Early morning departure from Alice Springs to Tennant Creak, in the BlackSquare King Air.
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Reykjavik To Farrow Islands in the Fokker 28 4000
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Completed a flight from EGLL to Sydney. My longest to date.
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Took the 787-10 for a practice flight from Norfolk (KORF) to Louisville Muhammad Ali (KSDF)
It has been so long since I last flew it, that I had to find various knobs and switches all over again. But what is worse, is that weird powerful veering after touchdown. Was autobrake 2 too much? Is it a bug? Is it something that I did? I wish I knew…
Full video later here:
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A pleasant flight form Cardiff [EGFF] to Oslo [ENGM]
Taking off from foggy Cardiff:
Near busy London:
Final behind a B737
Landing on rainy Oslo:
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Nice , Cardiff is my local Airport
I continued my trip around Pacific in DC-3 in real weather: SPME 
SPEO
This was first of several legs in Peru. I never realized how big country Peru is.
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Flew the PMDG 737-800 from KTPA to KBOS. The route was basically up the US East coast through the center of the coastal states until Manhattan. The arrival on the JFK transition has you fly just south of Manhattan before turning east-northeast towards Long Island, passing north over the sound into Connecticut, descending and passing over Providence, Rhode Island before turning towards Boston on what was a very long final.
The southern tip of Manhattan visible off the nose:
Turning towards the northeast just past KJFK, you can see all of Manhattan in the background, with KLGA visible just below/right of center.
On a 5 mile final into RWY 04R into KBOS. FlyTampa’s KBOS + SamScene3D’s new Boston city scenery look quite nice together.
At the gate and deboarding:
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There’s something soothing about night flying. It’s probably all the little lights in the front office.
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Farrow Islands to Edinburgh in the Fokker f28 4000
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Downloaded a new scenery package for St. Thomas (TIST by Lexuz2020…outstanding work!) and Florida Air Cargo textures (thanks, TunaTrimmings!) for the Duckworks DC-3, then hit the road to the stock St. Martin (TNCM). I mostly wanted to fiddle with the retro version of the DC-3, as I’ve almost exclusively flown the classic version. All went well, except that there’s a waypoint error on the VOR Z Runway 10 approach, JUICE transition into TNCM that caused my flight plan to not sequence. Intervened manually and finished the approach and landing just fine, with only the slightest skip on touchdown!
Just a glamour shot of Florida Air Cargo’s N271SE between St. Thomas and St. Martin. FAC is a Part 135 cargo charter that operates three DC-3/C-47s and two Caravans between Miami-Opa Locka and Nassau, although individual charters may find the fleet landing anywhere in the Caribbean and South America. N271SE began life as a C-47B in January 1945, and served with the RAF, Transair Ltd., Derby Aviation (later British Midland), South West Aviation, Morton Air Services, Air Freight Ltd., Skyways Cargo, and Missionary Flights International before joining FAC in 2015.
Passing one of Royal Caribbean’s Oasis-Class “way-too-big” cruise ships. Honestly, who wants to cruise with 6,000 of your closest strangers? That’s Tortola in the distant background, with (from left to right) Peter, Dead Chest, Salt, and Cooper Islands closer.
Humming over Maho Beach before landing on Runway 10 at St. Martin. The stock scenery looks convincing but doesn’t include beachgoers or other elements that really bring the scenery to life.
Parked at what may be the air cargo ramp. A beautiful paintjob on a wonderful aircraft. What more could I ask for?
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Leg 7 of New Guinea challenge bush-trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: WAYL WAXP
As I said before it was already challenge to plan this bush-trip. MSFS (and based on that Little Navmap) says that WAYL runway is 1488ft long at 7944ft altitude. This is definitely not enough takeoff distance for C172, especially in hot tropical country like Indonesia. So I almost scraped the whole bush-trip. But then I checked SkyVector and it says runway length is 2000ft. And that is sufficient. I compared Google Earth satellite image of the airport and I found differences. MSFS generated part of the runway as parking area. So today I used the parking area as runway and it was just enough to rotate.
Today I started the flight later, so it was late afternoon in Indonesia. But advantage of that was that winds were already calm so the flight was not bumpy. Until I got to open area with lakes near destination. There it was bumpier.
Another nice thing was that destination had gap between trees, so landing was possible.
And I parked just before sunset.
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Because of bad weather in Peru, I didn’t continue my Pacific tour. So I started another bush-trip with WB-Sim C172 in real weather. This time Sicily journey: LICP LIAC LIPP LIRB
Practically north and east side of the island. There were no clouds on this side, so it nice weather for bush-trip. But very windy. I had 20kn tailwind flying east. And luckily not big turbulence.
Oh mighty Etna.
The last picture is fascinating. I could clearly see big canyons very likely created by earthquakes or eruptions. And even in digital world from the sky it looks scary to live there.
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Hilsen fra Oslo! Asobo has outdone themselves on WU15, this is some of the best photogrammetry yet. It’s a great accompaniment to some practice time in the WB Sim C172.
This looks like a nice quiet spot.
A beautiful day in Oslo.
Quality of the imagery is outstanding.
As is the quality of this landing!
Happy flying!
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Was watching a doc on Peter Jackson’s WWI collection and learned about his relationship with Omaka Airport, in the north part of the Southern Island. Hope someone really goes to town with this scenery as I know many vintage planes have static models now.
Any way, I had not flown the Beech 350 default for a while and was quite happy to be back in it. This flight was a quick circuit to get reaquainted. Wish the default GA planes would get working doors, windows, and hatches… Time will tell - MSFS 2024?
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I finished New Guinea challenge bush-trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: WAXP WANH
Takeoff was quite challenging. I had 3 options:
- Takeoff rw24 and climb 1000ft in 2.7nm.
- Relatively tight turn 180° right after takeoff rw24.
- Takeoff rw06 with possibility to gain speed and altitude over the lake, but with 3kn tailwind.
I decided for option 1. POH says that distance to gain 1000ft at 6000 altitude is 3.3nm. But that’s with Vy. With Vx the distance should be shorter. Theoretically yes, but practically wind gusts didn’t “help” in the climb. I really sweat when almost touching the trees. That was too small margin for error.
I still wonder if the other options would be safer. Probably the safest option would be to wait for better wind for rw06.
Rest of the flight continued to be bumpy. Especially landing at Kiruru had 8kn gusty crosswind. I really had to fight with the gusts.
So this time no screenshots from departure nor approach.
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