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Jaunt around Kanto, starting and ending at Utsunomiya. Still hoping for Japanese static aircraft for freeware makers.
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I’ve tried to be good and not buy too many add-ons but utterly caved last night and bought Ant’s Tiger Moth and the FlyingIron Spitfire.
A quick trip around Duxford planned for each; one went well, the other…
…not so well 
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XBOX Pilot, just completed a flight EGBB to EGPF and back to EGBB first successful landing i have had back into EGBB, after doing a bit of research and changing the approach into EGBB was a lot less stressful LOL
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We used to fly our base leg to 23R just inside the Brickyard. At 130 knots in a Saab 340, we were no match for cars coming down the last straightaway. Brave souls strapped into those rockets! 
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A few flights today. I took my beloved N280TF (JPL Cessna 152) from Blakely Island in the San Juans down to Camano Island (thanks to Wookie042 and Winhover for the scenery). Nothing much to report, except that Camano is a deceptively hard airport at which to land!
Here’s my little lady ready to go at Blakely. We departed to the north over the aptly named Obstruction Island, then turned southeast toward Anacortes and skirted the eastern perimeter of Whidbey Island’s Class C before approaching Camano from the west.
Next, I went back to Scotland (thanks for the idea, @dagwit00001) and took G-FAIR for a tour around Perth & Kinross and Fife. The trouble with using local weather and time in Europe is that, here in the States, I’m seven hours behind! If I want to fly in the daylight, I have to change the time 
Departing Perth/Scone, another of Scotflight’s excellent scenery packages. You can find all the local procedures and standard practices at the airport’s website. The scenery includes everything you need to operate the correct way.
Overhead the former RAF Errol. I’ve always enjoyed looking for abandoned airports. Errol’s history is quite interesting, stretching from RAF basic training to teaching Russians how to fly Albemarles during WW2.
Scoping out the winds at former RAF Balado Bridge near Kinross before joining the pattern. This airport is still open, but finding the runway proved quite challenging. Unfortunately there’s no third-party scenery here, and the stock rendition is somewhat lacking. It could use a serious mowing!
Landing at Fife, a cute airport with an interesting traffic pattern. Again, everything you need to use actual procedures (as published on the airport’s website) is depicted in this scenery. Thanks, Scotflight!
After that, I jumped into the DC-3 and bounced around Duxford a bit, using actual weather but with the time shifted to morning. Thanks to Duckworks for the mod and Padday for the beautiful Dan Air paint! It’s another good-looking airplane that behaves like it should!
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Planning a flight from Cairo to Karachi, so I thought I’d take a spin around Karachi. The payware airport is good, but that ever present South Asian haze was a challenge. I’ll be doing the long flight in the L-1049, so this was good to see. I think I’ll take GA flights around all new locations before doing a long flight there from now on. Keep 'em flying!
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Flew the Fokker f28 4000 from Iqaluit Canada to Kangerlussuaq Greenland
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Continuing my tip to tip trip down the Americas, from Phoenix to Tuscon on this leg in the Tiger Moth. Following Interstate 10 at 2500ft all the way.
I changed the time for the following one as ‘Live’ weather was fairly bland. I love having to stick my head out the side in VR and tried to replicate the feeling in the photo.
The plan was to circle the boneyard for a while and land at Davis Monthan-Tucson Air Force Base but I actually ran out of fuel as I was flying over the boneyard and forced to make an emergency landing amongst the stored aircraft. It may be a simple aircraft but I’ve clearly still got a lot to learn about it.
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The great thing about Perth/Scone, apart from ScotFlight’s excellent work, is that it’s an old-fashioned triangular airfield, which means that if you’re so minded, you can always take off or land facing at least somewhat into wind.
Lots of abandoned airfields in Britain. Britain was (almost) literally covered in airfields by the end of World War Two, to the extent that, when George Orwell was looking for an alternative name for Britain in 1984, he called it ‘Airstrip One’.
As a flight simmer I find it a bit sad to fly over all these airfields that are no longer airfields - the runways are often built over, I presume because it saves the cost of having to lay foundations.
The San Juan Islands are my home away from home. I go there for bush flying training; apart from the airfields in Microsoft Flight Simulator, you can find yet more private or abandoned airstrips marked by thick grey lines in OpenStreetMap.
But Clam Harbor Airport, which I think is in the sim, is my particular bête noire.
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I’ve been fascinated by abandoned airfields for many years now, thanks mostly to Paul Freeman’s outstanding website, Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Have you seen the European equivalent? It’s not nearly as robust, but it’s still fascinating: Abandoned Forgotten & Little Known Airfields in Europe I’ve actually been touring some of the UK airfields listed there. Perhaps I’ll do a little write-up sometime soon!
I agree that it’s a little sad to imagine what may have been in regards to abandoned fields. But that’s one of the joys of flight simming: many of those fields can return to life, either with some scenery bashing or with the proper STOL/rough field equipment!
Anyway, I’m off to the San Juans again! I’ll try Clam Harbor first and see what misery that field conjures 
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Glad to hear you’ve found the Tiger Moth. What a wonderful airplane for touring, especially if you have time to spare!
I had no idea DM AFB’s boneyard was represented in MSFS. That’s what I love about this thread: I’ve discovered so many new places to visit!
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Flew the Fokker F28 4000 from Kangerlussuaq to Reykjavik
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First flight in WU15 - visiting Rjukan, a place with an interesting history:
Norwegian heavy water sabotage
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I don’t feel confident enough to take on any legs of the World Flight 2023 event, but I decided to ride its ATC coverage, so while everyone was flying from Hong Kong to Thailand, I planned to fly the opposite direction from Hanoi to Hong Kong. However I started out late, so my brilliant plan ended up with no ATC on arrival.
Full video later here:
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I flew EZY from Edinburgh EGPH to Southampton EGHI In the Fenix A320.
Setting up C&D at Edinburgh and it was clear sunny sky which was odd considering I was in Scotland. And then the ATIS told me it was 20C in November, at that point I knew there must be a live weather outage. 
I had an A320ceo full of pax and the EFB told me that the runway was too short for medium autobrake. Fortunately my company SOP says I can still land as long as I remember to stand on the brakes as soon as we touchdown. All went as planned.
I stopped for a flat white in the terminal before the next leg.
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Next leg of Pacific tour in DC-3 in real weather: SEQM 
SPME
Today my ears popped. I departed from 8000ft then climbed to 14000ft to cross mountains and descended down to see level. All this in unpressurized DC-3. I tried to descend slowly to be able to adjust, but at some point I had to accelerate descend to get below clouds.
Both departure and arrival were on the wrong runway. Departure was rw18 that was slightly uphill. And opposite runway would be better as there was almost no wind. On takeoff DC-3 turned from side to side more than I expected, especially with no wind. I guess the uphill takeoff was the problem.
And on arrival I got assigned runway with tailwind. But I managed to keep just above stall speed end of approach and the landing was much better than I expected.
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I had no idea of what to, realistically, expect but was pleasantly surprised. Plenty of different types of aircraft there as you’d expect and some interesting parking formations in places. Worth a visit if you’re passing!
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