Thanks! Yeah, 2 was me gauging what would happen when I went live weather. The wind was awful and I wasn’t prepared for how much the left crosswind diminished when it was masked by the hills on the left. Real life, that would have been a go-around, but I stuck with it to demonstrate (mostly to myself) how it would handle in ground effect. 3 wasn’t shown because I didn’t really improve much. 4 was much better and 5 wasn’t bad except how it reacted when I added aileron deflection in the rollout. The sim still misbehaves with the weathervaning and weight on the (tricycle) wheels.
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I did my St Barts video with “winds calm” and still it took 29 attempts to get 4-5 that I was okay with, from which I uploaded the one that I found to be the best.
By the way you can really save a lot of time using the replay feature, so you tak off only once, start recording while turning to base or to final and then rewind and redo from there after each attempt. Saves a lot of time 
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Oh, I’m sure it does, but I’ve never even tried it, haha! It was fun doing that all in one night - about an hour or so of flying and two and a half hours of video editing. Just a little “let’s see if I can do this” experiment.
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Just spotted that post. I can tell you that SNJ was a fun aircraft in real life. The officer I worked for in Quantico used to take me up in the front seat about once a month. Some of the most thrilling days of my life.
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Finally had time for a proper flight: New Orleans (KMSY) to Havana (MUHA) in the HondaJet
The part above the Gulf of Mexico was pretty boring, there is really nothing to watch in MSFS while flying over waters but your instruments. This was the only trafic I met during that part.
Havana being havana I’m sure these grey clouds are cigar related
Managed to put the airplane down pretty smooth, but I had stall warning too, as I was wheels down on the first inches of the runway, but at least no bounce or floating.
I’m currently uploading all 2 hours and 24 minutes of it (38GB) so expect the video in about half a day:
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A short trip in my Albatros world tour from Managua (MNMG) to San Jose Juan Santamaria Intl (MROC) in a VOR to VOR flight. Yes, there is a direct airway, but I wasn’t in a hurry.
Video in a few hours here:
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Today ; Palermo, Italy to Bilbao, Spain.
Yesterday; Lisbon-Ponta Delgada-Las Palmas.
Saturday; Marseille - Hannover, originally intended to goto Gothenburg but somewhere over central Germany I decided that I couldnt be bothered with going all the way to Gothenburg so diverted to Hannover instead. 
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I’m going to start referring to her as Typhoid Mary, because when she appeared, literally after T/O and turning to base course on climbout - all three of my GTCs up and died. No explanation. I hit SET PAUSE ON, double-checked all my hardware switches, nada.
And before anyone asks, Yes, this is the Vision Jet. No, this is not an added feature a la Mugz TBM Improvement. I discovered since SU3 that if the sun light hits the right angle, your selected avatars appear in-cockpit. I timed this shot so my boom mike and part of my chin had moved away.
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I am starting a trip around the world, the goal is to visit all the capitals 
I found inspiration here: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/k1g2dw/flying_a_shortest_route_to_visit_every_capital/
The aircraft is Hjet
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Orange County to Santa Barbara to catch the sunset from the California coast Practiced following a VOR station in the C172 steam gauge, following the specifications on the Terminal Area Chart for the “LAX mini route” for light VFR planes through the class B. IRL you’d have to check in with ATC to cross at this altitude..
Long Beach
LAX
West LA
Pretty!
Almost gone…
Oxnard
Santa Barbara
Final
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Munchen (EDDM) to Dortumnd (EDLW) in the HondaJet today
I got no screenshots from Munchen it was pretty IMC there, but it was pretty thin, I hardly got off the tarmac when it started to clear.
I managed to do a pretty smooth touchdown, I was really satisfied with it. Then I made a wrong turn on the taxiway to parking and had to double back 
Full story in a few hours here:
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I reinstalled several taildraggers and getting slowly reacclimated to the types.
Beaver shuttle from Provincales to South Caicos - a milk run by any definition, thanks to the gentle Live Weather in the Caribbean. The pax did get bounced on landing though.
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More taildragger hours. Lydd to Calais with three pax. The 195 requires a long extended downwind with plenty of lateral offset to make that base - to say it’s leisurely in turning is generous. Flaps are pretty ineffective on final, I just used gross power inputs.
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Took a tour around DanielsJam’s Tyson-McGee (KTYS) freeware airport, it’s great, especially with the static 134th Air Refueling Wing ramp full of passable KCs.
KTYS is also known for being the East Coast USA Cirrus Vision Service/Sales/Training Center, and IronMinion built a very detailed recreation of the Cirrus building, including the Class-D full motion simulator used to train/recertify Jet owners and even a Cirrus merch shop.
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Decided to get the dust off from the Vision Jet, from Venice (LIPZ) to Salzburg (LOWS):
There was only a few ATC stations online, and neither of them were close to each other, so the flight was on unicom, but luckily Salzburg had some traffic, so it wasn’t all silence. (Adria control only came online about when I arrived)
It was a nice flight over the Alps, suprisingly Innsbruck had no traffic at all, even though it’s pretty popular.
Had to divert from the arrival route to make way to faster incoming traffic
Salzburg had really low clouds, I was about 200’ above minimums when I finally had the runway in sight. I flared the landing a bit too high, but as the runway is really long for the Vision Jet I managed to salvage it okay instead of going around.
Full story here in a bit:
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I also dipped my toe into unknown waters: I sat into the A320, fired it up with some help and even did a short flight, but 85% I had no idea what I was doing.
From the comfort of Garmin systems, the whole cockpit feels very awkward.
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