50k is as high as I’ve been in anything non military or Concorde. The Citation X is one helluva beast 😀
50k is as high as I’ve been in anything non military or Concorde. The Citation X is one helluva beast 😀
Just one from me today. 50,000ft, Mach 0.90 routing Luton – Teterboro over the North Atlantic:

Just one from me today. 50,000ft, Mach 0.90 routing Luton – Teterboro over the North Atlantic:

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Next up is an aircraft that has been around for a little while but which I’ve only just got my hands on, the Flight 1 ATR 72. This was developed in conjunction with ATR themselves, and so is incredibly detailed. I took it for a little spin from San Juan to St Maarten this evening:
On the ramp at San Juan:

Climbing out:


Finals to St Maarten, no photographers on Maho Beach today:


Parked up, with a nice view out over the bay:

As with the other two, this is £17.50 from http://www.gfshop.co.uk, an absolute bargain price for the complexity of the aircraft.
The “rear wings” or vertical stabiliser is controlled by the trim lever, so in the case of your 737 you are trimmed up quite high on landing. Its not really a problem, if thats whats required for the aircraft to make a stable approach then so be it.
Next up is the Just Flight Caravan. This is a very nice new product that comes with a 30 minute video on the Caravan too. I flew the Caravan this afternoon from Myers Beach to Colombia NC on a FedEx feeder flight:
Loading up at Myers Beach:

Climbing out:


The VC:

The 2D panel on short final to RWY 29 at Colombia:

Seconds before touchdown:

Unloading at Colombia:

Again you can get this one for £17.50 at http://www.gfshop.co.uk
I have been very lucky this week in that I have had a multitude of new products appear on my desk. The first was the Flight 1 Pilatus PC12, here are a couple of shots of my Flying Doctor flight from Ayres Rock to Alice Springs:


Available from http://www.gfshop.co.uk for £17.50
I’ve been flying my new Aeroworx King Air around the Scottish Highlands and Islands on Air Ambulance flights for Gama Aviation. Today I did:
Aberdeen – Dundee – Leeds – Glasgow – Tiree – Wick – Edinburgh
Flytecomm is extremely useful for finding routes like these, G-BPPM flew all that today, I had to make do with G-WVIP:
Cruising from Glasgow to Tiree:



On the ground at Tiree:

Climbing out:


The scenery will be available at http://www.uk2000scenery.com in a couple of days. The DTV scenery is very similar to the freeware version on avsim, however this is a complete package including Newcastle, Carlisle, and all te other surrounding airports in that area.
The BBJ is PMDG. The Citation is made by Eaglesoft http://www.eaglesoftdg.com
Here are the screenshots I promised from the new UK2000 Part 8 Northern England. First 3 are the new Newcastle scenery, last one from DUrham Tees Valley. Happy to take some more if people want a good look:




Everybody who knows me well, know that thunderstorms are my worst enemy!
Funnily enough, i like them when i fly especially at night, when last month i encountered a monset on my way to Hong Kong, It just adds a bit more excitment to the flight 😛
HAHA I’ve had more than one occassion when I’ve had Elgan wimpering away on msn at me whenver he hears a load noise outside! 😀
Everybody who knows me well, know that thunderstorms are my worst enemy!
Funnily enough, i like them when i fly especially at night, when last month i encountered a monset on my way to Hong Kong, It just adds a bit more excitment to the flight 😛
HAHA I’ve had more than one occassion when I’ve had Elgan wimpering away on msn at me whenver he hears a load noise outside! 😀
Wow, some of those are really hard hitting.
The depressing thing is the fact that the photos from the last 10 years show almost the exact same things happening that were happening in the photos from 50 years ago 🙁