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

[Monkfishman3086]

And yet another leg through spain, from LEAM - LEGR

I noticed that even the fuel level is now not saved and / or restored correctly when loading saved flights. Very sad because I liked to fly multiple legs and think about my fuel along the way. I really like the Save → Load concept, just to pick up the aircraft exactly as I left it. But it simply won’t work with MSFS

Anyway, the flight itself, at dawn, navigating some mountains, partly VFR and partly with a VOR.

Went all the way up to 10000 ft. On a climb like that I keep forgetting to add power now and then to keep the same manifold pressure. And of course the mixture must be leaned as well.

But then once again I could not find the VOR (GDA 113.4) on my navigation equipment, so I just did time and heading instead. But I should try some more instrument navigation too. In the end it did find the VOR, but only from 14 nm away. May be the mountains?

Noticed the winds weren’t coming from where Windy said they were coming. Interesting.

Photo book

Just as I left it last night, but fuel up to 100% by the magical fuel fairies that go around and fuel up all the virtual GA aircraft. Even though the saved file clearly says “LeftMain=79.07648468017578125” and “RightMain=97.56507110595703125”

I’ll be going around this mountain, expecting but never finding the VOR GRD

So instead, after about the planned amount of time on leg 1 I turn to heading for leg 2. I’ll be somewhat in the right place for sure.

Still no VOR but the GPS indicates I’m on to the right track, if only I knew how to use it:

With my binoculars, able to see the airfield:

No pictures of the landing I was coming in waaaay too high then did a 360 and coming our of that I was waaaaay too low. But in the end nice soft touch down.

Joining the rest for breakfast:

Next stop, hopefully Gibraltar! But maybe Malaga.

Simair: https://simair.io/logbook/Monkfish/flight/100822

[dubnewt2648]

Daily GA fix. JPL C152 for a short hop from KOLM to KTIW, with a stop at 00WA.

Westerly departure from 00WA and a circling climb toward KTIW. Happy to report I did a decent approach to, and landing on, that tiny patch of dirt.

Left downwind, runway tree fife, KTIW. Lovely bridges and mountain in view. Had two go-arounds, one of them even involved an AI plane going the opposite direction! Too caught up in the moment to pop a screenshot.

Nice digs, I could see something like this IRL if I had the proper funding.

Happy Aviating!

[sparrowdog17]

Started a Neofly Bush Pilot career. Flying an uninsured and underpowered 152 around BC and Washington. I forgot what it feels like to think twice about clearing a mountain top.

[DanRoman56]

hope yer buying lottery tickets. Cheers!

[sparrowdog17]

Killed my battery. I left my 152 sitting on the tarmac in Colville for a couple hours and left the batt switch on and of course a bunch of lights, and it actually killed my battery. It makes sense but did they really put that in there? It’s dead! Nothing!

[dubnewt2648]

JF Piper Warrior from KBFI to KPAE at night VFR. Love this plane.

Cleared straight in on 34L, lucky me!

I think I’m finally done for the day. I really could continue though!

[duracellko]

I continued my trip around Pacific in DC-3 in real-time and real weather: PAVD PAYA
Quite uneventful flight. Autopilot worked smoothly. No turbulence. I just followed the coast with some VOR help. Even descend was accurate just to join base 02. I just had to do some crabing.

[GeoTriker]

Today I started the Finland bushtrip; of course the FLT file was manipulated - I changed the aircraft and activated real weather. The real weather was fine. The Finnish landscape is impressive.

In Puumala I decided to make a stopover and found a suitable “runway” on the outskirts of town (magenta double arrow in the pic).

[mbraortns]

I did some more ‘not really going anywhere’ flying around Adelaide AU and it was amazing. I find the XBX attached to my BenQ monitor set to sRGB mode at 4k produces amazingly realistic results sometimes and last night was one of those times. Clouds, colors and haze all seem to be improving. One of these shots has a barely noticeable rainbow and it looked really good. I started on the ground at YPPF and I was on the edge of a rainy patch which I encountered after I took off and headed south. It got quite dark with low visibility but it wasn’t too dark and the colors were right and as I flew back north, the whole system was shifting southeast and I was able to look back south into the murk but the sun was shining in a few patches. For some reason you can’t take pictures of distant airport beacons (I can’t seem to).
sorry about the lengthy intro but I feel sorry for those that can’t see that improvements are happening. Id really like to suggest sRGB mode with 12bit full range output – logical or not, its best for me on my system. Its also annoying that what I see on my screen is never really captured in the shots for some reason.

