Leg 300, River Acres, Okeechobee County to Palatka, Putnam County, Florida, USA
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Crawling over Florida, so much content here. I only covered 335nm in this leg, avg speed down to 60 knots, lots to see.
06-17 River Acres FD70 6:39 AM
06-17 Okeechobee County KOBE 6:43 AM Okeechobee PG Area
06-17 Baggett Airpark FD39 6:55 AM
06-17 Brady Ranch 80FD 6:58 AM
06-17 Horseshoe Acres Airpark FA24 7:01 AM
06-17 Naked Lady Ranch 64FA 7:08 AM Port St Lucie PG Area 27°14’1"N 80°21’21"W
06-17 Treasure Coast Intl KFPR 7:25 AM
06-17 Vero Beach Rgnl KVRB 7:32 AM
06-17 Sebastian Mun X26 7:39 AM
06-17 Valkaria X59 7:45 AM Palm Bay PG Area 27°57’13"N 80°39’54"W
06-17 Melbourne Intl KMLB 7:55 AM Power failure, wait for internet to come back
06-17 Patrick Afb KCOF 8:03 AM
06-17 Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip KXMR 8:17 AM Kennedy Space Center 28°31’26"N 80°40’56"W
06-17 Nasa Shuttle Landing Facility KTTS 8:34 AM Titusville PG Area 28°36’51"N 80°48’36"W
06-17 Arthur Dunn Air Park X21 8:51 AM
06-17 Executive KORL 9:05 AM Winter Park PG Area 28°35’44"N 81°21’3"
Orlando PG Area 28°32’22" 81°22’43"W
06-17 Orlando Intl KMCO * 9:25 AM Universal Studios PG Area 28°28’20"N 81°28’14"W
Walt Disney World Resort 28°22’31"N 81°32’59"W
Clermont PG Area 28°32’53"N 81°44’35"W
06-17 Florida Flying Gators 3FD4 10:24 AM
06-17 Flying Baron Estates 10FA 10:34 AM Leesburg PG Area
06-17 Leesburg Intl KLEE 10:42 AM
06-17 Mid Florida Air Svc X55 10:46 AM
06-17 Britt Brown & Porter Ranch 6FD6 10:51 AM Deltona PG Area 28°54’32"N 81°14’35"W
06-17 Leffler FA63 11:01 AM
06-17 Massey Ranch Airpark X50 11:09 AM New Smyrna Beach PG Area 29°2’22"N 80°54’26"W
06-17 New Smyrna Beach Municipal KEVB 11:17 AM
06-17 Spruce Creek 7FL6 11:22 AM
06-17 Daytona Beach Intl KDAB 11:24 AM Daytona Beach PG Area Daytona International Speedway next to airport
06-17 Ormond Beach Muni KOMN 11:44 AM Fagler Beach PG Area 29°25’55"N 81°6’23"W
06-17 Flagler Executive KFIN 12:00 PM
06-17 Palatka Muni - Lt Kay Larkin F 28J 12:15 PM Palatka PG Area
Flight time 5:36 29 stops
River Acres Airport, ready for take off
Just after sunrise, and yep there is lightning
Okeechobee in Okeechobee County
Dowtown Okeechobee, Park St at Parrot Ave with Lake Okeechobee in the distance
Landing at Baggett Airpark
Brady Ranch Airport
Horseshoe Acres Airpark
Port St Lucie Botanical Gardens close to the St Lucie River
Port St Lucie on the Atlantic coast of southern Florida
Port St Lucie-Fort Pierce Service Plaza on Florida’s Turnpike
Indian River State College
Vero Beach to Ft Pierce Aquatic Preserve along the Indian River (looks more like a lagoon to me)
Vero Beach Regional Airport, dodging baseballs on the way down
Wabasso Island in Pine Island Bay
Valkaria Airport
Andretti Thrill Park in Melbourne
Melbourne International Airport
Crossing the Indian River
Banana River Aquatic Preserve next to the Indian River
Cocoa Beach
Port Canaveral, one of the busiest cruise ports in the world
Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip
A 10,000-foot runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Cape Canaveral was known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station from 1963 to 1973, and as Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from 1949 to 1963 and from 1973 to 2020. It was renamed to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in December 2020. (Still called air force in game)
Space Shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center (museum)
Flying through the rocket garden
Eek, I hope my insurance is up to ate
Maybe doing this at full throttle isn’t the best idea, just made it
Completing the loop by Atalantis
Nasa Shuttle Landing Facility, also fits Bonanzas
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge behind the space center
Space View Park in Titusville and Max A Brewer Bridge over the Indian River
American Space Museum & Walk of Fame, small building below my nose
Alafaya in Orange County
Rollins College in Winter Park
Passing over the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando Fire Museum and Orlando Science Center
Orlando Science Center
Orlando Central Business District
St James Catholic Cathedral
Downtown Baptist Church Orlando
Orlando International Airport, it’s huge
Nice touch, animated trains to the terminals
All four of them, terminal A on the right
Drone view
That bottom left bit has been finished and more construction is going on below. (Err above, I have it upside down, South is up in that shot) Bing maps is actually ahead of Google with the construction, the game is stuck with an older version, behind Google maps.
Universal Orlando Resort
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley
It’s still under construction in game, opened April 2016 and took 2.5 years to build
Universal’s Islands of Adventure
Epcot theme park
Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park
ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
The Legends At Orange Lake
Clermont in Lake County
Lake Minnehaha
Florida Flying Gators Airport
Florida Flying Gators Ultralight Airport actually, pardon me putting tracks in the grass
Lake Denham and Lake Harris
Leesburg
Cutrale Citrus Juices USA and Lake Griffin
Right turn ahead to Leesburg International Airport
Deltona next to Lake Monroe
Volusia County
Massey Ranch Airpark
New Smyrna Beach
Spruce Creek Airport
Daytona International Speedway
I landed the 787 here on the track last year, it didn’t like the banked turns
Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach Main Street Pier, some of it
Ormond-By-The-Sea, between the Atlantic and the Halifax River
Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area At Flagler Beach
Matanzas River
Another pass over Flagler Beach before heading to the airport
Flagler Executive Airport
Putnam County
Palatka
Final stop for today, Palatka-Kay Larkin Airport
So much detail. I wonder how it all runs tomorrow after the Nordics update. Installation and landing challenge went fine, ready for the next leg.