Introduction:
As I write this, there is a Douglas DC-3C of Air Atlantique (G-AMPY) parked on stand 1 at Durham Tees Valley Airport. The reason it's there is it's doing a series of pleasure flights at several UK airports as part of its farewell tour. Today ( Friday 13th June 2008 ) it performed nine 20 minute local, low-level flights, and will do a similar number tomorrow, before moving on to a different airport and repeating the process. After visiting DTVA today and watching her, I decided to recreate the flights on Flight Simulator, and the results are below - enjoy!
Flight Information:
Aircraft: Douglas DC-3C
Airline: Air Atlantique
Registration: G-AMPY
Flight Number: GAMPY
Call Sign: GAMPY
Departure Airport: Durham Tees Valley [MME/EGNV]
Arrival Airport: Durham Tees Valley [MME/EGNV]
Cruise Altitude: FL015 [1,500ft]
Cruise Speed: Full power
Date: 13-06-2008
Scheduled Flight Time: 20 minutes
Actual Flight Time: Can't remember
Scheduled Departure Time: N/A
Actual Departure Time: 11:27
Scheduled Arrival Time: N/A
Actual Arrival Time: Can't remember
Departed From Runway: 05
Arrived On Runway: 05
Weather: Fair weather (FS04 default weather theme)
Parked on stand 1:
Another view:
Taxiing to runway 05 via Delta taxiway:
Rolling (looks more like fast movement to me, rather than rolling? ):
Just after departure:
Another view:
As seen from the Tower:
Leaving Durham Tees Valley behind:
Climbing to 1,500ft:
Banking to the north near the coast:
Over the North East:
I spotted the airport I'm in the process of creating, so I took the opportunity to do an overshoot; as you can see, there's no buildings yet except for those of the residents who have yet to be evicted, and their houses demolished!!
On our way back; a Dash8-Q100 is on finals - it had to go around due to a PA28 not clearing the runway in time, damned AI traffic!
Turning onto finals:
Unfortunately that's where it ends; those of you who have viewed my screenshots before will know that more often than not I crash during landing; but annoyingly, in what was turning out to be a perfect landing, it wasn't the plane that crashed, it was the damned computer!! Oh well. Anyway, the DC3 is a sod to handle on the ground, but beautiful in the air - it won't be too much longer before I'm back in one, bringing you more poor quality, overly narrated screenshots!
Regards.
As I write this, there is a Douglas DC-3C of Air Atlantique (G-AMPY) parked on stand 1 at Durham Tees Valley Airport. The reason it's there is it's doing a series of pleasure flights at several UK airports as part of its farewell tour. Today ( Friday 13th June 2008 ) it performed nine 20 minute local, low-level flights, and will do a similar number tomorrow, before moving on to a different airport and repeating the process. After visiting DTVA today and watching her, I decided to recreate the flights on Flight Simulator, and the results are below - enjoy!
Flight Information:
Aircraft: Douglas DC-3C
Airline: Air Atlantique
Registration: G-AMPY
Flight Number: GAMPY
Call Sign: GAMPY
Departure Airport: Durham Tees Valley [MME/EGNV]
Arrival Airport: Durham Tees Valley [MME/EGNV]
Cruise Altitude: FL015 [1,500ft]
Cruise Speed: Full power
Date: 13-06-2008
Scheduled Flight Time: 20 minutes
Actual Flight Time: Can't remember
Scheduled Departure Time: N/A
Actual Departure Time: 11:27
Scheduled Arrival Time: N/A
Actual Arrival Time: Can't remember
Departed From Runway: 05
Arrived On Runway: 05
Weather: Fair weather (FS04 default weather theme)
Parked on stand 1:
Another view:
Taxiing to runway 05 via Delta taxiway:
Rolling (looks more like fast movement to me, rather than rolling? ):
Just after departure:
Another view:
As seen from the Tower:
Leaving Durham Tees Valley behind:
Climbing to 1,500ft:
Banking to the north near the coast:
Over the North East:
I spotted the airport I'm in the process of creating, so I took the opportunity to do an overshoot; as you can see, there's no buildings yet except for those of the residents who have yet to be evicted, and their houses demolished!!
On our way back; a Dash8-Q100 is on finals - it had to go around due to a PA28 not clearing the runway in time, damned AI traffic!
Turning onto finals:
Unfortunately that's where it ends; those of you who have viewed my screenshots before will know that more often than not I crash during landing; but annoyingly, in what was turning out to be a perfect landing, it wasn't the plane that crashed, it was the damned computer!! Oh well. Anyway, the DC3 is a sod to handle on the ground, but beautiful in the air - it won't be too much longer before I'm back in one, bringing you more poor quality, overly narrated screenshots!
Regards.
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