Leaving KLAX, inbound KPSP
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As always, when a new aircraft comes, it takes me many days to learn how to fly it cold and dark, configure control with my hardwares, and also customize my favorite camera views (cockpit and wingsview) until I am sure that really could fly it properly:
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Pittsburgh to Charlotte in the Latin a319
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Charlotte to JFK airport in the Latin a321 Neo LR
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KJFK to KROC in the Latin A321 NEO LR
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Today we finished up this current round of bush trips in the Kodiak, starting at Otter Bar (KOB9 - fictional), and initially heading over via GPS to say hello to the folks at the USFS airstrip Krassel (24K). From there, we followed the Salmon River up to Hettinger Ranch (IDHT - fictional), to have a late breakfast, but there were…issues…trying to get up and out of Hettinger. Let’s just say it almost seemed as if we were in the Twilight Zone and almost didn’t survive the experience! I sure did learn a lot about stalling though.
At that point I received a message that I needed to get up to Lewiston to catch a flight over to PDX. As soon as we arrived in Lewiston, there was a CJ4 waiting for us, so we hopped in for the quick trip to Portland. Max and I aren’t exactly sure what comes next, but but it sounds like they might need me to fill in over at Frontier Airlines for a couple of flights. We’ll see.
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Subang, Kuala Lumpur, to Penang. ATR has more quirks since the update. Maybe I’ve been spoiled by PMDG and Fenix - I know I have. Always remember to check if someone has made a GSX file so pax walk out of terminal to the plane. So much more immersive.
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Did an hour of circuits @CCD4, perfecting my landing technique 
Someone took notice in their H125 and came over, landed on the side of the runway and watched me do some patterns.
Settled in and cooked myself some food before the night ends, it’s getting chilly out here!
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717 200 flight from KROC to Charlotte NC
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Just the typical digital tourist in Spain. Flying along the coast west of San Sebastian (LESO):
A quick stop at the hermitage of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe:
Then onto Bilbao. Lots of sightseeing opportunities in this city:
A stroll along the banks of the river:
Brings you to the Guggenheim Museum:
Back in the air, flying along the coast:
Takes one to Santander (LEXJ) and this little gem of a building:
Then again, maybe it’s actually a UFO? 
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After some serious FOMO over the last few days, I finally had enough time free today to take the Flybywire A380X on its maiden flight. I decided to operate EK412, Sydney to Christchurch across the Tasman Sea which includes a spectacular arrival over the Southern Alps.
A big thanks to @BragRaindrop933’s suggestion to turn off SimBridge on the flypad to improve sim performance. It appears a memory leak tanks FPS when it is enabled and I switch to the exterior camera and pan around- hopefully the FBW fix this in an upcoming patch. An incredible Alpha all the same 
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Well, we thought we were headed south for some ops with Frontier Airlines, but those seem to have fallen through for a few days, so Max and I did some bushing around Oregon and Washington. On this first day, we took a trip in the Kodiak from PDX over to Mount St. Hellens, eventually landing at the nearby Aeropark, a short but very wide grass strip. Overall, a low-key and relaxing day!
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That’s a wonderful shot! Thanks for sharing, very nice
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Finally left Detroit, made my way to Toronto but took a detour. Went over Niagara Falls and kept following the water. Decided to skip my Seaplane across the water to the point of feeling like I should have a water skier on the back, and I should be trolling for Jaws
After getting turned around once I finally got straightened out and as I made my way closer to Toronto I wanted to land in the harbour, although my plane clipped the land, and you can see the end result below
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I flew the 172 from Munich up to Keil to see the Kiel Canal. A pleasant day 
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In Iceland in bad weather following roads west from Storikroppur. Wasn’t monitoring the engine gauges, lost power in both engines and landed wheels up in a field…
With the Boeing in the shop I’m in the Stearman shown here when I landed to check directions…
Landed at Olafsvik airport…
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Yesterday I decided to quickly try the new Simbrief Dispatch integration in the sim, so I flew from Chilliwack (CYCW) to Penticton (CYYF) in the C172. We live close to Chilliwack in Abbotsford, so I KNEW what the weather was like: cloudy, cold, rain and VERY strong winds. In spite of this I did not really pay attention to the weather during my flight planning. Curious how meticulous I used to be with the weather in real life flight planning and how cavalier one can be in the sim where there are no consequences! BAD call!
Bottom line: the weather in the sim was completely accurate/realistic. And completely horrendous! I planned the flight at 9,000ft. The good news was that, at that altitude, I had like a 40 - 45 knot tailwind! Not every day you see 150+kts ground speed in a C172!
But. It was also around -9°C. With full cloud and ice. LOTS of ice. Consequently, in very short order I had accumulated masses of ice: LNM showed almost 40% airframe ice. So I was at full throttle, nose up, going from best rate of climb speed to best angle of climb speed to just trying to avoid falling out of the sky with the stall warning blaring continuously. And still descending steadily down through the mountain filled clouds.
In real life I would have been dead: no question. But I cheated: pulled up the weather menu and chose the clear weather preset. This coincided with the time that the aircraft finally gave up and, just as I changed the weather, it went into an incipient spin. And now I could see the mountains RIGHT below me! That was probably the most drastic and rapid spin recovery I EVER did, sim OR real life! And I tell you, pushing the yoke forward in the spin as part of the recovery with the mountains rushing up towards you is scary!
Fortunately, the spin obviously gave me a lot of airspeed, which allowed me to maintain altitude and wait for the more benign clear weather preset temperatures - like +8 now! - to melt the ice and finally allowing me get back to altitude.
Either bravely or stupidly, closer to Penticton, I did decide to go back to real weather and enter the RNAV approach for runway 16. It really is just a cloud break procedure, but it worked fine. As I could let the speed build up during the descent while the temperature slowly increased, ice was not that big of a concern. But the wind was! Wind at Penticton was 180/19 gusting 25. So even the approach and landing was quite tense. But all ended quite well.
Some screenshots:
After I entered the approach: 9,000ft, OAT -8°C, wind 248@ 44kts, GS 151kts!
At least in partly clear sky now
Turning to descend between the mountains on the sides of Lake Okanagan. Note the ice… Wasn’t as bad as earlier in the flight but it was still there.
Clear of cloud, Penticton ahead: life is much better now!
On the ground: phew! Note the GPS is is indicating 22kts while I was almost stationary on the ground!
Happy to be on the ground and parked!
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