Leg 7 of New Guinea challenge bush-trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: WAYL
WAXP
As I said before it was already challenge to plan this bush-trip. MSFS (and based on that Little Navmap) says that WAYL runway is 1488ft long at 7944ft altitude. This is definitely not enough takeoff distance for C172, especially in hot tropical country like Indonesia. So I almost scraped the whole bush-trip. But then I checked SkyVector and it says runway length is 2000ft. And that is sufficient. I compared Google Earth satellite image of the airport and I found differences. MSFS generated part of the runway as parking area. So today I used the parking area as runway and it was just enough to rotate.
Today I started the flight later, so it was late afternoon in Indonesia. But advantage of that was that winds were already calm so the flight was not bumpy. Until I got to open area with lakes near destination. There it was bumpier.
Another nice thing was that destination had gap between trees, so landing was possible.
And I parked just before sunset.









