FlightNight - 31st May 2025 - Monaco Med-ley

Avionyx · May 28

Hola and Bonjour you massive bunch of lovely people.

This week we have been tasked to provide an urgent response for one of the racing car drivers taking part in the Formula 1 action this weekend.

Said driver left a packet of one of their favourite protein enhanced carrot snacks out in the sun on a yacht after last weekends race. We are to fly their personal assistant, Daphne, back to Monaco from their current location in Barcelona and allow them to take the snacks from the boat to their apartment in Monaco.

For that, we shall be flying, in the first half of the flight, from Barcelona (LEBL) to Nice LFNM at about 350kts in some form of luxury private conveyance.

Once we've landed at Nice everyone is going to have to "get to da choppa" as some bloke once said and get our devil's blenders out, flying to Monaco Heliport (LNMC) where we shall ferry things back and forth from the yacht anchored just offshore. She'll be easy to spot as she goes by the name of:

and has been borrowed by the racing driver from a Mr Cassie of somewhere in Scotland, he's quite insistent you don't leave mouldy snacks on the deck.

Scenery with The Busty Wench in various locations (for shizz and giggles) will be provided by the end of Thursday for you to practice with.

For the first half you must bring something with a nice luxury seat for Daphne and can cruise at 350kts for 1hr duration. For the second half you must bring a chopper you can land on a yacht without fecking it up. Savvy?

See you there!

stuartc · May 28

I left my Yacht docked at Ibiza....................................

Actor · May 29

My, what an active imagination!

oly2b · May 29

Question about the route, is the first leg flying directly LEBL to LFMN over the sea of following the coast?

Avionyx · May 29

Right, I need some help.

For whatever reason my FG install isn't showing up any custom scenery I try to use.

I need someone who's previously got scenery working to have a look at this and see if it works, or why it doesn't, for me?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ke4QtH1Mga20HCfEF984wzB9pWK95w4Y/view?usp=drive_link

If you spawn at Monaco LNMC you should see, heading slightly East, a selection of maritime lovelies, including The Busty Wench.

I've been messing with it all day to try get it to work, when I suspect it did initially and it's just my FG messing up, so it might have things in the wrong place but I can't see the wood for the trees.

eagle · May 29

Lol....Alex Alex....funny story for the Flight.You have fantasy my friend...you have.With fantasy is the life richer.... you are a good Papa....definitely.

Have a funny Flight boys...we are going to a Birthday.

Doctor Birthday...well four doctors in any case are there and maybe more I don't know...but not all of them are doctors...for example we are not doctors....honey bunnies.

So see ya maybe next time.... I thing so.

N-66 · May 30

Mr. Alex

It worked for me alright.

But I don't think this object is even a legit thing,(OBJECT_STATIC Models/Geometry/Kuznetsov/Kuznetsov.xml 7.45380902 43.75042627 -0.0862 212.0 0.0 -0.0), It may have been a soviet carrier at one time or another.

I can't find it in the scenery website, github or even google doesn't find a downloadable model . If you have this object or know where I can find it please let me know.

N-66

Avionyx · May 30

So it's working for everyone?

Fair enough!

The Kuznetsov is in my default FG data folder, it's certainly there in FGData:

https://gitlab.com/flightgear/fgdata/-/tree/next/Models/Geometry?ref_type=heads

oly2b · May 30

Photoscenery for LEBL/LFMN/LNMC airports only - OneDrive link:-

LNMC

In keeping with the Pirat theme there are alot of black patches in the scenery

Avionyx · May 30

Fantastic - thank you, Oly.

Anyone decided what they are bringing yet?

stuartc · May 30

Were rather short of luxury flying planks. Helicopters are no propblem.

Avionyx · May 30

Final version of the scenery, to complement Oly's orthos.

See you all there!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rWcxXfufbOQ7976CvbkAtIv4N1dsqdKx/

oly2b · May 30

I have re-run the scenery generator too reduce the number of black rectangles

LNMC

Install as before

stuartc · May 30

Orthos link isnt working. Says its expired

stuartc · May 30

forget that, i was using the old link

stuartc · May 30

New link says archive corrupt.

stuartc · May 30

got it to download proprly on the 3rd attempt

stuartc · May 30

Big choppers wont fit.

Avionyx · May 31

If you are the kind of FGUK'er who prefers a bigger chopper then I have, thanks to my kind nature, allowed various other larger maritime assets you can go and play on if the busty wench doesn't meet your needs.

All size of choppers are welcome!

Also if anyone is looking for a nice stress free conveyance for the first half then don't forget about the BAe-125 which fits the bill nicely: