Added the Cloud Car from Bespin and took a flight out of NZQN
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After having flown in to Jersey (Channel Islands) yesterday evening in the FBW A320, it was time to take a tour in my C172.
The weather unfortunately was not being kind with that typical Chanel Island fog and 20Kts of wind blowing in from the east.
Departed Jersey the on to Guernsey Alderney and back to Jersey.
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This morning we took the Goose for a quick flight and practiced our Water landings.
After a very enjoyable experience in this wonderful rendition of a Classic Aircraft we walked the Pups
and then settled down with a Coffee and Jeremy’s Review of the Big Radials masterpiece.
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I flew the Supermarine Spitfire from Beale AFB to Fallon NAS. I changed the time in the sim to have some lovely sun for the flight, but apparently, I overdid it a bit and ended up with an early evening landing at Fallon. Stunning scenery leaving California and heading into Nevada. Found some river canyon areas that look like they need a blasting from an F-14 or F-16 in the near future!
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Well it wasn’t today - but yesterday… I discovered NC06 available in the marketplace and that was great because I had just purchased one of my favorite little airports - 2NC0 I think – The resort at the top of a mountain northeast of Ashville NC. So I bought it and set up a little flight with one of my weather themes and nearly bit the dust on landing as the winds were whipping over the top of the hill and causing a severe downdraft that I wasn’t prepared for… but I made it on the second try.
Both airfields are awesome.
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I’m glad I didn’t wait until Saturday night to come back to London (though I’m totally staying in London for Saturday night, don’t get me wrong, am going out again this evening (in the game)…
I decided to get out my new toy I got in Burbank (KBUR) last week in California today, was great.
Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, let me introduce you to, Soho. Welcome to Old Compton Street, my patch of Old Compton Street to be precise, the corner of Frith Street and Old Compton Street.
Btw, love, love, LOVE that convenience shop there as pictured above, and I love how the game’s got it, signage and flags and all.
I could so easily set the above as my new profile picture on Xbox if I loved this game more, but, let’s continue… Frith Street, on this corner here.
Above you’ve got where that spinning disc TV was invented, some would argue, the first TV… You got Bar Italia (love this place), opposite you got this chain Cafe Nero, where all the police like to drink at, and next to that you’ve got this awesome Indian restaurant, and just next to that out of shot, Ronnie Scott’s.
Let me take you all to the otherside of Old Compton Street, to where my Xbox Profile snapshot was taken/This Forum’s avatar was taken, shall we?
… Let’s.
Then I decided to go to London’s Chinatown just over the road there, as I do.
Let’s go…
Then I wanted to go back up and come to Old Compton Street for Greek Street as Greek Street is… Next to Frith Street, but, it’s where I was based, where I put my LTD, and, 100 years ago, my maternal grandmother used to toll me, was where her mother’s family had a shop, so Greek Street and myself are connected like that…
I…
Crashed, I’m not mad at where I landed, I’m just mad at what way up I landed, which means I had to end there… I forgot this Wetherspoons has two entrances, an entrance on Greek Street, and an entrance on Charing Cross Road. In Chinatown, I wanted to go to Wetherspoons in this game and I instinctively just went to the Greek Street entrance, was a quick flight considering I knew where I was and I knew where I was going and I rushed there and it wasn’t far… Only…
I landed yards away… Upside down.
Now… I’m not even hating where I landed… Because that afforded me a 360 shot of my stomping grounds and accidentally captured my spiritual home… I just hated that, that was it, I was stuck there.
Old Compton Street/Greek Street.
Literally just yards away from the Wetherspoons up Greek Street to the left there, where I’ve landed used to be a Shisha Bar, now it’s a Chinese bao place, (those steamed buns), that’s where I landed.
That’s Miss Saigon that, the Prince Edward Theatre… That’s Miss Saigon, that’s between the last picture and the first picture, we just circled the block (if you count Shaftsbury Avenue running through it part of the block, Shaftsbury Avenue being that road I cross from Chinatown to Soho), and this marks the start of my part of Old Compton Street.
The memories.
An horizon here embedded in my psyche.This is on Greek Street.
I had my fun. I’m upside down, smiling here.
So yeah, glad I came back from Rome to go out Friday night, and by out, I do mean here…
In this game, I am 100% sure I’d want to be here for Saturday night too… I would have come back today if not yesterday, that’s how much I like Saturday night homecomings here (in real life)/(so why not in this game too, if I can, and I could), got that flight from Rome back to London just for Friday night, and Saturday night’s even better…
I’ve got a flight to Tokyo Sunday morning though, so, yeah, tonight, I’m still in my hometown, touching base with London.
I’m probably on Denmark Street guitar shopping or at the Wetherspoons or whatever until the nightlife begins.
Also, I’m a Jimi Hendrix fan, I took a snapshot of Dean Street where he and his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded Purple Haze - I don’t know where exactly on Dean Street, but, I screenshotted Old Compton Street & Dean Street too today.
I took a picture of that junction too but feared I was pushing the limits…
That’s the other side of Frith Street to Greek Street, you’ve got me and my roots on Greek Street from the back of Orange Yard and Denmark Street… Frith Street, where TV comes from, and Dean Street, where Purple Haze was recorded… Then at the other end on Wardour Street, where I took that snapshot that became my Xbox Profile picture/this forum avatar.
Flight to Faro to check out the new update, got a bit dark on approach though, but still looked stunning.
Gatwick - Faro A320n (series x)
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When the sim simply delivers. Ethereal lighting and ahead of me, Live Traffic (matched on FlightAware) - a fractional yacht dealership owner headed South to escape the pre-Spring blahs. He just launched out of my home field ahead of me.
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Nice touch with the ‘contrails’
Niagara to Toronto to buzz the city. Then the 4 hour flight to Vancouver in the big ole 747 with my new livery pack.
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Saturday night, still out in London, though (in this game) I’m due to leave for Tokyo in the morning.
…
Took my Velocity out for some night sightseeing.
Then I went down to Croydon,
landed on ‘the 50p building’
then I went looking for Croydon Clocktower but this game doesn’t seem to have it, so I went to Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood and South Norwood and took pictures of my friends and my houses, showed my friends, and showed them Thornton Heath on this game, then I flew up the A23 and stopped at Brixton because I loved the detail Brixton had in this game.
…
Brixton.
Then I went back to Soho.
I also decided ‘N33’ for an American registration was a little short, so, as to leave no doubt, I think it’s now N333CA (I choose the letters CA as a homage to where I got it in this game ‘in my mind’ because I got it in Burbank (BUR) KBUR, California).
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