Hornet, but if you want to choose something different that can still keep up, that’s entirely up to you.
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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It is possible. That is the reason I post the flight plan in txt format. To make things easier 
Watch this video. It shows how to enter lat/lon at around 9:35. https://youtu.be/nmBNNTyXt6g
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Thanks for that info. Hopefully, I remember it next time… Before I start to fly the event I always give you enough time to post your text file for that exact reason it does make life easier.
The Mach loop Real Life recommended speeds ate 360kts 6miles per min or 420kts 7miles per min. The loop is used for practising time on target runs.
Greetings!
I haven’t had the chance to go into the centre and take photos myself (was mentioned in the fly-in last week). But hopefully this will be interesting for the community. I have sourced photos from geograph.org.uk and elsewhere which I believe are creative commons so ok to use.
There is a Sir Frank Whittle statue in Coventry City centre with a plaque (describing the statue) which was unveiled in 2007. Behind it is the Coventry Transport Museum.
The statue is under a large construction named the Whittle Arch:
In Leamington Spa, not far from Coventry, there is a blue plaque on a house where he lived:
Also in Coventry on a house, there is another plaque where he was born:
‘Frank Whittle was born on June 1, 1907, in Newcombe Road, Earlsdon, the son of a mechanical engineer. He joined the Royal Air Force as an aircraft apprentice at Cranwell in 1923, where he underwent three years of training as an aircraft mechanic. Then he entered the RAF College at Cranwell as an officer-cadet. Although he was just 21 years old by the time he graduated in 1928, Whittle was already focusing on ways to produce higher speeds and greater altitude for the propeller-driven aircraft of the time.’ - Source: Sir Frank Whittle - Earlsdon Online
If you haven’t already, there are many more photos and further resources online that can be looked up.
I hope that gives some insight and goes nicely with the Community fly-in tomorrow. If there is anyone else from Coventry or nearby that would like to add anything, please feel free to reply.
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I’m from Coventry (originally; I’ve lived in London for nearly 30 years now). Not much else to add to what you’re mentioning here, from a Frank Whittle / jet engine POV. All of the factories that made airplanes have pretty much been demolished to make way for housing developments. Coventry used to be an major industrial centre, but not any more. At one point Coventry and Birmingham were the centre of the UK car manufacturing industry. London taxi cabs are still made (well, assembled) there, which is one claim to fame.
In terms of POIs around the place, well, depending on what’s modelled in the sim (I haven’t looked) there’s the cathedral, famously bombed during the Blitz and then re-built next to the ruins of the old one, which still stand today as a peace monument. Amazingly, the spire survived completely intact. That’s just around the corner from the Whittle Arch and the Transport Museum. There are the other two of the famous 3 spires of Coventry, Holy Trinity church and Christ Church Greyfriars (the first being the old Cathedral spire). They’re very close together and from certain points you see all three rising across the skyline and this is a famous image of Coventry that’s often used to depict the city.
Because the city centre got almost completely destroyed in the Blitz there are relatively few buildings surviving from pre-war so the centre is a concrete jungle. There is a section of the old mediaeval centre remaining around Spon Street with some very old houses, but unless Coventry is PG (and I don’t think it is?) then they will not be visible.
The airport itself is certainly interesting both in terms of its history and the presence of the Midlands Air Museum, with a number of historical aircraft on display, most of them outside where they can be seen from the air, including one of the few remaining Vulcan bombers. Presumably you’ll see them on the ground poly but there’s a fantastic freeware scenery package from MT Scenery Design that has them fully 3D-modelled: Coventry Airport (EGBE) for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS.
(This is an aerial shot of the real site, not the MT scenery, BTW :-))
There’s the University Hospital Coventry site in Walsgrave, on the Eastern outskirts of the city. Again, unless manually modelled as a POI it won’t be super-interesting, but it’s of interest to me since I was born in the Maternity Hospital of the old Walsgrave Hospital complex that was there before, and I lived immediately nearby in Walsgrave village for my whole childhood.
If I’m being honest, fighter jets are not my thing. I have a home cockpit setup and I don’t do clicking on things with the mouse in flight, so I can only really fly aircraft where I can put the displays on other monitors and where there are Air Manager panels available, or systems are simple enough to use my hardware panels alone. But there are a couple of aircraft in my stable that can do 300kts+ and it would be a shame to miss this chance to overfly my birthplace. Hopefully I’ll work something out in time for tonight…
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A Coventry pilot circa. 1979-81
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Could you please list up your waypoints? Or point me to the fb page? On Xbox i have to set the route manually 
Thx
There will be a strawberry moon rising tonight at 737pm at Luton if you want to catch some nice screenshots.
EDIT: The moonset is far more spectacular at around 3:45am, especially if you set the date back to June 1. FYI.
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Except this vessel is leaving harbour