I finished Appalachian bush-trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: KCBC 
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Again start in the cold morning. There was also lot of mist around, but it got better, while I did runup.
I just learned that I should check winds at https://www.meteoblue.com/ and not only Little Navmap. I was expecting more tailwind and less crosswind, but I was slower and had to do more corrections on the way. Only after the flight I noticed difference between wind in Little Navmap and Meteoblue.
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Again not today (not even yesterday or last weekend) but sometime in the past…
I took the FBW A20X with the Egyptair livery, from HUEN to OYAA:
I took some photos crossing great african rivers, which I wrote appart for these report… but as it took place so long ago, I have lost my notes, so you’ll have to enjoy their nameless beauty:
Leaving the african continent:
And finally something happened with ATC and approach procedure and I found myself flying too high, so I had improvise a bit to capture the GS:
And it worked!
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I’m a ga pilot, both in rl and in sim. Much of my simming is about enjoying the view, but for this flight I became fascinated by the balance needed for stable flight in all phases of flight. it made the sim aircraft feel like a real machine. watching lift increase with airspeed, and power settings…and countering those effects with control surfaces. All with the goal of eliminating pilot induced oscillations.
What a cool flight, which continued to a sweet landing, in the JF turbo arrow.
Even though ground handling will probably always be twitchy in the arrows, flying the aircraft with care and touch, makes for fine ground performance.
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Having a play in the PILOT’s Dash 7. With SWS behind the development, I had high expectations for the flight model… what are everyone else’s thoughts on how this thing handles in MSFS? To me it doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the fidelity of the Kodiak or PC12!
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Software update day. Stayed grounded but ready for tomorrow! 
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If you find yourself at KSNA often there’s a very nice freeware scenery on flightsim.to with the terminal and various outbuildings modeled, as well as a payware one from UK2000 Scenery which is, well, out of their usual UK operating area but very well done. 
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After many bush-trips in WB-Sim C172 and finishing tour around Pacific in DC-3, I started different adventure. I started tour around Atlantic in TBM-930. And I started, where I finished the Pacific tour: SCGZ SAVC
I can fly this in high altitudes, so most of the flights will be IFR. And it seems I have still much to learn flying IFR.
On departure I was supposed to intercept radial 270 of VOR PWL. But when I did, the flight director was trying to turn me back. So I activated next leg manually and continued on the leg. To be honest I was not really well aligned, so possibly the navigation didn’t register that.
And on approach, I tuned ILS and everything looked good, and I was hoping that, when the green ball would be in the middle, autopilot would start to descend. But it didn’t. So I switched off autopilot and started descend manually. Glideslope was telling me, I was high. FD was telling me to climb. So I ignored FD. Luckily there was 15kn headwind and 15kn crosswind, so I could easily lose altitude and catch glideslope without gaining speed. Also landing with 15kn crosswind was smoother than I expected.
Only after landing I realized I forgot to press APR button to follow the glideslope.
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EHAM to EGLL in pouring rain and low vis at both ends. I was starting to regret going into 27L on cat I ILS but then I spotted the runway 100ft above minimums, which saved me from having to try again with cat III.
First flight and isn’t this gorgeous?
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EDDF to EGBB. Got most of it right. Fancy a tour of Cadbury World. A pint at Hare and Hounds King’s Heath?
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Lisbon (LPPT) to Rabat (GMME) via Gibraltar (LXGB)
It took me 5 weeks but the European leg of my trip is over. Goodbye Europe, Hello Africa!
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Couldnt resist recreating this One Air flight that popped up on Flightrader with the COWS DA42
Fantastic livery from huxoavi on flightsim.to
Jerez LEJR - Malaga LEMG
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2nd leg of tour around Atlantic in TBM-930 in real weather: SAVC SAZM
Still couldn’t figure out to make autopilot follow ILS glideslope. So again manual approach.
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Once you have captured the ILS approach and glide slope you have to set the autopilot to Approach Mode by selecting the APPR button.
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