Leg 214, Sancheon, South Korea to Sunchŏn, North Korea
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I hoped to see a bit more of North Korea but terrain data is quite messy. It’s already not very good in South Korea, North Korea is mostly low res sat images with often mismatched seasons right next to each other. Plenty places to land although more than a few of these airstrips or nothing but empty fields.
03-23 Sacheon RKPS 5:51 PM
03-23 Yeosu RKJY 6:02 PM
03-23 Beolgyo RKBE 6:13 PM
03-23 Jeongseok RKPD 6:42 PM
03-23 Alddreu Airfield RKGI 6:54 PM Bad terrain, no runway visible
03-23 Jeju Intl RKPC 7:09 PM
03-23 Yeongam RKHE 7:36 PM
03-23 Mokpo RKJM 7:42 PM
03-23 Muan Intl RKJB 7:48 PM
03-23 Gwangju Aero RKJJ 7:57 PM
03-23 G 710 RK6D 8:08 PM
03-23 R 522 RK0J 8:29 PM Short narrow strip, bad stuttering, < 5 fps then back to normal
03-23 Seongmu RKTE 8:47 PM
03-23 Taean RKTA 9:10 PM
03-23 Seosan RKTP 9:16 PM
03-23 A-511 AAF RKSG 9:28 PM Bad stuttering in between, cleared up just before landing
03-23 Osan AB RKSO 9:33 PM
03-23 Suwon RKSW 9:37 PM
03-23 Incheon Intl RKSI 9:51 PM
03-23 Gimpo Intl Seoul RKSS 10:02 PM Terrible performance
Restart, too slow to operate instruments ~ 2 fps stuttering
03-23 Gimpo Intl Seoul RKSS 10:12 PM Smooth after restart
03-23 R 218 RK0M 10:35 PM Short runway, stuttering is back
03-23 R 219 RK0N 10:37 PM
03-23 R 228 RK0W 10:42 PM
03-23 G 233 RK18 10:46 PM
03-23 R 237 RK0D 10:50 PM
03-23 R 240 RK0Y 10:54 PM
03-23 Hyon-ni ZKHO 11:05 PM Messy bad textures, no detail
03-23 Ichon ZKKN 11:21 PM Border crossing 37°54’10.8"N 126°42’33.6"E
03-23 R 107 RK0K 11:42 PM
03-24 Ihyon Ni Highway Strip Airfield ZKHJ 12:02 AM
03-24 Haeju Airfield ZKHA 12:08 AM
03-24 Ongjin ZKON 12:15 AM
03-24 T’aet’an-pihaengjang ZKCH 12:23 AM Very bad performance area
03-24 Kwail Air Base ZKCA 12:33 AM
03-24 Ch’o do ZKCG 12:40 AM Terrible stuttering, bad area around the island, runway not visible
03-24 Unchon Up ZKAK 12:49 AM
03-24 Onchon ZKYN 12:55 AM Rungrade 1st of May Stadium 39°2’58"N, 125°46’31"E Pyongyang
03-24 Kangdong ZKKA 1:12 AM Bad stuttering after Pyongyang
03-24 Sunan ZKPY 1:21 AM
03-24 Sunchon Air Base ZKSC 1:28 AM
Flight time 7:27 39 stops
Departure from Sacheon
Heading to Yeosu first
Yeosu Airport. Part of the bay is ■■■■■■ off, likely to claim more land
Farming in South Korea next to Beolgyo Airport
Jeju-do (island) off the south coast of South Korea
Home to amazing cliffs and Halassan shield volcano (6,388ft) highest point in South Korea
Jeongseok Airport with Halassan National Park in the distance
Alddreu Airfield, on the southwest side of Jeju-do
Jeju International Airport in Jeju-si (city)
Yongduam Rock, Samseonghyeol and Manjanggul Cave, a long lava tube cave
Samseonghyeol is a tranquil shrine dating to 1526, according to myth, the place where the 3 gods (Go Eul-na, Yang Eul-na, and Bu Eul-na) emerged with different family names some 4,300 years ago.
Also here Jeju Love Land
A theme park aimed at breaking taboos surrounding sex, opened 2004
Yeongam back on the mainland
Yongdamdaem
Google maps is quite messy around here as well, no name for the reservoir or river
Daecheong dam, also no river or reservoir name available
Incheon on the west coast bordering Seoul
Icheon International Airport on the left (mess in game)
Gimpo International on the west side of Seoul
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, on the Dangjeong-Dong (river)
Seoul Tower location on the hill on the right, tower missing
Lotte world ahead behind the sports complex, huge theme park
Cheonggyecheon and Namdaemun Market
Gyeongbokgung Palace, 14th century royal palace
Checking out the National Museum of Korea
Host (2006) put Seoul on the map for me
Coincidentally I just started watching Sisyphus the myth on Netflix, pretty good so far
Flying on to the border, Doha-ri
Landing at R 240 airstrip in Cheongyang-ri
The border with North Korea or rather the edge of the DMZ
Farms build right up to the border on the South Korean side
Hyon Ni Airfield in North Korea
No pictures nor any info to be found here
Terrain quickly devolves into mismatched sat level mess, here at Changch’on-ni
Back to the border, checking out Dora Observatory
On a hill looking out over North Korea
Keasong Checkpoint and Panmun Station in the DMZ, Kaesong Industrial Area behind
“Back to back they faced each other”
T’aet’an-pihaengjang Airport near Ugom (on the coast)
South Hwanghae
Ch’o-do (island) in the Yellow Sea
Rungrade 1st of May Stadium in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea
Not much to see in game apart from the one landmark, google maps has a bit more
Juche Tower, Geumsusan Taeyang Gungjeon (mausoleum) and Workers Party Foundation Monument
The well known Mansudae Hill Grand Monument
Statues is one of North Korea’s major exports nowadays, I saw a few in Africa along the way
Many documentaries have been made about life in North Korea, mostly about the government sanctioned good places to live. There’s very little documented about the actual life and poverty in the rest of the country or the public executions that regularly take place.
A take on North Korea from a South Korean
My exposure to the Korean war was growing up with MASH on tv. Probably a very accurate documentary!
Last stop for the day Sunchon Air Base
Tomorrow a trip to China and a bit of Russia before heading back to Japan.