Aerobatic training above EDSA / Albstadt, my hometown in southern gemany
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Proceeded with the Turbo Arrow III trip towards Tenerife. Today flew from Malaga to Gibraltar. METAR was reporting Marginal VFR in Gibraltar, but in the end everything was fine.
To be sure I prepared also an ILS approach to Tangier, but not needed.
I did not prepare well my departure, where my initial heading led me directly over (through?) the biggest hills / mountains around. Luckily the Turbo Arrow climbed well enough to clear them in time and I did not have to go around them.
Gibraltar is an interesting airport.
Pictures and snarky comments inside here ...
Climb! Please climb! Ohhhh wait oopsie, still have some flaps set.
We will survive
That blob looks like that rock from Gibraltar.
Coming in:
Traffic 12 o’clock, not air traffic, regular road traffic crossing the runway!
Simair:
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Rainy and spooky approach into KDTW on ILS4R. Had to reprogram inflight, that was fun! 
Not a fun night to be a ramp rat.
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Places I would have never been without Neofly. KSTS, KRNT, 03OR. The U.S. is littered with airstrips. Endless. Gotta love it!
As a Drone pilot, I know I’m not supposed to fly here. Didn’t get up in time to catch this fly by.
What is this? Navigraph does not recognize this sweet little strip but Garmin does.
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03OR looks quite interesting. 
Will definitely make a note of the airfield. 
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Nice flight from KMYF in San Diego, to Borrego Springs L08 in the Comanche because I had to check out 1.3.
Departing the San Diego area.
Just passed over Julian 114.0, watched the station pass beneath me, and watched the needle, it didn’t jump as much as I thought it would, but I changed it to track outbound.
On the ground in Borrego, breathing in that beautiful virtual desert air. This is also the first time I have used the towbar. What a great feature, makes you feel even more connected to your plane!!
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As preparation for monday I rehearsed my flight in MSFS, using the Flight Design CTLS - something similar to the rental that I get to fly in real life (Tecnam P92).
Anyway, it’s a short flight following a canal and a highway from EBZH to EBZH, via Paal - Olen - Olmen.
I also tried to resurrect my .NET connector to Skydemon but it only worked a little. Skydemon kept saying “waiting for simulator”, but it was showing (incorrect) heading indications if I activated the connector. So it looks like it can still reach my iPhone but is not sending the correct data at the moment.
I was assuming something easier would come along, but I haven’t seen it yet. Maybe I can clean it up a little (very little) and put it online if I get it to work again.
Anywayyyy, the flight itself was OK, easy to follow on the paper map as well.
What I always find cool is that the visual landmarks are usually also in MSFS:
Such as this building at the beginning of the down-wind:
This little mining terril (“Spoil tip”, a mining hill) east-bound to stay on the downwind:
This tennis court:
And this little L-shaped pond:
According to Sim Air this took me 30 minutes, which is what I planned for.
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As an update: the little Skydemon connector seems to be working again! I was just sending the numbers with the wrong decimal separator.
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I’ve been doing some New Zealand flying and here are shots from a few trips:
First shot here - I thought it was a graphical error but on closer inspection it appears to be one heck of a getaway spot not far from Hamilton:
and then I landed at one of NZA’s little airports:
and ready for takeoff again:
and back in Auckland area:
and then from a different flight:
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and yesterday, I finally successfully landed at a little addon airport that I’m not sure where it came from. Its called KEB (Nanwalek?) up in Alaska area:
I never know how to approach one of these type of runways and sometimes its as if the designers wondered which way was best to point the runway towards and they say to themselves “Oh look! a mountain! Thats perfect…we’ll aim the runway at that!”
Of course in a situation like KEB, it is what it is…and its not that easy.
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Pulled into Yosemite KMMH and heading north again. The weather in Navigraph and the sim were pretty accurate with each other. Cloud ceiling and overcast seemed spot on. Wonder what it was really like.
Had to correct my RNAV here.
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I flew from one Springfield to another Springfield in the Longitude. Funnily enough I did not realise that the Springfield I had as my destination was not the Springfield I originally intended. But that is what you get if there are 67 of them in the US only…
The flight itself was quite a calm one, there was little traffic, but luckily I had ATC at both ends of the flight. Full story later here:
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PHNL (Honolulu) to NFFN (Nadi, Fiji) in the AN225
Preparing the load:
Ready to go:
Leaving Honolulu:
A long, long flight, over the Pacific… and under the Moon:
The sun awakes as I start my descent:
Finally, Fiji at hand:
Last turn before starting RNAV02 approach:
Unfortunately I had to fight against my autopilot during the approach and I could not take more screenshots, but finally, I safely landed and found a place to park (more or less):
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