SCCI Punta Arenas - SAVH Las Heras in Argentina.
Nice 2h flight with the TBM930, strong sidewind at around 50kts for the first hour.
Had to land without any flaps and throttle issues but the wind was on my side with 20kts headwind. So I bring all safely down.
Very interesting landscapes again.
Whats your aircraft? I must own it!
Exact same thing happened to me. I thought the game was broken until l I saw all the ice.
Today‘s i did fly: MMCH - MMAA / MMAA - MMZH / MMZH - MM35 / MM35 - MMPO / MMPO - MMGA (the Birthplace of Nazario Moreno González - Leader of the La Familia Michoacana Cartel) / MMGA - MMIA / MMIA - MMEX / MMEX - MMAI. The many short Flights are much more demanding than the 1600nm trips i did fly on my first World Tour. Especially because i use a lot of small Airfields in difficult Terrain.
The next one was even harder. Crashed! Twice so far…stay tuned this might take awhile. 
Anybody can turn knobs and press buttons! 
Did some more reading up on the Working Title CJ4, and was able to import a flight plan and take a short IFR trip in it for the first time, Honolulu to Lihue. Still a lot of finer points to learn, but it feels really good getting this far with it.
Why did no one tell me about this before 
Stepping up my game with the Fly By Wire A320. A whole lot to learn and a new way of thinking after flying the PMDG 737 in FSX for so long…and this is free!! 
You know, the runway is right over there. You missed it by 200 feet. Can I have my ball back, please?
Took a helicopter ride around the beautiful Philippines Archipelago. I’m using Bijan’s 4-Season Pack for added palm tree goodness. Wonderful.
Have just rounded the southern tip of South America. I’m doing a circuit of the continent. Began in Panama, continued down the western shorline and am now heading north on the east side. I typically choose 100 - 200 mile legs and use different aircraft (nothing above a Citation) depending on the available airports.
Flight back to LA, thinking of excuses to tell the wife why I’ve lost so much money gambling in Vegas.
Took a detour today, flew from Ventspils to Gotland, touched down in Visby.
This AI pilot though. That dude is terrible with approaches, almost steered me into the ground again, had to take over and save the plane to land safely.
Other than following the course in a straight line, he is a 50/50 chance of ending up on a Mayday Episode.
welcome to the FBW club… so much fun.
I found this yesterday and am finding it VERY helpful to clean up my procedures
I also can not recommend simbrief enough… I was doing all that manually. It doesn’t matter really until you gt to the FBW and the reality steps up!
I dunno if you are advanced already, but I found this guys channel really helpful, especially with the FMC programming https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAILTiWNai7Y2zsO8ECFxcA
Wow… the boys and girls over at FBW have done a spectacular job, as have the team at SIMBRIEF… the other topic of my post.
Deciding to scrutinise the part of the SIMBRIEF flightplan that I normally skim, to get into good habits and add yet another dimension of the sim experrience, I noted a few AMAZING moments in time captured in a single FP
RESTRICTED AREA (TEMPORARY). BY REASON OF THE NATIONAL MOURNING
** FOR HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AT WINDSOR CASTLE**
RESTRICTION OF FLYING REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE UNDER ARTICLE 239
OF THE AIR NAVIGATION ORDER 2016 IN THE AREA BOUNDED BY A CIRCLE
RADIUS 5NM CENTRED ON 512902N 0003614W. UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY WITHIN THE DESIGNATED AREA WITHOUT THE
PERMISSION OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE WHO CAN BE CONTACTED ON
07988 646725, OR THOSE OPERATING UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE AIR
TRAFFIC CONTROL UNIT AT LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT. AR
2021-04-0309/AS6
F) SFC G) 2000FT AMSL
RADIO FREQUENCY JAMMING. JAMMERS LOCATED WITHIN 5NM RADIUS
POSITION 512902N 0003615W ACTIVITY MAY AFFECT AIRCRAFT AND UAV
WITHIN 1.2NM OF JAMMER LOCATION(ALL DIRECTIONS) (868 MHZ, 2.4 GHZ,
5.8 GHZ) SOME ELECTRONIC SITUATIONAL AWARENESS DEVICES AND UAV
SYSTEMS MAY SUFFER INTERMITTENT / TOTAL FAILURE OR GIVE INCORRECT
NOTIFICATION. CREWS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THESE LIMITATIONS AND USE
ALT MEANS OF NAV.
so… 6km from one of the busiest airports in the world, under the final approach and you might lose nav data. That seems safe!
SAFETY AND OPERATIONAL DIRECTIVE, NUMBER 2021/002 ISSUED 22
FEBRUARY 2021 - LIMITATIONS OF OPERATIONS OF BOEING 777 AEROPLANES
FOLLOWING SERIOUS INCIDENT OF ENGINE FAILURE ON 20 FEBRUARY 2021
you don’t always see such significant directives…
So I have a script for my next flight apparently… lots and lots of covid stuff, but again, an interesting snapshot in time, plus a list of banned countries for entry to UK etc
COVID-19: THE FOLLOWING ON-BOARD MESSAGE MUST BE DELIVERED BY ALL
FLIGHTS INTO WALES PRIOR TO DISEMBARKATION. THIS SHOULD BE
COMPLETED IN ENGLISH, WELSH AND AN OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED
LANGUAGE OF THE COUNTRY OF DEPARTURE.
-ANNOUNCEMENT STARTS- THE FOLLOWING IS A PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGE ON
BEHALF OF THE UKS PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES. BEFORE ENTERING THE UK,
YOU MUST COMPLETE A …
let alone 2…
OPERATORS AND PILOTS IN
COMMAND OF ANY BOEING 737-8 MAX OR BOEING 737-9 MAX AIRCRAFT WHICH
IS REGISTERED OTHER THAN IN THE UK NOT TO CONDUCT FLIGHTS WITHIN
UK AIRSPACE UNLESS THEY HAVE SUBMITTED A DECLARATION TO THE CAA.
Then this below… who here would have thought you would be given Vaccine procedures???
TO ENSURE SAFE AND EXPEDITIOUS DELIVERY OF COVID-19 VACCINES,
AIRCRAFT OPERATORS OF FLIGHTS CARRYING SUCH VACCINES THAT DEPART
FROM AERODROMES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND WHO DO NOT HAVE
SELF-REGULATION APPROVAL FOR THE USE OF ATFMX, ARE TO REQUEST
EXEMPTION FROM ATFM MEASURES FOR EACH FLIGHT DEEMED CRITICAL IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURES LAID OUT IN…
and if it wasn’t already unusual enough… special procedures to deal with an active volcano (fyi a much bigger and likely explosive volcanoe is currently at yellow alert
DUE TO VOLCANIC ERUPTION ON REYKJANES, AND AS REQUESTED BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL PROTECTION AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT,
ICETRA HAS DECIDED TO RESTRICT THE NUMBER OF FIXED WING AIRCRAFT
AND ULTRALIGHTS WITHIN BIR2 (VESTURSVAEDI) TO 4. CONTACT KEFLAVIK
TOWER FOR PERMISSION TO ENTER OR PASS THROUGH THE AREA. FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION SEE AIC A011/2021. REF AIP ICELAND ENR 5. 1
F) SFC G) 2500FT AMSL…
what did I do today? A hellvua lot I don’t normally do!!! Maybe I am just weird, appreciate history and it’s ‘moments’ and still wrapping my head around how good and close to real this sim is, but so far as memorable flightplans go… I am keeping this one! It’s gonna trigger a lot of memories in 20 years when I stumble over it again
pics included cause walls of text is boring…
