Worldflight 2012

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Let's open the topic    :mrgreen:

This year, most of the usual suspects and a few greenies will join the obligatory round-the-world flight from Sydney to Sydney and pass through a few interesting destinations.

http://www.worldflightgroup.com/

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Flight  From             To             Departs         Arrives        Mins
WF1201  Sydney           Auckland       04/11/12 2200   05/11/12 0110   190
WF1202  Auckland         Apia           05/11/12 0200   05/11/12 0610   250
WF1203  Apia             Kona           05/11/12 0700   05/11/12 1230   330
WF1204  Kona             Tijuana        05/11/12 1320   05/11/12 1900   340
WF1205  Tijuana          Mexico City    05/11/12 1950   05/11/12 2310   200
WF1206  Mexico City      Havana         06/11/12 0000   06/11/12 0240   160
WF1207  Havana           Santo Domingo  06/11/12 0330   06/11/12 0550   140
WF1208  Santo Domingo    St Maarten     06/11/12 0640   06/11/12 0810    90
WF1209  St Maarten       Port of Spain  06/11/12 0940   06/11/12 1120   100
WF1210  Port of Spain    Sal            06/11/12 1210   06/11/12 1750   340
WF1211  Sal              Fuerteventura  06/11/12 1840   06/11/12 2110   150
WF1212  Fuerteventura    Casablanca     06/11/12 2200   06/11/12 2340   100
WF1213  Casablanca       Algiers        07/11/12 0030   07/11/12 0220   110
WF1214  Algiers          Madrid         07/11/12 0310   07/11/12 0440    90
WF1215  Madrid           Birmingham     07/11/12 0530   07/11/12 0750   140
WF1216  Birmingham       Oslo           07/11/12 0840   07/11/12 1050   130
WF1217  Oslo             Helsinki       07/11/12 1140   07/11/12 1310    90
WF1218  Helsinki         Warsaw         07/11/12 1400   07/11/12 1550   110
WF1219  Warsaw           Frankfurt      07/11/12 1640   07/11/12 1820   100
WF1220  Frankfurt        Tirana         07/11/12 1910   07/11/12 2125   135
WF1221  Tirana           Chisinau       07/11/12 2215   08/11/12 0005   110
WF1222  Chisinau         Ankara         08/11/12 0055   08/11/12 0235   100
WF1223  Ankara           Damascus       08/11/12 0325   08/11/12 0505   100
WF1224  Damascus         Tehran         08/11/12 0555   08/11/12 0815   140
WF1225  Tehran           Tashkent       08/11/12 1130   08/11/12 1410   160
WF1226  Tashkent         Lahore         08/11/12 1500   08/11/12 1700   120
WF1227  Lahore           Nagpur         08/11/12 1750   08/11/12 2000   130
WF1228  Nagpur           Kathmandu      08/11/12 2050   08/11/12 2240   110
WF1229  Kathmandu        Chittagong     08/11/12 2330   09/11/12 0110   100
WF1230  Chittagong       Chengdu        09/11/12 0200   09/11/12 0450   170
WF1231  Chengdu          Lanzhou        09/11/12 0540   09/11/12 0710    90
WF1232  Lanzhou          Ulan Batar     09/11/12 0800   09/11/12 0950   110
WF1233  Ulan Batar       Yakutsk        09/11/12 1040   09/11/12 1350   190
WF1234  Yakutsk          Petropavlovsk  09/11/12 1440   09/11/12 1740   180
WF1235  Petropavlovsk    Vladivostok    09/11/12 1830   09/11/12 2150   200
WF1236  Vladivostok      Beijing        09/11/12 2350   10/11/12 0210   140
WF1237  Beijing          Seoul          10/11/12 0300   10/11/12 0450   110
WF1238  Seoul            Osaka          10/11/12 0540   10/11/12 0720   100
WF1239  Osaka            Tainan         10/11/12 0810   10/11/12 1050   160
WF1240  Tainan           Saipan         10/11/12 1140   10/11/12 1550   250
WF1241  Saipan           Biak           10/11/12 1640   10/11/12 1950   190
WF1242  Biak             Port Moresby   10/11/12 2040   10/11/12 2310   150
WF1243  Port Moresby     Cairns         11/11/12 0000   11/11/12 0140   100
WF1244  Cairns           Brisbane       11/11/12 0230   11/11/12 0450   140
WF1245  Brisbane         Sydney         11/11/12 0650   11/11/12 0830   100



Hoppie

[Phil Bunch]

Tijuana?!?!?

