Is it possible? 5000km?

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Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Maddin91 » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:27 pm

Hi all,

some days ago I found the record for the longest flight of 2008 on Condor Club and it was more than 19h, which made me very surprised.
So i tested it and yes, it is possible when taking off at 3:15-3:30 and landing at 22:15-22:30.

Today I flew my 750km diploma and I'm proud of my speed which was 287,88km/h: http://www.condor-club.eu/besttimes/0/?id=2365
But then I realised that 5000km divided by 285km/h would be 17,54h which means if one can keep the speed that high it should be possible to make it over 5000km :o :o :o :o :o

Greatest flight of Condor Club was 2008 from "KleinerUhu" with 4001km in 16h.

Anyone tried the 5000 already?

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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by iceman16g » Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:01 pm

well i think that it would be extremly hard to do this task.
1. if you manage to keep the speed at Vne all the time without flutterring the plane this is a small record, dont you think??
2.you would probably have to make a task which goes on the top of one ridge, but there is not a long ridges in condor.
3. there would be extremly hard for you to keep concentration for 19 hours
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by MaintenanceMan » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:27 am

If only the "Auto Pilot" had terrain tracking :mrgreen:
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Lighthorse » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:15 pm

I think I could make a terrain for that, only if I can find the DEM file

Guatemala Basin
lat 14.3068 lon -94.0044 to lat 12.0615 lon -89.1772
Elev -2687 to -13988

Now that would be a hell of a ridge race. :D

Of course there's the Pelorus Reef with a 23,468' drop
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by wickid » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:50 pm

Nice... underwater glidingXD. Why not pitch in the mariane trench as well. 8 km's high near vertical cliffs for miles and miles.
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Lighthorse » Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:50 am

I would if I could get the DEM's for them.
I have some submarine .obj's that would be cool
along the flight path.
If anyone finds the DEM's or geo-tiff files for one of those
trenches I'll make the map.
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Andrzej Czop » Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:43 pm

Only 102 km lift i no problem :mrgreen:
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Lighthorse » Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:15 pm

Screenshot shows you haven't started yet
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Andrzej Czop » Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:54 am

I think, it isn't possible. My result is 4100 km:
http://www.condor-club.eu/analysis/0/?rank=108489

When you will fly 5000 km it means 18,5h flying with speed 270 km/h. No scenery with such long ridge and such long day.

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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by sir_clive » Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:18 pm

Wow... 4100? 15h30m?? Congratulations, man - that's crazy! :-)
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Andrzej Czop » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:11 am

Yes - on the paper nice, but day duration in EA scenery on 22-th june is about 15h - it means You need speed min 490 km/h or fly at night about 9 h :mrgreen:
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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Andrzej Czop » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:26 am

What scenery? :shock:
http://www.condor-club.eu/analysis/0/?rank=118028
I think it isn't real scenery

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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by Xavier » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:50 pm

Hi to all

Just for the fun, you can, theorically, fly a little bit more of 21000 km (Twenty one thousand kilometers) with Condor in a special scenrery made for that purpose, all in multiplayer with the PA on. You have only to make a turn awake every 6 h 30, at each turn point, with an average speed of 230 km/h during 91 h 40.

But there is no interest to do it in that way !

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Re: Is it possible? 5000km?

Post by macsimc » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:06 pm

Something like this? :)
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