This week, because everyone is busy with summer, we will be doing something all casual and chill and stuff..

We'll be meeting at HQ, EGOD, at 2000 UK time and proceeding down the West Coast of the UK before coming inland over the Bristol channel and making our way to the East Coast then circle back channel side.

How far we get will depend on the shenanigans along the way but we'll be having fun.

Your steed for the evening, should you choose to join in, will be the mighty Hurricane, either the VooDoo version or Detlef's version in the main Hangar is perfectly acceptable.

Comms via TS as always, fun isn't optional.

I'd like to share with you the beauty of Northern England with a trip from Leicestershire via Pennines and Lancashire to Cumbria and back to West Yorkshire. It may be a bit carrying coals to Newcastle for you U.K. guys, though you may appreciate the view of a curious foreigner.

We meet at East Midlands airport EGNX at 08:00 p.m. U.K time, comms as always by Teamspeak.

Waypoints:

Start EGNX, roughly via VORs TNT and POL to EGNL als mid point break, then via EGNC to the final airport EGNM.

Bring any fixed wing or rotary aircraft which can easily hold 130 kias from the FGUK hangar. See you!

Oswald

So, the default is to meet at EGOD, Fly what ever you like and amuse yourselves.

HMS Illustrious will be in Luce Bay, Scotland this week. Closest Airfield is EGOY.

Ship will be at anchor in the Bay South of the Airfield.

This is for Harriers and the F35B. The odd rescue chopper will be permitted.

My time and energy are both running short so Sorry for the delay in posting. But its up now. You have 24 hours to hone your harrier or F35 Skills.

The ship is available here:-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/ai-and-multiplayer-ships/hms-illustrious-r06

As it's some sort of minor bank holiday of sorts over in the colonies I thought we'd celebrate our friends from the United States of Northern America by flying over places they used to inspire their place names.

Starting at Bristol we'll be heading out to the following places:

Bristol - EGGD

Exeter - EGTE

Plymouth - EGHD

Gloucester - EGSG

Colerne - EGUO

HALF TIME

Cambridge - EGSC

Boston - EGBO

York - EGSK

New York - EGNC

For the flight I'd like to encourage people to use the Jaguar, mainly as it's a word our buddies over the Atlantic have problems pronouncing.

Apologies for the late posting of this flight, I was hoping that Terrasync would bounce back and give us a bit more scope for international travel.

Start will be 8pm UK time and all comms will be via teamspeak. See you there!

All Comms on TS as I wont be typing anything.

This is a 1 make flight and that 1 make is our Robinson R44:-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/rotary-wing/robinson-r44-fguk-edition

As Terrasync is currently, buggered at the time or writing, I have to keep things simple in areas we have already got from previous flights.

With this in mind, we will be flying the Robinson at 100kts, on the south coast of Englandshire ( following the coast ).

Route:-

EGMH Start point.

EGKA mid point

EGHF End point.

Its also simple for anyone to take lead if I get called away.

You will love the R44 Im sure.

See you on the flight.

For FlightNight this week I've managed to cobble together a realistic Victor K.2 flight from RAF Marham, up to Leuchars then on to Lossiemouth. I've used Nav Logs from real flights in Victors to put this together with the correct climb and performance profiles

EGYM

EGQL

EGQS

We will be following, to some extent this routing

There'll be a new version of the Victor released before the weekend with fixed lighting and a corrected Combustor start script to ensure all the engines start correctly.

We'll be leaving at 8pm UK time, all comms on TS

Alex

HMS Ark royal will be stopping off near Gibraltar ( LXGB ).

An Open invitation for Carrier born aircraft and Choppers to visit the ship has been extended to us by the Royal Navy. If your aircraft is Not from the FGUK Hangers, please post a download link at least 24hours in advance to allow people to get it and avoid seeing gliders.

If You don't have the Ark Royal, you can get it here:-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/ai-and-multiplayer-ships/hms-ark-royal-r09

Please pay attention to the instructions with it.

