There is a hold on the STAR at ATPEV which is exactly where you were, if you were a bit high by that point maybe it put you in it to bring you down a bit.
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Did a flight and landed into an airport that glitched so I couldn’t actually see runway lights properly
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Started a flight and set up from dark —> CTD
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Restarted and and set up again from dark —> CTD
Debating what I want to do on MSFS today 
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Switched to my GA hardware set-up and took the Duke Turbine out for a spin from Walla Walla (KALW) to Bellingham (KBLI).
I’m actually camping this weekend at Birch Bay near Bellingham so got a screenshot of where I’m camping (the bay in the background):
Both airports are free flightsim.to upgrades.
Love the Duke!
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Flew from EHAM to LEBL on the Inibuilds A300 freighter, DHL livery, using BeyondATC. The flight itself went more or less without incident. BeyondATC continues to be rather inconsistent. The software seems to be getting better at recognizing my voice (i.e., it only failed to hear my call sign perhaps 30% of the time), but when I arrived at El Prat, I was told that the scenery was inadequate (perhaps because I had a payware addon) and that it could not direct me to a gate.
All in all, a pretty good flight. I had not flown the A300 for a few weeks, sticking instead with the PMDG 737 and Fenix A320. Fun to get back on the mod.
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Took the Skyvan on a tour of Scottish airfields. I took off from Perth (EGPT) and landed at eight other airfields, including five grass ones.
This was the tightest one, Knockrome Airstrip (EGIS) on the island of Jura:
As you can just about see (I really need to get better with the drone camera), I only needed roughly half its 1,248 ft to land. I did back up to the start of the runway for takeoff: one of the Skyvan’s neat tricks is that despite being a tricyle undercarraige aircraft you can back up using reverse thrust without tipping onto the tail - though you should probably use forward thrust to stop, or be very careful on the brakes.
I’m really liking the Skyvan. At 173 KIAS max cruise, it’s the fastest shoebox I’ve ever owned, and more than competitive with other STOL transports (the Osprey is cheating!). Trim isn’t easy, but it rarely is, and at least there’s a sort of clicking noise to tell you that the trim is moving.
I could have used an elevator trim indicator to help me to set trim for take-off. But if there isn’t one in the plane, what are Asobo and Inibuilds to do? Well, maybe a hand-painted line on the elevator trim wheel left by some helpful pilot?
But on the whole the plane was fine to hand-fly. Mind you, I spent most of my time in the cruise on Autopilot. Heading and Altitude work as normal, and pitch trim, after a little practice, is as easy to use as VS. I didn’t have a flight plan today, but I did yesterday, and Track mode worked as Nav mode to follow it. I’ve seen others say that GS mode doesn’t work, but I haven’t tried it myself yet.
I had one odd experience starting cold and dark at Scotflight’s excellent freeware Perth/Scone airport (EGPT). After getting the Skyvan started up, I found it wouldn’t move from its grassy parking slot until I set the props to takeoff/landing pitch and used full throttle. Didn’t see this at any other airport - and five of the eight I landed at, as I said, were grass.
I will be back in the Skyvan. If nothing else, I’ll want to see if I can set take-off trim by counting clicks, and I am rather curious to know what the minimum distance is that I can take off in.
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Yet another good flight with Beyond ATC from Aberdeen to Manchester.
It gets a bit dodgy during vectors to the ILS approach, but in the end it really worked nicely. Once again I did not yet use the speech recognition and just used the UI.
Just like last time I did get this for a bit until I was established on the ILS and Glideslope and it handed me over to tower.
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Fulfilled a SkyVans life long dream of being a space shuttle, thanks to cu7 graphic glitch east of Madrid. Shot me right up to over 100000 feet in a second.
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Pee-Wee says: Nag and I took the MonsterNX Cub flying again. We flew nearly the full length of Cuba, from San Julian eastward to Guantanamo Bay, and searched for sites related to the Cuban Missile/Caribbean/October Crisis of Autumn 1962. You can read the first part of the tour at Pee-Wee and Nag’s Sky Tours (and Other Thoughts).
Recreating an iconic image without a Crusader or Voodoo.
Beagles, Fan Songs, and Dvinas…oh my!
A perfect place for Sandals.
The thrill of the search is rewarded!
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Planning a trip from Italy to Himalayas with the excellent fsr500
here’s few from the first day, from Isola d’Elba to Zagreb
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Took the Vision Jet from Split Kastela (LDSP) to Skopje (LWSK) using BeyondATC:
I had quite a decent arrival this time from BeyondATC, but made it worse on my own, as I forgot to start slow down in time, which made me overshoot turns to final… I managed to salvage it by hand flying, but still I feel a bit ashamed on getting behind the airplane…
Full video:
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…did the last leg of the Navada bush trip! achievement finally popped!
half dome…
…and finally, last airport in sight!
next up… i’ve gotta redo the patagonia one!
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We added Part Two of our Cuban Missile Crisis Sky Tour over at the Pee-Wee and Nag’s Sky Tours (and Other Thoughts) thread. We’re about halfway through the tour now. Part 3 (and a probably Part 4) should be available soon.
Nuclear missiles in and refugees out.
Helicopter haven on Cuba’s north coast.
Probably the most unsafe place we’ve ever flown…
…except for this spot!
Pee-Wee had to Goa. (Pee-Wee: Seriously?
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