My kitty copilot was elusive today. But we are on an around the globe journey from SLC, UT to SLC, UT. And we made it to Kodiak Island today, in the Kodiak 100. Although the photo is the Beechcraft… I have to fly other planes once in a while.
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Did a flight from Liverpool to Dublin if I knew I was going to get this gorgeous sun set I’d have turned everything off
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finally got my throttle. now i have a finished setup. did a trip in a boeing for a first time
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A Coruña LECO to Bilbao LEBB in the A320NX . The approach into Bilbao is absolutely amazing. The new photogrammetry for that area looks stunning! (apart from this one bridge…)
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Right now in the game, I’m on the way to Tokyo today.
Earlier…
Back at the airport, I took a picture of the plane I would be taking today.
Japan Airlines flight JL 92 London (LHR) - Tokyo (NRT)
/JAL 92 EGLL- RJAA Boeing 777-200ER
I don’t use Heathrow airport as much as I should for the UK, however, I was flying LHR - NRT today with JAL… But taking off this morning was busy.
London (LCY) just went up another notch, other aeroplanes were blocking the AI, causing the AI to forget which way to go while dealing with ATC at Heathrow today, one aeroplane went right through mine… Mine ended up doing the same, was chaos/madness I tell you.
Finally, we got up out and away…
London - Tokyo
Leaving the UK/Europe behind, see ya UK/Europe, 'til next time!
Also leaving Sunday behind it’s a 12 hour flight.
Then later around Denmark, I decided to settle in on my flight.
Of course I booked first class, I’m flying commercial, so right now in the game I’m flying London to Tokyo first class today.
I want a live landing, so, I’m going to pick this flight up in the morning (Japan time)… And show everybody JL 92 land and everything when I get to Japan.
I’ve never been to Japan before, I wanted London Heathrow to Tokyo Narita airport, and I wanted it with JAL, that’s why I didn’t book with British Airways to get to Japan today, I wanted JAL and I didn’t want HND, I wanted NRT for my first time in Japan, luckily, JAL has JL 92 LHR - NRT, so I was sorted/am on that now.
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I finally crossed the equator for the first time in my African journey in this Ouésso Airport (FCOU) - Maya-Maya Airport (FCBB) leg. Also this leg left the jungle lands too.
What was a bit eye watering that either bing maps seemed to have lower resolution photos of the lands or my internet connection acted up again, but sometimes I could see that fields and forest walls had quite noticibly rectangular sides.
Still zigzagging rivers, ridges, hills and other terrain features still made this a trip worth watching:
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Nothing because my weather still broken.
Just a lovely evening flight in the Carenado from Fife airfield outside Glenrothes up to Loch Earn in the Scottish highlands and back down again. I must say the live weather is so good now. We’ve had a lovely unseasonably warm Spring day here on the East coast of Scotland.
Usually when that happens we get sea mist, or haar as its called here in Scotland, coming in in the evening. So as I flew back to Fife there was a huge wall of haar coming in right across Fife and the east coast. I had to divert and land in Edinburgh.
I love this sim.
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I am a brand new MSFS user. I bought the latest (& most expensive) version, installed it on my HP OMEN laptop running W11 home. I have many “how to” questions about things I want to do while flying. Like: In the cockpit display, when I “rotate” the elevator trim wheel with the mouse cursor, it does not stay rotated. Same with the joystick buttons. How do I get the trim setting to “stick”?
I badly need contact with knowledgeable players to help me get going!
Thanks - Val G
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Another leg on my journey to Mount Etna with the FK9, from LFST (Strasbourg) to LFGB (Mulhouse Habsheim).
My flight preparation was: fly east after take-off, then follow the Rheine until your destination. Given clear skies I flew at 4000 ft and navigation with the Rheine was a breeze.
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What a day, heading 120 to the Rheine
There it is!
So nice!
The features of the river make it very easy to navigate with a map
Another stop, but not ours:
Approaching the airfield
Wheels on the ground LFGB
And relax …
Sim air: SimAir.io
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Short ifr trip from Lake Havasu to San Diego into Gillespie. WT CJ4. Live weather and a nice marine layer from 5k to 1200ft to a smooth rnav approach.
I’ve just touched down in Japan.
First time in Japan.
