THE 617 SQUADRON DAMBUSTER ANNIVERSARY FLIGHT BRIEFING EDER DAM ONLY:

This shortened flight to cover the Eder Dam attack separately is flown in AJG. W/C Gibson accompanied the remaining 3 Lancasters with Upkeep weapons and of course in reality made no attack on the wall. However in this flight you have the weapon on board so as to simulate an actual attack. Fuel load is 900US gallons about half the Dambuster load at take off.

NOTE: FS2004 does not save the order of using the panels so you will have to reset the panels or suffer the mess.

SETTING UP FLIGHT BUTTONS AND SWITCHES:
1=The order you use the flight buttons on the right of screen remains for the whole flight, be sure to set the order as follows:
2=Top button has been activated and FS2004 has held the condition. The button is not required in the Dambuster Anniversary Flight.
3=2nd group: Operate each button and switch in order from Avionics button down to the the lower panel switch. Reverse the process to hide the 4 windows.
4=3rd group: are specific to the Dambuster flight. In order down they perform the following functions (activate each in turn):
5=Activate Attack route maps. Activate Dann Bombsight for Moehne.
6=Activate low flying gauges (Ground Radar and Air Speed Indicator).
7=Activate Dann Bombsight for Eder Dam. Reverse the order to close windows.
8=The 4th group are normal FS buttons, operate the GPS button.

Set the screen for a ZOOM RATIO OF 0.31 with a default spacebar starting point.

Activate the Dann Bombsight Group 3 button 4, Release Pause, turn off Auto pilot.

Fly manually and hold an airspeed below 200mph, fly around the Waldeck Castle.

Shut down engines to idle, glide down, your speed will increase, turn left over the spit of land. Maintain 210 to 220 mph, align the aircraft with the 401 yard white marker (H124) and the wall center using the Dann sight. PAUSE WHEN YOU WOULD RELEASE THE BOMB.

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Check your achievements in height, speed and angle to the wall, Shift+] will give you the ground map, I wonder if you are over the marker and correctly aligned square on with the wall? You must not be forward of or further to the side of the marker by more than 2 degrees (122 to 126).
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De-activate the Dann bomb sight with Group 3 button 4. Select full throttle. Release the pause and climb over the wall, bank right, miss the trees, bank left to rejoin the anti-clockwise circuit at 2100ft. Repeat or give up!

Head off for EDLP at 2600ft, Approx Heading 323:
PADERBORN-LIPPSTAT EDLP: Length Runway 7152 ft
NDB 354 - ILS (6) 111.70 >058 - DME 108.5 - Height 669
Outer Marker (6) N51 34.4 E08 30.7

Select default screen magnification and seat height to suit. Break radio silence and contact the tower, follow instructions.

Land, park and shut down engines, turn off fuel.

END OF DAMBUSTER ANNIVERSARY FLIGHT - EDER DAM.

May you be good enough for acceptance into 617 Squadron (RAF) as a Dambuster pilot, flight engineer, navigator and bomb aimer.

Devised by Ross McLennan, August - October - final November 2004.
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