Event created by Russell D - 1104622
Event Details
This week VFR Operations departs Broken Hill and flies via a number of small isolated airfields to Tibooburra. FSX and P3D fliers will no airport scenery to view, however it is possible those flying in X-Plane who have installed appropriate Australian scenery will have somewhere to execute a touch and go at their discretion.
Simulation Date/Time : Current date set to daylight.
Weather : Real World / Fair weather if real world is unsuitable for VFR operations.
Distance : 187 nm
Est Flight Time : approx 85 mins
Aircraft : Single or twin engine aircraft such as Beechcraft Baron, Mooney Bravo or similar capable of 155 to 185 kias.
Communications : Australia uses CTAF (Common Traffic Advisory Frequency) for radio comms at uncontrolled airfields. VATSIM pilots connecting to the network using FSCOPILOT/FSINN can install an additional file that provides the ability to tune the CTAF frequency and make voice announcements to other pilots on frequency. These files can be obtained via this link.
For pilots connecting to VATSIM using VPilot, there is a work around that enables these pilots to also take advantage of online voice CTAF. Refer to this informative VATPAC Forum post to learn how to implement the work around. Similarly, this work around has been reported to be successfully adopted for X-Plane using the X-Squawkbox client. As of yet there are no available instructions for doing this.
Altitude : Not above FL125
Flightplan
File as : YBHI YACS YKAY YALN UNK YTIB
GPS Flightplan is available for FSX and X-Plane FMS and also provided is the original Plan-G flightplan for those that find this useful all enclosed within a Zip archive.
Navigation : Pilots familiar with the area can navigate visually, for those less familiar the accompanying GPS Flightplan is the recommended method of navigating the flight plan.
Recommended Scenery
Flight Details
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BROKEN HILL [YBHI] Takeoff
elev : 959
rwy : 05/23 asphalt
rwy : 14/32 sand
CTAF : 126.70
VOR/DME : BHI BROKEN HILL 114.20
NDB : BHI BROKEN HILL 332.0 -
Acacia Downs Airport [YACS] T&G - H-023° D-41.2 nm
Scenery not available in FSX/P3D
elev : 617
rwy : 14/32 dirt
CTAF : 122.80 (FSINN 131.25) -
Kayrunnera [YKAY] T&G - H-028° D-55.4 nm
Scenery not available in FSX/P3D
elev : 598
rwy : 02/20 12/30 dirt
CTAF : 122.80 (FSINN 131.25) -
Allandy [YALN] T&G - H-006° D-17.8 nm
Scenery not available in FSX/P3D
elev : 424
rwy : 13/31 dirt
CTAF : 122.80 (FSINN 131.25) -
"UNKNOWN AIRFIELD" [UNK] Overfly - H-020° D-16.1 nm
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TIBOOBURRA [YTIB] Land - H-310° D-56.1 nm
elev : 584
rwy : 02/20 15/33 asphalt
CTAF : 126.70
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