What did you do in MSFS today? (Part 1)

hobanagerik · June 30, 2022, 10:33pm

Took the Flysimware Cessna 414 in to Paro, runway 15.

Craftytigers · June 30, 2022, 10:58pm

I have been doing the FS Academy flight training lessons and absolutely love the detail and explanations in them. They are truely worth the money to get.

BubbaBlitz7348 · June 30, 2022, 11:22pm

Went to Cedar Point but it wasnt there:

Monkfishman3086 · June 30, 2022, 11:57pm

Navigated, mostly incorrectly, from EBOS to EBFS and then to EBLG. With the Hawker Hunter.

The plan was to follow a radial of 130 to EBCI (VOR GSY, 115.700), but I did not correctly read my CDI because I was flying the course backwards (I guess there is a term for that). Anyway, took me a while to realise so then I just set DIRECT to EBCI.

Then after that, follow a bit East and then turn South to intercept the ILS for EBFS.

I knew there was a chance EBFS wouldn’t be there and the ILS wouldn’t be found. So I was getting close (if not further) than I needed to be, but no ILS readings on my CDI, I returned to EBCI to try it again. But also the second try, nothing happened.

So I diverted to SPI VOR and then headed North to intercept the EBLG ILS for 22R, which worked fine. Although visibility was not good during the ILS capture. But I managed to bring it in … on 22L.

Sloppy stuff, but in my defense I was badly prepared.

Low altitude flight over Belgium:

Here’s EBCI

Returning to Charleroi after not finding EBFS

Manually capturing the ILS, prefer a bit better visibility …

Parked at EBLG, will research the existence of EBFS (Florennes)

Simair:

Update: EBFS does exist so I did something wrong … will hop from EBLG to EBFS next.

DanRoman56 · July 1, 2022, 2:40pm

If you have pix of the place, or a google maps link, you might request that creator on flightsim.to make you some scenery for it.

CasualClick · July 1, 2022, 4:12pm

1st leg of the WU10 California Bush Trip

CBCDES · July 1, 2022, 4:32pm

Flew around Barcelona, a very impressive city to over-fly.

ZILLNIAZI17 · July 1, 2022, 5:53pm

The 1-meter DEM in the Mount Rainier National Park is breathtaking:

CasualClick · July 1, 2022, 7:52pm

WU10 California Bush Trip - flew over most restricted areas - Edwards AFB, the Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility, over Telescope Peak and into Death Valley. Landed below sea level at Furnace Creek.

DanRoman56 · July 1, 2022, 8:32pm

Now DTLA looks like the mod from two years ago. Now I don’t need the mod. Even the LAFD helo on the City Hall East helipad is there, as are the photogrammetry helos on the LAPD air center.

jfoguet61 · July 1, 2022, 9:08pm

Barcelona is my hometown, and I find its photogrametry amazing since day one of the sim…
…I can see pretty well my home in MSFS

KayakSailor4 · July 1, 2022, 9:16pm

Flew the BAE 146 300 from OEJN to OTHH

Monkfishman3086 · July 1, 2022, 9:34pm

Unlike yesterday, made it to EBFS today with the Hawker Hunter!

All’s well that ends well … wait … ok but it’s just a few scratches

Did that again, but less incorrectly:

Check!

QuietLawyer4339 · July 1, 2022, 10:22pm

I took a rare flight through Japan today don’t often fly around that part of the world. Took my flight in the A32NX with Japan Airlines livery from Tokyo Haneda RJTT to Tokachi-Obihiro RJBC on Japans northern island. Had a lovey clear view over mainland Japan. Got to the cost city of Hachinohe and could see nothing but heavy cloud covering the small amount of Pacific Ocean I had to cross during the decent to Hokkaido Island. Got to ten thousand feet and had a lovey view of the mountains and country side will have to fly more routes going from big cities to fast countryside

CasualClick · July 1, 2022, 10:49pm

Furnace Brook, Death Valley to Bishop CA - with a breathtaking tour of the Sierra Nevada mountains. If you deconstruct the Bush Trip like I do, make sure to take a high-performance aircraft with plenty of maneuverability - the trip route drops you down from a nail-biting bare clearance of 15,000 AGL to 5,000 or so in less than 10 NM.

Monkfishman3086 · July 2, 2022, 12:03am

Also managed to do a flight (EBOS to EBLG) with the Airbus A320 from Fly By Wire.

I followed along with this tutorial by Overkill Simulations: Microsoft Flight Simulator | FlybyWire A320 Full Flight | Tutorial - YouTube

My main problem was really speed management. I don’t understand yet how it works. I did not configure flex temp, so I read I should use TOGA power on take-off. I did that and accelerated to 300 kts in no time. I assumed the airbus would manage the speed to 250 by itself. I then changed the throttle to CLB and that seemed more reasonable.

On approach I had no idea what was happening, but along the way learned that both altitude and speed were managed by the systems.
I was easily able to capture LOC and GS but ended up slightly long on the runway, presumably because of something I did wrong with the speed.

Coming from “stick and rudder” flying, and a small amount of auto pilot, it’s quite the effort.

I really like the integration with simbrief and the EFB tablet. I need to read up on the throttle of the A320, but apart from that, I did succesfully complete the flight!