Yay! First 747 flight

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Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:12 pm

Finally got enough practice with the 737 to move up to the 747. Made an IFR flight from San Francisco to JFK International, and no major problems. Only mistakes I can tell I made were having too much fuel on board (had to "dump" before landing Embarassed ), and apparently it wasn't happy about 5 degrees of flaps when I was still doing 230 knots. Things did get a little scary when the Cessna Skyhawk I had heard on the radio was on final to the same runway I was just cleared for. Somehow I don't think real ATC makes it so that you fly a 747 under a Cessna and have it clear your windshield by some 50 feet 😳. I was going to be ticked if there was a midair, but I missed him. I also don't think a real Cessna would handle the wake turbulence of a 747 under the same conditions! Maybe next time I'll try going overseas 😎 .

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Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:46 pm

WOW WELL DONE NEXT DOWNLOAD A CONCORDE AND FLY THAT PAL IF U THINK A 747 IS HARD FLY AND LAND CONCORDE CORRRECTLY.

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain
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Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:47 pm

Anonymous wrote:

Finally got enough practice with the 737 to move up to the 747. Made an IFR flight from San Francisco to JFK International, and no major problems. Only mistakes I can tell I made were having too much fuel on board (had to "dump" before landing Embarassed ), and apparently it wasn't happy about 5 degrees of flaps when I was still doing 230 knots. Things did get a little scary when the Cessna Skyhawk I had heard on the radio was on final to the same runway I was just cleared for. Somehow I don't think real ATC makes it so that you fly a 747 under a Cessna and have it clear your windshield by some 50 feet 😳. I was going to be ticked if there was a midair, but I missed him. I also don't think a real Cessna would handle the wake turbulence of a 747 under the same conditions! Maybe next time I'll try going overseas 😎 .

👏 Well done, its not an easy beast to fly!

Fun flying 😉

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rickypig112 First Officer
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Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:59 pm

how do you dump fuel on FS9

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RadarMan Chief Captain
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Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:06 pm

rickypig112 wrote:

how do you dump fuel on FS9

Here is a dump fuel gauge to add to your aircraft. Some come with them build it, usually pay-ware.

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=dump+fuel&CatID=fs2004gau&Go=Search

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crash_deplane Trainee
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Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:01 pm

rickypig112 wrote:

how do you dump fuel on FS9

I cheated. I went into the fuel and payload menu and reduced the fuel until it was below the maximum landing weight. Not elegant, but it worked.

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