The Ark Royal is much smaller than the Nimitz class ships, so Heavy / large aircraft may find issues getting off the deck again. The port Cat has a bit more power to assist you getting off again.

This week at 8pm UK time we will be meeting in our collection of steeds at St Nazaire, you should bring something from the FGUK hangar capable of 360kts at 1500ft for an hours duration. If It's not from the FGUK hangar please link it here so we can all enjoy it and avoid blue gliders.

We will be enjoying the Atlantic coast and Bay of Biscay along France, Spain and Portugal

Routing will be:

LFRZ - St Nazaire

LFOO

LFTA

LFBH

LFDP

LFCY

LFDK

LFBZ

LESO

LEXJ - Santander - Half Way

KORAV

LRA

LECO

LEVX

AGADO

PRT

LPPR - End - Porto

Flight Plan available here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1skHOAyGmFIOW5846sFhN2ef2PCrPKJil/view?usp=drive_link

Apologies for putting it up late, I was rather struggling for flight idea motivation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ensVWggEa7g

We want to fly the Bo 105 Fly Out route and a little bit more.

Meeting is at 08:00 hr London time at Celle airport ETHC, only aircraft allowed is the Bo 105 (FGUK edition). Well, a very special Bell 205 would be very welcome, too ...

We'll fly the Fly Out route via Wunstorf, Steinhuder Meer to Bueckeburg, then leave the Fly Out route for an extra tour through Northern East Westfalia, take our break close to the river Weser in Hoexter-Holzminden and return via Bielefeld to the Fly-Out tour ending at Celle airport.

A few teasers for curiosity:

Comms will be by Teamspeak as usually, see https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/283/new-teamspeak3-server-details#latest

Route follows, hope to see you saturday night!

Oswald

This week we shall be embarking on a tale of excitement and rescue.

Our intrepid hero, Beegles, has been tipped off that some thoroughly awful people have kidnapped one of his best friends, Percy.

Thankfully his friends at the ministry of air have tracked Percy down to a hut on a beach in France.

Beegles, and any willing helpers, is going to the channel Islands with much haste to mount a rescue mission.

The first half of the flightnight will see us leave from Alderney and fly across to the French mainland, keeping out the sight of the ruffians, to rescue Percy from the beach through some landing on Sand at Sables D'or Les-Pins:

48.64398311301669, -2.407693209858271 (if you want to practice)

We shall then go on to St Nazaire where we'll have half time and catch up with our friend Percy.

After that the second half will see us take a bit of a jolly down the Loire valley and finish at Moulins.

Start time will be 8pm UK time, all comms to be via teamspeak and we shall be flying the Mosquito but you could probably also bring the BF110 if you fancied? Speeds will be between 280kts and 320kts

Flight Plan available here:

Teamspeak details can be found here: https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/283/new-teamspeak3-server-details#latest

Yes We are returning to Ibiza. why ? Because I like Ibiza and I would rather be there than here.

This time we will be using the newly released HMS Illustrious Take note of how to install it as its not the same as Ark Royal.:-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/ai-and-multiplayer-ships/hms-illustrious-r06

And I will be circumnavigating Ibiza with it so I wont be too far from the airport.

This flight is open to VTOL ( That means Harriers and F35B etc ) Aircraft and Helicopters.

Plenty of time to practice.

Good luck.

8pm UK time . Coms will be on TS ( push to talk only ).

The Route is not technically coastal, but it will be following a shoreline of some sort.

The Route:-

EGEO - Oban, where we ended up last time .

Flying up the great Glen.

EGPE,

X6FE - Mid point stop.

XDOR

EGPC - Wick - Final destination.

Flight is for Choppers only and Speeds will be 100-120kts to allow some catchup speed.

Scottish Orthos available here :-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZU04s_qKCAjRtMaIIaFyobIeSxyEOcu9/view?usp=drive_link

This week for flight night we're going to go and have some fun around the coast of Türkiye.

