A fun flight heading towards Svalbard, I am hoping they fix the idle throttle problem soon 
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Today I took the new Lama up for a short low level flight around Catalina Island. It’s one of the best, if not the best helicopter I’ve tried in the sim so far. The Alouette was already incredible, but the level of detail on the Lama is truly next level!
Here is a video of the flight, including a water drop with the Bambi Bucket:
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Today I followed the demarcation line between Israel and Lebanon (called “Blue Line”)
Take-off in Haifa
At the western end of the Blue Line; Naqoura with the headquarter of UNIFIL in the background
Following the Blue Line
View to the Golan Heights and the destination airport in the valley
Refueling at Kiryat Shmona Rekhav’am Ze’evi Airfield
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WB C172 floats from Port Angeles to points north, on an informal tour of lighthouses and the Victoria BC area as well.
The virtual weather was perfect for flying today!
Lighthouse of some sort or another. This is part of the RTMM scenery.
Victoria has some really nice photogrammetry areas.
What do I love most about lighthouses? They give you someplace to fly to if you want to fly a floatplane. Purpose is everything.
Amphibious taxi up onto my own private island, to settle in after a long day of flying. I hope the tide doesn’t come up too far!
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I don’t much like flying over open water:
“I joined the Navy to see the world
And what did I see? I saw the sea.
I saw the Atlantic and the Pacific
And the Pacific isn’t terrific
And the Atlantic isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”
Still, I had to give Aerosoft’s North Sea Landmarks a go. I suppose they’re called landmarks because you can land on them. Which I did eventually, descending on the first one I came across with great relief:
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Been a while since I posted here. Did an early morning flight from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, Yukon in the 787. It’s flights and views like these that keep me coming back for more.
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I just did some humble utility flying in the BN2, going from TCNM to St Barth, then to Saba/Barth back and forth 3 times with parking/shut down/open up/restart, and a return to Juliana. Nailed every landing in spite of a constant barrage of MP people cartwheeling, crashing into the hill, bouncing and overshooting all over the place. And the inevitable large airliner that spawns on the runway at least once every time you fly in there. 
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Having got acquainted with the Ryan, I took it down to San Diego. Of course none of the original buildings are there, but it was a nice leg of Lindbergh’s round-the-country goodwill flight he did after returning to the US from Paris. All part of my ‘Sim-plane-I’ve-not-yet-flown-since-I-started-three-years-ago’ series.
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Loved reading the description.
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Canadian Plains in real-weather, real-time
Alberta, Canada
Athabasca River, Alberta, Canada
Athabasca River, Alberta, Canada
Fort MacKay, Alberta, Canada
Dauphin Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Provincial Trunk Hwy 5, Manitoba, Canada
Provincial Trunk Hwy 5, Manitoba, Canada
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Flying out from Hope, British Columbia, Canada ( where First Blood was filmed), following the Fraser River, taking right from Harrison Hot Springs towards half-frozen Harrison Lake, following the valley towards Lillooet Lake and then taking a hard left for Pemberton Airport… in real-weather, real-time
Hover mouse pointer over the photos for description.
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VECC to ZPPP in the Fokker f28 4000 super late last night
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Basel - Zurich - Milano
Weather was nasty looking, like it is in Europe atm. Far from my usual VFR flying.
Photo book
All aboard
Not sure this is by the book 
Heads-down in the instruments, then looked up to see we cleared the clouds
Arrived in Zurich, for the next leg to Milano
Yikes, that’s how that ended 
Not a clue what happened there … I think it was the AP set to too high climb rate while my throttle wasn’t up all the way, but then I turned it off - but lost all control already.
So that’s the first time I crash in my trip from Belgium - Mount Etna - Tenerife - Zurich in various aircraft 
Oh well! Try again next time. That’s the advantage of a simulator.
Scary stuff.
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Sweet! That’s a mod I’ve never heard of. Thanks for sharing. Downloading now!
Flew the DC-3 for the first time in a long time. Pretty proud of the landing considering it was my first one in that aircraft in a couple months.
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I took the Lightning on her first long-distance outing today, flying from Kermit Weeks’ Fantasy of Flight museum (FA08, scenery by Emerald Scenery/rotornut44) to Jerry Yagen’s Military Aviation Museum at Virginia Beach (42VA, scenery by i9simulations). My plan was to experiment with the airplane’s performance and compare to real world data, so I elected to remain VFR at 17,500 feet and below.
“Wishful Thinking” waiting on the ramp outside the Fantasy of Flight’s hangars. That’s PBY-5A N96UC (formerly Navy BuNo. 48375) peaking in the left side of the frame.
Lined up and waiting for overhead traffic to clear. “Wishful Thinking’s” younger stablemate, former Lufthansa Starliner D-ALAN, watches from the sidelines. Sadly, I don’t think she’ll ever fly again, and the clean model in MSFS belies the real airplane’s steadily deteriorating condition.
Vacationers heading south for warmer climes in Florida and points south. The high-altitude airways along the United States’ east coast are always crowded, which causes massive delays when spring and summer thunderstorms create bottlenecks. Thankfully the weather today was crystal clear and smooth over most of the Eastern Seaboard. That’s an American Airbus in the lead (probably going as slow as he can), a Delta 737 (probably complaining about the ride), and a JetBlue Airbus (probably on the wrong frequency).
Passing off Tybee Island. Somewhere in the water down there is an errant nuclear bomb. Read the basics of the story here.
I planned to reach 42VA at 1546 Local and nailed it almost perfectly. With nobody in the pattern, I flew overhead to look for the windsock which, as is often the case in MSFS add-ons, indicates backwards in this otherwise flawless scenery package. I’ll maneuver to the east, then return to land to the west, but first…
…a low pass down the runway to wake everyone up! 
Two hours and 230 gallons after takeoff and I’m on the ramp at Virginia Beach. That’s a Bf-109, a Spitfire, and a Mustang behind “Wishful Thinking,” with two T-6s further down the line.
This flight showed me that I needed better data for the P-38, as the only charts I could find were for the P-38H and weren’t quite accurate. So I went full nerd (I know…never go full nerd) and spent over an hour gathering cruise performance data before combining the results into a planning chart. Now there’s no wondering whether I’ll have the fuel to get somewhere!
Anyway, I’m off to clean the kitchen and walk the dog before bed. Good night! 
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