Daydream fuel. Just flying past BIID which is just next to that river below.
I realized that the complete lack of photogrammetry is not really a problem, in fact I think it helps framerates a bit. The autogen buildings look great in this region.
Safely on the ground at BIID, ready to explore more fjords. Landing was a bit floaty but BIID runway 18 was a perfect direction to get a headwind of around 20kt. Very floaty. Iceland is so beautiful and fun to explore!
Max and I continued the Around the World trip, taking off from Inezgane in Morocco, with the intent of heading down to Bir Moghrein in Mauritania. At this point of the trip, I was not looking forward to crossing the large desert, expecting it to be quite boring.
Boy, was I wrong.
At one point, the Blacksquare TBM850 random failure system decided to spice things up a bit and I sprung a fuel leak. Suddenly I was at 10,000 feet with one tank completely empty. Thankfully, I had decided to switch back to GPS for the next couple of legs (I love VOR flying now, but beacons are few and far-between out here), so I was able to quickly find a nearby airport…in Algeria.
I wasn’t looking forward to setting down in Algeria, but I really had no choice. Max, of course, remained his usual cheerful self, but it was definitely a bit nerve-wracking as I approached the runway in Tindouf. Hopefully I can find a mechanic to address the issue quickly. Then again, maybe this is my chance to really get to know a country that I have only ever heard about second and third hand.
Side note: at the end of this leg, I had passed 20,000 NM on the world tour!
I honestly believed my own lie that I would not buy another plane so short before MSFS 2024 releases. Well, it’s not really a plane, so does a UAV count?
After watching a review about this addon plane I just had to buy it. What can I say - I sat there for an hour, staring at a screen on my screen, watching the ground below. And it was somehow awesome! Took my new baby all the way from McConnell AFB to Scotts AFB.
Explored the Oregon countryside a bit with the PC-6 Porter, departing City-Co airport (S33) in the late afternoon and heading to the north. After practicing some basic flight skills and trimming the aircraft properly, Max and I discovered a small airstrip in Grass Valley (O75 - fictional) next to an idyllic little ranch. Max definitely wanted to check out the farm animals, so we decided to stop here for the evening.
Having the thought for the longest time to pick up a UAV, I decided to pick up the cheapest one on sale. My first flight with it was from Dallas to Saskatoon
Continued my “Let’s see where we end up” tour in the Vision Jet in VR using BeyondATC. I resumed in Larnaca (LCLK) and flew onwards to Damascus (OSDI):
Unfortunately I had MSFS diconnect and reconnect all the flight, which makes me quite worried about how FS24 will manage, if MSFS cannot hold up over a 1Gb connection. And no other software was having issues, so I guess it’s their servers, not my router or ISP doing it…
As usual I recorded the approach and landing in both 2D and 3D SBS:
