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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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After being busy for 3 weeks, I finally got back to MSFS. I continued Czech route in WB-Sim C172. The weather was perfect. A bit warm, but no winds, no clouds.
LKHK 
LKMH LKTE LKKV
Just before starting my descend to Mnichovo Hradiště I found a heart in a field. So I turned around to have a better look.
Interestingly the concrete runway at LKMH was closed. Only grass runway was available.
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Got around to seeing how the Hawk T1/A Advanced Trainer has fared since the upgrade. I also adjusted my stick for aileron and elevator trim. Worked better than I remember, but I have to remember it’s limited fuel. I get spoiled with the Eurofighter. This flight I had an issue with the engine losing power but was fortunate to be between Mildenhall and Lakenheath. Very nice of the Yanks at Lakenheath to accomodate me. Got spoiled with the H145, too. Gotta get used to several things - speed, throttle, trim - well, the crucial bits, eh?
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Long flight with the Turbo Arrow III on my way to Tenerife. Today from LXGB Gibraltar to GMMN Casablanca. Flying in that area, I was reminded: make sure to give some support for the people in Morocco suffering through a disruptive earth quake.
A long for me at least, it was in total 181 nm, which should take me almost 2 hours!
Navigation only time and heading, with the easy navigational reference of the coast line.
For long flights, the Arrow III does not have altitude hold on the auto pilot. So it takes a bit of trimming before everything is stable to hold altitude. Over sea it’s much easier than over land. The trim is a bit over sensitive on my stick, so I prefer to adjust the throttle for minor adjustments in altitude.
Every 15 minutes, can’t forget to switch fuel tanks. I use the timer on the yoke in the aircraft. But I usually forget a few times!
However, on the way, things changed a fog appeared. Looking at Windy that is not the case. But indeed Rabat was showing Marginal VFR on the METAR. But that is not my destination so I continued over the fog. Something I would probably not do irl given the limited navigational aids. I cannot express deeply enough my hate for METAR based weather in MSFS. It is nonesense.
But, if the clouds don’t clear, it may become a problem … but it wasn’t. As the other metar’s were VFR …
I originally wanted to fly at least at 10000 ft; but there were much heavier head-winds predicted so I stayed on 5000 ft.
More pictures inside here
Ready to leave Europe and get into the African continent.
This is still quite a cool looking airport:
The strait of Gibraltar
Oh no, it’s the METAR:
We can still see the ground, no problem:
On the way:
Here is our destination
A little high, but the Arrow can really drop quickly if you have full flaps and throttle to idle.
I was hoping this person would park me, but they ignored me instead:
This brings me already much closer to my end-goal of Tenerife, where I hope to pick up the TBM and fly around with that for a while instead.
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Carenado PA44 throughout Southern California, with some very dramatic weather. I entered meteorological conditions that were very dicey. But somehow I survived!!
Final at KMYF yesterday.
Today I flew from KSBP to KSBA in IFR conditions. Canceled IFR because I didn’t feel like sticking to the 13,000 feet I had set. Went VFR over the clouds
Left downwind for runway 25 at KSBA.
What a nice looking ride this plane is! A smaller, easier to handle twin, with carbureted engines! Fun to fly, great sound efx too. You won’t ice those carburetors or even so much as pop a circuit breaker, but hey, more time for flying! This might be my favorite Carenado plane yet, but I may be biased because it’s an appealing aircraft in general. Also it doesn’t hurt that all of my landings were beautiful.
Happy flying!!!
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That looks so cool!
Do you happen to know the Lat/Long?
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Buzzing around Tokyo Bay in the NHK H135. Checked out some new creator work in Enoshima - railstation, monorail, Kamakura Daibutsu. Great work so far. I always get amazed by the Robo Mecha at Odaiba and Yokohama. Wouldn’t it be cool to see the Wells’ WOW Tripod in Woking… At any rate, wishes aside, another nice flight. Fuji-san was playing peek-a-boo behind clouds. Also, a new port scenery makes the US base at Yokohama quite alive.
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Thanks!
Thanks!
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Took the Boeing 787 8 from Cleavland to Dallas because it was just sitting in my hanger waiting to fly
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Practicing STOL, coming to a full stop at 150 feet… that was the first attempt on this measured strip. Will practice to bring it down to 130 feet.
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Just finished the last leg in my trip from my home airfield Zwartberg-Genk (EBZW) in Belgium to Wellington (NZWN) in New Zealand. It took me 27 flights, 82 flying hours and 11283 Nm to get there in my Cessna 337. I visited Belgium, Croatia, Greece, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Here are some pictures, hope you like them.
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You can probably Subtract five yards if a holding call has been made 
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