What did you do in MSFS today? (Part 2)

EDNY → LIPN thought it should have be a very short flight approx 150 nm … forgot about the alps to climb over till the FL280 thanks to the both PT6A-60A of the King air that allow me a fast climb ! the descent to 4000 feet was so long :face_exhaling: and increased a lot my initial plan, anyway it was a brief one hour flight !

climb wasn’t a problem at all

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Home is a Paris heliport in the rain.

Acid rain, judging by the state of the building behind the heliport.

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One my first heliports, so many years ago in this sim.

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On my way from Lukla to Tribhuvan.

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The sim looks :heart_eyes: Honestly so pumped up for MSFS 2024..

Ps. was flying from Zurich to Liverpool via Birmingham..using weather presets not live weather:)

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Took the PC-21 from Philadelphia(KPHL) 09L to Boston(KBOS) 33L, live weather, FSLTL ai traffic.
Beautiful weather today.










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Round trip from Ballarat, around Melbourne and back to Ballarat…










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Took the ol NX Cub out for a Hayward Executive → Tracy VFR jaunt. He always looks so happy going for walkies! :smiley:

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Took the Connie out for a turn to Norman Wells. Crashed after landing because I forgot how overpowering the reverse pitch is lol.

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COWS DA42 from Desert Center to Ocotillo L90, with new scenery from Bazillio.


Here we are screaming over the Salton Sea.


Final approach at Ocotillo.


I slid the time back to morning, and the lighting was just beautiful enough to hop into the Winjeel and take a spin from Ocotillo to Banning.


The Winjeel makes a nice contrast to the 42, and she doesn’t mind if you decide to loop, roll, cuban 8, or any of that. Trimmed for cruise is also good.

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I too had been here before, not years ago, but a month or so back.

Anyway, what I didn’t say about yesterday’s flight was that it wasn’t just overcast and raining, but live weather also included a 17kt wind. In this wind, I was working my way into central Paris from the southeast, landing at whatever airfield or helipad lay in my path.

Landing on the ground, even in a decent breeze, was no problem, but then I came to an elevated hospital helipad with, next to it, an even taller building - presumably, the hospital.

Oh dear. Vicious updrafts, not just the usual sudden onset of ground effect when crossing onto elevated landing pads, but serious turbulence. In retrospect, I should have turned on Aerodynamic Visualisation (CFD) to see what was happening, but at the time I was rather preoccupied with not crashing.

Eventually I gathered up my deep sense of failure and moved on to the next hospital helipad; this one wasn’t easy but, being the highest point on the building, was at least landable. I managed it once I realised that the true wind direction was indeed being shown by the windsock, and not my GTN750, which was showing the wind direction at right angles to that.

At which point, exhausted, I saw my GTN750 was also showing me the letters ‘LFPI’ at the edge of the map, and while I would never have remembered it without that prompt I did recognise that it was the ICAO code of a heliport blessedly at ground level where I could land without too much drama.

Incidentally, you’ll notice in the picture that my SA 315B Lama’s landing lights are still on (first time I’d flown the Lama in weather dull enough for me to pay attention to them). I actually spent an age sitting there looking for the landing light switch without success.

Eventually I gave up, ended the flight and - Say it ain’t so! - had to fall back on reading the manual.

It turns out that the difficulty in finding the landing light switch was caused by there not being one. To turn the landing lights on and off in the Lama you have to resort to the circuit breaker in the overhead panel.

Well, I’ll know next time.

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The bad weather passed and I could continue Appalachian bush-trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: KLNP :airplane: WV09 :airplane: WV30 :airplane: WV52
WV09 and WV30 do not exist in Skyvector, so I used Little Navmap. Also navigation was not simple, because it was mostly forested area. I used some rivers and roads as navigation cues, but from time to time, I had to peek at GPS for confirmation.










Forecast for next few days is not good, so let’s see, when I continue.

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Couldn’t sleep…

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I created my first ever scenery mod. Granted it was just adding a stock radio tower that was the wrong type and I guessed at the scale to approximate the height, which is also probably wrong, BUT now I’m going to call myself a developer…

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Love the gold livery. Tokyo to Fukuoka











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I had still good weather, so I did next 2 legs of Appalachian bush-trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: WV52 :airplane: 2G4 :airplane: KGBE
It was a bit cloudy at start, but later there was clear sky flying north. I just had strong crosswind, so deviation of heading was 15° from tracking. In the end a row of wind turbines helped my to navigate to Deep Creek Lake and the airport was just north of the lake. And the 2nd leg was pretty fast, because of strong tail wind.
I checked windsock at Greater Cumberland airport and decided to land rw 23. However, when I was on final I found powerlines just in front the runway. I did go around and then 2nd approach with powerlines in mind.
I realized, I didn’t brief obstacles properly. But then I checked after landing, and Skyvector does not mention any obstacles for rw 23.










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It has been some time since I had a proper vatsim flight, so it was time to remedy that. Bergen Flesland (ENBR) to Glasgow Prestwick (EGPK) in the Citation Longitude:

I got quite lucky with ATC, I had several stations online on departure and CTR on arrival. Actually Scottish control signed off just as I was rolling down towards my exit on the runway at Glasgow. Too bad for a bounced landing. Wasn’t terribly scary or anything, but still…

Full video:

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Started a flight from Algiers (DAAG) to Malta (LMML), but sometime along the route I had to admit I don’t have the time to finish it before I’ve got to go to work, so I exited it

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