28° North Atlantic Crossing Event

[Zydobomb]

I did some sightseeing at Nuuk:

Beautiful weather for flying today!

Plenty of channels for easy VFR flying and navigation.

Gorgeous cliffs and glaciers.

And even found a Hellhole.

Looking forward to today’s leg from BGGH to BGKK. (West coast of Greenland to East coast of Greenland) I’ll be posting pictures of the weather an hour or two before flying. See ya there at 2030z.

EDIT: Wheels up has been moved to 1700z

For anyone interested in joining us, we typically hang out in the fe-general channel in the MSFS discord. See us there and have a chat!

[Zydobomb]

Weather report at Nuuk:

Looks like it will be great weather for the departure.

No problems with wind.

View from the tower.

Wheels up from BGGH in 1hr 50m.

Fly safe!

[hobanagerik]

Just landed at Alicante, and had to take some shots of the sunset there. I’ve chosen not to do night flights because I want to enjoy the scenery!

[Zydobomb]

It was a… difficult leg from KBBH

We had some icing issues.

Most of the leg was covered in clouds.

Pretty decent view on landing though.

Totally not a single person crashed at all, nope not one. And I definitely didn’t hit the ground in a flatspin in a Cessna before spawning in a DA62 with De-Icing equipment.

See you all at 2030z for the next leg from KGKK! (East coast of Greenland to Iceland)

[hobanagerik]

I really like the icing modelling in this. I have a new found respect for clouds now, especially the darker ones.

[MRSALT]

Concluding our STAGE EIGHT of the 28° North Atlantic Crossing Event Certainly an interesting leg to say the least!

Total Miles: 3,205NM
Stage Miles: 379 NM

Stage Started: Schefferville (CYKL)
Stage Finished: Nuuk (BGGH)
Total Duration/Time: ~33hrs 47minutes

Plan for later today (Wednesday): 20:30z for the next leg from Kulusuk (BGKK) > Rif (BIRF) [336NM]

Catch you later folks!

[Zydobomb]

Weather report from BGKK:

Low ceiling, getting clearer.

Thicc clouds in our flight path.

View from tower looks great if you don’t look at the FSX textures.

Wheels up at 2030z. Send us a message at the FE-Events text channel on the MSFS Discord!

[MRSALT]

Concluding our STAGE NINE of the 28° North Atlantic Crossing Event

Quiter weather today compared to yesterday and one thats see’s us complete a number of long range legs.
We have some shorter “hops” tomorrow over Iceland.

Total Miles: 3,541NM
Stage Miles: 336 NM
Stage Started: Kulusuk (BGKK)
Stage Finished: Rif (BIRF)

Total Duration/Time: ~36hrs 55minutes

Plan for tomorrow: If anyone would like to join us, we’re going for an earlier take-off of 17:00z, feel free to join us on the groud at Rif (BIRF) ideally around 16:45z.

Catch you tomorrow folks!

[Zydobomb]

Weather report from BIRF:

It’s pretty overcast this afternoon.

Low ceiling, low temperature.

Another challenging flight today? Let’s find out!

Wheels up at 1700z. See us at fe-general channel on the MSFS2020 Discord.

[hobanagerik]

Chasing the sun to Tenerife North:

[Zydobomb]

You’re at the finish line, gogogo

[hobanagerik]

There were two other people when I got there. I was 20 miles out, and at 30,000ft so did this insane 8000fpm descent using a forward slip, making sure not to over speed. I hope the other two were watching that!

One had landed, and was just leaving the runway. The other was on final, and ATC was told me I was cleared to land, and was number 2. I’d never seen that before, so that was pretty cool. I made a very long downwind before turning on to base, and even so, with my nose up doing 82 knots, just as I crossed the threshold ATC told me to go around!

I don’t know what that other pilot was doing, but in that time I’d have been parked, and having a coffee.

[MRSALT]

Concluding our STAGE TEN of the 28° North Atlantic Crossing Event

Total Miles: 4,254 NM
Stage Miles: 713 NM

Stage Started: Rif (BIRF)
Stage Finished: Scatsta (EGPM)

Total Duration/Time: ~43hrs 00minutes

Plans for tomorrow are undecided at this point, however either myself @drukqs11, @Zydobomb or @MerlinTheFrog will share our departure time from Scatsta (EGPM).

Happy flying!

[Zydobomb]

Wheels up at 1700z.

Weather report will be up at 1600z.

[RojoHabe]

I have to say I find this disappointing

Those are lakes at the wrong elevation, if you were wondering.

Just looks naff

Wish I could make it remove the runway marker after takeoff, too, without having to disable the taxi ribbon in the settings, but that’s a moan for another day…

[hobanagerik]

Was that Iceland? I do remember quite a few of those huge table top like structures somewhere.

[RojoHabe]

No, that was Nuuk, but you can find them everywhere.

[MRSALT]

Concluding our STAGE 11 of the 28° North Atlantic Crossing Event

Total Miles: 4,784 NM
Stage Miles: 530 NM

Stage Started: Scatsta (EGPM)
Stage Finished: Wolverhampton (EGBO)

Total Duration/Time: ~47hrs 55minutes

Cc @MerlinTheFrog @Zydobomb @drukqs11