Hi everyone!
Starting from LIRI - Salerno Costa d’Amalfi Airport, you take a couple of friends on a low altitude (2,500 ft) VFR scenic flight over the Salerno, Amalfi and Napoli Gulfs. Waypoints in this flight are convenientely labeled with the name of the POI. With a Cessna 172 aircraft the tour takes about 75 minutes. To enjoy the sightseeing choose a clear day: you can count on one in real weather most of the year.
FLIGHTPLAN NOTES
1 Take off from Pontecgnano LIRI runway 23, as the opposite runway is closed.
3 Establish on the first leg of the flightplan at an altitude of about 2,000 feet, speed about 108Knots.
4 Then follow the coast to the next waypoints.
5 When you are near a waypoint, circle it smoothly to let your guests enjoy the sight. Remember to bank gently and smoothly.
POINT OF INTEREST
1 Salerno. Quiet and beautiful.
2 Amalfi. Elegant.
3 Positano. Charming
4 Sorrento. Climb to 3,000 feet to cut to Sorrento though the promontory.
5 Castellammare di Stabia
6 Napoli. Circle over the narrow streets city center.
7 Pozzuoli
8 The island of Ischia. Sea and spas.
9 The glamorous island of Capri.
Jeez, my most favorite place in Italy… Sorrento Area and gulf of naples were elected to one of the most beautiful VFR areas in one of the general aviation magazines here…
I completed this flight earlier in the modded 152. Took 1:15.
That was a really enjoyable coastal flight. The only thing I would change is the placement of some of the waypoints. The sim doesn’t draw then,Ines optimally, and with the line out at sea in some cases, you have to fly a bit out of you way to activate it, but that’s not really the point, is it?
Well done. I also made use of the VORDME. To line me up with the runway, which worked well, although the actual installation isn’t drawn, but the tarmacced area should be is there.
Perhaps these are things that may appear in future, like the powerline pylons we now see.
You are right, the flight plan is just a way to sequence the flight through all the point of interest. It is up to the pilot to keep a convenient distance from the waypoints so as to execute the circling above and around the target to allow the passengers to see the view. The published VORDME procedure is for runway 05.
I was surprised to see that on fs2020 ithe runway is crossed as closed, so followed with a circuit to land!
Asessa. I know it must be open in real life but in FS2020 runway 05 is considered closed: only 23 is available in the list of runways for approach in the MFD, and if you overfly it, you will see the runway head number 05 is crossed out. This is the standard visual marking of a closed runway
DonQuilmi29, are you joking? LFRB - LIRN would take something like 8 hours to complete in a CESSNA 172, as it’s close to 1000NM.This is not the definition of a scenic flight, which is a local flight, at low speed and altitude.
We can add continent tags (like “europe”) to our posts now to make it easier for people to find things for their area, specially as the number of flight threads grows.
LFRB - LIRN would take something like 8 hours to complete in a CESSNA 172, as it’s close to 1000NM.This is not the definition of a scenic flight, which is a local flight, at low speed and altitude.