[NiKoTin3420]

today was pretty simple,I had a VOR covering most of my 250nm flight from OAMN to UT72 in comanche

then switched for the C208 and went to south america to go from SKBG (West colombian coast) to SKBO

(above Cali)

[Monkfishman3086]

With the Turbo Arrow III, wanted to hop from Almeria (LEAM) to Malaga (LEMG) and then Gibraltar.

But the weather not looking very promising:

Gibraltar, as far as I know, doesn’t have ILS. But Malaga does! Winds are calm (4 kts) and 120 degrees, which is nicely in the runway 12, so I prepare for an ILS approach in Malaga, if needed.

I had planned a clever route first via VOR AMR and then follow West TO VOR MLG:

However, I apparently failed miserably. First in intercepting my track on AMR and then finally intercepting MLG. I though I was at the beginning of my journey with still a good 80 nm to go but then somehow spotted LEGR already. What?!

Anyway, I then proceeded to intercept the ILS for RWY 12, even though the weather was CAVOK. That kind of worked out well though.

Simair, on the other hand, reveals the gravity of my navigational error. I wasn’t at Almeria at all, I was departing from Granada LEGR. That also explains why I couldn’t easily find the Almeria VOR.

So, in conclusion: I didn’t even know where I was, but somehow I ended up where I needed to be. Luckily there is the coast line and the VOR’s. That also explains why the airport was just there, I felt like I had teleported for a moment.

Simair:

https://simair.io/logbook/Monkfish/flight/100851

Slideshow of my wonderful trip

Here I am ready to go at LEAM, and by LEAM I mean LEGR - in hindsight:

I was kind of expecting sea immediatly, but somehow I did not notice I was going over land way longer than planned. Absurd:

Nice lake at Viñuela, what was I thinking?!

Oh after 20 minutes I’m at the sea, even though I assumed the airport I left from was literally ON THE COAST.

Oh great! I’m already here instead of having to fly 80 nm. What could’ve possibly happened? Good tail wind?

Trying to follow the ILS, kind of happy it’s CAVOK instead.

When you get to your destination without knowing where you came from:

[DanRoman56]

Oh, my my! Intriguing flight from Lima to Cancun. All went well - well for my klunky 67 year-old reflexes. Salud!

[KayakSailor4]

ATR 42 600 from New Orleans to Tulsa

[Gorny32]

Flew from Udon International in Thailand to Da Nang International in Vietnam with Col Old’s F-4.

[Fartoolong3532]

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Had fun making a Lincoln Field Eagle Fly Over with a couple of B-2’s forming up.

[Tuffbull7923]

Took the 787-10 for a quick practice flight from Prague (LKPR) to Munchen (EDDM). I really needed some flight time…

While everything worked as it should I realised how little I understand various systems of the B78X. If I was flying this on Vatsim and told to go to 08L instead of 08R I had no idea how to just switch the NAV frequency and follow the ILS unless I add all of it to the route in the CDU.. Got a lot to learn. Landing went quite alright for one that is still within the first 5 landings, but I overshot the runway landing area a lot.

Video here, As of posting this it still needs about 30 mins for the HD processing:

Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner Munchen (EDDM) landing in MSFS

[duracellko]

I finished bush trip Carpathian journey in WB-Sim C172 in real weather. It was nice late summer day with clear sky. So I finished the whole journey in 1 day. Morning was nicely cool, but it got hotter later.
There is no parking spot to spawn at LZHL, so I started at LZPP. And the whole journey was: LZPP LZHL LZZI LZTT LZPW LZSN

Navigation was very straightforward. Mostly just to follow the highway. I downloaded VFR map of Slovakia to avoid some restricted airspaces. It was easily possible to avoid military airspace in the west. But I couldn’t avoid Prešov military airspace, because Prešov was one of the stops. Interestingly, the final destination airport is not even mentioned in the VFR map. And also Poprad ATIS didn’t work.

Trenčín airport - closed each year for few days for the largest festival in Slovakia.

Liptovská Mara - the largest dam in Slovakia.

High Tatras - the highest mountains in Slovakia

Spiš castle (mostly remains only)

Prešov city.

[Vibstronium]

Visited an old friend - Meigs Field

[GeoTriker]

Always worth a trip!

[dubnewt2648]

Hooked on the JF Piper Warrior! It is so nice, the more I fly the more I like. It’s a GA dream machine.
KORS to CYCD, and I just installed the Nanaimo city and airports from flightsim.to. Good times.

Clear lovely day in the Northwest. That’s about 10 minutes NW of KORS.

Lots of practice turns on the way.

Circle around the town of Nanaimo.

Right downwind for RWY 34 at CYCD.

A tiny bit low on final for 34.

On the ground at CYCD.
I was able to trim perfectly, the Warrior really trims easily and feels realistic to fly.