I wanted a live landing, so I waited 12 hours for that shot.
Narita Airport
JL 92 Arrived on time.
London - Tokyo
Japan Airlines flight JL 92 London (LHR) - Tokyo (NRT)
/JAL 92 EGLL- RJAA Boeing 777-200ER
Welcome to Tokyo.
I think it’s too early for check-in so I’m going to head into Tokyo for a bit, it’s like 9:30 am here now, I slept a little bit on the flight, first-class ticket, and whatnot, but, I’m still on London time. It’s morning time here but my body thinks it’s night. Might do a little sightseeing or something before checking into the hotel, am tired though.
I’m staying at the Ritz-Carlton in Tokyo.
“The plan for Japan…”
I know I’m going to Tokyo Dome while I’m here though, get my
on, and check out Kabukicho and Roppongi too while I’m here.
And a bunch of other stuff too in Toyko.
I’ve got my friend’s band in Hiroshima I’m going to go see, and I want to also go to Osaka, Mount Fuji, Kyoto, Yokohama, and Sapporo up in Hokkaido, that’s the plan for Japan.
In this game, I’ve just got to Japan, and I’m starting with Tokyo.
So I’m going to Tokyo Dome and stuff here first.
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Took the mighty Goose out around Catalina again this morning. What a joy to fly this old beast.
Then this afternoon, we had a short hop around Oahu, sporting one of Jankee’s amazing new liveries.
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Wow! There really was more to update today. I also updated FSUIPC which ended CTDs I was getting. Who knew.
The other day I was tooling around my favorite Nagoya area to check out the Thursday update. Worked fine.
Started at a regular airport in Ise, which was an air base and had all the helo markings.
Also a decent representation of Ise Jingu, one of Nippon’s three main shrines.
Across Ise Bay eventually to Chubu Centrair to harrass the folks on the observation deck (tee hee). Noticed the ship AI with smoke and a light wake.
In all my flying, I’ve not been to Toyota-shi. So, off I went and found the HQ and quite a few factory buildings.
Flew over Nagoya to see out the castles at Inuyama and Gifu - not much love there.
Atsuta Shrine, another of the three main shrines in Nippon.
Finished at Komaki.
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Sitting in Japan, I’m booked into the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo, but check-in isn’t until 3 pm and it’s 1 pm… (I should’ve got that later flight)…
That said, I’m sat here in Tokyo, I took a modern limo from the airport, even though I’m following some 1992 thing, it’s 2022, I’m taking Boeing 777s and 2020’s limos, not Boeing 747s and 1980’s limos, like what inspired me to come to Tokyo and Japan in the first place, it’s 2022, modern limo, to downtown Tokyo it seems.
I’m due to meet my translator here at the cafe, nonetheless, I’m sitting down, my bags are either on my private jet which is making its way to HND as I speak, and what I checked with JAL yesterday has been sent ahead to the hotel, so I got a pen and paper from the waitresses here, and I sat down and plotted everything I want to do on this trip to Japan, while I wait for check-in time and my translator to get here, who’s agreed to meet me now before I go to bed.
So that’s good.
I had to sit down, work out who I knew where and what I wanted to see and do.
I also have an old drinking buddy in town here who also translates, I might pick him up/hire him too, but I’m sitting down in Tokyo, in a cafe, gathering my thoughts, waiting for this translator I hired, she seemed nice by her picture…
I’m going to meet her, introduce myself, all of that, then have the limo come pick me up and take me to the hotel, so I can get some sleep in Japan, it may be 1 pm, but it feels like bedtime to me. London just went into DST when I left it so, that’s good, only 8 hours time difference now.
The plan is to meet my translator, then go off to the hotel for check-in, then hit Tokyo when I wake up.
I’m going to start Japan off in Tokyo though and see Tokyo first. The itinerary I just sat down and worked on was really for what to do after Tokyo - and now I know what way I want to do Japan.
WU VIII, CTD again
Yesterday at this point but took part of the Welcome to the Oscars event in ZLA on VATSIM. TrackIR helped me loads keeping an eye out for traffic. Flew the Mini Route a few times and it was awesome seeing all the traffic below at KLAX. I gave KBUR, KVNY and KLGB traffic too…
(this actually got more populated as time went on)
I had so much fun.
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