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@HarryMoruwo 11 күн бұрын

Grew up there 1986 to 1990..Best years of my life!

@yams900 Ай бұрын

Good work, need to learn !

@Gcorev 2 ай бұрын

Nice work sir, compliments from Electron Volt.

@SkyborneVisions 2 ай бұрын

Thank you EV. Only learned from the best!

@bizzy423 2 ай бұрын

Its so awesome seeing the old true ways mixed with the new. Like watching the Apollo astronauts take sightings on their way to the moon. You make excellent vids

@SkyborneVisions 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@c17nav 2 ай бұрын

I was USAF navigator decades ago in C-141As, C-5A and B models, T-43s, and T-29s. Minus the different forms it's basically the same except I actually used a periscopic sextant instead of the software solution.

@SkyborneVisions 2 ай бұрын

That's so awesome! I definitely admire flying mathematicians like you who've done this in real life!--especially since you had to know where to point your "periscope" in the first place (unlike the app). Though not nearly as hard, (and something I didn't explain in the video); the app does actually require you to maintain the bubble level next to the star--moving the scope in elevation angle as the star "drifts" upward or downward)--which is a nice added feature by Electron Volt; and makes it hard to look around outside the cockpit while taking the shot at the same time. I don't suppose you had access to a spreadsheet either, in order to help with such things as "motion of observer" and "motion of body" and refraction calcs. I found trying to interpolate that information from tables to be rather frustrating and time consuming.

@DaveBondJr 3 күн бұрын

I was a Flight Engineer on 141-Bs,. after they did away with the sextant ports. We still had Navs for airdrops and "other" missions. I always loved flying with those guys. 18th MAS, McGuire AFB, 86-92

@c17nav 3 күн бұрын

@ I was an airdrop Instructor nav at Norton, 53 MAS.

@VictoriaAmeOksen 3 ай бұрын

Looking forward for the up grading.

@SkyborneVisions 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm looking forward to MSFS2024 too.

@RobertAnderson-sv4uj 3 ай бұрын

Wow Just found this haven't been to Ukarumpa since 1994

@SkyborneVisions 4 ай бұрын

It's one of my favorites: www.premiumbeat.com/royalty-free-tracks/mind-field

@paulderyck2573 4 ай бұрын

Great music! Please provide the link!

@vweber01 4 ай бұрын

tip top, weiter so

@inlagen 4 ай бұрын

Hello, greetings, I really like celestial navigation, so I want to start getting to know this whole world, I stumbled upon your channel and here I am... I really liked your content, continue making videos like this, thank you and greetings from Barcelona

@LiasaOpave 6 ай бұрын

Place to be home sweet home💚

@wes326 6 ай бұрын

I was a USAF RC-135 navigator in the 80-90s. We used to shoot cell every 20 minutes on 12+ hour missions while going 450 mph. Works well in a stable platform if you do the calculations and plotting correctly. Very easy to make a mistake, however. One relatively easy celestial calculation is using Polaris. The measured angle between the horizon and Polaris (HO) equals your latitude, more or less. Only works in the Northern Hemisphere. Thanks for sharing.

@VitãoSimula 6 ай бұрын

eita porra

@nashroney4843 6 ай бұрын

How did you learn to do aviation level celestial navigation?? I feel like i need to keep watching this video and write down the step by step process you did. I’ve been interested in learning this for a long time but it always seemed so complicated. So cool to see you do this in MSFS and that there are apps to run to actually complete the process like shooting the Sun! If you have any tips on how to learn I would love to hear it. Thanks for making this video!

@SkyborneVisions 6 ай бұрын

Glad this subject interests you. I learned everything from "ElectronVolt". Even if you don't have flight simulator, you can download his zipped file which comes with a PDF tutorial that guides you through the process here: flightsim.to/file/17738/celnav-for-msfs-celestial-navigation-sextant He also has a discord server, that you can find linked to from that PDF as well. He's very knowledgeable and helpful with any questions you might have there.

