4th November. Gazelle retirement flight
The Gazelle retires from UK Army use officially on the 31st Oct.
https://youtu.be/wnM_kqo48fE?si=xKfwYfrSz6s3V7Y2
We are going to fly its full retirement flight which has already been carried out last week in real life.
Here is a full recreation on the waypoints used for flightgear. You can load this in the route manager of the gazelle.
The flight is only open to the Westland Gazelle, not the French one.
We will have to be in the Air sharp at 8pm, and the flight time will be slightly over our normal 2 hours. You will need to be confident of flying the gazelle at 140kts+ so get practicing.
Acceptable liveries for the flight will be:-
Army Air Corps 29 Flt - Flight leader only.
Army Air Corps 659 sqn
3 CBAS 1980's + 1990's
847 NAS
Royal Navy 705 NAS
RAF 2 Flight Training
Orthos for the English part of the flight:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDsv7_xsu6Rq3Nkuwq0LJr2T0hg2UpFI/view?usp=drive_link
We have no Orthos for Northern Ireland at the time of writing.
Starting point will be at EGAA , Belfast.
This is the actual flight plland and timing or the real flight ( which included many stops during the day which we will not be doing, just over flying ).
Comments
Looks yummy, Stuart - will there be a break midpoint?
VooDoo
Yeas, a very short one. Probably at Manchester.
Hopefully Flight Leader can hit all the points - can't find 38X HQ Thiepval Barracks to save my life.
VooDoo
Is this the place?
Ta Centre, Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn BT28 3NP, United Kingdom
pretty much, yes
The Route plan I uploaded has all the points within it.
Flew most of the route this morning. Better plan on at least 2.5 hours so everybody please be on time and ready to rock at 8 pm.
VooDoo
The buildings at the RAF side of Aldergrove, where the flight probably took off from, are a bit sparse so here are a few more very basic hangars. It's in the south-west corner of the airport.
Thanks Mate!
VooDoo
I done the photoscenery for the full flight (following the flightplan), I will do another one for NI only
OneDrive Link
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmRcwtiRJxd9g9sRKx9WBO6PE2RRcg?e=itRsgf
Install as normal
Thanks Mr. Olley!
VooDoo
I done another set of photoscenery just the NI part of the flight for the people who already have the UK photoscenry installed.
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmRcwtiRJxd9g90dnG3gv7_Mp9QjaQ?e=hyBJJH
Install as normal
TY!
VooDoo
Here is an improved custom-scenery version
Put the previous one in the bin.
Looking Good, Warts! Thank You!
VooDoo