Yeah, it seems to be mainly high plains until you get close to the coast.
By the way, I think I successfully finished the Breckenridge trip, maybe? Itās hard to tell. After failing a gazillian times, I got really good at cutting my power every single time I wanted to lose altitude. That still left the times when I overstressed the aircraft when gaining altitude, but I just had to bear that.
I landed on the runway, but never got the check mark. So I drove around to different parts of the runway and then used the brakes and ended up on my nose. So I did it again, this time landing and driving around, and I found a video online where someone lands and drives to the side where a guy is waving those glowy batton things and parks next to him. So I did that. I still didnāt get the check mark. I saw another video where a guy stops right at the center between the two runways and stops there, and I tried that, but that didnāt trigger the check mark ending to the leg either.
Finally I parked next to the baton guy and quit out, and when I tried to back in, thereās now a check mark next to that leg. So I guess I did it?
Thereās no achievement for doing it without using the āback on trackā like theyād been promising? Or maybe there is, but it didnāt trigger?
When I did the Balkans trip I got the congratulations screen as soon as I stopped on the runway.
BTW, I figured out how to release my DA62 to the group. Iāll continue to be responsible for making the payments (with group funds, thanks Skipper). Then Iāll transfer ownership to the group.
Pedro
3812
Oh, that sucks. What a shame. I assume thereās no āContinueā option now, meaning that it has fully logged your progress? Or does it let you fly the last leg again? I guess youāre sick of that leg by now anyway and wouldnāt want to redo it.
Just in the last week or two Iāve been paying more attention to the FBO Purchase page, and itās mind boggling how big some of these groups are - as you say, you come across the same guys again and again. I get that three-lotters probably pay for themselves, but you kinda need to fly anything smaller than that yourself, and that canāt be possible in these cases.
If you went through Capital Aircraft Finance, thereās a āmoney owedā figure at the bottom of the screen. You can pay that amount in one go and the plane is yours, in case you didnāt know.
On the other hand, I have been flying outside the group for the last week or so as I have a bunch of debt coming due. Will get back to it after month end :)
Skipper
3813
I do that too and to be honest, EVERYONE should. You paying for your bills is #1 importance on FSE. I do group flights and/or move extra to the group after Iām good. Iām not saving for an aircraft right now so itās no big deal but that also comes into play.
I buy all my planes cash up front, so not an issue for me.
There is no Continue option anymore. Correct. Thatās what surprised me, because in the past when I landed on an airfield and couldnāt find the right spot, and quit out, I had the continue option and it started me in that spot again. But in this case, itās just mysteriously checked now.
I could restart that leg from the beginning, and I wouldnāt mind doing so if there was a chance Iād get an achievement for doing it again, but I have no idea if that achievement even exists, I couldnāt find it in the list.
I canāt remember ever having to āfind the right spotā in a bush trip, apart from that one leg where itās not clear at all where the air strip even is. I always just slowed to a stop and put the parking brake on and that was it.
Thereās a parking brake? I really should play the tutorials, shouldnāt I?
I learned the other day when I was watching Leg 25 of the Breckenridge trip on youtube, after they landed on one runway, in the video they looked down at the cockpit and physically pulled out something called āchokeā and then continued to taxi all the way around the runway, and then the other runway and then stopped at the guy waving the batons.
So thatās how I learned about choke, whatever that is. So when I landed, I also pulled out the choke. Not because I know what that does mind you, I just love the concept of interacting physically with the cockpit, I had no idea you could do that.
Pedro
3818
Definitely an achievement for it. But if the trip has registered and you havenāt got it, I dunno.
Like Ginger_Yellow says, I never had to find the right spot either; just use triangle + circle to apply the parking brake on the runway - or whatever unnatural things the xbox controller buttons are called ;)
Skipper
3819
Before fuel injection, cars had chokes. Really old cars had choke knobs. You use it to start the cold aircraft engine, then usually back to normal choke setting after running and warm. Older or simplified aircraft have chokes to restrict the air during startup (so the engine is running RICH on fuel for the fuel/air mixture.) Then they will push the choke back in once running and warmed up (LEANing the mixture back out, meaning allowing more air into the mix again.) I have no idea why youād use choke in flight, my only assumption is in case you need heavy power for a no-go landing?
A newer version of this is engine mixture youāll see on other aircraft. Rich for startup, then pulled back a bit once in flight to lean it out until just before it gets rough. I think in the trainer aircraft I flew in way back when it was about 75%.
EDIT: Clarification needed on what RICH/LEAN means. Further things youāll hear/see are more smoke when running (itās running rich and fouling the plugs,) versus sputtering and not running well (itās running a little too lean.)
I donāt know much about how all that old stuff works, but something hidden in the recesses of my mind is telling me youād lean the mixture at altitude, because the air is thinner so you need more of it going into the engine. Or something.
Skipper
3821
I think thatās the case with fuel mix in some of the ones that go higher. For choke enabled aircraft, Iām completely not sure how they work at altitude with or without use of choke.
A choke is the inverse of a mixture lever ā rather than control the flow of fuel into the carb, it restricts the amount of air that can be consumed. Both serve to enrichen the mixture, but the choke is a more āprimitiveā approach. Since an engine is basically an air pump, choking the engine reduces the maximum power available, but itās useful for situations where you need a super-rich mixture, like when starting a cold engine.
(I wouldnāt swear to it, because Iām not an expert there, but my gut tells me you certainly wouldnāt want to use it in a āmax powerā situation, because of the reduction in air available when youāre choked up.)
Iām sure there are exceptions, but every reference Iāve ever seen to a choke in an aircraft checklist only ever mentions touching it when you are starting the engine. I canāt imagine what the person in the video you saw was trying to accomplish by choking the engine after landing, but Iām sure there are exceptions to every rule. :D
Generally, you really donāt want to be running a rich mixture at low engine speeds. That way lies plug fouling.
Right idea, wrong reason. :) You lean mixture as you gain altitude because there is less oxygen in the air. If you keep the same fuel flow as you have on the ground the mixture effectively becomes richer, which past a certain point causes power loss and other problems.
(You can see this yourself if you try to take off in a carbureted plane at, oh, say 8000 feet for the heck of it. Running full rich like you would at sea level is going to give you a dramatically reduced rate of climb. Iāve killed myself in the sim a time or two while trying to land at high-altitude airports in tight terrain by reflexively pushing the mixture to rich when Iām on approach then not having any power available if I need to regain altitude.)
Thanks for the confirmation. Knowing that thereās an achievement, I picked the last leg and clicked on āRestart Fromā. I went into a zen state and did the whole last leg in one go, no breaks this time, just in case thatās what was making it wonky. I landed at the airfield and stopped. Nothing. So I drove around and tried to stop all over the field and in various parking spots. Nope. I just couldnāt find a trigger to end the leg anywhere on that field.
Flying in Air Link is so cool! I can do all my FSE/Neofly stuff in headset! And VFRMap! I do need to test whether the G3000 scrolling issue is still there though.
Oculusās Virtual Desktop-killer for Quest.
