My grandfather (William Sahady) flew 91 missions over The Hump in the C-46 and C-47. He and his crew had to bail out after a fire started (they were also hauling fuel), and they were subsequently rescued by Chinese on the Ledo Road. I have his ripcord handle on a plaque on my wall. I'm doing some research and assembling aircraft, scenery, and flight plans to recreate the same flight in MSFS 2020. Thanks for your upload!
Wow, 91 missions is pretty impressive. I would not have wanted to be on board with fuel and a fire, those tend to not mix well. Amazing that you have that artifact as well, do you have other things from his time over there? Pictures or any written down stories or even better, logbooks? I’m very much fascinated by this portion of history and what those pilots did. I didn’t expect these videos to reach so many people that had connections to it. Highly recommend the flying the hump scenery used in this video. It has a very handy map on the download page that is useful for flight planning. Best of luck recreating those flights. If you need suggestions with scenery or plans let me know. Happy flying!
Great video! I absolutely loved it! I’m very interested in the history of the Hump. I used to sim with FSX MAAM C-47, flew both the northern and southern (opened after the Allies liberated Myitkyina) routes. Now, apology for being a nitpicker. When you reduce power, after throttle first, then propeller, then mixture of necessary. And when you add power, it’s the other way around, mixture, propeller, then throttle. It’s to protect the engine, avoid overloading.
Thanks for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it! I need to do some more flying over the hump but lately don’t have the time to dedicate to it. It’s great fun to fly the routes though and relive history. Interesting. In all the research about flying a DC-3/C-47 it’s called out as props, power, mixture for takeoff and climb and then power, props, mixture for descent and landing. I understand the concept behind what you’re saying but I’m curious why I see opposite info written elsewhere. Does this apply to all aircraft or just the DC-3?
That’s interesting. Would you mind share your sources? The Quebecair DC-3 Manual (01/10/1957) I found is consistent with what I said. Operating Procedures page 113 Climb 1. “After take-off, reduce power setting - 32.5” in. M.P., and 2325 RPM” at a climb speed…”. It indicates when reducing power, power first, the propeller. So are Cruise 1. and Descend 1. (page 114).
I’m happy to share. I read through the how to fly section on Douglasdc3.com and it calls out in bold the order to adjust power. Then I found an operations manual from an operator in Florida (most likely from the early 2000s) through dc3airways.net I believe that called out the same. To your point though I just found an old manual from the Army Air Corps that does mention adjustment of power before props. I wonder where the change came about. Thanks for pointing that out by the way, I always enjoy learning more about flying these aircraft.
@@Fly-to-the-past By the way, something off topic. I have trouble seeing your latest reply after logging in. It's like one second ago it's there, and then I log in to reply, and it's gone. It's been like this for a whole day now, lol.
Is the RAF base Dinjan in India an add on? I'd like to recreate your flight over the "hump". Can you provide written details regarding the route, or a Little Nav Map route? Thanks!
The RAF base at Dinjan is part of a scenery add on that is available on flightsim.to. It adds in multiple airfields that were in use during the airlift and really adds to the feeling that you are in the 1940s. It is by far my favorite scenery add on. I did plan this in Little Nav Map but without the add on you can only get close to the route as many of the fields do not exist today. Hope that helps!
Thanks much for the info! I downloaded and extracted the folders. I was not able to successfully install it in my community folder. I copied "Flying the Hump" Directory into the community folder, but that did not work. I removed the "Flying the Hump" directory from the Community folder and copied ms-airport-hump-hump to the Community folder after restarting the sim again, but that didn't work either.
It has been quite some time since I installed it but I recall having some trouble with it as well. Took a bit of trial and error but eventually got it to work. If you just want to fly over the hump I could provide a route that would get you close to the original airports.
@@bro977 No unfortunately I did not. I wish I could get it to work. I am glad to read that someone else is having trouble, too and I am not the only one.
My father was a pilot who fly "The Hump". LT. COL John H. Belko
That’s amazing. Flying the C-47? Did he talk about it much?
My grandfather (William Sahady) flew 91 missions over The Hump in the C-46 and C-47. He and his crew had to bail out after a fire started (they were also hauling fuel), and they were subsequently rescued by Chinese on the Ledo Road. I have his ripcord handle on a plaque on my wall. I'm doing some research and assembling aircraft, scenery, and flight plans to recreate the same flight in MSFS 2020. Thanks for your upload!
