Below are the 3 most recent journal entries recorded in quonset_air's LiveJournal:

Monday, July 17th, 2006
4:33 pm	The Planes of Quonset, Part 2... When the chief pilot finally accumulated enough hours on Mooneys to move up to light-weight twin-engine planes, there was only one available among the aircraft I had installed in FS2004 at the time, ( the Beechcraft Baron 58 ) (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 16th, 2006
2:50 pm	The Planes of Quonset, Part 1... So, what kind of aircraft does Quonset Air fly, and why? The why has a lot to do with the constraints FSPassengers imposed when I set up the scenario. QA started with $3M and a chief pilot who was a complete rookie. That sort of limited what we could do, especially the latter point. FSPassengers has a rigid scale of pilot ratings. One advances by flying a certain number of hours, and attaining a certain number of points within the game. Novice pilots aren't allowed to fly anything bigger than a single-engined prop of less than 3300 lbs until they've got at least 22 hours of flight time. QA's first aircraft was going to be a puddle-jumper. ( The Mooney Bravo... ) (Comment on this)
Monday, February 27th, 2006
3:05 pm	Welcome Aboard Quonset Air... This is dxmachina's space for talking about flight sim related stuff, such as the sims themselves, add-ons, scenery creation, and other mods. Quonset Air is the name of a fictional airline I created in FSPassengers, an add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (FS2004). QA is very loosely based on Cape Air, the regional carrier that serves Southeast New England. Instead of being based in Hyannis, though, Quonset Air calls Quonset State Airport in North Kingstown, RI, home. Destinations include Boston, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, with some longer hauls up to Bangor and Bar Harbor in Maine, and Morristown, NJ, and BWI to the south. Why Quonset? Well, I work a mile from the airport, so it's familiar to me. Also, even though it's listed as a general aviation airport, it's much larger than average for that kind of facility, so it's not that much a stretch to imagine it as a passenger airport. It was originally the Quonset Point Naval Air Station, and at 7500', its main runway is longer than many commercial airports, including Providence (7100'). There has often been talk of converting Quonset to commercial use, especially from folks who live next to PVD, but it'll likely never happen. Besides the expense required, the main runway points in the wrong direction for the prevailing winds round here, and the runway that does point in the correct direction is only 4000' with no way to get any longer without paving the bay. (There were originally four runways at Quonset. If you look carefully, you can make out the remnants of the two closed runways running alongside the bay, forming a triangle with the main runway.) So Quonset just juts out into the bay, shared by the C-130's of the RI-ANG, the helicopters of the RI-NG, and some corporate jets and smaller craft. And in this universe, Quonset Air. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)