Last night I flew Denpasar, Bali to Singapore Changi in the FBW A23NX as Air Asia QZ506. The Inter Tropic Convergence Zone (ICTZ) is particularly active over Indonesia at this time of the year, and I deliberately stayed up late in my time zone so that I could use real world weather late afternoon local time to in the hope of encountering some large thunderstoms, opting to fly the slightly longer overland route in where the cells typically develop.
WADD/27 NUSKI1B NUSKI DCT JOG W17 BND W11 CKG G579 REPOV REPOV1A WSSS/02L
Despite Navigraph’s radar returning plenty of colour, it appeared the biggest build ups were not on my track, but I still got to enjoy the sight of plenty of volcanos (including world famous Krakatoa) passing by and was surprised overhead Sumatra as a TCAS TA turned into a TCAS RA, and with autopilot engaged the entire time, the aircraft descended until clear of conflict, then reclimbed back to cruise altitude of FL380!
I recently acquired the Changi scenery from Cloudsurf Asia/Orbx after redeeming a Steam gift card from Xmas, and enjoyed seeing the Jewel and taxing over the road bridge to Terminal 4 upon landing. Looking forward to doing some more A32NX flights in the region! Special shout out to ‘arielhendra’ for the amazing PK-AXV livery from flightsim.to
↑ Overhead Jakarta, ↓ Krakatoa archipelago
TCAS event!
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