Did a test flight of B787-10 from OTHH to OMAA and also have a look at these airports which are not very old.Still have to have a hang of B787 as landings are pretty bad.
did an overnight from Nairobi, Kenya (HKJK) to Darwin, Australia (YPDN) in the Headwind A330. Block time was 12 hours 40 minutes and enroute time just above 12 hours. Departed Nairobi at around 19.00 UTC yesterday evening and arrived about 07.40 UTC this morning.
Now I am flying Belgrade, Serbia (LYBE) to Edinburgh, UK (EGPH). ETA is 11.40 UTC on this 3 hour flight.
Today: The Himalayas.
First flight: Kathmandu (VNKT) to Lukla (VNLK). Haven’t flown the Twin Otter for a long time, so I de-hangared her. RL weather, RL time. A bit late, but what the heck, it’s just a sim …
and the moon is shining bright:
Gorgeous vistas of the setting sun …
and the “Alpenglow” (Himalayaglow???) enroute:
Slowly getting dark, but the moon was bright enough and suddenly, first sight of Lukla:
IRL I would have quaked in my loafers, …
but I had a safe landing …
Crowd was not too impressed, though
Nice new Lukla DLC by Aerosoft and LimeSim. Some more shots in bright daylight in my next post.
Himalayas, second flight of the day: RL weather, but changed the time to daylight.
Transporting some hikers in the H160 from Lukla (VNLK) to Everest basecamp:
New Lukla DLC by Aerosoft/LimeSim, Everest Scenery/Helipads by Kumari and of course the Orbx Central Asia/Himalaya mesh.
Taking a buddy to lunch in a couple hours from and to unfamiliar airports, so I pre-flew the route. I do this to learn the rough geography, landmarks and to get a sense of timing… ESPECIALLY on short flights. Some of those suckers come up on ya QUICK!
Did a flight EBBR to EDDM (Both 3rd party airports). working for Lufthansa on a pilot’s life v2. Flying CRJ 900 with GSX, FS2crew, and new parellel 42 simFX.
Took off no issues climbing nicely, autopilot on.
Got to FL350 then noticed my speed was dropping and pitch was going up…could not work out was going on.
I disenged autopilot, noticed my trim was pitching all the way up, set it up for level flight, turned on autopilot again the trim pitch went all the way up again…fighting against pitch trim. So disengaged autopilot and hand flew all the way. It was something LIKE out of aircrash investigations. I really enjoyed it, it kept me on my toes.
Real adrenaline rush landing safely, not sure if my flaps would work or landing gear.
My Passengers must of been happy.
Even now I could not work out what the conflict was with my trim wheel. Just shows some bugs and conflicts with MSFS can cause an exciting flight. Only thing I could think of my COG was wrong.
I did a second flight from EDDM to EGNT, no issues.
I continued Atlantic tour in TBM-930 in real weather: KEWR KBOS
Today the flight was shorter, so I climbed only to 17000ft. Traffic was still busy. I had to ignore some in Boston area. There were some airplanes landing in opposite direction.
Hope the weather in Massachusetts stays nice for next few days. I would like to explore the area. And then heading to Canada.
Flew the Tecnam p2012 traveler from Cancun to MMCZ
Once arrived at Edinburgh I decided to do another flight down to Bordeux. Flight time about two hours and then did a very nice visual approach to and landing on runway 05.
As the song goes “Easy Like Sunday Morning”
Test flight for the Erasam Tecnam P2010, Active Sky depiction for SCT at 6,400’ and GAIST Ultra V5 showing marine traffic in Newport Bay. Very nice.
Stretching the definition of “today” to include “in the last 24 hours,” I have made several flights in the PMDG 737 lineup, but yesterday afternoon/evening’s was by far the most photogenic. Departing KLGA in the -800 wearing Southwest’s Tennessee One livery, I headed southeast to Nashville, KBNA, chasing the setting sun. There were seriously too many gorgeous screenshots last night, as the setting sun, the cloud layers and the lights below slowly appearing in the gloom below and behind (and eventually ahead) were amazing.
“Get in, user! We’re going simming.” (Enjoying the little details on the FSR500’s engine damage simulation, as well as its cute liveries :D)
MMMC to MHRO in the FS studios Tecnam p2012 traveler
Took the fs studios Tecnam p2012 traveler from MHRO to SKSP