MiGPit Mk.VI Maiden Flight
Date: Thursday October 1st, 2020
Locn: MiGBase (Australia's Area 51)
Aircraft: MiGPit 2020
Pilot: MiGMan
Object: After a couple of days of thinking, drawing plans, fabricating and wiring the new MiG-Pit was ready for it's maiden flight.
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With 5 MFDs (tablets) sitting in a panel and running Air Manager, the MiGPit 2020 can simulate any type of aircraft!
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The gauges and indicators look very realistic.
FlyingSinger has talked about nothing else but maps, charts and GPS the past couple of weeks.
Navigation is his thing!
So I thought I'd make the maiden flight of the MiGPit 2020 a bona fide IFR flight (I Follow Roads !!). The plan was to take a route I've driven a number of times, from Australia's most important city (Sydney) to the city that _thinks_ it is the most important (Canberra). So I pulled up google maps on the lower right MFD, intending to follow that.
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Then I had a thought, which is rare in of itself. Hang about - wouldn't Air Manager model a GPS? FlyingSinger had talked about it.
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Heck yeah! I didn't even attempt to load a flight plan. I pretty much knew the way, so off I went!
And yes, I did manage to find my way to Canberra.
As you can see on the video I landed in the most shocking manner - but hey - I was holding my phone above and behind me with my left hand and... the moral is "Don't txt and fly!". Next time I'll use a stand for the camera. This was rather impromptu, I just wanted to give people an idea of what it's like to fly this rig.