Flew the Extra 330 LT for the first time since before VR was introduced. Really impressed with it as a VR vehicle; though in other respects it wasn’t quite ideal for my flight.
I flew it up the Congo river and was obliged to land it a a bush strip - thankfully rather free of bushes - a little way away from the river. Well, the Extra is an aerobatic machine, not a bush plane: no flaps. On my first attempt at landing I ran out of runway before I ran out of airspeed. Still, at least I had the power to climb out and go round. I made sure I was slowed down well in advance for a second, happily successful, attempt.
At the mouth of the Congo there is a series of islands, on one of which I saw this lone hill:
Checking the Terrain Map in Google Maps afterwards, I couldn’t locate it on any of the islands; so I think what we’re looking at here is quite literally a glitch in the matrix.
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Today I completed a 67346 NM trip around the world in the TBM 930 following the coastlines. I started the trip almost 2 years ago. I did all flights in real time without speeding up the sim rate, and I used live weather.
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pre-SU13 flight. Once again in the Solomons. Of course, after SU13, I had to reinstall the planes, the carriers, so I could use them with the add-on linker. Hence the slow posting. Very good flyer. Found out later I can land on a carrier as its in the plane’s software?
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Absolutely nothing. My asus 34" monitor blew its gsync chip after almost 4 years. I have a 1080p back-up, and refuse to fly in these conditions 
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Morning flight from Destin (KDTS) to Palm Beach (KPBI).
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short flight from Monterey to Oakland in the Virus – wish the avionics didnt fight me in my
effort to get approach data (or any data really). If you’re new to flying and can’t get some avionics to work right, its probably not you — they need fixing.
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Next 2 legs of Austria Tyrol bush-trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: LOWL 
LOWS LOWZ
Weather was perfect. Now clouds, good visibility and calm wind. Just a little bit turbulence on approach to Zell am See. One of my favorite airports.
Salzburg:
I found interesting glitch in satellite imagery. Satellite took photo of a flying aircraft including contrails and it got projected on the ground.
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I flew over the Mos Espa Star Wars filming site in Tunisia. Blackshark AI actually made a little settlement there! No moisture evaporators, however. Maybe this is an opportunity for a scenery developer?
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My first IFR-ish flight with the rusty TBM, from Tenerife to Lanzarote. All was fine and ATC played along too. Except for the very late altitude assignment, I had to lose a lot of altitude on the last 20 nm. But I somehow managed to drop down in time for the glideslope. But it wasn’t pretty! It did nicely give me an approach which I then programmed in the FMS and that was actually perfect. Except for the crazy altitude and I did not have a way to request a lower altitude. Maybe that clearance is automatic because of the assigned approach?
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This car is in my way …
Gran Canaria looking nice
Veuling 3000 (“three zero zero zero”) did not want to leave the frequency, or came back, I guess
Moonflower 1620 is having some ups and downs
That looks awkward (I forgot to actually LOAD the approach)
Pretty high up still, getting somewhat nervous. Would not mind some descend instructions …
Doing everything to get down:
Looking good
I usually don’t use the radio, so usually nobody is waiting for me, but this time they were! Very nice.
Looking forward to more adventures in the rusty TBM. I plan to go to the greek islands.
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Did circuits at CYXX in the TBM-930…touch and goes and around to waypoint XX to practise my ILS landings…getting the hang of it.
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Took my SU13 test flight from London Luton (EGGW) to Frankfurt am Main (EDDF) in the Longitude:
I had quite some luck with vatsim today, ESSEX radar went offling just after I took off and Frankfurt even had more ATC by the time I arrived there as it had when I made my flight plans. It was quite a nice flight, though I had to break immersion several times, cooking lunch and dealing with the washing machine while flying 
Full video later here:
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Did the same leg in the same plane today! But after SU 13 it’s just a stutter party.
I had no issues. I meant during the flight, not the update. That was Ffffff…un, but at least now it seems to be working.
Went back to flying the DC-6, through clouds over Montana. It had been a while, still a great airplane.
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Quick VFR hop from KSNA John Wayne → KTOA Zamperini Field, passing the Port of Long Beach
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And now from Lanzarote to Agadir in the TBM 930
There is alway a car in front of me 
Bye bye Canary Islands!
Traffic 6 o’clock is hard to spot tbh …
At least ATC made me descend much (too much?) earlier this time!
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