Then flew from Cardiff to Dublin on Vatsim. It does not show on the screenshot I made afterwards, but finally I had control during the whole flight.
Even more, Shannon Control, you are a true champion of patience! I had some issues during my flight, somehow the sim rate went down to a trickle and I had not noticed it. Must have some conflicting keybindings. However the controller did not have me disconnect, patiently waited till I found what happened and let me resume my flight when I resolved it.
I also had the chance to have a vatsim first experance to fly a go-around
Awesome flights! OIII-OIFM-OKBK-OIFM-OIII
Thank you Asobo, Fenix, GSX Pro, Aerosoft Homasim, YAG (for OKBK free scenery), Fsrealistic, Fsuipc, SLC, fshub, … for making this game just awesome! Hope it gets even better in the near future…
When you specify a flight, would you please include the name of the airport, (and location if not part of the name itself), along with the airport code so those of us who don’t have everything memorized, (), will know what you’re talking about?
I didn’t do anything. The thought of figuring out where to fly (such an uninspiring world map!), setting up a flight plan in Simbrief, programming Pilot2ATC and then start the sim and Navigraph on a second computer was just too overwhelming today.
Having done some landing practice, I decided to fly a route, so I checked the Vatsim map, decided o a flight, made the plans, programmed the plans into the FMS, realised by this time all ATC logged off, decided on another route, programmed it and actually flew it…
I had crazy winds during the whole flight, but especially above the sea, sometimes it exceeded 100kn, so I couldn’t really say I zipped the distance, poor airplane had to fly about 30 degrees off the intended direction to end up with the intended motion vector.
View of the INOP sculpture.
It is by the famous (and / or infamous) underground “artist” Saptain Cim.
More or less a cool guy, or not, I guess.
Makes a lot of stuff with absolutely no functionality other than taking up space and costing money.
Set off from Brigue to Domo d Ossola today, recreating the famous voyage of Jorge Chavez in 1910 across the Alps in a Bleriot. No ailerons, no trim, no throttle and no navigation. Here I am at about 8000’ trying desperately hard to choose the right valley to get to Domo d Ossola.
Came down like a Stuka (8000’ to 900’ - should have circled really but short of time) to land here. Actual runway is a mistake to land on as I have no brakes either, keeps on rolling. Land on the grass.
When Chavez did it in 1910, the plane either fell apart through stress on landing or a gust of wind hit it and flipped it. Chavez died 4 days later from his injuries and was the first man to cross the Alps by air.
Beautiful plane, you can’t take your hands off the stick as it goes nose up and climbs. Forever blipping the engine coming down to keep the airspeed low ish.
Even though the HondaJet is made in USA, it desperately needs to be flown over Japan, so I took a Nagasaki (RJFU) to Osaka (RJOO) route. This time I got lucky and had 80kn of tailwind, thus clearing the distance in under one hour.
I had to make a 90 degree turn to the right as I was going over the top as did Chavez. If you choose to turn right down the wrong valley …. that’s it, there’s nowhere to land and not enough fuel to go back. How much the extreme cold would play with your thought processes I don’t know, so yes, I imagine the guy was scared.
I read an article by a Swedish guy who flies one at air shows, you need both hands on the stick as well, a very difficult plane to fly.
