Yes fingers and toes crossed that beyond atc is the solution!
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Having read the airport briefing pages in more detail it turns out this is more realistic than I realised. OK not the head on collisions, but it’s true that YPAD uses opposing directions for takeoff and landing when weather conditions permit, in order that jets are flying over the sea rather than the city.
As can be seen from the map, the airport is wedged directly between the beach and the city centre.
Planes are quite low over West Beach, not quite Princess Juliana low mind you.
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The solution to this is fly real world short airliner routes. Its a lot of fun doing a 30 minute 737-800 flight. You have to plan and move fast to stay ahead of the airplane. You are in the climb and already mentally preparing for descent. S.E. Asia has some great short hops on 320s and 737s.
How do you get inside the buildings?!!
Use the drone camera. Some buildings you can’t enter (usually Asobo ones) many others you can.
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There are such airports Aspen (KASE) is an example where departure is heads on to arrivals
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Here’s 2 minutes of bad decisions…
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RE: What did you do in MSFS today? (Part 2) - #3512 by duracellko
Volcanic ash/dust is very bad for any type of engine, as the small particles are much corser than sand. If they get into your carborator, they will mix with your air/gas mixture and foul up for your piston intakes and scour your liners…. Bad ju ju…
@Jimrh1993 and @Zeanuck, thank you for your answers. I was wondering if an air-filter would catch it. And if yes, would it clog the filter completely? But now I understand, filter wouldn’t help.
Hmm.. to be honest, I don’t even know, if aircraft engines use air filters. Hoping there are no particles in the air and that little ground operations can deal with it. But then, what about things like sand from Sahara that can reach even north of Europe. So I guess lower altitudes are not completely particles free.
Anyway, it will be fun planning next leg. NOTAM is valid for next month, so I cannot just wait for the risk to disappear. Especially, I want to take advantage of warm summer weather and long days, while flying in Alaska.
I can fly around it. It would be very large DME circle, without DME and there are no islands to use for navigation.
I also noticed that there is another NOTAM south of the volcano, so I guess most of the ash is blown to the south. And then flying around on north side may not be that big diversion.
Well, there is some research to do. Oh, I love this game.
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How many tries did that take? I was pretty impressed with myself when I managed to do it in the Vision Jet, but with the F18? That’s really a different level 
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Ok, I see the trees are swaying a lot for MSFS. How strong headwind did you setup? 
That was nicely low. The first touchdown was almost on the road.
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There is a slider in the weather settings to turn off the snow.
I have setup live weather, so weather settings are blocked. I was wondering, where does MSFS get information that there was snow cover in that location.
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I might be wrong, but as far as I know snow is static
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I don’t think it’s fully static. For example I flew in Zell am See in January and there was much more snow than recently. Also the Megeve location. I was flying in that area in January and whole valleys were covered in snow. Now the snow cover starts around 4000ft AGL.
I was thinking that maybe the snow is automatically generated based on geographic location, altitude and time of year. But at the same time Courchevel is even higher 6000ft AGL and there is no snow. Not even at the peaks around.
So I think the snow is somehow dynamic. But there is more than in reality. For example, when doing my Iceland bushtrip, most of the Iceland was covered in snow, with some exceptions. But I think it should be the other way around in July. Most of Iceland without snow, with some exceptions.
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I guess I was wrong then 
I hope it’s something that will be done better in 2024, though if it was between accurate snow and better ATC then I wouldn’t ask for the snow 
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Come on, where’s your sense of adventure?
Punt the “skirting” stuff - land on it!
(And buzz the White House and the Capital while your at it.)
Then you can try to race the fighter jets chasing you while you’re trying to escape being arrested!
Woo haaa!
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A320 landing at St Barth
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