The airport itself is in a valley, with an easy visual approach following a river, however as in many cases, someone found it vitally importatnt to plant high trees just at the end of the runway. Luckily it is quite long, even for a jet, so I managed a nice and smooth landing.
While I haven’t tried the helipads myself (I just did a first quick round-trip from YMEN), according to Orbx there are landable helipads included: “For helicopter pilots, the Children’s Hospital, Royal Hospital, and Victoria Police Center Tower have landable helipads. In addition, there are several floating helipads along the downtown and port sections of the Yarra River.”
I took the Fenix A320 for my very first flight yesterday. It was a very scenic evening flight from Calgary (YYC) to Vancouver (YVR), and I took the chance to try it with my brand-new custom W.I.P livery.
Today’s flight time was about 1hr 20min, with fantastic weather at Calgary, and some rain/showers expecting me in Vancouver.
Departure time was at 7:01pm (Mountain Time), 7 minutes behind schedule.
It wasn’t long until I reached the Rocky Mountains. This is when the flight got quite bumpy! I had the seatbelt sign on for most of this flight, but the sights were spectacular!
It wasn’t long until I started my descent into Vancouver. The winds had shifted so I had to rework my approach from RWY 26L to RWY 08L, and this sort of messed up my flightplan. It would still get me close enough to intercept the ILS beacon though, so it wasn’t too bad. Nonetheless, the sky definetely got more intimidating as I began my approach to YVR, but the couple of breaks in the clouds here and there made for fantastic landscapes and scenic views!
I punched through the clouds and flew out over the Straight of Georgia before turing to line up for RWY 08L and intercept the ILS. The sun was setting and it made for a very cool reflection over the water.
I lined up and landed at YVR, but quite hard at -430 fps! Not my best landing! I taxied around the International Terminal and arrived at my gate just 2 minutes behind schedule, at 7:27pm, pacific time.
All in all, the Fenix A320 is a phenomenal add-on. Having recently flown on an A320-200, I must say the sounds are almost spot on, albiet a but dull. I’ll definelty fly this bird some more to get used to its more detailed systems and mechanisms.
ORBX have been dropping the ball on active pads where we can set up a flight, but they do put the markings in the right place for landings. Disappointing for a helo flyer. Cheers!
Testing the new freeware glider, Schleicher K-7. It is an awesome classic two seater, no fancy computers, composite materials, just the basics. It is awesome!
Carried out an early morning fantasy Formula 1 charter flight for today’s Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Flight in the A320 Neo from Ashkhabat, Turkmenistan. On arrival take a look at the layout of the city circuit as modelled in Flight Simulator.
Will make more sense to F1 fans as we make out the corners and sections of the race track with the drone cam. All the corners including Castle section can be made out.
As this is not a photogrammetry area the sim behaviour on Series S was impeccable, the only disappointment was the jetways at Ashkhabat connecting to nothing. If only photogrammetry area such as Europe behaived as well as this (no blackscreen or CTD). Conversely Paris last week was hell even in the King Air 350. CDG blackcreen A320 from start.
Took the BAE 146 300 from Bermuda to Halifax Canada on my new world tour because I decided to do some more regional jet flying definitely taking into London City on my new tour
I started the morning by enjoying a flight in PMDG’s 737 from KDEN to KMIA. I wish I had the time to start every day on the flight deck of this amazing aircraft…
This morning took Justflight’s Hawk T1/A from Lissabon to Gibraltar treetop level
In the afternoon took the MD82 from Brussels to Fuerteventura. After adding flightsimulator.exe and gtn_simulator.exe to the exclusion list in Windows defender no more frame rate drops. They usually kick in after 1 h of flight. During the STAR for Rwy01 at GCFV there was 1 aircraft in front of me following the same procedures. So prepared for a missed approach, but tower : ‘Follow the aircraft, you are clear to land’
So I dare to say : Traffic separation works
Immersion today was complete . Sorry, guys, forgot the take screenshots
. Sorry, guys, forgot the take screenshots