I made a cold and dark start and entered a route in the G5000 of the Cessna Citation Longitude from EHAM to KJFK and departed from Schiphol. The flight will be chopped into pieces. I can’t simulate spare time to fly
I love the aircraft but there’s still so much that can be improved in the simulation version.
Flew a short night VFR flight from KBVY to KBOS not realizing that one of the latest sim updates had reverted my AI Radio/Comms assistance setting back to default (on). This provided an interesting unannounced trip into the Bravo. I really hope that MSFS will create better integration with VATSIM especially as it pertains to flight logs and comms. In any case, here’s the flight:
Works when aiming a bit higher than I would normally approach a runway at, the upward slope messes with your brain. It makes it look extremely short as well!
It was dark in the Himalayas, departure from Paro, not looking good
Still impressed with how stable it is landing at 115 knots with default load out, yet those upward sloping runways make for a rough landing. Fun practice. Should be easy now in a GA plane
Tried the SamScenery New York scenery and scooted around the city. Good, easy on FPS. Needs active helipads on ground and rooftops (I’m one of a minority), needs to make the Chrysler building less pointy (gosh, I’m picky). The active cable cars remind me of the ORBX London scenery - nice touch. Soon plan to tour in the city. Why has nobody made an ersatz NYPD livery for the 135?
I tested out landing at Saba TNCS. I didn’t think it would be possible, it isn’t. However after kicking out all the passengers and luggage, just two pilots and 6% fuel, landing speed of 90 knots
This Jurassic Park scenery is beyond awesome! Finally someone dared to had a cool idea for some exotic (and even fictional) scenery enhancement instead of making the 999 000 000 000 000 000st casual standard landmark that looks alluring on a screenshot but is forgotten 3 to 5 seconds after putting it into the community folder
And I did a landing challenge in Nepal, reminds me of old Far Cry 4 days.
found my plane were I left it at Kabul overnight. Maxed out Passengers, then fuel and cargo… it was a looong takeoff to Munich
Had to manage climberate and speed carefully to make it over the mountains
a beautiful early morning departure.
I see they just saved time and went digital camo pattern on the whole country. Why am I not surprised we have funky imagery of that area!?!?
Over mountains in Azerbaaijan at my max altitude, turbulence sent me up 1000ft, AP shut off and I lost ‘stability’. Had to nose down 2000ft to pickup speed, then reengaged the AP. The rest was uneventful
The servers seem to be down again. Ground textures are back to offline mode, Azure text to speech copped out as well. Live weather and multiplayer still seem to be working (for now) Not sure what’s going on with Azure, no map data yesterday afternoon either. Also the world map just shows off-line data ugliness. (Connected to East USA server, everything on, plenty bandwidth)