DC-3 Airways Annual World Tour

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: David-WT on Sep 26, 2026, 05:27 PM

Title: Mt Ruapehu
Post by: David-WT on Sep 26, 2026, 05:27 PM
Just a quick note about Flight number 3.  Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand is about 9200 feet tall.  Trying to "overfly" it at 6500 feet is not going to end well.

Just sayin'

Dave K
Title: Re: Mt Ruapehu
Post by: Ard-WT on Sep 27, 2026, 04:39 AM
David_WT , you are correct, however the flight plan as offered by DC3Airways WT2026 is showing a course not over the top of Mt Ruapehu but more around it over the lower level flanks.

Suggestion
Maybe it would be better to make the flight plan and the text consistent.
- overfly Mt Ruapehu, with a flight plan over the top and the minimum altitude as 9500 ft, or better 10,000 ft to keep about 1000 ft clear of the top.
- fly around Mt Ruapehu over the flanks with the present flight plan route and a minimum altitude of 6500 ft.
Title: Re: Mt Ruapehu
Post by: David-WT on Sep 28, 2026, 04:15 PM
Thank you.  I was only reading the PDF description which did not have the actual latitude and longitude coordinates of the flight plan.  So I read "overfly" to mean fly directly over the mountain.  Thank you for the clarification.

Since I fly in VR, I don't use Little Nav Map or other stand-alone navigation apps.  I also use the "classic" version of the plane in MSFS 2020, so I don't have GPS and depend on VOR's and NDB's or look at the VFR map.
Title: Re: Mt Ruapehu
Post by: Richard-WT on Sep 29, 2026, 11:14 AM
Good afternoon

Which link or where would I find the tour / leg description pdf-file link please?

Richard S
Title: Re: Mt Ruapehu
Post by: 1161 Roy Möhlmann on Sep 29, 2026, 05:24 PM
Goto Downloads, at the end of the lines click on FP01, ect.
Roy