JustFlight Piper Tomahawk for a quick tour of the San Francisco Bay area.
This plane is so awesome I’m not even sure where to begin. I’ll just say it’s good enough that I feel compelled to write a really positive and lengthy review. I won’t do that here, but I did find myself saying “VY! VY!” and hearing my imaginary instructor ask me to climb us up to 3,000 because you know why…stall practice day. Really brings out my inner flight student, and I’m thinking would be a most excellent choice for instrument practice since it’s got all the required equipment and is a simple plane to manage (if you don’t stall).
Tecnam p2012 traveler from TNCA to TGPY
Flew the Tecnam p2012 traveler from TGPA to TAPA
Sometimes, flights surprise me.
Today I took the Cessna 172 out for a sightseeing flight from Arlanda (ESSA) to Tullinge (ESCN). As usual, I’m using live traffic & weather. Did not check the weather beforehand, and was greeted by low clouds, low visibility & zero degrees snow/rain mix.
One might think that sightseeing in such conditions would not be much fun, but the weather actually made the flight very immersive.
Taking off shortly after dawn, I found that as long as I stayed under the cloud layer at 1,500 ft, VFR flying was possible. Churches made great route markers:
Despite the low visibility, still managed to hit my POIs, such as the Avicii Arena:
Not lost in the mist, but sometimes it felt like it. Here I’m on my way to the Djuro Bridge:
A slight break in the clouds made it easy to see:
And here we are safe & sound at Tullinge, after a very immersive flight:
I finished the flight that I had to divert last time: KAFN 
KDDH
This time sky was clear, but turbulent. The flight was short, following all visual points, road, crossing Connecticut river splitting New Hampshire and Vermont, then road to hills, pass by wind turbines, and then to Bennington.
I overflew the airport and decided to land rw31. I missed that 31 has right traffic pattern. And I found out why. Because there was hill just before base. So of course I was high on base, so I extended it and overshoot final. But I could also pass by Bennington Battle Monument. I could still align with rwy and did butter landing.
I had some communication issues. At first my COM2 stopped working, so I had to use COM1 for ASOS. And, when I got closer to destination, I started to pickup some ATIS of another airport on UNICOM. So I switched to approach frequency, pretending I was still on UNICOM. But I got confused and sometimes I called out Albany traffic instead of Morse State traffic.
Next stop: Burlington
Saint John’s to Saba in the Tecnam p2012 traveler
Saba to Saint Barts in the Tecnam p2012 traveler
Short flight around the bay area in the JF Tomahawk, landing at KOAK RWY 30 in some spicy weather.
KOAK 261953Z 29022G31KT 10SM BKN025 18/10 A3003 RMK AO2 PK WND
It was actually quite doable, which I was surprised by given how light the Tomahawk is.
Short late afternoon flight from Vigo(LEVX) to Porto(LPPR), Iris PC-21, ActiveSky weather, FSLTL ai traffic.
GCTS Reina Sofía (Canary Islands, Spain) to GVBA Boa Vista (Cape Verde) in the FBW A20NX:
Ground operations with Teide in the background::
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Taking off, again with Teide in the landscape:
Cruise over the Atlantic Ocean
Some clouds at sight, or is it land?
It’s clouds over my destination!
RNAV03 approach:
KDDH KBTV in WB-Sim C172 in real weather. It was again clear sky or very few clouds. However, it was windy and turbulent again.
Flight was nice and easy. After departure I turned north. This time I read remarks of the airport, so I avoided noise sensitive area south of airport. I flew towards CAM VOR and continued north to Hudson Falls. From there I followed Lake George that led me to Lake Champlain. There I just followed east shore until I reached Burlington.
When reaching the destination, I tuned KBTV tower, but there was no ATC option to request landing. So I just did, what I would expect ATC would tell me. I flew midfield runway 33 and then join downwind 15. I got wind and altimeter from ATIS.
I had stronger turbulence and some downdraft on final. But after clearing trees, air got calmer and I did surprisingly good landing.
So that was my Boston - Vermont adventure. And next thing is to leave USA and fly to Canada on my Atlantic tour.
Saint Barts to Saint Martin TNCM in the Tecnam p2012 traveler
