shorty 2 Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 This is my first MEBAR .. another adventure I call these excursions, as they take me out of the normal comfort zones of flying civil jetliners around this small world we live in. This first leg was difficult for a photo opportunity .... as you all know it was dirty. I actually gave up ... it was hard enough just getting the way points right and I nearly missed the final airport, I had to do a hard and fast maneuver to get the plane down on the runway and get my time which was nearly spot on, if I missed it I was up for a go around..... and my time was up. Any way .... here are a few shots: Cheers Shorty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Looks like the weather I flew through too. Nice choice of aircraft! I also had a difficult time with the navigation in this, also my first MEBAR...I have no idea how to tune/fly to an NDB...so found myself pre-planning based on a combination of Andrew's written descriptions plus rough 'ruler vectors' on paper/screen charts to approximate the "intersections" between VOR's and NDB's...and plugged all the resultant waypoints into my GPS unit...which I followed and checked distance of each leg against...the GPS legs ended up within a mile of each listed leg, so I went with it. Leg 2 was easier actually with only 2 intersections, and several airports to overfly in addition to the two touch and goes...and the views were MUCH better I have yet to fly leg 3...possibly today as I am taking friday off work due to a back/neck/chest ache. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,253 Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Nice shots Shorty, now that you got your feet wet the rest of the MEBAR's will be a skate in the park. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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