Watching a detective triggered my curiosity in large, just say enormous machines. Lauchhammer is the German city where the detective played. The city is also at the edge of a mining area, where lignite is extracted in open-pit mines. There is the idea of this adventure. Germany has three large areas where there is still lignite mining. Though the coal is non efficient as fuel and the power plants are in the highest ranking of carbon pollution, the mining goes on. The enormous machines however I find fascinating. In this trip you can see the mines and the devastation of the soil. It is a nice flight, across Germany, from the border with the Netherlands to the border with Poland.
You fly with a Cessna Skyhawk 172Sp G1000 or at your choice with a Cessna 152 for those who like VFR flying. Both trips will be visible in the simulator. It is a pity that you cannot change the aircraft per leg. Refuel is only available on some airports along the flight path. So, keep an eye on your fuel gauge. If you want another aircraft, you can change that with the MissionChanger by BuffyGC.
The trip is written in American English and with DeepL translated into: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Netherlands, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese and Portuguese (Portugal).
The flight information is spoken short before a waypoint turn, GPS is available and loaded for those who want to use it. When flying AP you have to go manual with certain sharp turns. Weather, PreSet is ClearSky. The explanation on the mines, power plants and other sights is available in the NAVlog. The text is also available in the Flight book.
Installation: Copy the folder ft-bt-opensitemining from the zip.file into your Community Folder.
After landing you have to park your plane and shut it down, else the leg will not end.
In the zip you find:
• The BushTrip, 508 NM long in 6 legs
• The written flight plan from LittleNavmap
• A KML file to project the trip in Google Earth
• A Flight Book
• An Excel file with all translations
• A list of airports where you can refuel
As always, I have to thank BuffyGC for his BushTripInjector and Alexander Barthel for LittleNavmap. All information is found in Wikipedia and some other sources on the internet.
To have nice environments and smoking chimneys you have to install We Love VFR region 1 by PuffinFlight. I thank PuffinFlight for the We Love VFR add_ons.
Lieber Frontech , Ich bin jetzt ihre ganze Bushreise geflogen . Sie was wunderbar und sehr interessant. Ich hatte kein ahnen dass gibt es so viele riesige Bergwerke in Deutschland. Konnen sie mich bitte in informieren wenn sie mehr deutsche Bushreisen plannen ?
hawkeye
10 months ago
Lieber Hawkeye896,
Ich freue mich, dass Sie die gesamte Buschreise mitfliegen konnten. Es ist immer etwas Besonderes, wenn andere das schätzen, was man gemacht hat. Im Moment habe ich keine Ideen für Buschreisen in Deutschland. Wenn ich ein Thema finde, werde ich Sie benachrichtigen, sobald es veröffentlicht wird.
Grüße,
Frontech
10 months ago
Frontech
hawkeye896
Vielen dank fur ihrer hilfe, jetz alles in ordnung ist. Ich habe die zweite teile geflogen !
11 months ago
Ich freue mich, dass es jetzt klappt. Viel spass.
11 months ago
Frontech
hawkeye896
I was an Army Pilot based in Detmold. I have landed at Bergheim at least 4 times and shut down as requested and cannot get the Leg completed tick . Please help as this is a most interesting trip .
11 months ago
I will look into this tomorrow. Did you change the plane? If you are still with the C172, look at the little red button left from the MFD. It is the switch for the backup battery. This switch is not always activated, then it does not influence the shutdown. When activated, you cannot complete the leg.
Regards, Frontech
11 months ago
Frontech
hawkeye896
Auch wenn ich mich an der LNM-Karte orientiere, um die Mitte der Landebahn zu finden, führt es nicht zum erwünschten Ziel. Es muss an irgendeiner Einstellung in meinem Programm liegen. Ich installiere mal neu und schau, wie es weiter geht
1 years ago
Hast Du die Bilder angeschaut? Ich bin direct to EDIO geflogen, gelandet und habe das Flugzeug abgeschaltet. In die 172 ist es wichtig auch den "Backup" aus zu schalten. Linke kleines Roten Knopf. Und dan warten bis das Program den Leg beendet.
1 years ago
Frontech
Brainflight
"After landing you have to park your plane and shut it down". Schön wäre, wenn das auch funktioniere würde. Ganz gleich ob mit der 152 oder 172 und völlig unabhängig wo ich die Parkposition setze, kann ich an EDIO die Flugetappe nicht abschließen (und ja ich hab die Maschine wirklich ausgemacht). Schade um die erkennbare Mühe, die Du in das tolle Log-Buch gesteckt hast. Jetzt wird es wahrscheinlich alleine mit dem Flugplan in LNM weitergehen, wenn ich den ersten Frust überwunden habe.
1 years ago
Hi Brainflight,
I will look into this tomorrow as I cannot access my computer now. I know from the test flying I have done that there was one airfield critical with ending the leg. You had to stop on the runway and shut the plane down. Eventually it did work. I don't know which airfield it was. I have flown the trip with both planes. Come back to you tomorrow.
Frontech
1 years ago
Frontech
Brainflight