F1 Charter TR2006-11 LEBL-LFMN

[TCA2050]

Report of F1 charter TR2006-11 LEBL, Barcelona to LFMN, Nice - Cote d'Azur
After an exciting race in Spain with a victory for Sebastian Vettel, we're taking the Venezuelan race fans to the airport of Nice for next weeks 'Grand Prix of Grand Prix's' in Monaco.

The aircraft for the flight is the Tradewind B744, Empress of Africa.

We were scheduled to leave Barcelona at 10.20Z and were nicely on time.
The routing for the flight was: DALIN UN870 ADITA LUC

Weather was nice, giving us:
LEBL
   

LFMN
   

The flightplan:

  Flightplan.doc (Size: 97.5 KB / Downloads: 6)


Parked at gate 270 at Barcelona, scheduled to leave in about 20 mins
   

   


Pushed back and preparing to taxi to the assigned RWY 25L with a DALI2Q departure
   

Leaving Barcelona, taxiing to RW25L
   

   

   

   


Lined up and cleared for take off
   

... leaving Spain for a short hop to one of the fines places on earth...
   

   

   

   


Cruising along at FL330 passing Girona
   


...and shortly after, already descending towards Nice, passing Marseille...
   
... a very nice city with good holiday memories :-)

... Toulon
   


And who doesn't know St Tropez.... remember the great Louis De Funes movies ?....
   


Passed MUS VOR and turning to intercept the ILS to RW04l at Nice.
Below the romantic city St Raphael
   

On the localizer, level at 4000 ft waiting to intercept the glidepath....
   

with Blue Panorama flight 1770 ahead
   

   


Rolling out on RW04L of one of the most 'mondain' cities in the world
   


and taxiing in ...
   


Parked at the gate in Nice, ready to recon the city before next weeks Grand Prix in Monaco, just a stown through away.
   

   



Flown using:
Microsoft Flight simulator 9
PMDG B747-400 (http://www.precisionmanuals.com/pages/product/744.html )

Flight Operations Center ( http://www.danur.com/frontpage/prod01.htm ) for planning
Active Sky Evolution for weather

LEBL, Barcelona scenery by Aerosoft/Simwings
LFMN, Nice Cote d' Azur by VFR France (http://www.francevfr.com/ )

[CBreuer]

Stefaan, very nice screenshots and a very nice report as well. Did you de-rate the thrust on departure or was at a 'sporty' departure?

From what I can see from your flightplan your fuel burn was almost like it was calculated, but you were planned for FL060 and you flew at FL330

[Gatwicksteve]

Nice set Stefaan, enjoy a drink on the riviera before the Grand Prix! You'll forgive me if I support Jenson Button for a win this time!

Steve

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Nice set Stefaan, enjoy a drink on the riviera before the Grand Prix! You'll forgive me if I support Jenson Button for a win this time!

Steve

[TCA2050]

Did you de-rate the thrust on departure or was at a 'sporty' departure?

From what I can see from your flightplan your fuel burn was almost like it was calculated, but you were planned for FL060 and you flew at FL330

Hi Christian,
It was quite a sporty take off indeed, full thrust... very soon at V1 and VR :-)

FOC calculated for FL060, but upon climbing out I saw that a FL330 was easily achievable with a bit of a level cruise to prepare for descent.

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Nice set Stefaan, enjoy a drink on the riviera before the Grand Prix! You'll forgive me if I support Jenson Button for a win this time!

Steve

THx Steve.
No problemo, some healthy competition is good for F1 :-)
I could definitely appreciate a win by Jenson too, just as well as Fernando Alonso