Leg 70, Kolda, Senegal via Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone to Sinoe, Liberia
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Landing is still tricky after the latest patch. Something is messed up with the sensitivity curve of both the flight stick and the way the ailerons react. Auto pilot has issues as well, very jerky when switching to VS mode. While leveling off over the runway, when pulling the stick back slowly, there is a point where it suddenly gets super sensitive and the plane pitches up wildly. Move it a mm back and it violently pitches back down. For now my solution is to land with trim set to 20% up, thus pulling the stick less far back while landing.
First back to the coast, at Cap Skriring
Cap Skirring is a popular seaside resort for Europeans and great place to catch the waves
Varela National Park
The Rio Mansoa river delta
Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau on the river Geba
Contrasting city, modern to decaying Portugese colonial buildings
Labe to the East in Guinea
Fouta Djallon next to Labe
Badala
Crossing into Sierra Leone near Kabala
Agriculture near Kabala
Interesting mountains near Makiti, a huge eroded plateau, must be old
Conakry the capital of Guinea
A long city, it actually started quite a bit way back from my first picture
Topped by the remnants of an old volcano
Îles de Los
Looking back on the city extending in the far distance
Museum and Grande Mosque of Conakry
Yasasi
Approaching Freetown in Sierra Leone
Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, known for its historical role in the slave trade
The old town’s centuries-old Cotton Tree, a historical landmark, symbol of emancipation
Freetown on departure
Near Rontok
Near Funkio, some nice colors along the coast
It’s all part of various river basins, here the Tai river basin
Heading in land again, passing Lanty dry mining plant
Apparently pruduces heavy minerals, rutile, ilmenite and zircon (Mr Zurcon?)
Kenema
Kambui Hills Forest Reserve next to Kenema
On the way to Robertsport, shields up
Robertsport, named after Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia
The beach around here
Monrovia, capital of Liberia
View from Ducor intercontinental hotel
The old hotel is now a tourist attraction, with great views
You can explore it in street view, pretty cool
The layout reminds me of the abandoned building in The last of us 2
I flew on to Sinoe to arrive there in the dark with lots of lightning, drone view landing for visibility
Bright during a flash, near pitch black right after, fun landing with that going off every few seconds