The CIX VFR Club Flying over Papua-New Guinea
Club Events - Christmas Caper 2019
This month we hold our traditional "Christmas Caper" event.
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Briefing December 2019
Overview For the 2019 Christmas Caper event we will be visiting Papua New Guinea.The tour will start and end at the capital, Port Moresby (AYPY).
Start Time and Place The event starts on 1st December 2019 and finishes on 31st December 2019. All you need to know about the tour is contained in the Introduction document.
Airmanship It is essential that you plan each leg carefully as some of the airstrips are small & are in difficult terrain.
Flight Planning, Scenery and Star Rules.

All the flight plans for the tour have been made using Little Navmap and all images of the routes are also from Little Navmap. Information about the routes has been obtained from various sources, namely Google Earth, Google Maps & Wikipedia, among others.

The flight plans are provided for both XP11 and FSX/P3D in the Schedule below.  The complete route can be downloaded as a single file for either FSX or X-Plane.  There is also an information pdf file for each leg containing useful and interesting details.

Those using X-Plane might benefit from the Ortho4XP photo scenery. It is not the best, but it will be better than the default scenery.
Remember that Touch & Goes are not landings, so should not be recorded as a destination in your PIREPs. The Club Logger ignores them for this reason.

The Event Star will be awarded for landing at one of the en-route or destination airfields on the tour. Which airfield that is, however, is a secret!   If you want to start before December 1st, of course you may, but those flights will not count towards the star award.

Route

Note: Right-click the links and select "Save Target as" to save the files.

There are 15 legs in total: -
Day 1 Port Moresby to Cape Rodney Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 2 Cape Rodney to Gurney Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 3 Gurney to Vivigani Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 4 Vivigani to Girua Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 5 Girua to Garaina Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 6 Garaina to Bulolo Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 7 Bulolo to Nadzab Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 8 Nadzab to Chimbu Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 9 Chimbu to Kandep Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 10 Kandep to Aiome Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 11 Aiome to Saidor Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 12 Saidor to Finschhafen Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 13 Finschhafen to Gusap Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 14 Gusap to Kerema Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Day 15 Kerema to Port Moresby Information FSX Flight Plan X-Plane Flight Plan
Weather... or Not Before starting we will check the weather. If it is unsuitable for our trip as planned, then we will fix it. Something we can do in the simulator - wouldn't it be nice if we could do it in real life!
What Aircraft can I fly Any aircraft which is within the EASA GA category can be flown in this event.
ATC At the time of publishing this event plan, ATC has not been confirmed for the airports on the Caper route.
Radio Discipline Take care not to let our Teamspeak chat cut across ATC. Stop any conversation immediately the R/T comes alive, then continue if "he wasn't talking to us". This is difficult because when transmitting on Teamspeak you can't hear the R/T. So be brief on Teamspeak, and be aware that ATC might be trying to get through. If anyone hears an R/T message which seems to be being ignored, just say "ATC is calling G-CIXN" if you have identified the callsign, or "ATC is calling us" which is a cue for everyone to be quiet on Teamspeak until ATC call again (which they will). Remember too that if asked to "Stand By" by ATC, you do not reply - not even "Roger", but simply wait until you are called again.
Remember also that there are several different ATC frequencies in use, and you may not be able to hear when communications are taking place. Make sure you have set and know how to use a Teamspeak mute switch.
Acknowledgements Event planning: John Lygo
Briefing: John Lygo.
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