World Flight 2010 -- 10th Year Anniversary

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Preliminary route, more or less tracing the original route from ten years ago:

Sydney, Australia
Nadi, Fiji
Honolulu, Hawaii
Sacramento, California
San Francisco, California
Seattle, Washington
Regina, Canada
Denver, Colorado
Houston, Texas
Cancun, Mexico
Panama City
Quito, Ecuador
Lima, Peru
La Paz, Bolivia
Campo Grande, Brazil
Asuncion, Paraguay
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Georgetown, Ascension Is.
Windhoek, Namibia
Cape Town, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Harare, Zimbabwe
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Nairobi, Kenya
Khartoum, Sudan
Cairo, Egypt
Athens, Greece
Patra, Greece
Milan, Italy
Paris Orly, France
London Gatwick, UK
Manchester, UK
Copenhagen, Denmark
Zurich, Switzerland
Belgrade, Serbia
Istanbul, Turkey
Tel Aviv, Israel
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Dubai, UAR
Karachi, Pakistan
Mumbai (Bombay), India
Chennai (Madras), India
Bangkok, Thailand
Singapore
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Darwin, Australia
Townsville, Australia
Brisbane, Australia

http://www.worldflightgroup.com/jovid.html



added video link
Replace KHOU with KIAH (the actual original 2001 airport);
Replace KMHR with KSFO (San Francisco);
Replace LGAV with LGRX (Patra);
Replace SBCG with SGAS (Asuncion, Paraguay)

[Phil Bunch]

Cool route and a lot of nostalgia from thinking about WF 10 years ago!

What's the most challenging airport on this route for the 744?

[Joe Clark]

I can't wait for WF2010!

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

There's still some animosity about the exact route, but that will get sorted   :mrgreen:



Click on the map for a larger one. Also available in PDF, thanks to René.


Jeroen


Edit: fixed typo in PDF URL.

[John Golin]

Cool route and a lot of nostalgia from thinking about WF 10 years ago!

What's the most challenging airport on this route for the 744?

Depends who you ask - LaPaz...

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

All maps updated, ACARS route updated, ready to go.
10 weeks, only!


Jeroen

PS. PC: we can cut from Cairo to Tel Aviv, that probably will bring us back into the main pack.

[Pandy280677]

Can't wait for this years big event to kick off on Halloween!! It's gonna be the best yet I reckon!

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

... four weeks to go ...

http://www.hoppie.nl/wf/

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

... one week to go ...

The online presence increases every year. By now we have a live feed from ACARS to Twitter. To avoid abuse you can't chat with crew via Twitter-over-ACARS but there is a guarded channel that allows crews (and the planes themselves, OOOI) to dump status messages on @Worldflight.

http://twitter.com/Worldflight


Jeroen

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

I am not in a hurry to fix something.



http://www.hoppie.nl/wf/

There are now two blogs that sort of cover the Coventry base: mine (above) and Malcolm's at http://www.ukworldflight2010crew.blogspot.com/ . There are good reasons for having two. In order to save everybody the hassle of having to follow both, I've made a simple merger of the two that will show on the 747 Simulator web site http://747simulator.co.uk/ soon.

Of course, on the 747 Forum nobody knows Malcolm, so it speaks for it self that donations should flow via my counter  :mrgreen:




Jeroen

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Radio Aloha was a great help getting into Honolulu. 40 minutes ahead of schedule, both 744s are now blistering in the sunshine. The new crews, refreshed after a week in paradise, are ready to pick up their paperwork.

Volunteers, anyone?    :-)

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

I wrote up a nice feature article about Worldflight on Roger-Wilco, "the world's first air traffic management blog". It gives a brief overview of what is the technology under Worldflight and how it came into existence.

http://www.roger-wilco.net/

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

It's a good thing that the internal Worldflight forums are closed to the public, as the third day of Worldflight always brings the inevitable tiredness and associated "interesting events" in terms of operational excellence.

La Paz is a killer if you are with so many aircraft.

Please help us staying alive by comments & donations!

http://www.hoppie.nl/wf/

http://747simulator.co.uk/


Jeroen

[Shiv Mathur]

Where would one post comments, Hoppie?
Couldn't find any comments fields in the blogs.

Anyway, I hope this comment at least helps you all
stay alive !

Cheers,
Shiv

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

The usual suspects will read comments here, but two other places are relevant:

1. The "open" UK Worldflight blog at http://www.ukworldflight2010crew.blogspot.com/ which has a comment feature (click on "0 comments" below each posting).

2. The open Worldflight general forum at http://www.worldflight.com.au/wfforum.php

You can also tweet to the #worldflight hash tag which some people follow.

ACARS messages to BAW744, also good. Direct messages via ATC (SquawkBox) not, as we cannot reply to them without leaving the pilot's seats and looking for a keyboard somewhere in the main equipment centre.

Jeroen

[Holger Wende]

La Paz is a killer if you are with so many aircraft.

Yes, no doubt, queueing on the taxiway was challenging for the teams as well. I also watched the Simfest UK Webcam during taxi and departure in La Paz.
Delayes can be quite comfortable with a glass of red wine in a comfortable chair at home

You all should have heard the scared screams followed by relaxed laughter :twisted: when the Simfest crew, while holding short of the runway, watched the departing Qantas 744. Must have been quite challenging.

Still I remember very well the very long takeoff runs at La Paz El Alto airport when I visited Bolivia in 1994  :shock:

Have fun,
Holger

[John Golin]

Really? Those Simfest guys must be a bit soft.  From my perspective (in the left seat) the departure was fine!

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

That's because the main gears drag 80 ft behind you and 30 ft lower.

They do sell approach lights on eBay, I just checked.


Jeroen

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzkMZv7tkow

Over The Ocean -- How Exciting Worldflight Really Is

[G-CIVA]

Kastrup - Zurich as part of the SIMFEST 2010 Team was fun...a triple TCAS RA (2 above & one below - how do you get out of that?) then dizzy flying round in circles we fould ourselves #8 on a downwind leg for RWY14 being chased by several 744s...well done to the Worldflight ATC guys & Florian for sorting it all out!

Steve