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Post by Frank Seigler-KE5ETD on Feb 3, 2007 21:42:56 GMT
Guys,
Joao has posted links to scenery over at the AW forums.
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Post by Wild Man on Feb 4, 2007 10:06:11 GMT
Hey boss!
No plans arrived.
I did have a hickup with my email program I'll PM you my address.
Tom ... I still cannnot get that S-61 to fly nice would you be upset if I did use the UH-1H for the race, as I dont want to man handle the S-61 for such a long distance.
I will use it for some normal AAS Charters thou.
Cheers WM
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Post by Wild Man on Feb 4, 2007 10:51:33 GMT
Hey i am a bit confused. I just went for a blat to find some chk points. I found a place called Chuqiak but i could not find Eagle River My scout plane! Cheers WN
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Post by TomH on Feb 4, 2007 12:53:30 GMT
WM
I don't have any issues with the aircraft you choose. I believe the rules state you can use two different aircraft of your choice.
I like your scout plane ;D ;D ;D
There are a lot of waypoints marked on the FS Nav flight plans where there's absolutely nothing on the ground. Joao posted some information yesterday where you can get additional sceneries that are available on another site. I downloaded a few, but kept getting messages that the files already existed in the original Iditarod scenery I had installed the other day.
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Post by Frank Seigler-KE5ETD on Feb 4, 2007 13:58:47 GMT
Hey Guys,
Let me know which checkpoints that you haven't found and I will go find them and record the Lat/Long for you. They should all be there but some of them are a bit hard to find even for me and I have been to all of them before.
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Post by Frank Seigler-KE5ETD on Feb 4, 2007 15:19:03 GMT
I just got a note from Joao and he wanted me to let you know that he plans to review all the scenery and flight plans well prior to the race to make sure that we have all the correct stuff.
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Post by TomH on Feb 4, 2007 20:20:57 GMT
That's cool!
I noticed on especially the southern route, there are a gazillion waypoints on the FSNav route, but I don't know how many of them are really official checkpoints.
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Post by TomH on Feb 4, 2007 20:32:10 GMT
BTW... has anybody else noticed that there are two "Finger Lake" strips with the code 99Z?
There's one near Palmer and one on the Iditarod route. Kinda confusing!
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Post by Wild Man on Feb 4, 2007 22:25:28 GMT
Hey Guys!
I am having a heck of a time finding these chk points. ( but I am enjoying the challenge) I dont have FS Nav, I may have to download it.
Cheers WM
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Post by Frank Seigler-KE5ETD on Feb 4, 2007 22:37:38 GMT
Just wait until the race starts, that is when the real fun will begin.
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Post by TomH on Feb 5, 2007 3:24:07 GMT
Frank,
With regard to a couple of the items in the AW Iditarod Operations Manual...
"If the musher scratches along the race then VIAF Pilots must help him dispatch his sled, gear and dogs to one of the Hubs again"
Does this duty get assigned, or does it only apply to the musher we've chosen?
f) ...pick up every dog that the musher decides to leave behind (for the dog's health sake); those checkpoints become mandatory stops for the pilot.
How do we know that a musher has left dogs behind and at which checkpoints?
And then a couple from me...
Do we guess at or make up our loads as the race progresses, or are there a list of items that are known to be needed at each spot along the race?
Am I worrying about too much? ;D
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Post by Frank Seigler-KE5ETD on Feb 5, 2007 4:31:47 GMT
1. This only applies if your Musher scratches.
2. You will need to follow the race stats at one of the race websites. I use Iditarod.com (the official race site). The stats will tell you how many dogs that your Musher checked into a given checkpoint with and how many dogs that he checked out with.
3. Not sure how to answer that one. In the past, I have just flown with an arbitrary load weight but I believe that this year Joao has posted some load weights over at AW. I am guessing that you will need to determine what your load is. For example if you are flying back to a Hub with a dropped dog, you would put the weights in for the dog and a vet, etc...
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Post by TomH on Feb 5, 2007 23:52:11 GMT
I guess what I was getting at in #3 was, do we determine the content of our own loads, and then adjust our weight accordingly (using Joao's guide) or are the loads determined by someone else?
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Post by Joao Paz on Feb 6, 2007 0:22:39 GMT
Hi guys,
Hope you don't mind the intromission
I always check the AAS forum - always great reading, and you sure are a great group! - and so I've been following this Iditarod thread closely. I thought I'd join you to answer some questions, when necessary (though Frank's doing a great job - thanks, buddy!)
So, about the weights subject:
The Race will start in a month; until then we will be doing the pre-race preparation (duh!) I have an Excel worksheet open right now and am working on it!
a) So.... very soon I will say how much weight of each item we (as a group) will have to move to which checkpoint.
b) I will present a table with weights, maybe like this: 50 bales of straw required at Shageluk - 50 bales still do deliever
c) Then pilots will come, and according to their aircraft load limits they'll choose which and how much of items they'll carry and to where. Then they'll copy paste the data table deducting their own loads, like...
d) The first pilot carries 4 bales of straw to Shageluk; so then, on the table he will post: 50 bales of straw required at Shageluk - 46 bales still do deliever
Something along this lines....
About locations and flightplans, no worries, I'm on it too. The thing is that it was always very hard, specially some 4 years ago, to find the exact data for each checkpoint; only now with stuff like Google Earth I'm being able to do it. The result was that some checkpoints were misplaced. But among us and the guys at TCA we pretty much covered it all. Anyway, the flightplans will indicate the exact location of the checkpoint, plus the AW and TCA locations for those same checkpoints. Pilots will then be free to choose Think that this is not very formal - we want to have fun!
And by The Great Eagle we will!
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Post by Joao Paz on Feb 6, 2007 0:25:53 GMT
About the dogs, as Frank mentioned: Pilots are responsible to check their Musher/Team standings on the Iditarod or Cabelas site, and find how many dogs must be picked up. Then you should adjust your aircraft's weight to reflect the load. But again, Pilots are very much in control. I won't kick anyone out for flying a tourist from checkpoint to checkpoint, though the real IAF guys cant'!
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