JDF AIR WING and AIR JAMAICA A340 TAKE OFF

[tirger12]

where did u get da sound for The A340 AJ

[madzane94]

Lol Nice 747 cockpit =_=



[dbarl64]

@madzane94

Ah ok I did not have 340 Panel for this one. yep you are correct

thanks for watching

[madzane94]

@dbarl64 Try getting some payware.

Like Wilco Pub. Airbus fleet. or something.

[tevinalways]

Please tell me where u found the texture of Air Jamaica for the a340

[oldsklteg]

jamaica had a bell 46? holly crap!!

[dbarl64]

@oldsklteg

Bell 412

[chaise624]

Greeeaattt collection!! How yu get the JDF and the ship etc?

[dbarl64]

Free downloads addons

see my latest vid with real virtual JDF chopper

thanks

[accorali]

were did you gat them aircraft

[dbarl64]

ah gat dem fram difrant plyces

[dbarl64]

Just kidding

They come from different freeware websites try Simviation or put type of A/c +FS2004 in search

[rob333rob333]

saaaad

[dbarl64]

not as saaad as

[FlightTeamOne]

How in the world did you lift that A340 off in time? every time I try, I crash in the water!

[dbarl64]

Yes that happened to me a few times also

then I discovered I had the wrong flap settings

for take off. I believe you need 15 degrees flap

but chk the aircraft readme file that will tell you the correct takeoff settings

[Matty297]

First off all you need to practice a few tips. Keep this in mind:

Add 15 degrees or full flaps

Trim the aircraft 5-1.5 degrees trim

add full power and rotate.(you can rotate as early as165 knots)

and take it to the sky brother.

[FlightTeamOne]

lol, ok

[tirger12]

@FlightTeamOne Try tapping f7 twice and take off with them on.

[dbarl64]

@FlightTeamOne

Set flaps to 15 degrees or 20 degrees I had that same problem bleave it was 15 tap

about F7 2 0r 3 times as Tirger 12 suggests

Well its been 3 years you may not even do this any longer.

[dbarl64]

see my latest video my son flying a cessna 172

[dbarl64]

I used to live up in Red Hills, Ernie Smith the jamaican musician lived across the street from me

[sam14757]

I lived mostly in Manor Park / Long Lane area. I used to drive up Red Hills road for the nice view at night. Also Red Hills road was a good place to get jerk chicken.

[dbarl64]

Ok Cherry Gardens area nice houses.

Yeah up at red hills the clouds used to roll through the house as it was perched on a rock

aka millions of years old Coral Limestone reef as petrified sea snails were everywhere. about 2000 ft asl. i used to save gas by coasting the 3 miles down on the way to work

[dbarl64]

Hi Sam

You probably know of Wings Limited owned by Mrs Barnett. My freind got his PPL from her school.

My niece knows a few AJ pilots. Yep I loved every day that I worked at Norman manley Intl

always new people to meet and my favorite place to go to get away was Newcastle and the countryside.

my uncle was Stationed there in 1948 with a british battlion he loved it there as well

[sam14757]

I also worked at NMIA for a while, when I was with the GOJ. At that time, I was working at what we used to call "Gate 9"-cargo area used for courier flights..  Airports are always great places to work. Only complaint: you CAN'T BUY A CUP OF COFFEE to save your life. I used to go onto the AA flights after their passengers disembarked and beg coffee from the first class section (benefit of working for Customs, it was so much fun walking around the ramp and watching the flights come in).

[dbarl64]

Yes I worked at gate 9 myself for cargo Flights

chking off incoming cargo with customs on Nite flites.And cargo Charters from Miami

But mainly worked with AJAS limited ramp Operations as a Supervisor handling regular Air Canada ,Cayman Airways,ALM,TACA and so on.

Gate 9 was also US Embassy flights and Exec Jets and FEDEX Business Jet size a/c. Yep drove a mini moke around to get weight n balance s delivered to the cockpit crew also did WnB aka load sheet.

[sam14757]

I do recall wandering around the ramp one day to be challenged by several armed us marines who were guarding an a/c belonging to a deputy us secy of state (strobe talbot was his name) who I believe was trying to pressure the GOJ into supporting some mission in Haiti.

[dbarl64]

I handled Alan Greenspans Private Jet once and also Rockefellers Airforce 2

[dbarl64]

Used to Love the sound of British Airways Super VC10

Rolls Royce conways as it taxid up to the ramp after arriving from london

[dbarl64]

The horizon room used to be the place to go

for lunch not sure if its still there

[sam14757]

Yes but tragically the only coffee they had on offer was instant "mountain peak", and they always wanted to put condensed milk in it.

This is one of the many ironies of Jamaica. The best coffee in the world grows there but you can't buy a cup of it to save your life.

[dbarl64]

I know but Condensed Milk is the jmaican way

Ive got a bottle in my kitchen of mountain peak.

Drink it occasionally with condensed.

We used condensed because ja cows milk tasted like coconuts

You can get blue mountain coffee beans or used to be able too just anywhere in jamaica in a paper sack but back the in the 50s and 60s people considered that unrefined and drank instant instead.....When Hi Lo and john R Wong was the only supermarket and bruces Patties were the only patties

[sam14757]

Oh how well I remember Hi-Lo!  Back in the early '80's when half the shelves were empty. Back then people used to sell contraband American apples out of the back of small trucks along the plaza's on half-way-tree rd.

