World Tour with sight seeing

im gonna try to make a video or two. i tried once with captura, it was a stuttery mess. Ill try again with game bar and nvidia overlay.
Anyway, this leg goes from Faeroe island to the scottish island northeast of the british main island.

location 59,995241, -1,182021 Britain Broch of Mousa
Airport EGKF Britain Lamb Holm Airfield
300nm

crossing the last of the faeroe islands

the broch of mousa. just a tower in the middle of nowwhere. WHy on earth does someone spend time on modelling it

wait whats that? While taking pretty screens, suddenly the engine stops. doing a hard turn to get over land again, lower flaps, find some more or less flat place to land.
that was really close.

banging on the engine with a wrench helped. i was able to start the engine and be airborne again. nothing i want to do more than once.
Say goodbye to the broch!

i love the rugged xountryside out here.

next leg is about visiting nessie, edinborough and then go south to the coast so we can later continue to continental europe

So here i am again. Busy with real stuff, i did the scotland tour and some pics. Did the way to south england too, but didnt take any screens. It was just a quick positioning flight anyway.

Airport KGPE Britain Inverness
Location 57,230075, -4,546678 Britain loch ness
Location 57,081220, -3,724302 Britain cairngorms
Location 56,231000, -4,405000 Britain Trossachs
Location 56,079213, -4,595730 Britain Loch Lomand
Airport EGPH Britain Edinborouh
251nm

So we start at Lamb holme Airfield and took of in the early morning.

A short stop in inverness, to have a breakfest beer at the famous pub:

And on it goes. Lets see if we can spot Nessi (i fidled around with time to get nicer pics)

Something buggy with uploading pics. will do a second post


It seems nessi is on vacation. (seriously, could someone add an animated Nessi? :smiley:

Cairngorms Mountain Range

The beautiful green landscape around Loch lomand

And landed in Edinburgh

The positioning flight was from Edinburg to EGSM Beccles. Next will be a trip across all the benelux countries. doing a touch n go in all of them, do a quick tour over Aachen and finally finish at EDLH Hamm Lippewiesen.

So doing this thread becomes harder. In addition to real world stuff, that doesnt let me fly as much as i want, i have problems with the sim now too. CTDs, controls acting up, resulting in crashs and so on. At least i was able to do my benelux flight (allthough i skipped luxemburg, because i was fed up) and eventually get to Hamm Lippewiesen.

This was the tour i planned:

i started in Beccles early morning

The next few shots are from the netherlands and belgium. beautiful landscape. I like the countrys at the north sea so much. beeing born in east frisia, raised next to hamburg and having family heritage in Föhr (an north german island), you will see many shots from the next few trips.

I think this is Schiphol but i’m not sure. somewhere around here i had one of many crashes. and I’m simply not sure anymore if its Schiphol or Brussel.

The stadium of Alemannia Aachen. Prominent yellow color can be seen from far away.

The city of Aachen (home of the carolingians, charlemagne died there) and its many churches.

Two shots of cologne

And on to the north basically flying over a freat part of the ruhr area.
Here is a shot from the Hengstey-Lake. Where the river Ruhr is dammed. You can see the old Pumpspeicherkraftwerk. In times with to much electric power, the water from the reservoire is pumped to that small pool at the top of the valley. When electric power is needed, the have let it flow down and power turbines which generate electric power again. its not active anymore. Im still stunned at how accurate the depiction is. I paddled a lot there with my kayak this summer.

The town where i live has its own small airfield which is only for gliders (Lünen/Lunen Lippeweiden). its nestled nicely next to the river Lippe.

Yes, my house is in the sim too. Shot of the City of Lunen

from here we just follow the river to our destination Hamm Lippewiesen with a short circle over Werne (the city where i work, and yes my work place is in the sim too)

Hamm Lippewiesen


we will move to the coast of the north see next and do some island hopping around the german islands, maybe visit Papenburg Shipyard, where my father worked when i was born. definitly visiting Hamburg and then moving to the coast again visiting all the places, that are important to me. Hope i dont bore you :slight_smile:

If you want me to visit a certain place, just tell me :slight_smile:

Would you mind sharing these flight plans at World Tour Flights? The site is brand new and contributions like this would really help it get established and make the site a good resource for the community.

i will take a look at the website. if its not to much work, i will add them