Does the US State Department know you're planning air flights to and from Havana??  (grins)

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Did you notice we happen to avoid a certain country altogether this year? Nobody can accuse us from operating those prohibited flights    :mrgreen:

They can still swap Havana for Miami -- technically the same... from here you can see the USA in the distance (on a clear day).


Hoppie

[Joe Clark]

I thought the skipping of this certain country was just coincidence not because of any "issues?"

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

"Plausible deniability"

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

And off they go...



Apologies for BAW744, something went wrong with the sim and they had no choice but to leave with the others.      :twisted:


Hoppie

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Ok, first leg down.





Not bad, just one hour late after one leg!

I am going to bed    :twisted:


Hoppie

[Shiv Mathur]

Okay, please humour me, guys ... which is the country WF is not visiting?

[Joe Clark]

US of A

[J D ADAM]

Hi All,   What a lot of fun on the first leg of world flight. I understand that 65 aircraft left Sydney for Auckland.  Flying on one's own it makes for a very busy 3 hours. The greatest difficulty was trying to get a word in edgewise to Sydney Ground to get start and taxi.
Question for those involved. I tried to use ACARS for the flight and although I got clearance it only came through on TopCat not the MCDU and after this I ended up with a blank screen on the MCDU.
I guess I was doing something wrong!

Cheers
Derek
NZAA

[torrence]

US of A

Last I looked KONA is still part of the great state of Hawaii in the US of A.  You will have to grovel and apologize before you get your next Mai Tai   .

Cheers,
Torrence

[John Golin]

I LOVE CDPLC!!!

In busy Oceanic it makes life so much easier... Thanks Hoppie!!!

[John Golin]

US of A

Last I looked KONA is still part of the great state of Hawaii in the US of A.  You will have to grovel and apologize before you get your next Mai Tai   .

Cheers,
Torrence

And a great ride we had into Kona, and onward to Mexico.  Thanks to our US cousins!

I think the rout this year had us shooting through Central America due to some requests for different airfields and approaches (such as Mexico City), before heading over to Europe as we have a lot of supporters over there and so spend more time in that region.

No team USA for a few years...  

[Joe Clark]

US of A

Last I looked KONA is still part of the great state of Hawaii in the US of A.  You will have to grovel and apologize before you get your next Mai Tai   .

Cheers,
Torrence

You got me. I didn't look at the itinerary myself, just went off what others were telling me Maybe I should have qualified with mainland US of A?

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Take care not to log into ACARS with two times the same call sign. One of the clients will snoop the replies away. In this case, TOPCAT ate the replies meant for the aircraft.

Typically you have TOPCAT log in as your dispatch callsign. Such as, you are BAW, TOPCAT logs in as BAW, you aircraft logs in as BAW123. This allows the exchange between stations.


Jeroen

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Finally some known territory. 11 years ago we honeymooned somewhere on this shot; now we live within one hour flying. Life stays interesting    


Hoppie

[Shiv Mathur]

US of A

Yeah, it looked to me too that the USA was bypassed ... till I saw Hawaii. Sneaky!  

Any answers, anyone?

[John Golin]

See post 13!

The subject of the route comes up every year.... :?

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Next year if you look for just not quite the real USA, try Miami, the capital of South-America   :mrgreen:


Hoppie

[Phil Bunch]

US of A

Hundreds of invisible, top secret interceptor drones have been launched.  

Now you know why your rogue WF airliners will spontaneously "malfunction" and disappear.  Your only hope is to slow down radically, lower your landing gear, and divert to the nearest US of A airport and personally surrender!!