Starting from Dalaman, we will transit West along the beautiful coast of the Mediterranean before kissing the South Eastern Agean and heading to Kos for our half time refreshment.

After half time we're heading over the Agean breifly again as we cross back to the Bodrum coast. Cruising around the area for the next 45 mins or so before landing at Bodrum airport, a bit further North up the coast.

We will be enjoying the scenery in the tasteful cruiser that is the Aero Commander 500, although the Draco Wilga (updated version here) is also perfectly suitable for anyone who might want to bring that along and fancy a simpler handling, less complex aircraft.

Routing:

LTBS - Dalaman

LGKO - Kos

LTFE - Bodrum

Start will be 8pm UK time (BST) and comms will be on TeamSpeak as always!

Well not only did we fix that but we finally got one of our own working!

Download our Ark Royal and come and join us this week: https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/ai-and-multiplayer-ships/hms-ark-royal-r09

We'll be meeting at 8pm UK time at LEIB (Ibiza) airport and transiting in as elegant a fashion to the Ark Royal as she sails around Ibiza and Formentera. Stuart will be shouting "Hello Sailors" as he Captains the old girl around the Med.

You'll be welcome to bring whatever you like but please do your best to post it here in the thread so everyone can enjoy it and avoid blue gliders.

There'll be lots of lovely scenery to see as we perform carrier ops for the entire flight night and test each others skills.

Fancy Ibiza Island with fancy buildings and lovely orthos is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1se9NQXztYUSnUNuTqWoXshTrhkxjB98N/view

We will meet on Saturday 18th April, taking off promptly at 20.00hrs GMT.

Voodoo's B-26B is not only a beautifully crafted aircraft, it has an auto pilot which will reduce climb rate to prevent a stall, the P38 for example, stalled and killed me gory!

Not taking the B26? Practicing the the first half and choosing wisely from the FGUK/da Vinci Warbird hangars, is recommended.

Take off from VEMN, Runway 5, Dibrugarh Airfield, Assam in India,

We will climb to 18,000 ft Barometric (in 2 stages) and cross the Hengduan Mountains within the Santsung Range of the Himalayas, cruising at a sedate 150 knots. 

Our Midway point is, VYPT Putao, Myanmar (Burma). An emergency airfield, also home to a British Garrison at Fort Hertz.

Runway 17 for take off, after 10min break/refuel.

Not having time to reach Kunming in China, the usual destination for Hump aircraft, we wil stooge about, at 17.000ft Barometric at 150 knots heading for our end point.

ZPLJ Lijiang, China.

Used by the American Volunteer Group "Flying Tigers", the 14th Air Force, and Air Transport Command (the "Hump" pilots). 

COMM's via push to talk, Teamspeak.

I believe I have fixed problems with my Teamspeak, if the issues are not fixed, would someone take the flight? 

I will send them Leaders flight notes with loads of info about "flying the hump" before flight night, in the event I have no voice COMM's.

OrthoPhoto's

Orthophotos.zip

Flight Plan

As I have planned the route using SkyVector, I can not upload my Flight Plan (gpx), this however will keep you on course.

We will be flying the following route which I'll make up some sort of story for, at 550kts and see where it takes us.

OEJB < Start

OETN

OERM

OKBK

OKAS

ORMM

OIAM

OIBH

OIBQ < Mid

Second half will be the same as the first but....wait for it.... in reverse.

