Hi everyone,
Short hop out of Rome Urbe (LIRU) in the Robinson R66, MSFS 2024, VR.
Landmark is Foro Italico / Stadio Olimpico - stadium, tennis courts, pools, Tiber under the skids.
I fly with an AI in the other seat (something I am building, still rough). I pointed at the stadium. She missed. I asked again. Then she got the name of the center.
Not a highlight reel - the miss stayed in.
Fly safe,
VR Flights 73
A few notes on this one, since people asked — and what else is on the channel.
The flight
Rome Urbe (LIRU) out to Foro Italico and back down the Tiber. Robinson R66
Turbine, MSFS 2024, flown in VR. No time compression, no cuts — the hop you see
is the hop I flew.
Foro Italico is one of the best low-level targets in Rome because it stacks
three different things into a single turn: the Stadio Olimpico bowl, the
Stadio dei Marmi with its ring of marble statues, and the tennis complex
next door. The Tiber runs right under the skids on the approach from the
south, and Ponte Duca d’Aosta lines you up almost perfectly with the obelisk
and the avenue behind it. Come in low off the river and the whole thing opens up
in one pass.
If you want to fly it yourself: it’s a short hop from LIRU — [distância/rumo, ex.
“about 3 nm south-west”] — so you’re barely at cruise before you’re there. Keep
it slow and keep it low. There’s more detail under 500 ft here than the sim
usually rewards you for looking at.
Real-world note: Rome has genuine restrictions over the city. The sim won’t
stop you, but if you like flying it honestly, stay on the river.
The VR setup — the question I get most
Ask me anything about any of it — happy to go into detail.
The channel
VRFlights73 — helicopter flying in VR, mostly the R66, mostly low and slow
over places worth looking at. Not tutorials and not checklist runs: the point is
what it actually feels like to be up there. [cadência, ex. “New flight most
weeks.”]
VRFlights73 Youtube Channel LINK
And one more thing, since a couple of people asked in the comments
Off camera I’ve been building something for these flights: a voice copilot
that rides along in VR. I hold a trigger, ask “what’s that down there?”, and
she tells me — the name of the building, the street I’m looking at, the story of
the place — and drops it on a map on the tablet in the cockpit.
She isn’t ATC and doesn’t try to be. No frequencies, no phraseology. She’s
company: she can see what I’m looking at, knows the aircraft and the altitude,
and looks things up online while we fly.
It’s still mine and still rough in places, but it works well enough that I don’t
fly without it any more. I’ll be opening a small beta before long. If that
sounds like your kind of thing, say so in this topic or under the video and I’ll
put you on the list.