Perfect final… Frustration. Had to wait 15 minutes for a slow Airbus to land first.
Honesty…I was not happy. My approaches to Intl. Airports usually are 120-130 Knots,
my landings about 100 knots. Then I just bleed-off speed once over the Runway until 75 Knots.
The Airbus however came in so slow I thought it would fall out of the sky. So I went slow also.
Anyhow…
Enjoyed my first flight in the Twin Otter and had a blast! Flew to a windy Barra (though from Donegal, not Glasgow as the real route goes). Got a Logan Air livery from flightsim.to that I can use for my upcoming Barra flights and a Skybus livery for the flights to the Scillies!
Not ideal flight weather, but I had to check my now almost finished grey interior repaint, plus the engine also needs a weekly run-up just like mentioned in the POH and some oil-check. And the propeller blades needed some fresh Katana oil to look shiny and new and a propeller blade tip manicure…
Beaver Island is one tricky airport around this time of year after hitting a squall earlier today with the Otter, I did another flight ended up on the grass runway with very high winds, I have got to visit there in person someday because that airport is really challenging when using live weather in the winter
I flew the Supermarine Spitfire over Fulda and Wildflecken in Germany. I have some personal history with both places. Finally, I had a nice landing at Frankfurt International, including a long taxi to GA parking! Then I flew the MB-339 for fun in and around the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, I got a little cocky doing a barrel roll and crashed. However, I discovered that the landing gear had deployed, and I could get the aircraft moving again and get it back in the air! I managed a decent landing at Nellis AFB to conclude my flying activities.
You know, Lake Como, as in George Clooney or the (infamous) Star Wars romantic love scene (cough) with the eternal words “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.” - who wouldn’t fall in love with such a romantic guy (who later blows up entire planets - I guess he must have really hated sand)
It did snow in Nagoya a few weeks back, but I was too sick with mild COVID to want to fly. Anyway, the sim thinks it’s still snowbound there, so I got my snow flight. I was trying out a new freeware Chubu Centrair. Nice, but not as good as the earlier versions of the airport on flightsim.to in a couple of places. Still, to the untrained eye, it looks fine.
The wind sure does make the water look pretty though.
Meanwhile it was calm, clear and cold up in the Rockies. A great day for some winter mountain flying, close to terrain without a bump. Blasted out of Telluride in “Gotcha!”, down into the canyons on the Gunnison River and then an easy straight in to the giant runway at Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional.
ReInstalled yet another time (this time were just gonna leave on the win 10 install), installed the latest studio driver and tried again. I could get my fps out of the single digits all morning.
So anyways after I did all that things are pretty close to normal again, so this is me landing at cherry point from nas jax (did the dishes while flying)…:
Went to the Scillies (UK) today, which took about 20 minutes, was awesome! Skybus operates this route in real life.
Land’s End Airport (EGHC) to St Mary’s Airport on the Isles of Scilly (EGHE)
Plane:
Twin Otter DHC-6 300 (Aerosoft)
Livery:
Skybus DHC-6-300 Twin Otter Livery (by Drawyah on flightsim.to)
Scenery:
EGHE - St Mary’s Airport & Isles of Scilly Scenery UK - Upgrade (by SuperSpud on flightsim.to)
Cornwall Sandbanks (by mgk07 on flightsim.to)
Isles of Scilly Shorelines (by mgk07 on flightsim.to)
While flying the twin otter I was randomly thinking about why isn’t their actually a Beechcraft B1900E if electric engines are coming to aviation while in route to Saint Martin from Saint Barts
