Starship Diaries flightplans
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I am planning on recreating the round the world flight Dallas Kachan wrote about in his book "The Starship Diaries." His book does provide dates and airports and a map kind of outlining routing, but many of the flights do not list altitudes. I have done my best to create 46 flights in Navigraph guesstimating routings and including altitudes if provided in the book. Curious if Dallas ever posted more detail on his flightplans. It is certainly a true shame that NC-19 wasn't saved given its notoriety in his book... it truly belonged in a museum.
Maybe Dallas has been following the creation of this Starship for MSFS and we could get more information direct from him.
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If you guys, or anyone reading this, wants to compile your best estimate of the route from that book, I think a lot of my users would love to find it here. I can't wait to read the book myself, but I'm afraid it will have to wait for a holiday break for me, or something.
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If you guys, or anyone reading this, wants to compile your best estimate of the route from that book, I think a lot of my users would love to find it here. I can't wait to read the book myself, but I'm afraid it will have to wait for a holiday break for me, or something.
@Black-Square said in Starship Diaries flightplans:
If you guys, or anyone reading this, wants to compile your best estimate of the route from that book, I think a lot of my users would love to find it here. I can't wait to read the book myself, but I'm afraid it will have to wait for a holiday break for me, or something.
I have a tentative set of plans made in Navigraph and exported as FS2020 flightplans. I am attempting to get more info regarding the altitudes for about 25% of the flights that didn't list the altitudes in the book. Several flights were VFR lower altitude for sightseeing (which is major cool in this aircraft designed for flight levels ). I can add some write up for each individual flight explaining more about the flight gleaned from the book.
Edit: ...also, there were a couple of airports that no longer exist so I had to use what would have been close by. Several airports had changed their ICAO codes.
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I was reading a preview of the book on google books.
It was very compelling, but I just found out that the "Starship Diaries" is fiction.
It is a novel made up by the author. It never actually happened. -
I was reading a preview of the book on google books.
It was very compelling, but I just found out that the "Starship Diaries" is fiction.
It is a novel made up by the author. It never actually happened.@lancealotg said in Starship Diaries flightplans:
I was reading a preview of the book on google books.
It was very compelling, but I just found out that the "Starship Diaries" is fiction.
It is a novel made up by the author. It never actually happened.In all my enthusiasm reading this 20 years ago I never caught that. It appears in one small sentence on the copyright page.
Still would make a wonderful movie. It is also going to create hours of entertainment in the simulator. I await a response from Dallas from an email I sent earlier today... he'll probably inform me I am not the first to have missed that one little sentence
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That news is a little disappointing, and Kachan sure went out of his way to disguise the fact, with even the “About the Author” page suggesting nothing of the sort.
Nevertheless, it seems like a really good book to read thus far, despite that fact. I guess I’ll keep reading it.
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@lancealotg said in Starship Diaries flightplans:
I was reading a preview of the book on google books.
It was very compelling, but I just found out that the "Starship Diaries" is fiction.
It is a novel made up by the author. It never actually happened.In all my enthusiasm reading this 20 years ago I never caught that. It appears in one small sentence on the copyright page.
Still would make a wonderful movie. It is also going to create hours of entertainment in the simulator. I await a response from Dallas from an email I sent earlier today... he'll probably inform me I am not the first to have missed that one little sentence
@DrZGard Oofah, he "outs" himself in a number of ways, both pilotese, and Starship specific stuff by page 22, continuously referring to the "yoke" as a "yolk" - over and over again. Most pilots and most copy editors would have caught that one as false pretty quick. More specifically to the Starship, he mentions a bunch of FMS and VNAV capabilities the Starship has never had. Talking about it managing climbs and descents automatically and being based on GPS. Nope. And talks about airliners with "imposing text interfaces" while his Starship supposedly has something better. Nope, loads of text screens on the Starship.
So a careful reading right at the start blows his cover, but he does seem to do detailed research on the general concept, but I'm sure he'll get loads of details wrong. But I'll continue on through the book for grins.
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I was reading a preview of the book on google books.
It was very compelling, but I just found out that the "Starship Diaries" is fiction.
It is a novel made up by the author. It never actually happened.@lancealotg Yeah he gets major details wrong very early, the BS meter pegs hard right away. But I'll read it for the entertainment.
