Where can I find your work?
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I will finally remove it (the marshaller with a bicycle) one day 
All my amateur (passionate) work is avail at Flightsim.to - Profile of vbazillio Enjoy and share feedback!
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Flew the md82 from Akron to Charlotte NC
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A balloon in Yuma:
I hadn’t flown the PC-21 in a while, so I took it out to see if I could remember how (needless to say, I couldn’t).
It was getting dark in Scotland, so I opted for my home away from home in the San Juan Islands, where it’s usually light when it’s dark here, but they were badly overcast so I headed south.
I picked a route from the Central Valley in California out to Phoenix, but when I plotted it on the World Map I noticed a POI out in the desert, called T.A.R.S Yuma - I had no idea what it was, but it wasn’t much out of my way, so I decided to take a look.
What it was was set of nondescript buildings, with part of the ground near them obscured - but also with wires going straight up. Looking up, I saw a distant blob, which on closer inspection turned out to be what you see pictured above.
It’s a radar-carrying aerostat balloon, one of a chain watching for drug-smuggling planes crossing the border.
The Wikipedia website on the subject:
has a list of the aerostats, many of which it turns out are in the sim:
XXX = not found in-sim
Cudjoe Key, Florida 24.696119°N 81.504511°W
Deming, New Mexico 32.026574°N 107.864159°W
Eagle Pass, Texas 28.38536°N 100.285963°W
Fort Huachuca, Arizona 31.485808°N 110.295546°W
Lajas, Puerto Rico 17.978111°N 67.079676°
Marfa, Texas 30.434399°N 104.320641°W
XXX Matagorda, Texas 28.710482°N 95.957682°W
XXX Morgan City, Louisiana 29.810666°N 91.662996°W
Rio Grande City, Texas 26.572331°N 98.817129°W
Yuma, Arizona 33.015886°N 114.24331°W
XXX San Antonio, Zambales 14.9628831°N 120.0675095°E
(The last site is, I think, in the Philippines. )
If you want to check them out, perhaps you should hurry; T.A.R.S. is history, being replaced by an assemblage of fixed towers, and the POIs may be gone in MSFS 2024.
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Helicopter trip from Charlotte to statesville regional airport in the Cowan a125
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A successful flight from Charlotte to Wilmington in the mu2 and helicoptered over to frying pan tower in the Cowan airbus 125
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Thanks, yeah, those helicopters aren’t easy.
This wasn’t the first time I flew either one when it comes to flying in them my choice of helicopter is volocopter I find it easiest to fly. Even though it’s slow compared to the rest.
Thanks for the encouragement, I can see myself playing around with them a bit more in the near future.
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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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