KOLM to KPAE in the Piper Arrow Turbo III. Coming from the Warrior, the Arrow feels much the same, a bit sportier handling, and faster cruise speed.
Happy Aviating!
Flew the ATR 42 600 from Iwoa Falls to Spokane
Scenery: @Vincent1064
didnt catch a SDM shot but @Vincent1064 keeps MAKING GOOD SOCAL SCENERY, (Plz try E16, I can try to find some RW stuff)
Made a nice short video about the beautiful PMDG.
-Bram
SkyLane
Flew the ATR 42 600 from Spokane to Victoria Canada
Today I extended the seventh leg of the Finland bush trip with a short excursion over the island of Hailuoto; in reality a real natural paradise. Coffee break at Hailuoto airfield.
Wind turbines can be found at both Hailuoto ferry piers.
Another training flight with the 787-10 from Frankfurt am Main (EDDF) to London Heathrow (EGLL):
In this flight I cut some corners to practice adheering to “Direct to” instructions, then changed the runway mid flight and flew some vectors by the airport. Sadly after the vectors I couldn’t have it capture the glideslope and I’m not sure why. So I turned off the AP and did the approach by hand. I flared the plane too high then kind of fell to the tarmac, hence the 520fpm landing. No video this time.
After post #3744 I flew some traffic patterns to get familiar with the Goose and its behavior on takeoffs and landings, especially to get a feel for the faster wheel landings and don’t bounce too much on touchdown.
The Live Weather was good, but the visibility restricted by the typical SoCal marine layer.
I found out, unlike described in the checklist I cannot lock the tail wheel on takeoff run because the P-factor of the two big radial engines pushing me off the runway even with full differential breaking.
Preflighted and filled her up, nice if you have a tanker right beside your hangar:
Upwind Rwy 25 over Girsh Park:
Climbing to TPA of 1500ft. on crosswind leg with a Coast Guard Heli flying low in the same direction:
Flying downwind south of Isla Vista over the ocean:
Base leg over the cliffs of More Mesa Beach:
On final Rwy 25:
Short final over the scrapyard. The photogrammetry really shines here:
Note: All pictures come directly from the VR-Headset. They are only trimmed but no post processing is added. Sometimes the edges look a bit blurry, that’s because of the Fixed Foveated Rendering option of the OpenXR Toolkit and isn’t visible in the headset.
I’m not a real pilot and all my knowledge I learned by myself, but I try my best to follow all real procedures as good as possible. So, if you have tips or found some errors in my flights or procedures, please let me know so I can get better.
First of two flights that brought a new challenge - how to deal with a manual turn/discontinuity where CLR does not remove the disco. This flight and the next, I had no clue what to do. Today’s flight, after reading up with the right research terms, and remembering a youtube, where I should use the DIR button on the FMC.
At any rate, I did learn how well the Fenix A320 flies by hand in those two flights.
KLGA - KDEN
Flew the ATR 42 600 from Victoria to Ketchikan International Airport
I was busy trying different reshade settings. Looks like I found the one I like.
-Bram
SkyLane
