Lossiemouth to Brize Norton , ILS Runway 25 landing, wish there was a better Brize Norton available for Xbox.
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Briefing (and re-briefing) my upcoming flight with friends from KSRQ to KMTH.
2 good sized men, 2 (mercifully) small women, 70 lbs. of luggage & 24 gallons of fuel leaves us with approximately 8 gallons reserve. In my Arrow, that’s nearly an hour at 55% power.
Creating waypoints for fuel swaps and taking the left tank down to 4 gallons should have us landing with 4 in each tank. (I’m leaning the sim to 10 gal/hr, but usually get 9.6 IRL.)
The blue lines are highways & a wide beach, and I’ve chosen this route to be within glide of something at 9,500’.
Hopefully..
I’ve never run fuel this low, so I’m planning the fuel swaps so that the tank I’m on in the pattern at KMTH is in the right (high) wing. Not sure if that matters. Will be keeping the pattern tight, J.I.C.
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I swapped the iniBuilds jet for my favorite new piston twin and flew the B60 Duke from the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island to it’s top: NZDN by XWind Studios to NZNS by NZA Nelson.
With very strong southerly winds yesterday, I climbed right up to FL250 and managed to top out at a groundspeed of 306 knots straight and level with the recommended cruise power settings of 30"/2500rpm. Flight time of 1 hr 2 mins covering 320nm.
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After a lunch break, I picked up where I left off in the B60 and flew from NZNS to NZTG up at FL230.
Big kudos to Blacksquare for recapturing the essence of the aircraft that I enjoyed so much in FSX. A real nostalgia blast. The simulation of the cabin pressurization and climate controls kept me busy whilst dealing with a 65 knot tailwind, watching the sunset and programming an approach!
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SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Airbus A320-232, OY-KAU from Memmingen-Allgäu (EDJA) to Scandinavian Mountains (ESKS)
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“Flying” a DOF Reality H6, I’m one of the few people that actually has to do a preflight walk-around, as screws tend to fall out.
Caught this one in time…
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Never in a million years did I think that 2 TB wouldn’t be enough for my games and flight sims.
But alas, basically had 50 megs left on my 1 TB M.2 SSD for MSFS. Knew I wanted some planes coming eventually (e.g., PMDG 777) so had to do something.
So this is what I did today - moved MSFS to a 4 TB Samsung 990 Pro M.2 drive. Manage to do it without messing it up…I think.
I can now add my mods and payware without spending so much time deleting stuff and moving around.
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Loch Lomond to Fort William to Islay to Glasgow, and back to Loch Lomond. All before ye. Would be nice to have a Scotland flag livery.
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Just practicing patterns and basic takeoff/landing form. Keep running into those pesky airport vehicles 
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Longest leg of my Atlantic tour in TBM-930 in real weather: BGSF 
BIKF
I took advantage of flying north of Arctic circle and very short night. Just after departure I could see sunset over north pole. It was confusing. But soon I got into freezing clouds at FL310. And I was in the clouds all over Greenland. 80kn headwind made flight 40 minutes longer.
I got out of clouds over the Atlantic ocean. But I missed sunrise.
It was cloudy over Keflavik. And ATC cleared me to ILS-Y 10 approach instead of planned ILS-Z. So I had to fly to KFV VOR at the airport, and then away to line up with ILS. Otherwise approach and lending was smooth, even with 15kn crosswind.
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Must have been a breeze in the TBM. I did that flight in the other direction (BIRK-BGSF) in the DA62, following the route Micke Lang flew IRL in his DA62 ferry flight and it took me 6 hours and 15 minutes from ramp to ramp
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Celebrating 85 years of Flight History, wanted to do a circle around Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto, Ontario Canada. In the Icon A-5
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Lyon to Palermo. This was the first time BATC got me down as expected. The GSX layout for Lyon worked well as pax came out of the building rather than the usual bus.
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Took the Halo pelican from frying pan tower to KSUT
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KSUT to KCLT in the Fokker F28 4000
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