We toured Lincolnshire in central east England, with landings at four disused World War 2 bomber airfields. You can read about it at my Pee-Wee and Nag’s Sky Tours thread.
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I live down the street from this airport in Renton Washington (KRNT). I drive by it weekly pretty much. Great times in the Comanche. Manually flew her a good portion of the flight, including the landing.
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LCEN to OMAA in the fs studios’s Embrear 170LR
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Eschewed the autopilot and hand flew the SU15B VL-3, had to hunt around for cruise tables and VSpeed charts. It is tough to get it done right in a 10 knot max demonstrated crosswind.
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I took the Twin Beech (Denarq Mod) from Sarajevo (LQSA) to Sofía (LBSF):
Beautiful departure:
Sofia approach (over the city):
And no more screenshots, as landing and taxiing this plane usually keeps me quite busy.
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So sad to see how Asobo destroyed the draw distance.
MSP>DSM again. 
winds down the runway but gusting 29. Config 3 landing. Not too bad if I was landing on the USS Teddy Roosevelt. 
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OMAA to VABB in the fs studios Embraer 170 LR, the two longest legs of the trip are over but luckily I’m in the LR model of the aircraft so we can take on the needed fuel
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First, was a wonderful day in Seattle today. So hopped on the Ducati Scrambler (Sport Pro 1100) for the first time in a long while and drove down Lake Washington Blvd to grab some lunch.
Got back home, and GF and kiddo out with friend to Mt. Rainier. Flight time!
Decided to enjoy the good weather in Seattle through the air with live weather, and challenge myself. Found an obscure small landing strip NE of Seattle in Skykomish, WA. (S88), a small town in the North Cascades. Scouted the area on Volanta and Little Nav Map and jumped into cold state Kodiak from Renton (KRNT), an airport literally walking distance from my home in Seattle. Just visual flight rules and no autopilot landing on this one. Tiny strip nestled between two mountain ranges.
Went up 11K feet and did more scouting, and found that if I followed Highway 2 and the river adjacent to it, it would take me right to Skykomish. I’ve driven down Highway 2 many times - a gorgeous road (though one of the most dangerous roads in the state and frequently closed during the winter).
The river was a great guide, went down to 3,000 feet and hand flew her between gorgeous mountain ranges. Saw the “landing strip” - gravel, but covered in snow. Problem was what I was looking at wasn’t the landing strip. Didn’t end well. Crashed…
Since just a 40 minute flight tried again. Did a better job scouting the area and saw that the landing strip was actually about 200 yards or so down what I previously thought was the strip. Just a barren area surrounded by trees (and covered in snow). This should be interesting…
Followed the river again…
The town of Skykomish. There is a landing strip there somewhere…
I did it! Landed safely. Solid landing.
Hit the parking brake and felt proud and a sense of accomplishment. Didn’t even wind her down. Let’s fly out of there and land back in Renton! On my way home and safe landing in KRNT. A good day…
My route. Highly recommend if you want a short and challenging landing.
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After long time (or winter) I continued California dreams bush trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: KBIH 
KMMH O57
The legs were short 30nm + 40nm. The airports were at higher altitudes around 7000ft. At least it was not hot. At Mammoth Yosemite airport it took some time to accelerate to Vy. But weather was nice. Some winds, but not strong. And sky was clear.
I had to take almost full tank, because according to Skyvector, there is no fuel at Bryant airport. So next leg must be done with leftover fuel and I have to cross mountains at 10000ft.
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Yesterday I finally (I think) convinced myself that I need to focus more on improving my skills with just a few aircraft, and stop trying to buy all the cool planes that are being released.
I signed up for a group flight that used a TBM 930 or similar aircraft, and thought, “My FSR500 would work for that.” I missed the start of the flight, even though I had hopped into the cockpit a full six hours prior. Why? I ended up getting totally immersed in trying to finish the SPAD programming for the FSR500. 8 hours of work, and I’m not nearly finished…
I should note that I’m an advocate for (some might say crippled by) a desire to have a ‘mouse free’ flight experience. I have an Alpha/Bravo, as well as a Streamdeck XL and Streamdeck Plus that I can program with SPAD. And there’s the rub…
If I don’t spend a lot of time creating SPAD profiles for each aircraft, I end up forgetting what I’ve already learned. And if I try to program plane after plane after plane, I end up with partially programmed planes that I don’t enjoy flying.
Then there’s the matter of truly learning navigation using the wonderful tools we have at our disposal. I have Navigraph and SimBrief, but have only been using LittleNavMap (which is GREAT, but can’t compare to the depth of Navigraph.)
So here’s what I’m going to do:
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Fly only the FSR500 for the forseeable future, until I can wear this beautiful aircraft like a glove, and have everything in the cockpit mapped to my peripherals - everything. I expect this will take me months, as I’m learning SPAD as I go. Variables, expressions, and conditional events are still something of a mystery to me, and understanding how to create and use them is essential for me to be able to program my Streamdecks the way I want.
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Learn VFR and IFR navigation using Navigraph, SimBrief, the Garmin G1000 NXi, and the GFC 700 autopilot.
In short - focus, focus, focus…
Happy flying, everyone.
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Next leg of California dreams bush-trip in WB-Sim C172 in real weather: O57 O22
Again early morning. Cold start of the day. Engine started on the first try. Calm winds at both departure and destination. After takeoff I had to climb to 10500ft to cross Backeye pass. It was quite fun, because it was not just straight pass, but I had to do some turns. It least no strong winds.
For a moment I thought I got lost, but then I found Hetch Hetchy Reservoir as planned. I turned west, where I could see Melones reservoir in distance. And that was my destination.
I finished the part in the mountains, next few legs are near Pacific ocean again.
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I took the Denarq Beechraft 18 from Sofia, Bulgaria (LBSF) to Skiathos (Greece), for a second time.
(Leaving at Sofia)
First attempt was a quite exciting flight: first ATC ignored that Rila National Park mountains reached 9600ft, and only cleared me ascending till 9000ft. When I realized I was not going to pass, I had to hand fly evading the peaks. For this second attempt I directly asked for 10000ft after take off. The mountains:
After that, it is a pleasant flight over sunny Greece:
While reaching Skopelos island you have to descend and prepare for NDB approach and landing.
First time I was finishing a perfect flight: nice controlled descent, slowly losing speed, perfect runway alignment and a smooth landing? Nope, cause I forgot to lower the landing gear. For this second try, approach was not so smooth and nice, but at least I correctly configured my plane and safetly landed:
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Fs studios embrear 170LR from VABB to VOMM
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