Flying some cargo over random islands. Thousands of gallons of finest coconut milk, sugar, fine liqueur, and surfboards - the cargo compartment was filled up to the brim.
The most important thing:
Setting the cockpit and interior temperature to a cozy atmosphere of 75° Fahrenheit which is about 22-23° Celcis.
The design of having the engines build into the wings in a fluent design is awesome compared to the casual design that is used in 90% of all current planes: just having turbine nacelles hanging under the wings.
That´s why she is called the “Cloudmaster”, the name an airplane can get.
The engines are still in good condition, and not overheating even with cowl flaps almost closed.
The Cloudmaster is rather difficult to bring into a stable approach and not as easygoing and “F-16 jet” like.
I could not align the nose with this runway and crashed unfortunately. This aircraft cannot be flown with sharp banking and steep turns into the final approach, but it was my second attempt to land. Maybe the coconut milk will arrive next time! 
(The islanders were still happy because the crashed plane did not catch fire at least a few palettes with 2000 gallons of liqueur, and some guitars for the evening campfires could be salvaged from the wreck…)
This failed landing awakens the wish to finally get a good looooong final approach visual landing guide. Again there was non even if the flight was pre-planned the airport was not marked als POI, and no visual landing guide was visible. This time I would have needed it because this airplane is way different to fly than the CRJ and really needs a long stable approach…
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Contrails and scenic approaches - Hilton Head to Key West
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Got her down at SAWH, this was tough landing as had a 28kt crosswind. Also, I still am having issues with the approach on AP, in the end I took it off the gyro-pilot and hand lined it up and landed manually.
This beast gets blown all over the skies with a cross wind like that, it was great fun!
Got her down, -237.40fpm, a little hard! but no issues and again, was hard work with that cross wind.
Unload the cargo into the factory for manufacturing.
Look at those waves…
Oh and stopping was easy as I managed to engage the reverses this time… finally. Didn’t need the brakes at all.
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Today at KFBW airport…Meeting of the giants
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DA40NG ‘DANG’ Adventure.
WMKJ, Kuala Lumpur to WMPA, Pulau Pankor
Does not look much…right. Well, the Rwy is 04/22. What has that to do with anything?
22 is a nice low approach over the water and about 100ft past a cliff, really nice and easy.
04 however is a real (REAL) challenge. I lined the Aircraft up just fine…but getting it down onto the Rwy, just clearing the tall trees…yea…sigh. I tried twice and then landed on 22 with a tailwind.
Yea… and then there was this Airbus H 135. I was offered a free ride and after that… The Owner offered to instruct me on how to fly the thing. A very tempting offer indeed. I need to sleep on that one.
By the Way… Pangkor is an Island in Malaysia. Lovely place to rest after 14 days travelling. I might stay for a while.
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Flew the Tardis over Gallifrey Citadel (links in video description) - https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XhfWQVF1XRE
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Purchased a copy of the Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante POH and started digging into it and detouring to the Normal Procedure checklists to run through them, compare to the condensed checklists I already had and see what is/isn’t functional in the Nextgen XBOX model so far.
Printed 28 of the 494 pages for easier reference:
Spent more than an hour in my parking spot working through all the startup procedures and prepping on taxi and flight steps before finally rolling toward the runway just in time to take off at sunset for a beautiful flight from KFLG to KPGA. Not able to gaze constantly at it with my head buried in the instruments working the deeper procedures to the extent the model allowed and practicing a couple HDG-managed procedure turns on departure transition and approach fix. Crabbed a night landing in Page, AZ with a fun 16kt crosswind component.
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More practice in the FlyingIron Spitfire, tonight in one of my most favorite places in the world, the San Francisco Bay area.
(HD version is still processing, so apologies …)
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Got my first lesson on the Airbus H135 which I named ‘Hec’.
Okay…not a spot-landing…but I landed it…with a bump
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Heading to KORD from KLAX, flew behind the fastest wind speeds I have ever had in the game. Gotta love that winter jet stream. Speeds first recorded near Sioux Falls, SD.
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This is something I’ve been looking forward to a lot! I am saving what I am most looking forward to, the last. I still have so much learning to do before I get this career mode mod. It’s fun to see post like these. Builds up my anticipation.
What is this? Did Sauron build another castle? Awesome I absolutely have to install this!
Thanks for posting this! That´s truly some new and refreshing scenery, here is the link to download and install:
https://flightsim.to/file/25311/gallifrey-citadel-from-doctor-who
Screenshots of this gorgeous architecture will follow later after installing
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Gorgeous morning flight from the snowcapped mountains surrounding Innsbruck LOWI temperature 0c to the Balearic Island of Ibiza LEIB.
The cloudy climb out over the Alps with a clear sky above and low winter sun was gorgeous. Then before arrival into Ibiza we also got a cloudless view of Menorca and Mallorca.
Aside from needing to reverse thrust and no ground services at Innsbruck it was a great flight. Oh and that silly bug where the aircraft rolls itself when looking at instruments. Everything visual was great. All it needs now is the updates for the scenery pack to come through marketplace, the trees in Ibiza looked too brown and deciduous.
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Feeling festive - pottered around the Alps with heavy snow, trying to find sketchy landing spots. Only went wrong…a few times
Woah was that with live weather on?
Curious, what do you think of this plane? I know the ratings in marketplace are pretty low but that doesn’t always mean anything. Thanks
On the Xbox side, the start-up procedure was not done in the checklist that Bredok released with the plane. However, a tutorial is available on their website showing how to get the plane started on the Xbox, which shows professionalism on their part. It can be fun to fly once you get to grips with the plane. I also have their Eurofighter, which had some serious issues (essentially, it was causing CTDs whenever you wanted to fly it). Still, Bredok did correct it very quickly, something that I thought would take well into 2022 to sort out.
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DA40NG ‘DANG’ Adventures.
I got a few more lessons on the Airbus Helicopter. Nice Chopper…but not something I wish to fly around the world.
Oh dear…
Someone barely managed to land a DA62 into Pankor Airport (WMPA). Yea…So what?
Pankor Runway length is 2400 ft. DA62 take-off performance is 2500 ft. Okay? I was ask if I have a Twin-rating. Should have said NO! Anyhow…was hired to transfer the DA62 to Penang Intl (WMKP).
Take-off was a tense. Nearly got wet feet…but managed to not ditch the plane.
Penang Intl. The only way to get out of Pankor was with minimum fuel load. Tell me about flying on fumes. But landed safely in Penang. All Peachy.
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Flew from Detroit back to our starting point KROC in the delta crj 900 now that we’re done with our around the world flight I’m going to be waiting for the PMDG 737 for the next crazy series because I’m restarting the Appalachian flight using the Embraer e110
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