Coventry became Kiel's first Sister City in 1947. Coventry is perhaps best known for the legend of the lady in the statue above! Five very short hops, low and very slow, make up this week's flight, and you're encouraged to bring your Jenny or Cub!
Start | 1st stop | 2nd stop | 3rd stop | 4th stop | Last stop |
EGBM | EGBD | EGNX | EGBG | EG74 | EGBE |
Tatenhill | Derby | East Midlands | Leicester | Bruntingthorpe | Coventry |
The hops are short, especially the first one,
Cruise: 60-65 knots indicated at up to 2000 ft a.s.l. max. (70-75 mph; 110-120 km/h.)
Aircraft: Both the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny and the Piper J-3 Cub are encouraged! :eagerness:
‣ FSX: Download your free Jenny from Storm's Hangar (Vintage section). Default J-3 is fine.
‣ XP11: Download your free J-3 Cub from here.
There are also ultralights (e.g. FSX Trike) and motorgliders (e.g. XP11 Swift Lite and Horten Ho II) that will do the very slow speed, but take care you have a sensible SimLink code ready to tell everyone what you are flying!
Please do NOT bring blimps or zeppelins to this particular flight!
Scenery: Default is OK. However, if you have either ORBX scenery for England (FSX/P3D payware) installed or EGBM 3D scenery (X-Plane freeware), you'll see the building where one of my daughters works as an avionics engineer at our starting airport! ride: Free XP11 3D scenery available for all airports, downloadable here (although EG74 has no buildings).
Server: SimLink AU server: 101.165.150.139
Simulators: All welcome: FS9, FSX boxed, FSX Steam edition, Prepar3D, X-Plane.
Some notes on authentic British pronunciation!
Tatenhill = TAT-ən-hill (where ə is a schwa, very common in British English. e.g. the a in sofa)
Derby = DAH-bi (not DER-bi!)
Loughborough = LUFF-bərə (or LUFF-brə)
Leicester = LEST-ə
Coventry = COV-ən-tri (not CUV-ən-tree or COVE-ən-tree)
...shire = shə (not sh-IRE or SHYr) as in Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire
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