Theme flight for September - My pictures

Wayne Pierce · Post by **Wayne Pierce** » 09-15-2014 09:37 AM

First pictures of the this months theme flight. I decided to go low and slow with the B-377 of the American Overseas Airlines.
This aircraft is a wonderfully rendered model from A2A. Our friendly Stewardess serves us coffee and waffles during the flight. A good flight crew keeps the aircraft running smoothly.

A passing aircraft snapped this one for me.

This is the routing with Vatsim aircraft on line.

Pushing back at ORLY - LFPO Starting at 0400. Way too early to get up.

On the Climb out

Sunrise behind me as I leave the European coast.

Mid Atlantic - somewhere

Land fall of the USA

Here I just made the trip. My fuel was down to the last drop and the two inboard tanks went dry at about 30 miles out. Finished on two engines with 2% left. To keep from running out I chose to continue with two engines. Very close. Maybe should have put in a little more to start, yah think?

Here at KLGA with the wonderful Stewardess, Heidi awaiting at the door to serve the coffee to us all.

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Post by **Michael Blakely** » 09-15-2014 11:45 AM

How many hours was that flight?

Wayne Pierce · Post by **Wayne Pierce** » 09-15-2014 12:28 PM

My FSACARS report
I was not on line with VATSIM, but did fly a little on Team speak with, AAV409. He was doing this with the PMDG 777 and behind my time line.

[2014/09/14 04:03:00]
Flight IATA:AAL
Pilot Number:783
Company ICAO:AAL
Aircraft Type:B377
Departing Airport: LFPO
Destination Airport: KLGA
Online: No
Route:LFPO KLGA
Flight Level:300
04:03 Parking Brakes off
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15:52 Land
15:52 Flight Duration: 11:48
15:52 Landing Weight: 96349 Lbs
15:52 POS N40º 46´ 24´´ W073º 52´ 50´´
15:53 Parking brakes on
15:53 Block to Block Duration: 11:50
15:53 Flight Length: 3357 NM

Omar Campanalunga · Post by **Omar Campanalunga** » 09-16-2014 01:58 PM

Nice shots Wayne.

Theodore Martin · Post by **Theodore Martin** » 09-17-2014 07:50 PM

Nice pics Wayne, but I can't believe it only took 12hrs. I would have thought it would take much more time in that a/c.

Wayne Pierce · Post by **Wayne Pierce** » 09-18-2014 08:37 AM

Christopher Dahlquist wrote:I wasn't aware that the 377 would make the whole trip but bravo for the effort.

Wikipedia;

Typical airline cruise was less than 300 mph; in August 1953 Pan Am and United B377s (and United DC-6s) were scheduled between Honolulu and San Francisco (2398 miles) in 9 hr 45 min each way.

The longest (by distance) B377 nonstops were Pan Am Tokyo to Honolulu in four winters starting in 1952-53. In January 1953 two nonstops a week were scheduled 11 hr 1 min on the strong tailwinds; the following August all flights took 19 hours via Wake.

That is all,
WLP

Wayne Pierce · Post by **Wayne Pierce** » 09-27-2014 04:09 PM

Christopher Dahlquist wrote: I had always understood that the fuel savings from a dead engine was actually more than overcome by the increased drag created by the stationary prop. Add into that the decreased speed overall and I am wondering if there is really a benefit to keeping those two engines dead.
Was there an ability to crossfeed to the empty tanks, or am I missing something else here?

Good random thought. My thought, and not randomly obtained, was; 1. I could have put the manifold to flow all fuel to all engines, but that would have taken what little fuel I had and used it faster with 4 engines using it. 2. I have a good flight sim cockpit with individual controls for each engine and I wanted to be able to shut them off and feather them. I was able to watch that happen. And lastly, I was within sight of the airport, descending and needed drag to slow down to approach speed, which If you have this A/C it does not slow down fast.

That is my story and I am sticking to it.

WLP