Flew in to L05 (Kern Valley) northeast of KBFL (Meadows Field, Bakersfield) in the Just Flight Arrow III. It’s a pretty easy approach, as mountain flying goes, and the final to 35 is right over Lake Isabella. Watch out for oak tree fifty or sixty yards from the threshold! 
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Finished my 7 part series of Fort Lauderdale Florida
Part 3 had the F.A.T. Arts District and War Memorial Auditorium
Part 4 had Mills Pond Park
and Part 5 had the Swap Shop and Thunderbird Drive In movie theatre-the Biggest Drive in movie theatre in the world with 13 screens!
Very cool!
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Martinique (TFFF) > Sint Maarten (TNCM) > Port-au-Prince (MTPP) > Havanna (MUHA) > Mexico City (MMMX)
Longest Melbourne to LA flight EVER! Last leg to LA tomorrow… after all that (real time) I am buggered!
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Just some Touch-n-Go’s.
This week I will visit a simulator with two teen relatives, AEROTASK (german)
Want to show off a little 
, so I trained the last weeks, EDDM-LOWI LOC-DME-WEST with circling to RWY 08 in the Fly-By-Wire A320.
Initially, I always flew the the full track from Munich to Innsbruck, start to landing. But then I realized that I get more out of my “training time” if I do touch and go’s instead.
That’s 2 sorties, one out of EDDM the other out of LOWI, including a landing on RWY 26 and a crash when the A320 completely shut down on me, engines and electrics 
That’s the plan, one of the kids is with me in the cockpit and does the start (well, I might setup the plane as far as I can and if they allow me, and the kid will do the taxi and take-off). Then I take over for the LOC-DME approach and a circling touch-n-go, and then the kid can do the proper landing as well (straight-in, w/o the circling). That’s the nice thing about this circling pattern - when you come out of it, you “naturally” get back to the entry of the initial turn, and with the choice of straight-in or circling.
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Innsbruck! I’m on a European tour and was going to miss that one. Would have never clued in.
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Tour of Naples and Pompeii. Perfect flight. Great weather. I had no idea how many residents are living around that mountain. MSFS is a big geography lesson
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Pompeii. Looks like they are finally rebuilding.
Nice, but time to head north again in the 320. Next stop Switzerland and Austria.
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this was my first flight and last days before lockdow irl.
the budding geologist in me is findingg this amazing… Highlights are Australia, Volcanoes, Chile and The Great Escarpment. Mountains are nice, but the scale and extreme nature of those things… (edit: and Iceland of course)
food for thought… that is not the exploding mountain. If you note… there is a much larger caldera surrounding the new cone.
You mention the people living around it… The tour guide, incorrectly named as a geologist (really annoyed), literally said… "we hate scientists round here, one minute the mountain is going up, next minute it’s not, they don’t have a clue and we just keep on living here. Yeah… much like the citizens of Pompeii, one day, the people of Naples will be able to say the same. It seemed like a serious case of ignoring inconvenient science. I felt like I was being lectured at by an anti-vaxxer… which wouldn’t bug me if he wasn’t ‘sold’ as a "geologist’.
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From my I-90 Coast-to-Coast (Boston to Seattle) trip:
Leg 7: Cummings Field (Rolling Prarie IN) to Spickard-Marshall (Rockford IL)
While not the longest leg, LL81 (Spickard-Marshall) was a tough arrival, enclosed all around by a treeline -127 nm, 0:54:00 enroute.
Departing Cummings Field and “feet wet” over Michigan City, cutting across the southern end of Lake Michigan.
Great views of Chicago and the waterfront district, as we make landfall over the city of Evanston.
We transit past the approach lanes for R22L and R while seeing the enormous sprawl of Chicago’s famous O’Hare Airport.
Aptly and picturesque Lake in the Hills airport (3CK) serving the South Lake area.
Finding LL81 was tough, I ended up overshooting and coming back in for a short final. Even then I may have used up a lot of life on the wheel brakes.
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Took off from Athens on the next leg of my European Capitals Tour in the CJ4 heading for Malta.
Once airborne and turned west realised that I hadn’t pressed “Execute” when inputting the flight plan when the aircraft just kept going straight after I engaged the autopilot. That’s when I discovered I couldn’t reload the FP once airborne so flew it manually whilst I had a think. Fortunately only a couple of waypoints so after inputting (and EXECUTE!) a DIRECT course managed to re-input the waypoints and all okay after. ATC and passengers didn’t notice anything amiss.
What a wonderful aircraft is the CJ4. Next time READ THE CHECKLIST!
