Absolutely. Lived there for two years years, travelled quite a bit. Now, the sim saves me big bucks.
I just got into the plotting and planning theory.
Today I tried my first route. All planned with a plotter and E6-B.
All went well, but the actual flying and finding my checkpoints was the real challenge.
I found myself deviated 7NM off course😅
But it is way more fun doing it this way, especially when all turns out the way you planned.
Figured that. I fly there periodically. Did duty there 14 months. Get a chance now to go where I couldn’t then. 
I took a flight lesson over Sedona Arizona and my flight instructor crashed us into the side of the mountain. My first ever MSFS2020 flight. Why would that happen?
After the last flight from CYQB to CYUL when the weather had no connection with that in Meteoblue, this evening’s flight did so I was able to proceed as planned. Cancelling the IFR I flew VFR to Trois Rivières and landed there (not recorded in my MSFS logbook but was in my LNM record). Departed and resumed the IFR flight plan, climbing to 8000 ft. Ran into icing. The DA62X can handle the ice. ATC were on the ball and gave me a descent to 4000 ft and then 2500 ft for an ILS approach to 24L. Aircraft everywhere with ATC telling me where they were. Radio calls were spot on. Very immersive except an airliner overtaking me and turning onto 24R. BTW my slow approach caused the aircraft behind me to overshoot.
130 billion USD in Bill Gates’ divorce settlement, that could make 130,000 people millionaires!
London is finally playable once again
I laugh like a child, everytime… I know, time to grow up. Almost as good as Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada
Took a DA40 from Gatwick into London to see how good/bad my old Gtx 780 fared: bad! Very stutter, not really enjoyable. So I turned south again and looked for the nearest airport.
Somehow “Titsey Airstrip” caught my eye and I headed there. The airstrip turned out to be very short and I came in a little hot. On landing I overshot the runway, encountered a little pond and crashed into the water.
Or Blue Ball. PA.
I finished my round the world trip. I started from France 14 weeks ago with the Pipistrel or the Xcub but then realize it was sometime very very long so I used also the TBM (and a few others sometime just to try but came back to those planes). I flyed around 2h45 a day (273 h in total). I landed at 135 fields, some very very small with the Xcub and off course some big. I went from France, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, Nepal, Thailand, China, North Korea, Japan, Bearing detroit, North america (west coast) to Ushuaia, Brazil, crossed the atlantic to Africa, South Africa, Madagascar, crossed the sahara, Spain and back to France (off course some other countries between all those). MSFS is just wonderfull !!
Flew the A32NX FBW from Anchorage to Fairbanks.
This flight started “Cold and Dark” at the gate and ends with a successful AUTOLAND procedure at Fairbanks.
This aircraft is the product of a dedicated team. Kudos to their efforts to create a most immersive Airbus A320.
Enjoy the flight
Today I flew CYOW-CYUL IFR on VATSIM in the Baron 59. It was a rainy departure from Ottawa and overcast when I landed at Montreal. Kind of a boring screenshot, but I was able to sacrifice some OLOD for ultra clouds, thought maybe I’d show it off
. He quickly and respectfully gave me vectors to the correct one until I had it programmed. Great job to all at CZUL FIR! To anyone maybe getting bored of flying, or anyone at all really, I STRONGLY encourage you to give VATSIM a try, but make sure you do your research and (at least a little) know what you’re doing! It adds an insane new level of immersion! Sorry if going off-topic, mods please feel free to remove, but if you want to give VATSIM a try a great resource is the Aviation Pro channel on youtube with many great videos on how to fly on the VATSIM network.Again, mods feel free to remove if you deem it off topic, sorry for that. Just want to encourage others to take the next leap in their flight simming!
Cheers and safe travels!
Was curious if there was a Notice To Airmen about the Chinese rocket re-entry, so did a FP in Simbrief for Melbourne to Wellington. Splashdown is expected int eh next few hours.
interestingly, nothing turned up for that rocket, but this did…
NOTAM
F1485/21 VALID: 09-MAY-21 0753 - 15-MAY-21 0806
ROCKET LAUNCH WILL TAKE PLACE
FLW RECEIVED FROM GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
HAZARDOUS OPS WILL BE CONDUCTED FOR ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY AND
SPLASHDOWN OF LAUNCH VEHICLE FALCON-9 STARLINK V1.0-L27 WI THE
FOLLOWING AREAS:
FM 2943S 06007E
…
FS is really proving to be an interesting window to the world
While waiting for my passengers to wake up, I teleported across the pond to Wales in the hopes of trying my hand at the Mach Loop. It turned out Llanbedr was totally socked in, so no chance of that, so I did a quick IFR flight to Newcastle in the wonderful Working Title CJ4 instead. Clouds topped out in the high 30,000’s, and I only got to peek over them for a few minutes before ATC asked me to begin my descent. Fortunately I was given a full ILS approach and the CJ4 handled it flawlessly.
During our stay in Tampa, I treated the Bandeirante to a striking new livery. I’ve been looking for one that didn’t scream out “airliner” as much as most, and this new Loganair one is the closest I’ve found yet. Today’s leg to Orlando was shorter than most but was rich in sightseeing opportunities.
Lots of fancy hotels and golf courses on the way in.
EPCOT!
Disney’s Contemporary Resort, with its built-in monorail link to the Magic Kingdom.
And finally the Magic Kingdom itself!
After the Disney tour we continued northeast toward downtown Orlando, and our final stop, the Orlando Executive Airport.
Tomorrow we head back west to Florida’s gulf coast and up towards the panhandle.
Played follow the leader in the gotgravel Vertigo, shooting up and through the cloud layer at 350 knots. 
The ATC by default is SO bad, that one day, i decided to take a step further and try VATSIM…
It changed permanently my perspective of IFR flying. Now, when no ATC available online on VATSIM, I’d rather “test” fly patterns or do vfr (very very seldome though). It gives a whole universal size dimension to have real-human interraction as ATC..
I’m thankfull to all these people who like being/doing ATC. Without them, I think I might have stopped playing MSFS ( or at least considered it thoroughly), since airliners are my favourite type of flying.