@ridge9066 6 ай бұрын

Is there somewhere where I can download this airport?

@SkyborneVisions 6 ай бұрын

Yes, you can find it on flightsim.to flightsim.to/file/13745/strawberry-ridge-airfield

@ridge9066 6 ай бұрын

@@SkyborneVisions thanks, haven’t tried it yet but I found it!

@rubberduck5905 7 ай бұрын

Excellent work guys!

@PeterESSA 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting!! Thank you for doing this.

@Khizankhizanka920 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful place

@robertkanabote3199 8 ай бұрын

Na ples gen....beautiful and peaceful back then.....

@pakjohn48 8 ай бұрын

Wow - thanks for the memories. A drone can cover so much more ground (and sea).. I loved living, working, sailing and snorkeling there in the 80's but didn't do much photography. Silly me.

@DorothyLahies 9 ай бұрын

Missed this place

@Vernon-vv4hj 9 ай бұрын

Looking very realistic, you would have been shot down so many times or would be in a super max.lol

@raqeelasso5931 9 ай бұрын

Amazing🧡

@andrewwva 11 ай бұрын

Very nice video, SV. What do you think of that recent sonar image taken in the vicinity of Howland Island that appears to show an airplane? On your simulated flight, how far off course would you have been if you had not accounted for the International Date Line in your calculations?

@SkyborneVisions 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! That recent sonar image by Deep Sea Vision? I have my doubts. I'm not sure where they found it. Some sources say roughly 100 miles west of Howland Island. Others say near the Marshall Islands which seems ridiculously far off course. Thanks to WW2, there are a lot of aircraft on the seafloor (though perhaps not as many near Howland), and it's probably just a rock formation, but will be interesting to see what they find. I think the International Date Line theory has no bearing at all. You only ever use Zulu time (which was around back then), when referencing tables. In any case your position east or west of the IDL, has no bearing on your calculations, nor tables used. The only IDL "phenomenon" which I mentioned in the video was that you get to land in Howland "before" (local time) you take off from Lae (local time). Crossing the anti-meridian [not IDL] (from the East to Western Hemisphere) may have caused a problem, if Noonan forgot to use MINUS for longitude AFTER crossing the 180 degree meridian. I may look into that and see what a possible error that may provide. The main issue I have with that theory is that Noonan would have to repeat that mistake more than once (like selecting his Assumed Position); where your LHA will not result in an integer, when out of "phase", but I'd assume that is something he would have been well aware of, being considered one of the best navigators of the time, and would have been a primary focus of his when initially planning the flight. I think the most likely (and final) reason (in a long chain of bad decisions that were made) was that they had low overcast skies most of the flight. Flying below the low overcast when getting near Howland could have made it impossible to see the tiny flat island beyond a "shorter" horizon (due to the low altitude). Even with plotting a "perfectly executed" fix above the clouds prior to descent, the "normal" tolerances (accuracy) of aerial celestial navigation is still +/- several miles. They planned to use the Coast Guard's radio as an NDB, (a necessary component for this specific unique destination in my opinion); but some speculate that the ADF they had on board couldn't tune to the lower frequency used by the ship (though my memory isn't clear).

@boostablemedia696 Жыл бұрын

This is an awesome production. I have no idea how you make something so good. And the story line is very interesting too. Well done!!

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@michealdillard3176 Жыл бұрын

*PromoSM*

@Variety_Pack Жыл бұрын

The screaming passengers in the back adds so much to this trip

@LuxxTailDetailing Жыл бұрын

this content is so underrated, the commentary is great. Keep it up, if only my PC could run this game, also question, when you're in the cockpit, are you in VR??

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

Thank you! No I'm not using VR. I've not invested in the equipment--yet. But for making videos, I think VR recording doesn't look very good. I just use TrackIR that amplifies my head movements, by using an IR camera to monitor 3 reflectors on a ball cap I wear. There are other headtrackers out there for use with 2D monitors like Tobii (which does eye tracking as well), and some apps like SmoothTrack make use of your smartphone's accelerometers to track your head movement too. I haven't tried any of these though.