Wow, 91 missions is pretty impressive. I would not have wanted to be on board with fuel and a fire, those tend to not mix well. Amazing that you have that artifact as well, do you have other things from his time over there? Pictures or any written down stories or even better, logbooks? I’m very much fascinated by this portion of history and what those pilots did. I didn’t expect these videos to reach so many people that had connections to it. Highly recommend the flying the hump scenery used in this video. It has a very handy map on the download page that is useful for flight planning. Best of luck recreating those flights. If you need suggestions with scenery or plans let me know. Happy flying!
Great intro!
Great video! I absolutely loved it! I’m very interested in the history of the Hump. I used to sim with FSX MAAM C-47, flew both the northern and southern (opened after the Allies liberated Myitkyina) routes.
Now, apology for being a nitpicker. When you reduce power, after throttle first, then propeller, then mixture of necessary. And when you add power, it’s the other way around, mixture, propeller, then throttle. It’s to protect the engine, avoid overloading.
Thanks for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it! I need to do some more flying over the hump but lately don’t have the time to dedicate to it. It’s great fun to fly the routes though and relive history.
Interesting. In all the research about flying a DC-3/C-47 it’s called out as props, power, mixture for takeoff and climb and then power, props, mixture for descent and landing. I understand the concept behind what you’re saying but I’m curious why I see opposite info written elsewhere. Does this apply to all aircraft or just the DC-3?
That’s interesting. Would you mind share your sources?
The Quebecair DC-3 Manual (01/10/1957) I found is consistent with what I said.
Operating Procedures page 113 Climb 1. “After take-off, reduce power setting - 32.5” in. M.P., and 2325 RPM” at a climb speed…”. It indicates when reducing power, power first, the propeller. So are Cruise 1. and Descend 1. (page 114).
I’m happy to share. I read through the how to fly section on Douglasdc3.com and it calls out in bold the order to adjust power. Then I found an operations manual from an operator in Florida (most likely from the early 2000s) through dc3airways.net I believe that called out the same.
To your point though I just found an old manual from the Army Air Corps that does mention adjustment of power before props. I wonder where the change came about. Thanks for pointing that out by the way, I always enjoy learning more about flying these aircraft.
@@Fly-to-the-past I have read the sources you cited. Very interesting indeed. I will do more research on this subject.
@@Fly-to-the-past By the way, something off topic. I have trouble seeing your latest reply after logging in. It's like one second ago it's there, and then I log in to reply, and it's gone. It's been like this for a whole day now, lol.
My uncle was a crew member on a Commando in the CBI theater, missing in action and never recovered.
Thank you for sharing. Sadly that was the fate of many pilots in the CBI theater. I wish there was a Commando in the sim but the C-47 will have to do.
Love it, very interesting!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
Love it
Is the RAF base Dinjan in India an add on? I'd like to recreate your flight over the "hump". Can you provide written details regarding the route, or a Little Nav Map route? Thanks!
The RAF base at Dinjan is part of a scenery add on that is available on flightsim.to. It adds in multiple airfields that were in use during the airlift and really adds to the feeling that you are in the 1940s. It is by far my favorite scenery add on. I did plan this in Little Nav Map but without the add on you can only get close to the route as many of the fields do not exist today. Hope that helps!
Thanks much for the info! I downloaded and extracted the folders. I was not able to successfully install it in my community folder. I copied "Flying the Hump" Directory into the community folder, but that did not work. I removed the "Flying the Hump" directory from the Community folder and copied ms-airport-hump-hump to the Community folder after restarting the sim again, but that didn't work either.
It has been quite some time since I installed it but I recall having some trouble with it as well. Took a bit of trial and error but eventually got it to work. If you just want to fly over the hump I could provide a route that would get you close to the original airports.
I’m having the same issue.
Did you figure it out?
Thx Lee
@@bro977 No unfortunately I did not. I wish I could get it to work. I am glad to read that someone else is having trouble, too and I am not the only one.
How much do we owe to all of them... o7
Indeed. The amount of effort that was exerted cannot be stated enough.