And after darkness had enveloped my home continent, I switched over to Australia for a longer CJ4 flight, from Sydney to Coolangatta/Gold Coast. Even at 45,000 feet there were a lot of wind gusts that forced me to keep a close watch on the throttle to avoid overspeeding, but that was just part of the fun. Similarly, this time I was given a VOR/DME approach so it was up to me to finish the landing manually, but the CJ4 was extremely well behaved:
I have to say I’m really impressed and have had a lot of fun with the Working Title CJ4 over these past couple days, learning how the “big boys” fly these jets, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t tried it yet. I hope one day the same level of fixes and enhancements can be applied to the Longitude and the 787 that are currently available for the CJ4 and A320.
Yesterday I flew from Butaritari (NGBU) to Bonriki (NGTA) in Kiribati. Butaritari was a US base in WWII but as in the sim surrounded by trees and a very narrow and short runway. An interesting take off in the DA62X. Plenty of sea on the flight south which was enlivened by a very realistic thunderstorm which reminded of landing in Singapore IRL. Arrived at Tarawa to find Bonriki has a good runway and lighting. After a circuit I had a very smooth landing. Amazing how the same guy turns up to marshall you where ever you are lol.
Didn’t realise how huge the lagoon is at Tarawa. I was reminded of a sail from near Bonriki to the far north of the of the atoll on a sailing outrigger canoe (which are no slouches) which took half a day each way.
Fun 25 minute flight from Bend, OR (KBDN) to Eugene, OR (KEUG) in the Longitude. PERFECT weather, and with settings at ultra, gorgeous scenery. Loving the post WU4 world!
I took it as a good omen, then around 11:45 am my fps went from 30 to 5 I managed to land shut down the plane, left the sim running and had lunch, came back it was sitting at 20, 5 min later we were back to 5.
So I came to the forums to be obnoxious! bwhahahah
Really nice scenery here, until I came across some terrain spikes that looked like someone’s attempt to create some Lord of the Rings style statues guarding the valley.
If you don’t know how to read an approach plate, save Paro for a different day. The AP cannot keep up with the turns and without a working VNAV, you’ll have to do this the old-fashioned way - keep controllable speed but anticipate some really tight turns during a hairy descent. The clouds thinned out under 10,000’, otherwise I’d have to go missed approach (which I haven’t done in years). Mind the very tall field lighting poles just before threshold.
Did a short VFR flight with the C152, from EBZH to EBTX crossing the EBLG CTR. I planned realistically with airspace and appropriate reporting points, and pretended to be talking to various controllers on the radio (because I need to practice that).
For these type of flights, I am really happy MSFS exists.
I was going to say I didn’t really see much difference in the Belgian scenery, but I wonder now if I need to download it manually first … so I’ll have to double check that.
I’ve got to check out Butaritari, I didn’t know that was Makin. It was assaulted at the same time as Tarawa. Those ground crew people must be ‘Beamed’ to wherever they’re needed.
Got a chance to fly today, which consisted of flying PDX-KSFO (Portland, OR- San Francisco)-via Alaska Airlines. Live weather experienced some gusts but mainly sunny with some clouds.
Apologies for the instruments in the photo. I was testing what key I want to use for screenshots and did get a photo in camera mode
*somewhere above Oregon or California crusing at 38,000ft
Finally, a creator just published a good version of the Tokyo Heliport. Wonder if anyone will do the same for the London Heliport. Problem is he did not know how to exclude planes as did the creator of the Paris Heliport scenery - In the Paris scenery, when you set up there, all the other pads fill up with duplicates of your helicopter so the place is full of helicopters.
I started my day with a flight from Lyon to Paris, France. Cesna 172 was my pleasure today.
The flight was absolutely amazing with the last WU, so much pleasure flying over beautiful landscapes.
And then it crashed upon flying aboveParis.
As usual. No surprise there.
Now I’m gonna try and take-off from Paris to London, in the same aircraft. I mean… if the sim lets me.
The AP cannot keep up with the turns and without a working VNAV, you’ll have to do this the old-fashioned way - keep controllable speed but anticipate some really tight turns during a hairy descent. The clouds thinned out under 10,000’, otherwise I’d have to go missed approach (which I haven’t done in years). Mind the very tall field lighting poles just before threshold.
