can u post pics of that flight pls?
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Well i did a little bit of this too
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“What did you do in MSFS yesterday?”
I bought the Got Friends Astro One, a “quadcopter” kind of beastie that’s very interesting
(Picture courtesy of Got Friends at Astro ONE – Got Friends)
. . . and spent much of yesterday evening messing with it, using it to dig holes in the ground until I got a game controller profile set up for it. 
After I did that, I stopped digging telephone pole foundation holes, but continued to embarrass myself in new and interesting ways.
Pros:
- All the advantages of a helicopter without needing to buy special, specific, controls for it. (Except maybe a good game controller if you don’t have one.)
Cons:
- It really requires a game controller as it doesn’t have access to many essential control features on a joystick/HOTAS.
- It really requires a custom controller profile because you need to re-define virtually all the controller’s bindings.
Don’t believe the stuff about how very easy it is to fly. Like any new aircraft, you gotta learn it.
Other than that, it’s a hot little beastie.
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What aircraft is it? I presume payware…
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That’s the SR-22 that comes with the Premium Deluxe version of MSFS.
I wrote a turbo-normalized mod for it; it makes it a bit slicker to land.
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Congratulations, It ain’t easy. Nice careful approach.
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Thanks - I downloaded the SR 22 but have no clue how to fly it…
Any help welcome, including your mod…
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I took my brother on a tour of Moscow via a shared screen on Discord.
I used the Astro One and flew to various places around Moscow, then dropped low when we got there to show him around.
The Kremlin, the Bolshoi Theater, the 1980 Olympics “Olympic Park”, Moscow State University, Ostankino tower and the sculpture created when Gagarin finished his orbital flight, Tzaritzina Park - the palace where Catherine the Great lived while in Moscow, and other stuff I don’t remember. A several hour long guided tour that ended up with an on-target landing at Ostafyavo within one of their helipad landing sites.
A good time was had by all!
Next tour:
St Petersburg.
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Miami-Opa Locka Executive (KOPF) to Bowman Field (KLOU). 3 ctds later (and I’ve never had such issues before). At first I thought it might be the Carenado which I’ve had for a few years, but thought I’d fly it with the new yoke. At any rate, I tried a flight in the DC-3 which ctd-d about 80% into the flight. I’ll get to the bottom of it, I’m sure.
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Hazy Day over Vineyard Sound and Buzzard’s Bay
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Took the Carenado 182RG from KMYF to KVNY, it’s a nice plane to fly! I was able to set the trim perfectly and we just wafted along as if on autopilot. Some dicey moments at descent, as I chose to do that too soon and got a bit close to the mountains. Overall a nice addition to the GA hangar.
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I flew the Fenix A320 from SKSP Isla de San Andrés to MHTG Toncontín International Airport near Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
This turned out to be massive mistake. I didn’t check the charts for the destination until after I’d taken off, it calls itself an International Airport and I’m in an A320 - how hard can it be?
We started with an unusual jetway connection.
During cruise I checked the chart and was immediately concerned. “Special aircraft and aircrew authorisation required.” RNAV 02 is effectively a large circle to land approach with a very long base and a 90 degree left turn onto final almost at the runway threshold.
If that wasn’t bad enough the runway is very short, I checked on the EFB performance calculator and I was going to need over 90% of the runway length to stop. Apparently pilots deliberately land short here rather than the usual touchdown point.
Here we go!
Look at that last picture again, the runway is there on the left side of the shot.
I didn’t quite get the turn right, I went a touch too early and had to back out, then I ended up finishing the turn too close. I knew I needed to land right near the start of the runway and it didn’t look good. I should have gone around of course but it was late and I wanted to go to bed, so levers to idle and I dived a bit, then pulled up to avoid the ground, stalled and fell to the runway.
So I did just make the runway but with 99kt airspeed and 4200fpm descent rate and that’s the end of the story.
It turns out that international flights were stopped in 2008 due to accidents, including an A320 that crashed that year on this runway approach.
It looks like fun in a different vessel, perhaps I’ll come back another day in the Kodiak or maybe even the vision jet.
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