Leg 34 Alexandroupoli, Greece through Turkey to Geçitkale, Cyprus
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Early start, lot of long distances to get other stuff done.
9-25 Dimokritos LGAL 4:46 AM
9-25 Kesan LTFL 5:03 AM
9-25 Corlu AB LTBU 5:28 AM
9-25 Hezarfen LTBW 5:41 AM
9-25 Ataturk LTBA (Istanbul) 5:48 AM
9-25 Samandira AB LTBX 6:18 AM
9-25 Yalova AB LTBP 6:27 AM
9-25 Bursa LTBE 6:41 AM
9-25 Yenisehir AB LTBR 6:58 AM
9-25 Topel AB LTBQ 7:16 AM
9-25 Caycuma LTAS 8:11 AM
9-25 Sinop LTCM 9:15 AM
9-25 Esenboga LTAC 10:25 AM
9-25 Guvercinlik AB LTAB 10:50 AM
9-25 Polatli Airport LTPO 11:07 AM
9-25 Konya AB LTAN 12:03 PM to 12:38 PM
Autopilot bugged, save, reload, game save broken, game crashed to desktop
9-25 Approximate halfway position 12:51 PM
9-25 Gecitkale LCGK 1:25 PM No lights, landed with view finder
Flight time 8:26 16 stops
It seems the game starts to misbehave worse and worse after 5 hours running. Every time I leave it going continuously it grinds to a halt or crashes after 6 or 7 hours. Memory leak or rolling cache issues maybe.
First sight seeing stop today, Istanbul
The Blue Mosque on the left and Hagia Sophia on the right.
The Hagia Sophia looks marvelous, orginally build in 537
The Galata tower is across the water (still left side)
A very recognizable landmark, but not in FS2020 yet.
Flying past the Dolmabahçe Palace, bottom left
And here the Adalet Sarayi, palace of justice
Departing Bursa, clouds are coming
Skimming over the dead calm black sea by Lafarge Eregli Çimento
Zonguldak
Tunnels connecting the beaches and the Varagel tunnel which leads into the city
Küre Daglari Milli Parki
Ayancik, town spilling out into the sea
The Ilgaz mountains
Bülbül Pinari Mesire Alani
Ankara, the capital of Turkey
Flying past the Anıtkabir, memorial tomb.
It is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Ankara also house the Kocetepe mosque
Relatively new (1967) yet a prominent landmark in Ankara and largest mosque in the city.
Coming in for a landing in Konya
The last flight to Cyprus went horribly wrong. The game was already acting up more and more and then I accidentally hit active pause while star gazing with auto pilot on. There was no recovery from that, auto pilot completely on the fritz.
Since it was still over half an hour from any airport I saved, quit and tried to reload the save game to finish the flight. After loading the save game, no option to fly, nothing. I tried copy pasting the gps coordinates from the .FLT file, but for some reason the game converted them to somewhere in Africa… So I tried to estimate where I was and click on the map to continue from there. I clicked Fly, crash to desktop.
Restart the game, try a slightly different position and it loaded! It started me at 7500 ft, fine. Auto pilot worked again, all dark, see you at landing time. Of course no lights at the destination airport, no problem. I landed using the 3D terrain viewer just like before. I didn’t even turn the landing light on, stealth landing.
Tomorrow, exploring Cyprus, then back to Greece along the Southern coast of Turkey to tour the Dodecanese islands.