Flight with Hughes H-4
Starting from water airport Porto to water airport Barcelona !!!
Close to Departing at Barcelona water airport !
All 8 Engines !!!
Departing in water airport Barcelona
I bet it took some setting up for all those engines. How does she fly?
I flew my current favourite plane, the BlackSquare Bonanza Pro Turbo Normalized, from Lugano (LSZA) to Geneva (LSGG), crossing the Swiss Alps at a low FL125. I managed to land just in time before it got too dark. A magical flight… ![]()
Dusk flight over Salt Lake City.
Departing Brigham City Hospital (UT14). I’m finding many heliports have no scenery at all - just the Bing imagery:
High-altitude clouds in 2024 SU4 v1.6.23.0:
Dusk. The city lights turn on:
After the sun has set:
That’s Provo Muni (KPVU) down there:
Landing at Mountain View Regional Hospital (UT35). Unfortunately, a procedural building has been placed over the helipad:
[MSFS 2024 v1.6.23.0, live weather]
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Charlotte (KCLT) to Grand Bahamas (MYGF) in the fs studios embrear 175 LR
They say Paro, Bhutan is the most dangerous airport in the world. How dangerous could it be doing an S turn to final in a tight mountain valley?
Flew the FlightFX Citation X from Addis Ababa Bole (HAAB) to Mogadishu Aden Adde (HCMM) using BeyondATC:
Flight went mostly allright, with the exception me going in all directions except runway centerline on approach ![]()
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Been flying the Pilatus PC-6 for a few days now. Learnt the startup and did a bit of reading around it. Flying to and from ‘Nomane’ (AYNO) and ‘KORA’ (AYOZ) here…PNG Highland Bush Strips Pack 3.
Truly excellent aircraft to fly, you definitely need tail wheel lock on for take off and landing, and off for any taxiing and turning. You also need some fairly heavy left trim applied after take off … didn’t turn out too well when I applied it before.
The PC-6 can carry 10 passengers or a payload of up to 1.2 Tonnes.
Where it really excels is its Beta range, it can ‘stop on a dime.’ In addition to which, it is one of only 2 aircraft in the real world (from my googling) that can apply the Beta range whilst in descent (the other being the Twin Otter). This enables an almost vertical descent if needed - slow to flaps speed, lower flaps, enter Beta range. One YouTube clip shows it dropping 2 skydivers at 4000m and landing before they did.
Amazing aircraft, forward view fine considering its ‘Pinocchio’ like nose. You can fly it pretty much anywhere in bush flying.
Absolutely amazed it got zero votes in last month’s top ten. It will have one this month.
Edit : take the door/ doors off and it has excellent wind sounds as well.
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Fs studios embrear 175LR from Grand Bahamas (MYGF) to Miami (KMIA) returned to Charlotte (KCLT) in the PMDG 737 800
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Charlotte (KCLT) to Governors Harbor (MYEM) in the fs studios Embrear 175LR
Today, I tried once again to get MSFS2024 running smoothly and without errors for a few hours.
As always, I was unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, I kept sending prayers to Asobo, asking them to please fix the game ![]()
Oh, and I had this funny moment (I think it was a bit too warm in the airplane):
Here I was in Svalbard, loading up the A350 what should’ve been a routine night charter to test MSFS 2024 SU4b on Xbox.
Few stutters here, patched A350 there, and-
Wait a second. What’s that on the horizon?
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Could it be!? The NOAA forecast is visible in-Sim too!?
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“Oh my word, THEY’RE VISIBLE!” I shouted when I saw the bands dance in the night skies.
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I lost no more time in getting the plane prepped and ready to rocket out of ENSB with Flaps 2, packs OFF and TOGA. It was breathtaking on ground already, but I just had to see it inflight, too.
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I’ve recently been on a real-world flight over the North Pole where I had the privilege to witness real aurorae borealis. And now, witnessing them in-Sim too, absolutely made my day.
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I can’t remember the last time I sat im front of the Sim, both 2020 and 2024, and giggled like an 10-year old throughout the flight. No hyperbole - this was plain awesome to see!
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This turned out to be one of my most memorable flights for sure.
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This Sim, man. Whenever everything clicks, it’s nothing short of breathtaking and immensely rewarding.
Flew the Black Square Turbine Duke from Sandefjord Torp (ENTO) to Aalborg (EKYT) on Vatsim:
I had so much fin the last time I flew the Duke on Vatsim, that I wanted to go on in it when there is ATC online and right enough I had my wish. There was ATC on for the full of the flight and I just have to say it again: while I like BATC very much it just can’t beat Vatsim with real people when the stations are served and there is traffic with real people. I had a blast from start to finish.
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Fs studios embrear 175 from governors Harbor (MYEM) to Miami (KMIA)