I got the CowanSim 500E, it was in the sale, I used to fly its cousin in ArmA and I was getting a lot of flack for flying the Asobo 407. Once I had got my controls set and used to how it operated I was fine.
I reversed my standard test route. RAF Valley, East and up the Llanberis pass, left at the top of the pass. Left again at Capel Curig and up to Llyn Ogwen.
Little Tryfan. Tryfan proper is to the right. I used to camp at the campsite, off picture bottom left.
Llyn Idwal is the lake. Some very good climbing on the Idwal slabs on the left. Another climbing hawnt. The path going through the bottom of the slabs is rising into the Devils Kitchen. Looks like a dead end but is just a walk.
I flew my Airbus A230neo from Lisbon to Paris in Real Time, Weather and Traffic. Video shows every step from a Cold & Dark Cocpit until arrival at the gate.
Flew leg 1 of my long flight in the Subsonex jx2 from Perry Warsaw NY to 29D grove city PA because I’m attempting to go south to Savannah Hilton head international so I can use it as my next potential hq
Glasgow to Inverness, via Glenegedale. Last time I did a similar route, it was miserably overcast. This time it was clear, but had winds of 30 to 40 knots. Still, spectacular. Still no Nessie.
We toured a bunch of sites in Central Florida from a few miles south of Melbourne to just east of Lakeland. You can read about it in Part One of this tour at Pee-Wee and Nag’s Skytours (and Other Thoughts). We’ll try to have Part Two and Three finished before the end of the week.
Doing some more IFR practice in the Comanche. Was doing well until I almost crashed on final after I forgot to check for carb ice. Just caught it in time luckily. Oops. Probably shouldn’t have even been flying tbh. 47kt tailwind at cruise alt, and 30kt headwind on final - luckily straight down the runway but still probably far too much for a Comanche lol. Bit of a firm landing!
For some reason the runway lights didn’t come out great in the above screenshot. You can maybe just see the runway if you look very closely. I promise you it was visible at the time. You can see my IAS of ~95kts, but GS of 61kts lol.
We finished Part 2 of our Central Florida tour over at our Pee-Wee and Nag’s Skytours (and Other Thoughts) thread, but ran out of time for Part 3. You can expect the exciting conclusion next week.
Pre-flew a flight I’m taking IRL in a couple weeks from KSRQ (Sarasota) to KMTH (Marathon / Florida Keys).
Selected the best altitude and created user waypoints in ForeFlight, to maintain glide distance between airports and/or highways, and to fly the appropriate VFR arrival, depending on prevailing winds. .
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