Charter Number: DC3-578-03
Charter Name: Daily Mail Trophy Part1 - "London/Shanghai"

This is Readme.txt file.

This challenge was initially made to fly from Uk to China by taking the North Pole route.  While making this challenge it proved impossible to fly over the Pole in MS Flight Simulator.  Read op-ed "Flying the 89 zone" on Flightsim.com.
The path was changed to fly to China via Alaska, straight of Bering and Russia to land finally in Shanghai.

Along the making of this challenge a story developed and was published in pireps reports on DC3 Airways.  Most of them were news flashes from the Daily Mail or cables from Thule Air Base when your humble servant was believed to be lost while attempting the North Pole route with a Gooney.

This challenge then became part One of a world tour in the making.
Watch for DC3-578-04 that will contain the second part of this tour flying back from Shanghai to Biggin Hill, via Thailand, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland and France (and many interesting places like Hymalaya, Kabul, and Mount Ararat.).

To fly the reconstruction of the North Pole crossing attempt (leg 6) you must modify your DC3 in FS Navigator the following way:

Go to FS Nav by pressing F9 in FS200x.
Hit the plane icon in FS NAV menu.
Modify fuel flow from 93 to 85 gallons per hour.  Save the plane under DC3 TR2b.  That's it you have the special equiped DC3 for North Pole crossing.
Some say it's worst than the original and that the de-icer and heater do not even work, but don't believe them.  It's just a bunch of Yanks from Thule AB.

I have tried to respect the standards for Challenge making in place at DCA (such as altitudes VS headings ).  Norman if I forgot something, remember I have been put at high stress over the Pole and at Yakutsk...

FSNAV .fsn files are provided for each leg as well as FS2002 .PLN files.
All FS2002 plans have been re-loaded in FS2002 for checking and deleting circular reference to airports as does happen many times when exporting from FSNAV. They can be used for those who don't have FSNAV (I do recommend warmly!).

See London_Shanghai_578.doc (WordPad) for complete details of legs.

Thanks to Norman Hancock and John Achor for inspiring this documentation work.
Flying a new challenge is only "half the work"....
:-)
 

Enjoy your flights!
DC3-578 (Nemo).