Flying out of St. Barthelemy
Local weather is nice so I took the DC-3 out for one of my local practice routes, Portland through the Columbia Gorge to The Dalles (KPDX-KDLS)
Heading east, somewhere around Troutdale. Mt Hood up ahead and to the right:
Some day we’ll move beyond screenspace reflections ![]()
Passing over Cascade Locks (KCZK):
Landing on KDLS RW31, following left pattern and turning around over the city of The Dalles (low resolution, sorry!). Not bad, though a little bouncy as I forgot how high up the gear puts the cockpit.
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A short hop from LEGE (Girona) to LEBL (Barcelona) with the Turbo Arrow III after a long hiatus.
The pitch jittering that was troubling the Arrow was no-where to be found, I know Just Flight updated it recently and it should have been fixed, so either it really is fixed or there wasn’t enough wind. But the aircraft felt much better at lower speeds than ever before! (see: Pitch "jerks" | Just Flight Community)
The flight itself was VFR and I pretend to be in Class G the whole time. Route was go South and then follow the coast up until Barcelona, very easy.
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After flying all the way from mount Etna, Barcelona is so close, finally.
Some nice scenery in the distance:
And some traffic leaving Barcelona
This is not how I remember Barcelona, but OK it has been a crazy few years for everyone:
Parked in LEBL, some more aircraft leaving Barcelona. Who’d want to leave Barcelona? I don’t know …
Updated the SamScenery NYC so I had a lookabout. I also loaded some freeware bits for Long Island. Had to relearn how to get the Waco off the ground at Block Island (nice scenery),but made a decent takeoff on the third try. NYC looked quite nice and performed as it always has. Finished at Teterboro.
Had a really nice sunset flight from Manchester (EGCC) to Amsterdam Schipol (EHAM) in the HondaJet
It does not show on the map, but I had almost full ATC coverage for the whole flight. The only station not manned was Manchester Delivery, but from GND to CTR then from CTR to GND on arrival I had the full service. Well London control went offline after a while, but by then I was at cruising altitude, so the only communication that did not happen was a handover to Amsterdam radar.
Landing was more or less okay. I flared it at radar altitude showing 5 feets, but must have been closer to 10 based on the little hump when I touched down.
Full video here later:



























































