Post up what you are bringing from our hangar: If you want to bring something NON FGUK then you must post a link to it up here no later than Friday evening - the now standard penalty being 1 x Large McChicken sandwich meal with Fanta to be paid to me on any attempted involvement (I'm not joking)

Comms via TS please and timing is:

8pm UK Time (BST)

9pm Berlin (CEST)

10pm Riga (EEST)

1pm Boise, Idaho

12 Noon - Vancouver

FLIGHT NIGHT REPLACED WITH NEW ONE:

https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/1058/flightnight-saturday-11th-april-gulf-guffaw/p1?new=1

(Image represents actual FGUK ops)

FLIGHT NIGHT REPLACED WITH NEW ONE:

https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/1058/flightnight-saturday-11th-april-gulf-guffaw/p1?new=1

This week we will be enjoying the coastal delights of the UK, Starting in St.Marys and along the South West of the UK up to before working our way up through valleys, hills and mountains before finishing at Liverpool

Start: St. Marys - EGHE

Mid: Bristol Filton - EGTG

End: Liverpool - EGGP

Full flightplan is here

We shall meet at the usual time, but be weary the UK has gone into BST since last week so it's one hour forward. That translates into:

8pm UK Time (BST)

9pm Berlin (CEST)

10pm Riga (EEST)

1pm Boise, Idaho

12 Noon - Vancouver

Comms will be via teamspeak and you are all required to use the Blackburn Buccaneer S2B

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/jets/blackburn-buccaneer-s2b

Time will be set as noon and weather is border of a high pressure region.

ANYBODY NOT USING THE BUCCANEER WHO IS PARTICIPATING IN THIS FLIGHT is required to pay the penalty. This week, the penalty is that you owe me a McDonalds McChicken Sandwich meal (large) with Fanta. All penalties are to be paid within 3 working days.

The standard England orthos should work fine allthough they are rather low resolution in the South West and quite jaggedy at anything below 3000ft if anyone fancies gathering better?

Coms on TS as normal ( Use Push to talk only please ).

This week at the request of Alex, we will be using the FG1 Phantom II :-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/jets/phantom-fg-1

This will be a tour of UK bases. Altitude will vary. Speed will be 300+.

Rout is as follows:-

EGQK

EGQL

55.42126 , -1.601087

EGXC

EGYM - Mid point.

EGXT

EGOS

EGVN

EGVO

EGDY - End point.

Scotland orthos available here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZU04s_qKCAjRtMaIIaFyobIeSxyEOcu9/view?usp=drive_link

Englandshire orthos available here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDsv7_xsu6Rq3Nkuwq0LJr2T0hg2UpFI/view?usp=drive_link

See you all at the start.

This week for FlightNight we shall be soaring high (and low) in the skies above beautiful Finland.

We shall meet at 8pm, as is the usual, and head East across this beautiful land before turning before we hit any unfriendly borders.

Routing will be:

EFOU - Start

EFKH - Half Time

EFVA - The Climax

Not too many navaids around so it's a bit of a point and squirt but we'll have lots of fun along the way.

Aircraft for the evening will be the newly updated Jaguar GR3:https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/1044/sepect-jaguar-gr3-v6-0#latest

Hope to see you there! all comms will be via Team Speak.

So this week we will be flying Mosquitos ( Bug infestation, Get it ?? ).

So if your looking at the Photo, and thinking " Oh yes, nice" Hard luck, because thats not the Mosquito were flying.

This is:-

You can download this beast here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ORMQIu3d5X_9J9XnHk5oxzG2BYJ29qgG/view?usp=drive_link

So, the actual flight.

We will be visiting reunion island and having an explore so it will be Eyes on flight leader.

I do intend to climb the volcano at some point, if this little bug can manage it. I expect a lot of deaths.

Take off will be FMEP and we will be making our way over to FMEE ( only 2 airports on the Island ) where we will hopefully arrive and stop for our mid point. Second half we will be exploring our way back to FMEP.

Good luck. You have time to practice, I suggest you do so as I wont be entertaining any moaning of complaining about it not flying right.

Another Single type flight. This time one of our lesser used good aircraft, the F-5E:-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/jets/northrop-f-5e

Flight will be up to 10K and up to 500ish Kts.

We will be flying up the Canadian Pacific west coast into Alaska .

Route as follows.

KBVS

CYPR - Midpoint

PAWG

PAJN

PAYA - End point.

See you on the flight line.

