Short flight from Isle of Wight to Chichester
Arrival at Chichester
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I bought the BN-2 Islander after the new update and my first trip was the classic route St Maarten - St Barts. I usually do this with the Twin Otter but since Winair also uses the Islander I had to make this my first flight.
I had to go around at my first attempt. I came in too hot after catching the updraft behind the hill in front of the runway.
My second attempt was successful. The Islander doesn’t have reverse thrust like the Twin Otter but because it’s a lighter aircraft it stops pretty quickly with just wheel brakes.
My next stop was the island of Saba. Shortest commercial runway in the world, they say.
Successfully landed on my first attempt and of course someone was attempting to take off with an airliner just afterwards He fell off the cliff and into the water like they always do. It’s actually a very common sight at Saba, lol.
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Flying in the State of Washington, taking off from Cle Elum and landing at Ranger Creek.
Just after departure, Dragontail Peak in sight over there
While climbing up to 7000ft, a northwestern icon on the left, Mt. Rainier
Up close to Mount Rainier
Ranger Creek
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Attempted to fly YSSY-YMAV with BOXER40:
Didn’t even get to take off, for some stupid reason the Reverb G2 display in DX12 flickered terribly - ending with a CTD.
Restarted and did the flight with A36-001, not a hint of the CTD problems before:
I flew the landing manually and touched down just about perfectly.
I discovered Little Navmap - how did I miss that before?! It makes it much easier to work out flight plans, SIDs and STARs.
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Continuing my GA world tour, took off on my latest leg from Antonio Narino in Chachagui, Columbia. When I landed there the previous day, it was cloudy and foggy, so I didn’t get a good look at the terrain it’s built upon.
So today when my south departure instructions were to take off to the north and then turn 180 degrees after takeoff, I got a real good look out the window at the airport and the way the runway hugs the plateau. Really cool sight to view.
Landed a short bit later in Ecuador as my tour reaches the next new country on the route.
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But the knee boards, and paper maps, and the trusty compass and protractor grease pensil and plastic overlays to plot you course so you didnt ruin your maps, and using the dme to triangulate where you where. Thats what made the sim fun. ;p
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Delivering “Soka Sempei,” a local specialty, to Asobo STUDIO
msfs is getting much better with su10d.
I wanted to thank Asobo STUDIO for their hard work, so I went from Okegawa Airport in Japan to Asobo STUDIO to deliver their special product, “Soka Sempei”.
I think Asobo STUDIO is in Bordeaux but I am not sure. Oh well. The plane was Twin Otter.
The route is “RJOJ-RJSN-UHWW-ZYHB-UHBB-UIAR-UIBB-UNTT-USRR-USPP-UUDL-EPMM-LSMP-Asobo STUDIO”
I went down to the airport several times to refuel.
I’m not a simmer and this is my first time to fly msfs, so I manage to get ahead with the help of ILS and RNAV.
Finally, on the morning of the second day, we reached the sky over Asobo STUDIO! (In msfs time, I flew at 8x speed for about 10 hours…)
Aaah! Oh shoot, I don’t know how to do the holding at Twin Otter!
I’m going past Asobo STUDIO…can I set up OBS and HLS and repeat alternately to get the holding? I should have learned how to use OBS better. Oh well.
What can’t be done can’t be helped. I shot a series of Windows+Alt+PrintScreen buttons right above Asobo STUDIO to take a commemorative screenshot for now.
At that moment!
CTD.
What a msfs-like performance that made me smile.
su10b was feeling well enough to fly from Okegawa Airport to over Asobo STUDIO without logging out. It is not the fastest, but it is balanced, smooth, and fun.
There is such a thing as an incurable disease, but it’s better to get over it with symptomatic treatment and enjoy the days, right?
And I must apologize. I was so hungry that I ate the “Soka Sempei” on the way.
I may practice OBS and fly again.
To those in charge of Asobo STUDIO, thank you for all your hard work!
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After a four month, around the world journey that took us to Mexico, South America, across the South Pacific, to southern Asia, Israel, Mallorca, and finally the Azores, we landed today where we started - back at Key West (KEYW). This was my longest flight yet since I upgraded to the 3080, and the sim was stable for this 6h20m, 2975nm flight across the western Atlantic Ocean, and it’s great to be back in the USA!
YT link to approach and landing…
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Tried tuning in the TACAN station (CBU “Columbia”) at Portland International; presumably it’s there for the Oregon Air National Guard which flies F-15s from the airport. Navigraph showed the station’s frequency as 109.2 MHz, but to input it to the F-35A’s TACAN selector I had to convert that to the proper military-style coding, as “29X”.
Seems to work! I got both distance and bearing on my nav display, pointing back to the location of the beacon on the airport grounds as I flew around. 
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Today i had a wonderful flight departing from Athens (LGAV) but over France my A320 fenix crashed…to DESKTOP. Thanks to Asobo as always!!!
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Lagged, then for a change CTD’d, then lagged again. Went and played eve online while I reinstalled Xplane, and now Im about to go on my 1st sucessful flight of the day.
But this was purdy right before I got so P’d off that I quit the sim.
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Yesterday, I went flying IRL in a C172 and then set up the sim to duplicate the flight’s weather and aircraft loading, and flew the same flight again in the sim in the evening. Performance of the simulated C172 was pretty close to that of the real aircraft, and the simulated flight’s flight time matched the real flight’s flight time within 1 minute.
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Did a short hop to Beaver island in the b2 Islander
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With the daughter taking her afternoon nap, I managed to knock off another leg of my world tour flight: SETU to SEQM in the Bonanza. SEQM also marks the 80th stop on my trip to this point.
The Bonanza been a really fun plane to fly and I’ve been pushing it’s performance limits on a few flights over the taller ranges in the Andes, which has presented some fun challenges.
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My tour of the American West sees me leaving Everett WA (KPAE) to Seattle WA Boeing Field (KBFI) to Astoria OR (KAST) to The Dalles OR (KDLS). Nice short legs and varied weather, terrain and traffic.
Some pix:
Boeing Field approach
Above the clouds, descending to Astoria OR
Climbing out of Astoria OR with low, dark clouds
Leaving the weather behind
Volcanoes of the Cascade Range in WA/OR
Parked at The Dalles OR (KDLS)
Next stops are Tillamoook OR (KTMK) - maybe pick up some cheese, North Bend OR (KOTH), Crescent City CA (KCEC).
Fly safe 
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