Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take your TBM-930 on a tour of the world's capital cities;
- No intermediate fuel stops. You must stop at a capital .
- A capital may only be visited once.
- You must land at the closest airfield to the capital city, excluding military airstrips and runways shorter than 2500 feet.
The included flight plan does this, Starting from Ottowa, Canada and ending on South Tarowa in the South Pacific. The longest leg on this trip is from Suriname to Cape Verde, at 1968 nautical miles. Below are my observed performance figures for the TBM. Unless you have a big headwind, you should make it.
FL300 - Throttle: 60% ExpRng = 2077 nm
FL300 - Throttle: 70% ExpRng = 2011 nm
FL320 - Throttle: 60% ExpRng = 2082 nm
FL320 - Throttle: 70% ExpRng = 2027 nm
The last condition can often mean not landing at the nice new international airport outside of the city, but at an old airstrip in the middle of town (Example: New Delhi, where the closest airstrip is Safdarjung just a mile from parliament). But that's more fun than huge 13,000 foot runways with ILS, right?
The only alternative stock aircraft that has the range and can land on 2500 ft runways is the Baron G58, which has a lot more range (up to 2800 miles) but is a lot slower. Your choice.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
The included files are all flightplan or excel files - nothing to put in the community folder. Just unzip into whichever directory you keep your flightplans.
Included Files:
- 000-World Capitol Tour.xlsx - Detailed itinerary table
- World Capitols Tour.lnmpln - General itinerary in Little Navmaps
- Each of the 191 legs has a numbered PLN files with set parking spot and waypoints set. The last waypoint before the destination will be at a convenient STAR entry point (if available) if you want to throw in a full Arrival/Approach. The Working Title mod below is a big help to do this.
Required Add-Ons:
https://flightsim.to/file/895/seychelles-airports
Seychelles Airports
Current Version 0.9 by McBolid
For FSIA
https://flightsim.to/file/2179/nvvv-bauerfield-port-vila-vanuatu
NVVV - Bauerfield - Port Vila - Vanuatu
Current Version 0.3.0 by Ape42
For NVVV
Recommended Add-Ons:
https://github.com/Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages
G3000 Fixes and enhancements for the stock G3000 avionics package v0.7.3
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Makes the nav system much more usable for on-the-fly flightplan/approach changes, among other improvements. In fact all 4 packs on that page are recommended, and they are free.
https://flightsim.to/download/tbm-930-hellcat/2985
TBM-930 HellCat Livery
Current Version 2.0 by Fredo
What's the point going around the world unless you look sexy doing it?
https://rexsimulations.com/weatherforce.html
REX Weather Force 2020
Increases imersion level with realistic weather updates as you fly. It's not free, but worth it IMHO.
Enjoy the trip!
PS: Question, should I make this into a mega-BushTrip?
Well, as the guy who put this together, I can at least say I actually completed it. Took me about 10 weeks to do it, flying maybe a couple of missions per day. But it was fun, and saw some interesting places along the way.
I think my next trip will be a bit shorter, though, LOL
3 years ago
Dready1906
This is the best world tour IMO 😀
Please make it into a mega bush trip!
3 years ago
Thanks. I'm still doing it myself - I'm on leg 148 - about 30 or so to go.
I think the bushtrip this big is a bit restrictive. The individual flight plan files allow you to insert approaches, or change from IFR to VFR if you feel like it. I know I have "seen" a lot of places I would never have flown to otherwise.
BTW, for San Marino (leg 100), there is a really cool alternative to the airport I listed at Forli. But there is a small airfield within the borders of San Marino (LIJV). It sits on top of a hill and is steeply sloped (so you have to land on Rwy 34, and take off on 16). In addition there are high trees on the south end of the strip, and the field is only 1500 feet long. Pucker factor guaranteed :-D.
3 years ago
Dready1906
SeiferLizardKing
А если я полечу из города Новороссийска (аэропорт Геленджик URKG), то как мне потом лететь?..😊
3 years ago
If I understand correctly, you want to start at Novorossiysk. The problems are
1) Novorossiysk is not a capital, and
2) the Pacific - there is a gap where there simply are no two capitals less than 2000 nm apart which allow you to make the jump. So you would want to start in the Americas and work eastward, or start in the Western Pacific and go west.
My intention with this Flightplan was to force myself to fly into places or airfields where I might never go to. Let's face it, how many of you have felt the urge to plan a flight to South Sudan, or Bangladesh?
3 years ago
Dready1906
vladimir333