Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Fly A Pan Am Connie to Africa!!!!

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Fly A Pan Am Connie to Africa!!!!

DVA2887
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Charlotte, NC

1,286 legs, 1,796.2 hours
840 legs, 1,047.8 hours online
1,268 legs, 1,774.2 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on April 23 2015 13:11 ET by Andrew Vane

Pan Am, in its race to beat TWA across the Atlantic in 1946, subsequently in 1947 expanded the routes further south all the way to South Africa. Added these fine Connie flights for your use. For some reason, Pan Am chose LGA as the origin of these flights as opposed to Idlewild (JFK).

Schedule Database: PAH
Flight Numbers: 5103,5104
Route: KLGA-LPAZ-LPPT-GOOY-DGAA-FZAA-FAOR
Length: 767NM - 2261NM

1960 DC-7 services across the Atlantic coming shortly....

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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1,914 legs, 2,888.2 hours
5 legs, 3.8 hours online
1,907 legs, 2,878.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 23 2015 13:18 ET by Jim Daigneau

Wow, Andrew! You are definitely using your lunch hour effieciently! Good work!

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

Posted onPost created on April 23 2015 13:22 ET by Andrew Vane

I get a whole hour?????

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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Bigelow, AR

637 legs, 1,424.0 hours
363 legs, 546.1 hours online
363 legs, 979.2 hours ACARS
4 legs, 5.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 02 2015 00:47 ET by James Rice

lol

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Posted onPost created on May 02 2015 00:48 ET by James Rice

btw FAOR is the new ICAO code for Johannesburg, if you're flying FS9 (not sure about FSX or P3D) its still FAJS

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Centereach, NY

290 legs, 843.0 hours
256 legs, 779.3 hours online
276 legs, 797.1 hours ACARS
117 legs, 260.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 08 2015 19:33 ET by Darren Tung

FAOR didn't exist at the time (you said these were 1947 flights). Instead, there was a military airport called Palmietfontein airport, which was used as backup while FAOR was under construction. I don't know the ICAO code for the airport, however, and I'm not sure if there are any sceneries for it. If that occurs, could you please move the Constellation flights to one of Johannesburg's other airports (Rand airport, FAGM, or Grand Central, FAGC)?

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Ypsilanti, MI

263 legs, 986.0 hours
247 legs, 950.1 hours online
257 legs, 960.8 hours ACARS
42 legs, 112.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 09 2015 12:13 ET by Kyle Bjorklund

Maybe Andrew would be able to answer this better than I, but I seem to remember the Pan American Berlin flights were changed from Tempelhof to Tegel because Tempelhof is currently closed. FAOR might be a concession to the modern airspace system.
I did a little research into Palmietfontein, it seems to have been de-commissioned in time for an auto race to be held in it's location in 1956. I think that pre-dates IATA and ICAO airport codes (but I'm not 100% sure on that).

Kyle Bjorklund

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Posted onPost created on June 09 2015 16:09 ET by Andrew Vane

Yes. I'm a bit hesitant to add older airports that are now closed. Pilots are having issues trying to find some airports in FSX or FS9 that exist in the other version. ACARS doesn't like when you land in what is now a park. I had to do this with the Berlin airports. Plus, some pilots have been flying to airports that can't support their aircraft as far as runway length and this is less likely keepng FAOR as the primary airport for Johannesburg.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on June 09 2015 16:11 ET by Darren Tung

Understood. I'll just fly there like it's 1953, when the airport was finished.

Darren Tung

Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on June 09 2015 16:21 ET by Andrew Vane

Glad you're enjoying these new routes even though they're to "future" airports. smile

There is one i really wanted to add to the white knuckles club but its closed down. Its in Ecuador or something and has a mountain on one side. I forgot which one. Anyway, its not there anymore and I couldn't find any scenery for it for FS2004 or FSX. Its a park or something today. I got most of them on that list except Courcheval and the one in Nepal.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on June 12 2015 07:19 ET by Darren Tung

Old Quito airport, which was closed in 2013. However, this means the default scenery in FSX/FS2004 is usable.

Darren Tung

Captain, MD-11

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