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Huh. That makes more sense as half the mountain is missing then. I gotta get out more. Can’t imagine actually being there. Almost seems fictional
This planet has some amazing things to offer. Especially the Geology and vulcanism is just amazing. We are kind of semi volcanoe chasers… been to volcanoes in Ausatralia, Pompeii, Hawaii, New Zealand and others. Sitting in our hotel in Sorrento in 2019, the sheer awesomeness of Vesuvius looming on the horizon was not lost on us. Next trip to that region is definitely including Iceland and this little gem 6 Hour Volcano Tour Inside the Magma Chamber of Thrihnuka...
One of my favorite pics is my wife contemplating on the black lava cliffs of Hawaii, in between 'Vog" coughing fits.
we really have been quite fortunate with our travels irl, and with an interest in history and geology it has been that much more amazing. I have to say… FS2020 has helped revisit some of those places…and suss out future trips. Assuming no lockdown surprises, August will see a trip to Kakadu and Northern Australia. We have already sussed out the trip in FS2020 and added a few stops as a result… and decided to skip others
Today: currently at the tip of the Baja Peninsula (created by tectonic activity 
) at FL380 into a 63kn headwind bound for LAX eta 2255z bringing to an end an amazing trip with multiple new challenges, high altitude zero visibility landings and awesome scenery. Pushed the limits of strips I could get in and out of and diverted to an alternate once due to conditions. The worst approach as RNAV and required 3 attempts… I really need to refine my RNAV procedures, but this helped improve them significantly.
Some great vids… a couple of great landings with the lights reflecting of that chrome belly. I will have to work on some better angles/pics to show that off. Difficult since i don’t have any replay function and am loath to use add-ons that are not 100% essential like the FBW A32XNEO. MSFS is buggy enough without adding problems
side note and on topic… I apparently just ‘circumnavigated’ our newest 8th continent Zealandia. The New Zealand Empire has entered the chat… lol
I also created a FP from EHAM to Belarus. There were not any NOTAM’s relating to current events… yet
now a rest… after 17,547km trip… plus approaches, go-arounds etc. so probably 20,000km+
YMML NZCH NZWN NWWW NFNA NSFA NTTB NTAA NTTB NTAA NTGI SCIP SCEL SLVR SPJC SEQM SKBO TTPP TBPB TFFF TNCM MTPP MUHA MMMX KLAX
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Took a day off from my North American coastline tour to do my longest CRJ flight yet, from Galveston to Austin and back. Very much worth the extra effort to learn and to enter the route manually, and she looks so photogenic in the private livery, I’m glad they included it.
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Gorgeous. You won’t see anything that graphically stunning in x-plane, that’s for sure.
I cannot get over how so many of the xp “pudit” loyalists continue to be in chronic denial over the superiority of MSFS 2020. They continually parrot “braaaawck eye candy, eye candy” and in regard to the flight model: “flying on a rail, flying on a rail… braaaawck.” Their simulator is for and is designed by engineers and is not a game. It’s an engineering tool. Puhlease…
I see neither eye candy nor flying on a rail. I see an amazing new realm in flight simulation. Absolutely stellar.
I’ve flown irl. Simmed with XP for many years. And with MS for many years as well. Actually first began simming with Sublogic on a Commodore 64 in the 80’s. Today, MSFS 2020 overwhelmingly crushes XP-11 in the graphics dept - landscape, cloudscape, buildings, weather, animated ground crews, ground support vehicles at airports, etc, etc. And I honestly, objectively believe the MSF flight model to be superior as well.
Sure xp has more “study level” aircraft to chose from, with more complete, in-depth aircraft systems. But how long’s v11 been around? I’m looking very forward to what developers eventually bring to the MS / Asobo front.
Sorry - you posted a beautiful video and I went off on a rant. But your video reinforces what I already know to be fact. I had thought- several times - of posting my opinion to the xp forum, but I know that I would be quickly squelched by their moderator lackeys. Would probably even be banned and lose membership status. Censorship is as alive and thriving there as it is in the rest of the world today…
Anyway, again - thanks for an awesome post.
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Agree, and the flightmodel is only getting better in MSFS. And as studylevel planes will appear very soon, the other sims will have a hard time…
Sorry for OT 
Flew from California to Longmont Colorado in the TBM with the latest WT G3000 avionics package. Landed at Vance Brand Airport (KLMO) right at the height of a typical Colorado squall… lotsa fun!
Imagine my surprise when I saw what looked to be a convention of Cubs under grey skies…
By the time I left to fly back home - of course - it was sunny and beautiful… some Cubs had left.
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I flew from SEGU TO SEQM…. In the Fly by Wire A32NX
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Ya. O’Hare. This is what I had to contend with my first trip there. Total Chaos. Constant string of planes landing and go around after go around. I watched a plane dive out of control behind me into the water. I have never seen anything like it since so not sure what was going on. Exciting and stressful approach with a row of planes in front and behind me while trying not to hold anyone up and not overtake. Now wherever I go I rarely see much traffic. Certainly nothing like this.
There are about 30 planes there and more off the map.
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