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Lobsters - A BEA Charter (852-01)

1)  Unzip all the files into a temporary directory.

2)  If you have FSNavigator paste the .fsn files into the C:Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Modules\FSNavigator\Plan folder.

3)  If you don't have FSNavigator past the .PLN files into the C:\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files folder.

This charter has been written for FS9, but can be flown in FS2002 and probably other versions of MSFS, although Navaid details may vary, and the flightplans may require some adaptation.  

All the airports (except Renfrew, which is optional) exist in both FS2002 and FS9 default scenery. 

I don't know about FS2000. 

In FS98, only Glasgow, Liverpool, and Northolt are in the default scenery. Recommended addons:- 
	Wfrance.zip from http://www.flightsim.com, for Jersey and Ploujean (called Jersey Field and Morlaix/Bloujean (sic));
	jwscot.zip from http://www.magrathea.clara.net/Scenery/Scenery List.html, for Stornaway;
	binavaid.zip and allnav99.zip (both from flightsim) to install missing navaids.

A choice of starting points and flightplans are supplied for the first leg:-
	(a) From Glasgow airport (default scenery). Up to 1966 this was a Fleet Air Arm airfield and Renfrew (long gone, alas) was Glasgow's civil airfield;
	(b) From Renfrew. FS9 scenery downloadable from http://www.avsim.com and http://www.flightsim.com - search for Renfrew). This is a very good scenery by Geoff Smith. 

As the original flight was made in 1949, the flightplans use NDBs but not VORs. NAV1 settings for ILS ar included (ILS wasn't around, but you can either ignore it or use it a substitute for Lorenz or GCA approach methods).

Flight levels. Most of this charter is set in British airspace where we use the Quadrantal rule, not a Hemisperical one. In British airspace all flights above 3000'and below 10000' obey the following rule:-
	000-089 degrees magnetic - fly odd thousands (5000' 7000' 9000')
	090-179 degrees magnetic - fly odd thousands plus 500' (3500' 5500' 7500' 9500')
	180-269 degrees magnetic - fly even thousands (4000' 6000' 8000')
	270-359 degrees magnetic - fly even thousands plus 500' (4500' 6500' 8500').
The bits in French airspace use the usual hemispherical rule. 

The picture of the lobster is from http://dive-and-sea-the-hebrides.co.uk/divenews_gallery_1.htm.

An article on the Bernera Lobster pond at http://www.culturehebrides.com/heritage/lobster/ states that the Dakotas carried 4000 lobsters (from the Bernera and Stockinish pools) at a time from the Bernera and Stockinish pools. My friendly local fishmonger reckons British lobsters usually weigh about one and a quarter pounds (she also says Canadian lobsters weigh about one and three quarter pounds, are cheaper, but not so tasty). Allowing half a pound per lobster for packing and wet seaweed, this would give us 7000lbs of freight which is close enough to First Officer Crosbie's "about three tons".  

Enjoy it. 

 
John Lawler (DC-3 Airways 852) 
 

PS:- If the weather is suitable (45kt or better headwind on the runway), don't miss out on the chance to indulge the "Hebridean Special Taxiing Technique" at Stornaway (it is more associated with Benbecula, but at least one Dakota pilot used it at Stornaway). Stop (lined up) on the runway, idle your throttle, deploy full flaps, let the brakes off - and "sail" majestically backwards to the threshold <g>!

PS:- If you want to enjoy enjoy the taste of lobster without the violence and/or expense, boil up some parsnips, and mash them with butter and fish stock, and add a little pepper. This tasty dish used to be called "poor man's lobster". 



 
	    