New Guinea Bush Flights

[Doug]

I have not been very impressed with the "bush" flights that MS2020 offers. All three of them are rather boring and I don't believe are done nearly as well as most of our TripTics ... disappointing.  However, I did find something you might enjoy if you want to see some rough/beautiful landscape and encounter nearly impossible airports to land upon safely.

The is a fellow named Mike Fog on YouTube that is flying these. I watch his video, then I make the plan and fly it myself. The one discussed here is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCPUizIZM1Y&t=8s. 

The flight planner for FS2020 is not ready for prime time, so when you try to set this up, you will get a "shuffled" routing. The airports are Departure: AYPE ... then AYHJ, AYMI, AYGA, AYII, AYEN and Arrival: AYUC.  If you try to put in the departure and arrival, then use the "ADD" the route will be shuffled. To get things into the correct order, save the (screwy) plan that 2020 makes.  Then open that PLN file in NotePad and with copy/paste put the airports in the proper order for the route. Then LOAD the saved NOTEPAD PLN file and you will have the correct route in FS2020. Your VFR map should look like the attached.

To save you some time, put in the Departure: AYPE and the Arrival:" AYUC and SAVE IT. Then download my PLN file (attached here). Now rename MY file name: New Guinea FoX 2.PLN to the name you have chosen. Copy my renamed file into where your MS2020 flight plans are and paste over the plan you made.  Now go load the flight in 2020, and it will be all set up to fly for you.

For the novice pilots among us (like me) ... in the ASSISTANCE section, be sure to turn your Routes and Waypoints to "ON" and also the LANDING PATH to "ON". This will help you find the tiny airports and the landing path will give you a clue as to how to approach them. Also when flying one of these where you are landing at the waypoints, use the ATC, call up your next airport as you get closer, announce the runway and your position, and the "landing path" will show up for you.

I haven't been able yet to pull in the 2020 database into Little NavMap (if anybody knows how let me know). So you will not find most of these little airports if your Little NavMap is using FSX or P3D data. But the VFR map in 2020 should show this new plan for you nicely and help you navigate to the "next" one. Good luck.

Doug

[kaha]

If you own AYPY from ORBX in P3D, which includes many bush strips in PNG, then you will definitely enjoy those strps also in vanilla MSFS.

Those strips and the ones you mentioned, Doug, are content of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Knife-Edge-Guinea-Pilot-ebook/dp/B00XJYYL90

A very nice read.

Karl

[Doug]

Thank you, I’ll take a look at that book. Appreciate the info Karl.

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[jsapair]

Wow,Doug. That looks like waaay too much trouble. I really appreciate you mods doing all this ground work for the new sim but I, for one, have lost interest in it already. With what we have with RTMM and ORBX I don't see any reason to even consider it. But I sure do appreciate you guys checking it out in advance. But that's why we pay you the big bucks, right? Hello? You still there? Haha.

                    Thanks, Doug.

Jsapair

[nbrich1]

Just use little nav map to create a properly routed fp, save, then use "load" in 2020. Done. (Can also use any fp/map utility to build the FP). Little nav map can load the airport database for p3dv5 which should be the latest used in fs2020, or seems to be, and little nav map also can recognize the user aircraft in msfs2020.

[Doug]

That works fine except the database in Little NavMap are from FSX and or P3D. The airports in this route are in FS2020 only, so they don’t show up in Little NavMap, you have to use the 2020 planner (which shuffles the route).

[FSRobert]

Thanks for the Photo of the flight plan. I should be able to remove and add the points needed. Looking forward to the adventure.

I found using the Cub Crafter or better yet the the Kitfix which is a payware STOL aircraft that can be purchased in the MSFS store for around 10 bucks and start at  C53 Loon Creek and using the “ nearest airport function with the map and follow the arrows to the nearest landing strip or USFS landing areas and airports is a challenge and fun and really can test your bush piloting skills.

[Doug]

I’m using the 152. Mike uses the 208, I learned why last night. These airports are high altitude and are sloped. Last night I found myself stopped at the upper end of the runway, high end, pointed toward the high end. I then hit the power to turn it around and go down the runway for take off . It would not go forward, not enough power. So I used CTRL-P to back up and turn. The 152 doesn’t turn going backwards. Went down the length of the runway looking for a flat spot...there were none. Had to restart from there. Moral to the story, you need power at altitude. The 152 doesn’t have it.

[kaha]

I fly PNG bush strips in the 172 analog.

Karl

[NeptuneP2V7]

Wait a couple of days Alex working on LNM ...

[FSRobert]

What is LNM ?

[nbrich1]

What is LNM ?

Little Navmap is a free open source flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system for Flight Simulator X, FlightSimulator - Steam Edition, Prepar3D v2 to v5 and X-Plane 11 (and being further developed for use in MSFS2020). (One of the best out there.
(Developer's name is Alex Albar) (He resides in Germany):
 
Site Link: https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html

Little NavMap Support Forum at Avsim):
Link: https://www.avsim.com/forums/forum/780-little-navmap-little-navconnect-little-logbook-support-forum/

[FSRobert]

Norm, you are the best thanks my friend.

I never have used it...yet! 

[Doug]

Keep in mind, for P3D I have every location pinned in LNM.

[nbrich1]

It's a great planner for sure.. and Doug marked it all up with way points (in his RTMM Waypoints program), or it you have the RTMM Add-on for v4 or v5 you will find a csv file in the Docs folder (RTMM Way points Documentation). Just uploaded into Little Navmap and the way points will be listed.


Now another great program, as most will k now, Plan G (Tim Arnot), Works with FSX-through P3Dv4 (and v5) but needs almost a complete rework to be able to capture the P3Dv5 airport database.. but he is working on it! But other than the P3Dv4 airport database in Plan G, it still can be used with P3Dv5x.

But the biggest news at Plan G is a new alpha release of Plan G (32bit or 64 bit) (ver 221) for use with MSFS2020.  LINK: http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=13.0

Lots of tools out there.

I have used plan G to create many RTMM trips/tours etc, especially when Dieter has created many csv files which contain/plot many RTMM locations (Airports as well as various RTMM POI's) in plan G.
see (Dieter's Corner). 

When I get MSFS2020 (in a couple of weeks) will give all this stuff a try.