Leg 25 Chernobyl to Sevastopol, Ukraine
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A long flight today. I couldn’t sleep so started early and I misjudged the scale of the Ukraine. What I though were 10 minute hops turned about to be closer to 25 minute hops going around the sea of Azov.
9-16 Dymer airstrip UKIK 5:00 AM
9-16 Lyneya UKSL 5:36 AM
9-16 Chernihiv Air Base UKCH 5:45 AM
9-16 Boryspil UKBB 6:24 AM
9-16 Cherkasy UKKE 6:57 AM
9-16 Svitlovods’k UKSD 7:18 AM
9-16 Pidhorodne UKPC 8:03 AM
9-16 Mokraya UKDE 8:29 AM Big hydroelectric dam, bugged, shows as a bridge.
9-16 Mariupol’ UKCM 9:17 AM
9-16 Yuzhny URRT 9:42 AM
9-16 Rostov-na-Donu USEY 9:56 AM
9-16 Rostov-na-Donu URRR 10:01 AM
9-16 Yeysk URKE 10:34 AM
9-16 Primorsko-Akhtarsk UPRI 10:50 AM
9-16 Pashkovskiy URKK 11:26 AM Amazing park Krasnodar, not on Bing yet
9-16 Vityazevo URKA 11:59 AM
9-16 Baherove UKBH Too dark
9-16 Belbek UKFB Too dark
9-16 Khersones Air Base UKSV 1:26 PM Landed using 3D terrain viewer
Flight time: 8:26 16 stops
First Chernobyl by daylight. Bright sunny day, makes it look a bit washed out.
The reactor
Buggy hill in the middle and a pretty old ground picture as the sarcophagus is still being built here. For some reason the AI populated the dome structure with random shacks.
Flying over the famous square in Pripyat
The amusement park with Ferris Wheel is behind the square, not in the game.
Real life version (taken from the right side)
The iconic ferris wheel, perhaps it will be added one day
The swimming pool
Perhaps in a couple generations we can look inside buildings
Carrying on, Kyiv, massive city
Verry pretty in real life
Following the Dnieper river, it’s huge
I found an open it mine! Poltavs’kyy Hirnycho-Zbahachuval’nyy Kombinat at Horishni Plavni
You can not fly into it, invisible barrier 
A smaller sand pit near Zaporizhzia
Mines are about the biggest elevation changes in the landscape.
That’s the landscape on the way to the sea of Azov
Mariupol’ on the sea of Azov
Rostov-on-Don a massive modern city
Unfortunately the cool looking park I found on Google isn’t on Bing yet, missing.
The city is build on a hill
I was hoping to get this view, but have to settle with the above
The landscape changed into endless farmland
Zooming through Krasnodar at sunset
Good thing I took on full fuel at Krasnodar since no lights at Kerch
They do light up their windmills quite a bit
Still no lights at Belbek, on to Sevastopol
Plenty light in the city but all the airports are pitch black. I resorted to landing using the 3D terrain viewer, which is pretty similar to playing fs 4.0. It’s actually easier since there is no cockpit or plane in the way of the view! Easy landing.