I started to complete one of the more “cumbersome” achievements that also bears some boredom potential. That is, complete a 300nm flight with all planes in the standard edition. Well, with many of the planes that’s like a 1-2h flight on autopilot that can easily be done.
But then there are these particularly slow planes w/o autopilot. Due to the global and local situation around the pandemic, I spend most of my days sitting at home with my main 4k monitor connected to my office notebook, while my private PC is running on mysecond monitor. So this week I started to let these planes fly on their own at >5kft for hours, carefully adjusting their speed and trim and helping them with a considerable tailwind.
Like this morning, the ICON A5 flew from Istanbul to Sevastopol (Belbek), with a 15kts tailwind (achieved a speed over ground of 108kts, more wind made it too unstable), and right now the Cessna 152 is flying from a slightly more western airfield on the Crimean to Sotchi with a 30kts tailwind (>125kts over ground).
Earlier this week I already did the same with the Zlin, but with headwind - was the first flight and I didn’t pay attention to the wind.
Next day i did another flight with the second Zlin - just to realize after completion that this plane is not part of the standard edition and doesn’t count toward the achievement - d’oh…
Time accelleration didn’t work - or I was in a wrong plane again, which would be another nice d’oh moment
Moon over Innsbruck, Vancouver, and San Diego (checking out new airports)
I flew from KMGW to KMYR…over some of the best of West Virginia, at 8,000 ASL.
IFR under REAL WEATHER. Superb in the D62!
I was torn… go and sit in my favorite car park (smudges in pic below) and watch planes irl or fly in the sim. Went one better… flew in the sim and THEN sat there
Gold Coast to Sydney then on to Melbourne (A320Neo)
It has got to be one of the better spots to watch planes. You really don’t get how close they really are in the pics. The smudges at bottom of pic are all the parked cars. A coffee and snacks van has even started turning up irl - not quite as close as the famous French beach landing… but it is pretty close, especially when those heavies come in.
IRL form ground level you can’t quite see the lights as it is slightly elevated compared to the viewing area, but a bit past the threshold of RWY16 is a beeutiful view up the rwy.. with undulations that look just like that.
YMML RWY34
closed it and went back to warzone because the servers are down
My XCub world tour continues, though I’ve been delayed a lot by the weather. Having got to New Zealand, I’m now backtracking towards PNG, so I can follow the Pacific Rim north before heading for the Aleutians and North America. My last leg took me from the Solomons to Bougainville, in rather iffy conditions…
(Yes, I should have noticed the ‘fuel imbalance’ warning earlier, though I think it comes on quite some time before it actually gets to be an issue. And yes, that isn’t proper VFR flying)
…and then, sometimes, it blows you away again…
URSS - UBBB, live weather
The purple haze was much more intensive in VR as well as the full moon looks incredible but there is, unfortunately, no screenshot option in VR.
Venice to Portoroz in a Turbo Cessna 182.
I’ve been practicing a ferry flight from California to Massachusetts. Weather’s been great so far. I’ve gotten to Topeka Kansas. 2 more legs to go.
Traveling to Time + Tide in Madagascar using Live Weather in game. Looks great but in real life using REx there were more up close clouds.
Because of ctds landing in EDDK in the latest time, today am am transferring my fleet (C172, Ovation, Seminole, TBM930 and A320 to Dusseldorf. Having a great time!
Completed another leg of at @Joburgal trip “The Long way Down In Reverse”
A challenging leg with less than favourable VRF conditions, forcing us to fly low in the gorge following the Zambezi to stay in view of the surface, but good fun and we all made the leg in one piece
yesterday I did more OnAir jobs with the 787-10
LFOK to DAAQ
DAAQ to LEAM
LEAM to EGSS
EGSS to LFOK
LFOK to DAAQ
DAAQ to LEAM
LEAM to EGSS
EDDL is better than EDDK anyway