Got the A-37 Dragonfly running, took it on the Portland → The Dalles run up the Columbia River Gorge 
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I Managed to work out what I did wrong on my previous shuttle from Manchester to London (EGCC/EGLL). Much better this time but the weather wasn’t so nice
Decided to do a quick turnaround, escape the weather and
head back to sunny Manchester…
Cheers, Neil.
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Did some Nice & Monaco VR Exploration with the Juice Goose!
Caught some stunning scenery views on that trip!
@Tuffbull7923 Awesome gonna watch your SBS video on BigScreenBeta when I get home! 
@RomoRocket That second pic is quite dreamlike! 
I remember imagining the realistic clouds in a future sim early on and now we are here! 
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Hello everyone,
Had a challenging approach, at least for me because it was my first approach with an offset in the final approach leg.
Approach chart included.
-Bram
SkyLan
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Yeah, when I took that shot I didn’t really think about it, but looking at it the clouds do look great, it’s amazing how good the sim can look.
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I got a bit lost in Texas for a while, having a real hoot lookin at the landscape. Took a side mission in the Tiger Moth for some random loops and wingovers above beautiful Abilene TX.
Continuing Eastward in the Comanche, today I found the very first big weather of my entire journey, heading from Abilene TX east toward Shreveport. I didn’t make it all the way there since conditions began to deteriorate, so diverted to a small airport along the way.
Thanks to @mbraortns for further inspiration and some gorgeous screenshots of barns.
Agreed. I have decided to take my journey East then North to experience those fabled barns of Allentown Pennsylvania for myself. That’s probably the terminus of this impromptu continental journey. So. Much. Fun.
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Realized when I did the Goshawk flight that I had two Pensacolas. Settled on the mod I did the Goshawk in, but I thought I show the other mod in case it worked for some viewer here.
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LatinVFR a321 neo from Charlotte NC to Barbados
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Might not be “what I did today in MSFS2020 today (per se)” but still relevant
Was up in Montreal last week, and not wanting to miss an opportunity for a compare and contrast, I ended up at Jacques-de-Lesseps Park (on the east side of Runway 6R/24L at CYUL).
Funny enough looking at the last pan shot I took (using just a cell camera), the timing difference was one year plus or minus a couple of hours. This time I was using a Cannon R50 with a 300mm telephoto (still having some issues with the tripod being level on 3 axis, hence the slight skew)
Imgur Hi-Res Link of CYUL, 2024-06-30 ~14:30 Local time
(edit, the original pan shot is vastly higer-res and much wider, at 18136 x 1344 and 30 mb, the server’s compression doesn’t do the photo justice)
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Parked up the jets for the weekend and went for a pootle around the Shetland Isles (EGPB). Nice flight but towards the end even though I was in a DA40 and low down you could still see bits of scenery like tress and rock surfaces popping into view at the very last minute - so frustrating.
Neil.
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Friend of mine has won a ride in a full-size A320 simulator and asked me if I could bring him up to speed on the rudimentaries of the plane. This was motivation enough for me to weather the Xbox visuals downgrade and go tubelinin’ myself in order to properly teach him tomorrow.
Since we both live in Switzerland, he asked for a NCE turnaround out of ZRH. So that’s what we’re doing - even if the Bravoairspace LX livery is missing the neo racoon mask. Limitations of the Xbox platform or not, I’m glad that I can still set up a visually believable gate experience. PAX and cargo were quickly loaded and off I went with a smooth 62t of aircraft hanging on those engines.
Bye bye homebase, see you again in a few hours. The ini A320neo is a boon for us Xbox users and a real pleasure to fly. Very easy to handle in normal ops with a simbrief flight plan.
The reduced LOD distance really reared its ugly head over the alps, but it wouldn’t make them any less impressive, especially with those weather bands covering the peaks.
No visible PAPIs? No problem. The ini neo handled the RNAV Z 04L approach like a champ, even with early descent and shortcuts.
Took my sweet time on ground to patch in the new flight and almost took off with ENG 1 off, because I switched off the ignition too early - completely forgot that the LEAP engines have a rather long motoring phase after a turnaround in order to cool down the core to startup temperatures first. But that’s exactly why I’m doing these flights, I’m allowed to make mistakes and learn from them without having the real piece of machinery (and ultimately lives) at stake. 
Bye bye low res NCE, see you again tomorrow!
Last turn east of GVA before initialising descent into the DOPI2G arrival for RWY28 in ZRH. Mont Blanc is right down there - the waypoint is aptly named MOBLO.
Strong northwesterly winds brought a cloud blanket and lots of rain with them. Again, no issue for the neo - but man, was I relieved to see the runway (or what was supposed to be it) well ahead of the minima.
Touchdown on RWY 28, autobrake MED and a good amount of reversers applied. At this point I didn’t care if unsecured cabin items made their way to the fwd galley, the landings onto LSZH28 are tightly sequenced and I had taxiway J to catch.
Back at the gate just in time to dock the bridge and shut the aircraft down before the avionics got haunted by black screens. All in all a successful tubeliner turnaround on Xbox - that was lots of fun, have to do it more often!
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Barbados to Saint Martin in the atr 72 600
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This is how the conversation should have gone IF he was a real friend 
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Flew the halo pelican from Saint Martin to Orlando (KMCO)
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Last purchase was the Nieuport. One of the nicest fliers in the hanger. Wish there some WWI aerodromes. Anyway, this was the test flight around Verdun. I did not have airshow assistant on, but there was an identical Nieuport at this airfield.
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Orlando to Charlotte NC in the Fokker f28 4000
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