Online Flight Tour #1: KDEN - KSLC Sat. Oct. 11

[JBaymore]

Sort of crappy in Denver, and not much better in Salt Lake.

Yup...... gonna be "interesting". IFR for sure. And engine and pitot heat at the right times will be important ....... it was snowing there earlier and forecast is for snow.

Sorry you won't be there. Maybe next time.

best,

...............john

[JBaymore]

Current Real World Active KSLC Runways

2149 Zulu

34 R + 34 L


Current Ceiling 12,000

[JBaymore]

Projected Winds Aloft Report

2230 Zulu

FL060 FL090 FL120 FL180 FL240 FL280 FL340 FL390
KDEN 173/015 173/015 182/040 207/077 213/100 208/114 212/126 220/140
ZIMMR 183/019 183/019 187/053 205/086 208/109 209/113 207/127 216/131
RLG 181/017 182/020 189/049 194/078 204/116 211/124 206/132 213/122
EKR 195/020 195/027 193/052 192/083 201/120 207/130 207/125 208/110
VEL 239/009 239/010 211/026 177/048 191/070 204/088 206/076 205/064
THISL 297/008 297/010 338/008 252/013 329/010 205/035 209/037 210/040
Fix 13 313/011 321/017 086/014 333/004 346/006 183/028 194/031 199/030
KSLC 313/011 321/017 086/014 333/004 346/006 183/028 194/031 199/030

[DAL900]

You guys missed a good flight. It was foggy at DEN and raining at SLC. Cloud base at SLC was 7500-8000, when you came out of the clouds you had the mountains and the runway dead ahead. Thanks John for organizing this

[Bob Reed]

I too would like to thank John for this flight. He did an awesome job! We will be setting up for a weekly flight from now on. Do you guys have a night preference? I will try hard to do as good a job as John did... Going to be tough!

[AndyT]

I had fun on this flight.

I'm putting together a sight-seeing tour for Hawaii. You can fly tubes but I will be reccomending certain aircraft for best results.

[Efe Cem Elci]

Although I joined late (tried to be at SLC to greet the incoming pilots but didn't even make that on time) it was still nice to 'see' and hear all the guys there. Hopefully we'll have more pilots next time and the issues with aircraft models will also be solved so that we don't see 738s hovering overhead

[JBaymore]

Thanks to everyone for joining!!!!!! Pretty good turnout for the first of these flights.

Personally, I think the bad weather actually made this a really great flight. I know that in my sim with ActiveSky running.... the cloudscapes were awesome.

The weather in Denver was REALLY socked in; ground fog for taxiing and then a really thick layer of overcast on the climbout.

And then breaking out on top... and later plunging back into and through the soup again on descent into SLC was really a lot of fun.

Everyone seemed to put it on the runway OK despite the somewhat low visibility and the tricky crosswind.

Good job folks.

On to the the next one.

best,

..................john

PS: You are welcome.

[warvet]

Sorry John,
Couldnt connect Ill try again next time.Glad you had some fun guys.

tim

[Efe Cem Elci]

Definitely a big thank you to John for putting in all that time to organize this event and get the information to us and of course to all those who joined.

We all seemed to be discovering the ins and outs of direct-connect multiplayer play (I usually fly in IVAO with no paint/model problems due to the MTL library) but I'm sure as we get more people coming to these events and the finer points of the connections solved it will be a great opportunity to meet other users and interact apart from the forum for a change.