From LA to La Paz with the SuperG

[haddock]

Hi there,

I have done a very long flight yesterday with the SuperG, the story of it might be like this:

"After the scheduled flight from Hamburg to Chicago we were made a trip to Los Angeles to help out for another Lufthansa airplane which was break down. In LA we get the order flying some health personnels to Bolivia. They should help there fighting against an epidemic.
Normally we should made a stop in Panama City on the way to La Paz, but due to good weather conditions the Crew was deceding to try a non stop flight - with Panama City as an option only."

The "story" so fare...this flight was a thrill. Calculating the fuel, leaning and resetting MAP, calculating again, then running 1 hour in time accelaration, calculating again, resetting...but it was working: 1475 NM in 16 hours and 55 minutes (real time ca. 5 hours).

Last but not least there are two things to say: 1st I was using modern GPS for that flight to keep the shortest way, and 2nd there was a constant tail wind most times (not cheated by me!). But my goal was to tease out a mostly long range because this thrills me. ;D


Here are some pictures and details from the flight:



Date: June 8, 1958
Flight: Lufthansa LH-815
Schedule: -
Frequency: -
Departure: Los Angeles (KLAX) at 1156 local (1856 GMT)
Arrival: La Paz (SLLP) at 0751 local (1151 GMT)
Stops: Non-stop
Range: 4175 nm
Duration: 16:55
Fuel used: 43751 pd
Payload/TOW: 5300/131815 pd




Boarding in LA




Ready for Take Off




Lift Off




Climbing over Long Beach




Reaching 19.000 ft




South-West of Panama, still 1564 NM to go




Pure romance...




Sun rise over the Peru highlands




Passing the Titicaca lake




On final to the Runway 10




Clearence for taxi to the parking position




Engine shut down after 16:55 hours




Parked. Time for a beer...





Greetings
Haddock

[ejoiner]

very nice set of pics! Long trip though. I cant handle simming that long!

Eric

[Tom/CalClassic]

Nice job.

[sunny9850]

Very nice job again coaxing the old lady through a long distance flight.
I don't know about the rest of the German language speakers around here, but I always have a rather juvenile giggle when I read the name Titicaca Lake

Stefan

[coenraad]

Nice flight

[haddock]

Hi all!

I'm glad you like my journey.

Long trip though. I cant handle simming that long!

To Eric:
I have to take to make long sims like this in two sessions: First session in the morning or afternoon and the second session in the evening - but without ending the FS between the sessions. Instead of this I put the FS in pause mode and down to the taskbar, doing something else, and recall it from the taskbar later to end the flight. I do it in this way because there are too many things you have to think to re-adjust after restarting the FS from a saved game. Sure, I'm saving the sim lot of times during a flight, but I try to avoid to recall it this way.

I don't know about the rest of the German language speakers around here, but I always have a rather juvenile giggle when I read the name Titicaca Lake.

To Stefan:
You're right, same with me. ;D


Greetings
Haddock

[Wolfgang]

yep, same as Titisee ;D

Wolfgang

[sunny9850]

;D ;D