L1049G - Trip from Nepal to Germany

[haddock]

Hi there,

here some pictures from my trip from Kathmandu (VNKT/Nepal) to Hannover (EDDV/Germany). Not a "real flight" rather than a practice run for me with the SuperG, learning a lot about leaning and fuel procedures. Also it was a competition with a friend of mine to reach Hannover. I did, he was running out of fuel. ;-)

It was a trip of ca. 3600 nm in 15 hours non-stop. Problem was the fast climbing to 20000 ft with the full loaded airplane but not burning too much fuel. You may loughing but for me it was my 2nd long flight with the SuperG and with the less experiences I had it was a real fun be catched in the valleys while saving fuel even if I used only GPS navigation for this flight (will retry this flight later without GPS).

Here are the pictures. If you like them you can load them all in full resolution from here (2,1 MB):
www.nos57.de/calclassic/sc_vnkt-eddv_pics.zip

During climb south of the Himalaya mountains

Still climbing...

The mountains are comming closer.

Reached 20000 ft but it is still not enough.

With the radio altimeter bug working most times on its scale.

Laying a condensation trail into the valleys.

Follow this way...

20000 ft but it looks like a low mountain range.

Condensation trail again.

Passing by a B747... ;-) (upper right corner)

At the final approach to Hannover (EDDV, modern add-on scenery)

Landed and on the taxi way "kilo".

Parked after 15 (vitually) hours. Uff.

A look of the Status Window after engine stop.


Hope you have enjoyed the pictures.


Greetings
Haddock

[coenraad]

Nice flight, must have been sweating to get over those mountains. 15 hours, oh man, the longest trip i did was 800nm with a SuperG Long enough for me ^^

[haddock]

Hi!

Nice flight, must have been sweating to get over those mountains. 15 hours, oh man, the longest trip i did was 800nm with a SuperG Long enough for me ^^

Not yet sweating but it was thrilling to get a way out of the Kathmandu valleys in that clouds. Last but not least there were (theoretically) 2.000 ft left to climb but on which fuel consumption at this full airplane weight...so I decided on instinct to follow the valleys as long as possible in a max leaned config (round about 750 pph per engine at 20.000 ft and > 130.000 pound) rather then to burn too much fuel to climb higher to a whatever possible altitude.

I was made this trip in two steps. After passing the Himalaya I was using the time acceleration, getting back to normal time after each half or full (time shifted) hour for checking parameters and re-calculating fuel consumption. Well, this increases the real time for that flight to maybe 6 hours, splitted on two days.

Overall this flight was a great fun, until now one of the best I done with the FS. Sure, not fully realistic, but possible and it has worked to handle the SuperG on the limits without collapse the engines and/or the fuel calculation.

Greetings
Haddock

[coenraad]

Yeah, really nice job! I probably would have gone empty for fuel haha.