Please be aware that Campaign Monitor's Permission Policy requires that you ask for explicit permission to send email newsletters, before you add someone’s email address to a list. Using this plugin, you can save contacts from incoming email to a Campaign Monitor subscriber list. You can download this plugin from this link. I’ll carry on flying the rest of the route over the next week or so in 1-2 hour stages.Airmail supports various plugins which are documented below: Luckily the Stearman trims out nicely so it wasn’t too tasking and it was quite a pleasant flight. And just like back then all this was flown without the aid of any autopilots or anything, just me and my stick and throttle. ![]() Plus the Stearman isn’t the fastest bird but then again some of the early mail planes were even slower. It took me a total of 2 hours to fly this small section of the route although I did pause quite a few times to take screenshots and also to consult the map which probably added a fair bit of time. The lights weren’t centred properly on the model though, had them float off a bit to the side or just below the actual 3d model rotating beacon on almost all the beacons I passed which is a minor nuisance but it didn’t detract from my overall enjoyment. There was a couple of beacons that weren’t flashing for some reason, not sure if that’s a mod bug or a problem on my end. (ok I turned it on a couple of times just to make sure I was going the right way, don’t tell anyone) and for the most part I had no issues flying the route. I did have Little Navmap loaded up with all the beacons marked out as userpoints but I turned off the show plane position and track features for the authentic experience. When you have to make a bit of a hard turn and you’re not entirely sure where that beacon is it’s quite a relief when you make out that light. Fly towards the distant flashing light and then turn your plane in the direction of the arrow and peer off into the distance looking for that next light. I was a bit worried when I started off that I would miss the beacons but you can see them from miles away. Even being able to see two beacons ahead is of limited help when you have no sense of the terrain below and in front of you! The same would be true of flying in bad weather.īear in mind as well that Jeppesen talked in interviews about flying the routes at between 50’ and 300’ AGL and so even in clear weather there were hazards to contend with.Īfter a long wait I finally got my new joystick yesterday so am back in the air! Today I loaded up the Stearman with a few bags of mail in Salt Lake City destined for Burley. Having tried flying part of our route at night with s Stearman I can confirm that it seems a very quick way to break a perfectly good aircraft. Jeppesen then set up his company to produce and sell the notes and charts commercially. They were useful enough to be sold to fellow pilots, who then started giving him their notes for the routes they flew, leading to an increasingly comprehensive record. However, Elrey Jeppesen, founder of the aeronautical charts company, started out by compiling detailed notes for the routes he flew, including for the en route terrain and approaches to the Intermediate Landing Fields. Initial navigation seems to have been a combination of dead reckoning and very simple linear charts showing the beacons for each section of the route. However, they also provide the most accurate source material for locating those arrows and beacons that have now disappeared. ![]() By that stage the original airway beacons had already begun to be replaced with radio navigation signals, which were marked up on the maps as well. ![]() The map extract is from the January 1936 sectional map for Boise. Thanks for your support - yes it would be quite some spreadsheet!
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