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| Departure at dawn |
On April the 15th, the very same day
that the continent Bellisseria emerged from the void, one of Bay City
smallest explorers, Marianne McCann, set out on an epic journey.
With her old but sturdy airplane, the
PA-18, she set out to make the longest trip possible. From the
Northern most tip of the Hetrocera Atoll, the region Brindle, to the Southern tip of Jeogeot, the
region Almo Bay.
I will let her speak about that
journey.
I crossed four continents!
I expected the trip to be harder,
given the current issues with region crossings.
All told I face three disconnects
from bad crossings (One in the Heterocera Atoll, one in Sansara, and
one in Jeogeot) and four nasty orbs (Two in the Heterocera Atoll, one
in Sansara, one in Jeogeot). Also tussled with a ban line when
recovering from one of the disconnects.
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| Winterlands |
Total flight time was nearly 2 hours
all told. Unfortunately, I lost my number of regions due to a couple
of the crashes, but "a couple hundred" seems right.
To replicate this flight, I highly
recommend starting from the north: Filip has a Rez zone. Also, the
PA-18 allows you to adjust the trim to give you more lift, too. Use
that, cuz it's super helpful.
Also, be wary of the mountains in
Heterocera and Sansar, and watch for monster-sized skyboxes in
Jeogeot. Finally, open Rez is hard to come by yet in the new regions.
Treasure it when you find some.
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| Arrival !! |
After that record making flight
Marianne received a valuable unique gold trophy from the hands of
T.J. Hooker. Route 66 was closed for that ceremony, traffic was
diverted.
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| Proud Mari |
This news received just a small
paragraph in the Police Blotter due to the closing of the road. Thanks to the magic of The Feed (when it works) we could revisit this epic flight and report about it.
Fast backwards, or forwards depending
on the viewpoint, to August the 6th. Vick Forcella made a trip from
the airport at Hau Koda to the airfield in the region Lapera in his SA Enstrom 280C helicopter. A
challenge because of the altitude of 344 meters.
Marianne contacted Vick, one of the
tallest explorers from Bay City, and gave him the challenge to
replicate her journey from Brindle towards Almo Bay.
Vick set off on August the 7th
in the pooring rain. He found a place to rezz in Brindle and placed
his Enstom there to start the journey.
Next to gaining sufficient height to
cross mountains there were many other challenges. Banlines, security
orbs, skyboxes and finding places to restart the journey. Though a
helicopter can lift up from tight spaces, there should not be blade
crashing objects near such as trees, houses and hills.
Oddly enough there were no bad region
crossings.
The Enstrom isn't the fastest machine
in the world so Vick took two days (approx. 4 hours) to finish the
challenge in Almo Bay.
Half way Vick
slept in the light tower in Bellisseria. On departure he discovered
his helicopter loaded with boxes given to him by ZZ bottom
(foneco.zuzu). Thank you ZZ!
Vick ordered one of the best goldsmiths
to handcraft a personal trophy to commemorate the flight, and
placed it in the Bay City Post offices.
Reporter Vick Forcella
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Both Heterocera and Jeogeot are short of good take-off and landing places, Riddings being furthest north and Spurness furthest south for landplanes. An amphibian may be the best answer.
ReplyDeleteI've made the trip several times, usually in my lightly modded Hercules C1P (Colour scheme, refuelling probe, and the Special Forces Flight extras the plane flew with at the end of its career with the RAF).
I've done tactical landings on some very short runways with that plane, but the wingspan is still a problem.
At least once you clear Sansar, you can stay over water until the Jeogeot Gulf ends.
Plane size generally, I'd say the DC-3/C-47 is a reasonable maximum, but a lot of places really need something smaller.
Thanks for the tips!
DeleteThe lovely mountain town of Hooktip (oddly enough found in the Hooktip region) in the Atoll continent offers a small airport (SLHT) with a rezz zone for bush pilots. Take off to the south and head for the ocean, then veer to the west and follow the ocean around to avoid most of the skyboxes, banlines, and junk.
ReplyDeleteSLHT also provides a heliport and a direct connection to the SLRR in case you need to continue your journey by rail.
Oh - and free coffee and cocoa in the airport terminal tunnel. :) Happy and safe travels!
Free cocoa? On my way!
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