What did you do in MSFS today? (Part 2)

I flew flightsim.to’s T-37 Tweet from Vance AFB up to Dogface for touch and go, then back down past Enid down to OKC.

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First full flight around lower Chubu region. Nagoya, Shizuoka, Hamamatsu, Chubu Centrair. Landings still need work.










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Austria: Lienz/Nikolsdorf to Feldkirchen (LOKL–LOKF). Cruising at 7500 ft. The route through the valleys was not an option because of glider areas up to 6000 ft. We were following the lakes Weißensee and Ossiacher See, passing over the town of Villach.

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Having some fun with Mudry CAP-10 over Kuala Lumpur. It was a difficult take-off (my chair was too near the pedals), but I had a lot of fun around and between the twin Petronas Towers.


First sight.


I’ll be watching you.


Admiring Kuala Lumpur as a pendulum.


Almost a perfect hammerhead.


Upside down between the twin towers.


Flight Path.

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Leg 5 of my around the world trip. Today I arrived in Makkovik (CYFT). A bright sunny day, but a nasty crosswind made the landing interesting. Still, I got down safe and sound. The runway at Makkovik (https://flightsim.to/file/11769/makkovik-nl-canada-cyft) is nice and wide.

Now I just need to wait for favorable winds (it will be stretching the Goose’s fuel supply to the limit), then I’ll be taking off for Greenland.

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After having fun at Kuala Lumpur, time for a different place: the steep Bugalaga (WX35) airstrip, only take-off and landing. It was a busy day there!


Too busy!


Approaching.


Too big!

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Continuing my round Australia adventure.
Overflying the Twelve Apostles


Then the Bay of Islands

Hopefully more flying today if work permits :pray:

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Finally picked up the Top Gun pack to play with the Darkstar. :slight_smile:

Got up to M3.79 on the turbines following the roller-coaster procedure (familiar from the F-104 Starfighter which needs a gravity assist to break M2.0) but I think I forgot to turn on the fuel pumps or something and the scramjets wouldn’t start.

I’ll look up tutorials and try again later… fun so far!

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I think there’s less of those left in real life than there are in the sim. Officially there’s only 6 remaining!

Now they are starting to come out of hibernation, I went bear watching in Canada in my open top heli…

I was mightily impressed by the quality of the bear models and their animation, although the way they moonwalk is really quite funny.

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OMG LOVE the Darkstar. It’s so fun once you master lighting it up (took me a few tries), and then discover the 275,000 foot ceiling. My mind immediately went to “I wonder if they could do orbital dynamics?”

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KMYF → F70 → KMYF, in the Black Square Bonanza normal sauce variant, using GPS, VOR and an RNAV waypoint. It’s fun to track the VLOC vs. the GPS line, and put on Otto Pilot to watch the mountains pass below. Managed to keep engine health at 98%!! No pics again because I am sooo lazy, hahahah! May your flights be long and your immersion uninterrupted.

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Starting the day with a flight from korea reaching Shangai by night, then did few leg above chile, whole day in the C208

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I’ve just broken into Temora aviation museum and made off with a Spitfire.

I’ve flown it over to

to check out the

All was great and I promise I was going to put it back. But then I thought I’d fly a few laps for some fun.

On lap 4, trying to get tight into The Dipper at the end of the mountain section, I had a little bit of an accident. Actually it was really a lot of an accident. So unfortunately there’s only going to be one Spitfire left at Temora for anyone else who visits in the virtual world. :man_facepalming:

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A nice crosswind arrival into a busy London Gatwick this evening on vatsim. Always nice when the ground traffic starts to resemble what you’d expect to see in real life!

And yes, it’s mildly irritating when the PAPIs & glideslope indications don’t match…

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Today I’ve tested a live stream on my channel, but later discovered that I did not set a proper transmission bitrate. Result: bad resolution at Angkor Wat. :cry:

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Today it was G-WILG for a bit of seabase hopping and fjord skipping in Northern BC (RTMM scenery is awesome).

Then a little RV-14 time, first around Panama City, where I am pretty sure I broke my elevator doing very bad aerobatics, and had an unsuccessful emergency landing. Made up for it with a nice loop around San Diego, and a little visit to the great Hotel del Coronado.

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After correcting the streaming problems above, I tested VrilleAPlat’s Cessna T37 addon. It’s a pleasant jet trainer, with good aerobatic capabilities. It requires very little rudder input and also recovers gently from spin (as I accidentally discovered). Took off from SBCT (AITA Curitiba-São José dos Pinhais), kept low over the runway and turned Northeast to reach SBBI (Bacacheri Airport), where I practiced some maneuvers, including looping, Immelmann and Cuban eights. Then I went low and down to Morretes and up back to São José dos Pinhais. The landing was authorized when I was flying parallel to the downwind leg, but far from the airport. I then flew over the Iguaçu river between Curitiba and São José dos Pinhais, used the very effective speed brakes to slow down and turned left to a short final

Veredict: it’s a good plane to fly for fun.


Keeping low after take-off.


Over Bacacheri.


Top of descent.


Lining up with Iguaçu River.


Slowing down.


Taxiing.


Flight path. SBCT is at the upper center, SBBI to the right, Morretes at the bottom.

Used dbscenery’s SBCT and lucassg’s SBBI.

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Just a short flight from Kansas City (KMCI) to St Louis (KSTL)

Landing wasn’t optimal, I’ve put down the plane without really flaring it, luckily by that time it had not enough speed to bounce back.

Full flight here later:

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Took the Norseman for a first short flight to the castle and back to EDSA

Then put her on a display for the crowd

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I bought the Simworks Zenith CH701 STOL at 93% off, so about the price of half a cup of coffee. It’s excellent so that’s bargain of the decade.

I also bought the Okavango Delta at a very good price. I then realised the two made a perfect match. Only afterwards did I realise they are from the same developer, so it makes sense.

I’ve been flying around the Okavango in my 701 having an aerial safari, with no doors and a bush green livery. This plane feels so perfect, simple, rugged, steam gauges but with a basic nav with maps, it really feels like an African adventure. The sounds, atmosphere, and liveliness with the doors off seals the deal.

It can fly very slow for a good view, excellent STOL which is great for rapid stops next to the animals, and has heaps of instant power which is great for escaping when it all goes wrong.

I found this really nice camp and when I saw the pool that sealed the deal. I decided to stop here and relax until the next outing.

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