I used to drive up to that park past Newcastle and buy rejected UCC coffee in bags - it was mostly burnt beans, kind of like our own French Roast.

[dbarl64]

Exactly American apple aka Red Delicious jamaicas most preffered apple. I used to go to the open air cinema at HWT road. Half the shelves were def empty you had to buy one thing to get another. But jamaica had some good weekend parties around Kingston and jamaica sweet and sour pork is the best.

I saw Anthony Boudains No Reservations jamaica yesterday was pretty good but theres a lot of places i wish they had shown.Halfway Tree had a famous ice Cream Joint back in the days.

[sam14757]

Hmm, don't recall AJAS but I did know a co. called Jamaica Despatch Services who used to handle most of the flights. And I knew the Fedex folks pretty well, at least by their code names.

[dbarl64]

Ok Derrick Dacosta is the Station manager does that sound familiar

[sam14757]

Yes, I knew him...

[dbarl64]

Ok he was my boss

I was known as The Snowman

[sam14757]

Now that sounds familiar! I wonder if we met? I was there from 1985-1996, in the later years, worked from Customs designing automation. Had a good friend called Ruth who was the customs supervisor at Gate 9 when Fedex unloaded there. The Customs Director at DSIA was also a good friend - Hector Jones, he is now Commissioner.

When we were setting up the Fedex deal, Derrick Dacosta came to all the meetings as he was responsible for the a/c handling.

[dbarl64]

I left in 76 seems like yesterday. Im still in Contact with 4 guys from there one in UK ONe in canada 2 in US One of them got his ppl from Wings. Yeah Derrick is a cool guy see my Cayman

HS748 video. Dont know Ruth but hector sounds familiar.

[dbarl64]

Did you know any JDF pilots

My first PPL class was taught by Major Victor Beek The commander of the airwing

[sam14757]

I'm afraid the only person I knew from the JDF was Col. Trevor MacMillian; he was working for the MOF for a while before he was appointed police commissioner (and invented the hilarious "never-neverland division" of the JCF.

[sam14757]

Sorry to be abstruse but I did a lot of flying at tinson pen and who could forget the glass factory just to the north of the runway.

[dbarl64]

Oh ok I kind of remember it I went to St Andrew THS near Tinson. Also worked at MKJP

think its called the Ja Glass factory

there was a fertilizer business to the south

Pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwie in front of the Oil Refinery. Old Flt sim doesnt get into too great detail on building by building but if you think you see it you prob did Ha ha

who did you fly with?Thats a Add on Scenery Tinson pen the default has no Buildings.

[sam14757]

I got my first license at Tinson Pen, flew mainly with a instructor named Sean (who is since become a pilot with Air J). My favourite airplane, 6y-jgt, was crashed into a coffee plantation in the blue mountains by a fellow student on her way to pt antonio (she walked away with a bit of missing hair but otherwise okay).

Jamaica was a great place to fly around, lots of great scenery, decent airports, some very attractive air traffic controllers (well, one at least) at Kingston tower...

[dbarl64]

The only time i flew into Tinson pen was on a Jamaica air service twin otter doing a test flight after maintenance.

Dont know why i never went there all the time i lived there could be because its off spanish town Road and out of the way. My neighbour was in ATC at kingston Airport.

[sam14757]

Your neighbor? Was her name Dianne by any chance?

[dbarl64]

No it was a male .

Ha ha sorry I do remember a female ATC Tower person

but not the Name. Did you know anyone at AJAS?

[sam14757]

Again i've hit the wrong reply button (see below).

In any case, that was fun airport to work at; I mostly worked in the customs areas and gate 9 trying to automate the customs system that processed fedex cargo.

[dbarl64]

Yes it was a fun job got to see a lot of celebs and rockstars movie stars

[sam14757]

Yes! It was a great place to work, anything could happen, especially in Customs. I even spent a few days around Christmas one year checking passenger baggage (anyone who has never done that has no idea the fear you feel when you have to reach into another new bag).

I really miss it now that I'm remembering it all. I've not been back there in SO LONG!

I lived in Kingston for about 12 years working for the GOJ, loved every minute.

[dbarl64]

Ok The red and White C172

[sam14757]

Yes, it was kind of red and whitish, I kind of remember it being more orange but it's been awhile. I drove up to the crash site, (well, near the crash site, had to walk the last couple miles) and I still, to this day, have one of the ashtrays, for old times' sake. Perhaps a bit sentimental but my first logbook is filled with flights in good old Golf Tango.

[sam14757]

Of Course! I wrote them quite a few cheques over the years. I took my checkride from Mr. Barnett some years back. Did you hear the story about how they crashed near newcastle on their honeymoon? In his old citabria I believe. Great people.

[dbarl64]

No did not know about that . I remember a citabria though

[sam14757]

Long ago, there was a grass strip in the Blue Mountains (Don't think it exists any longer). Mr Barnett got stuck as he crashed/made a hard landing at this strip as he was picking her up for the honeymoon, got stuck there for a long time resulting in honeymoon delay. He used to love telling that story. He incidentally had a rather novel way of landing at Tinson pen. Spin from very high final to low final and then would land - this was in the '60s I believe.

[sam14757]

Hmm, but does it show the glass factory?

[dbarl64]

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[dbarl64]

roger sir

[townman1]

love it man

[JayCornish]

wot game iz that

[dbarl64]

fs2004