Edinburgh to London City in the Fokker F28 4000 (I love the F28 4000 now)
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You, sir, have the best username ever 
Today I discovered the drone camera. Yes, I feel like a wee nugget. Why didn’t anyone tell me about that feature? 
I jumped into restored C-47 NZ3546 “Dakota 46” (paint by KiwiFlightSim) and cruised around NZ’s North Island. I started at 46’s home base at Ardmore (scenery by LswainStudiosNZ), flew to Gisborne on the east coast, then backtracked to Rotorua (scenery by NZASimulations).
Parked at the north edge of Gisborne. We visited the Tairawhiti Aviation Museum and allowed tours for members of the 14th (City of Gisborne) Squadron of the New Zealand Air Training Corps, a museum and organization I’d never heard of. The museum houses ZK-BAL, a Tiger Moth that’s available in the flightsim.to library. Maybe I’ll take her our for a spin tomorrow!
Near the top of descent into Rotorua. In the background is 2,700 foot / 820 meter Putauaki, a dormant volcano which ancient lore describes as the errant husband of nearby Lake Tarawera. It’s an interesting story too long for this caption: read all about it in the volcano’s Wikipedia article.
The scorned Lake Tarawera. Just out of the photo to the lower left is the mouth of the Tarawera River and the Tarawera Falls, said to have been created by the tears of Lake Tarawera after discovering her volcanic husband missing.
Descending toward Rotorua. Lake Rotorua, in the distance, is the caldera of a massive volcano that last erupted 240,000 years ago. The airport is on the eastern shore, with the eponymous settlement on the southern. I planned on flying a practice VOR approach to Runway 18. From the east, I’ll enter the holding pattern to align with the outbound leg of the approach while descending to 4,000 feet.
Turning back toward the RO VOR after the outbound holding leg. That’s the settlement of Rotorua below. In addition to some spectacular architecture, the town boasts a series of geothermal attractions which, sadly, aren’t simulated!
Outbound on the first leg of the VOR Runway 18 to Rotorua. Mokoia Island is off our left wingtip. The island is owned by the Maori Iwi, who share management of the island’s bird sanctuary with the NZ Department of Conservation. Several rare birds live on Mokoia, including kokakos, brown kiwi, and saddlebacks.
The approach went well, as did the landing in a stiff crosswind. Buttoned up for the night, Dakota 46 rests on the ramp at Rotorua. Good night, airport. Good night, sun. Good night, Dakota 
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I saw something writing it was missing.
I took Some hours to make quickly this missing EG36 Farway Common Airfield.
It will be available very soon at www.fs-creation.net.
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I bought the Wilga. I wanted a vintage aircraft with engine realism and failures.
There is only one thing I find unfortunate: It’s not amphibious, since the lack of stock water parking docks is a bummer. But that’s a minor one.
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Hm over time I slowly went tired of waiting eternally until the new Fenix Airbus V2 releases (it will surely get delayed this Christmas / new years eve week too, so the most early date for the new Fenix will probably be the easter bunny 
hopping by to bring me the new Fenix.
So I thought… well… maybe there are other absolute study level airplanes in Fenix quality to enjoy in the meantime? 
And wow these Black Square aircraft are absolute next level and top-notch!!
Especially the Black Square TBM is so next level (and thanks to the weather radar and all the different failures) in some details and aspects even more sophisticated than the Fenix.
I am currently test-flying my new precious Black Square fleet, and overhauling and enhancing the Black Square fleet cockpit textures a little bit. Awesome!
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Just a movie character who made an impression on me me when I was a kid in the 60s. Cheers, Chum.
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I continued my tour around Pacific in DC-3 in real weather: SPEO 
SPSO
Weather didn’t improve in Peru so I did IFR flight. Weather was nice on departure, so the departure was no problem. But range of VORs in South America was a problem. about 50% of the flight was dead reckoning. But after capturing the signal, I was still quite on course. The only real problem was flying STAR 22, because ASOXI didn’t have VOR coverage. But luckily that part was not in clouds, so I just identified location visually. And it also matched dead reckoning timing perfectly.
ILS approach could be better. I overshot the tracking, but luckily was still far enough for correction. Also soon enough I got bellow clouds so I continued visually.
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One of my all-time favorite films! Wonderful filmography, and I absolutely adore Dmitri Tiomkin’s musical score.
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Lovely Screens and especially those of the 152. They really make us appreciative of what Asobo have given us with so many well rendered default Aircraft and your Screens show them off so well. Thanks.
Midday in the Firth of Clyde as Scotland slides towards winter.
Had a look on Flightsim.to but they don’t seem to have any Aviators.
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London City to Bilbao in the Fokker F28 4000
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The Fokker is on my X-mas list. Can’t wait to try her out!
Today I went back to Gisborne, New Zealand and replicated many of Tiger Moth ZK-BAL’s sightseeing tours. Really not much to report. The hand-crafted airport at Gisborne (NZGS) is nice, but the town is not spectacular, and the area is in need of some watermask work.
Oh, and I fiddled with the drone camera some more 
ZK-BAL “Snafu” waiting for her next flight at Gisborne. Below, we’re turning southbound after cruising over Wainui Beach. Much of the town’s suburbs lie in the valley northeast of the town, visible over the first range of hills in this photo. I replicated the standard sightseeing route by referencing Flightradar24, and discovered that BAL doesn’t fly very much at all, with no flights listed after April, 2023. I hope she’s okay!
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The Black Square TBM, Bonanza, and Baron, are so superior (even with having an altimeter in the two Beechcrafts that is still unfinished) and realistic I had to make an appointment to get a good insurance plan for the Black Square airplanes, and three parking lots for them.
Because they are so realistic simulated they must be real! 
Even the illumination brightness of the integral light is reduced when cranking the starter motor, and sometimes the engine is flooding when leaving the boost pumps on too long, the exhaust is making explosion sounds when moving the throttle too fast or switching off ignition while the engine is still running… this is THE BEST and most ACCURATE SIMULATED AIRPLANE EVER MADE!!!
Awesome.
Sometimes also one or two instruments randomly fail and pop goes some circuit breaker or the heater is failing and many other things go wrong when failure rate is set to x512 times or x1024 times of realistic failures, in almost every flight something interesting happens this is intense.
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