This week we shall be bringing the mighty Avro Vulcan to the shores of the Med, stretching East from Alexandria, taking in all the beautiful sights and ending up in Beirut (edited from Damascus as Oswald pointed out I'm a silly goose)

Our routing will be, roughly, coastal along:

HEAX - Start

Port Said VOR (PSD)

HEAR - El Arish International

LLBG

HFA

OLBA - End

Vulcan will be mandatory, for it is lovely. You'll all be meeting at HEAX at 8pm UK time and comms will be via Teamspeak.

it will be Switzerland again: Three Cantons, three languages, one country.

Take off will be 08:00 pm UK time in the Bernese Oberland: LSZB, via LSZW and LSMM to the midpoint break at Locarno in Tessin (LSZL). After break and refuelling we will cross the San Bernadino pass into the canton Grisons via Chur, Bad Ragaz (LSZE) to Davos and the final destination Samedan LSZS in Engadine.

Please choose a helicopter from the FGUK hangar which can manage 120 kias up to 12.000 ft, be prepared for magnificent views from high above, and some low valley flying - simply follow the leader.

GPX file to gather scenery (there are some more waypoints than just the airports):

Waypoint string to enter in Skyvector:  LSZB LSZW 463945N0075208E LSMM LSZL 461414N0090837E LSZE 464156N0100533E LSZS  

Comms als usual via Teamspeak.

Hope to see you on Saturday, have fun!

Oswald

Coms will be on TS as usual.

This week we will be taking choppers on a cruise along the Grand Canyon.

This is a fairly long trip so you will need a chopper ( from the FGUK hanger ) that's happy at 130-140-kts, and even then, we may still not complete this one.

Starting at Page, KPGA we will join the Colorado river going south. The will be tracking the river the entire way.

Mid point will be at Bar 10, 1Z1, for a quick stop, refuel and refresh before carrying on to our final destination, Boulder City, KBVU.

Long flight and lets face it, some of you will probably die horribly.

This week we're going to be doing some heavy lift practice - 8pm UK time as always.

Bring your C-130's, A400's and similar from our hangars and experience life down in the valleys before testing your skills landing on the beach at Pembrey Sands - where air forces around the world like to come and do some showboating.

We'll be cruising at about 210kts and our route will be:

Start -

RAF Mildenhall - EGUN

Bristol Airport - EGGD

Pembrey Sands

Pembrey Airport - Half time - EGFP

Llandbehr - EGOD

ORTHOS WILL BE PRETTY ESSENTIAL // WATER EFFECTS MUST BE TURNED OFF

After break we fly to Kiel EDHK, the baltic island Fehmarn and via EDHB to our final destination, the old hanseatic town Luebeck EDHL.

Fixed wing aircraft from the FGUK hangar that can hold 120-130 kts will be suitable, heli pilots are welcome, as well. Coms as usual with teamspeak (newbies welcome: you find information at https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/283/new-teamspeak3-server-details#latest)

Flight plan for gathering scenery is availabe at: https://skyvector.com/?chart=301&zoom=8&ll=55.09263,11.90065https://skyvector.com/?chart=301&zoom=8&ll=55.09263,11.90065

Looking forward to seeing you,

Oswald

Change of plans at short notice as Alex is no longer available for this one.

Helicopters from the FGUK hangers that can maintain 100-120kts.

We will be continuing the Scottish tour.

Starting from the Glasgow Heliport at EGEG, we will fly West, back down the Clyde and heading don the Mull of Kintyre to EGEC as our midpoint. This involves some short water crossings this week.

After mid point we head North to EGEO where we will turn over water Westerly to the Isle of Mull where we wil travel Clockwise round the Island and end up at Glenforsa X6MU as our final destination for the night.

As before, Scottish Orthos are available here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZU04s_qKCAjRtMaIIaFyobIeSxyEOcu9/view?usp=drive_link

Oly, try running the flight with your terrain , water and cloud settings on minimum. to see if it is actually a terrain loading issue you have.