@BeaversAndDucks Жыл бұрын

I know nothing about this sim, but if you fly through southern NV, I suggest checking out Homey Airport. I hear the hospitality is second to none.

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

Haha... yes their hospitality is out of this world.

@baomao7243 Жыл бұрын

With a plan like this how can you possibly fail ? …

@BOUGAINVILLEINFINITEDISCOVERIE Жыл бұрын

Well Edited. Thank you

@timvandoren3245 Жыл бұрын

Dispela ples em i asples bilong mi, na mi laikim dispela video tumas!

@jand3793 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful!

@tonymcflattie2450 Жыл бұрын

Flying in a post card.

@tonymcflattie2450 Жыл бұрын

Oh man, I was hoping Otto would be in this one!

@tonymcflattie2450 Жыл бұрын

If the gear horn is annoying you, there should be an override button to silence.

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's very annoying. Your comment just prompted me to look into this, and sure enough there's a Circuit Breaker to disable it! Thanks! Ha. Not sure why I didn't even look to see if it was modeled before.

@tonymcflattie2450 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful scenery.

@tonymcflattie2450 Жыл бұрын

Just realized you have custom livery! Let’s go Brandon.

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

I wondered if anyone would notice... 😜 I got a strike on this channel (and shadowbanned) thanks to his allies; so just giving them the finger in a subtle way.

@tonymcflattie2450 Жыл бұрын

Goes to show what kind of challenge Fred Noonan had. Especially since their radio nav was inoperable.

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

The aerial navigators of that era were truly an exceptional breed.

@tonymcflattie2450 Жыл бұрын

Has IPad with GPS, uses the stars to navigate! #legendary

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

the tablet in the DC-6 cockpit didn't have GPS... but yeah, there's other virtual ways to effectively use GPS in the simulator regardless of the aircraft. But for the challenge, I avoided accessing any of that information during the flight. Hence all the dumb mistakes I made... 😬

@tonymcflattie2450 Жыл бұрын

@@SkyborneVisions it was the no gps and the playback which made the video. You inspired me to get my own msFlight stimulator. Ps, I fly a220 IRL, all the bells and whistles, so it’s a kick to go back in time.

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

@@tonymcflattie2450 Awesome you're an A220 pilot! The biggest plane I was ever PIC for, was a Baron 55, 30 years ago. Definitely get yourself MSFS. Just wish someone would model a virtual sextant that would require aiming at the right star.

@RichardMurray-w2e Жыл бұрын

Very well done. Would be interesting to see if Howland was more or less difficult to spot if you'd flown the LOP from under the clouds as AE did (at 1000 ft).

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Interesting suggestion: I just tested in the sim by slewing 13nm away (the distance I was in the video when I caught sight of the island from 12,000') at 1,000 feet. The only thing visible is the cruise ship (barely visible rendered as white dot). The cruise ship is much larger than the USS Itasca, so doubt I would have seen a ship that size from that distance. Plus the island itself isn't visible from that low angle.

@sophiedaluhmucha7393 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful Madang, love the place.

@eracer1111 Жыл бұрын

Loved it! The disco, the Otto Man, the Einstein bobblehead, crop circles...I half expected Team America World Police to come out of Mount Rushmore. LOL

@SkyborneVisions Жыл бұрын

Thank you! FWIW, the Bobblehead comes with the plane, but definitely helps with the silliness.

@Bobbysoxer2 Жыл бұрын

Never had to use a sextant on a plane. Very well done. Spent some time on a aircraft carrier in the Pacific. One of my ship mates was the ship navigator. He was on the bridge daily taking readings with the sextant. I once asked him why he did that since he had GPS etc. on the ship. His response was if there was a war (nuclear) all of that fancy stuff would be gone and he would be back to using a sextant. Made sense to me, so I learned to use the sextant. Lots of fun and very rewarding to plot an accurate position!