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Faded Glory · Sep 18, 2020

Yes it is...

Doing a little jaunt in the Caribbean at the moment, got my timings a bit off and while the sunset was lovely, unfortunately it seems like they don't have lights at Douglas Charles Airport on Dominica... Despite giving clearance to land.

Well, I'm not proud, and being all powerful and all that I changed the time of day. Amazing how much easier landing is when you can see the runway!

Hairychest · Sep 18, 2020

Here you go a tour of the Scottish Islands and mainland, starting in the Western Isles (Lewis) at Stornoway, heading south and east via a few islands to Glasgow before heading to the south west corner and turning east across the Borders. We are then turning north to head up towards (but not into) Edinburgh, passing over Fife into Perthshire, up to Aberdeenshire and then the Moray coast. From here we head west past Inverness before heading back east to Balone Castle. Now we head north to Wick and then leave the mainland for the Orkneys and the Oil Terminal at Flotta. From here we head north east over Mole HD's farm on Sanday heading for the remote outpost of Fair Isle. We then do the short hop up to Shetland and start our tour at Sumburgh, visiting the northernmost outpost Unst before heading back via Foula and then the long hop over the Atlantic back to Stornoway.

22 legs in all (1063NM) , no hop longer than 125NM (last one) and most in the 35-55NM range.

Until we can get an editor to create these "Bush Trips", this ~~spreadsheet~~ text file (won't allow me to attach a spreadsheet!) will have to do!

There are plenty of options to deviate/extend the trip from some of these stop-offs. E.g. drop into Ireland from Tiree etc.

PM me for spreadsheet if you would prefer it...

Old Duck · Sep 18, 2020

Unfortunately Flight Simulator does not play with 3DMigoto

I had big plans of changing green trees into orange and red trees so I could enjoy a proper New England autumn, but I guess it's not meant to be...

askavir · Sep 18, 2020

Old Duck said:
Unfortunately Flight Simulator does not play with 3DMigoto I had big plans of changing green trees into orange and red trees so I could enjoy a proper New England autumn, but I guess it's not meant to be...

Seasons are part of the roadmap, so you may still get your wish.

Juniper · Sep 18, 2020

askavir said:
Seasons are part of the roadmap, so you may still get your wish.

Seasons will be a challenge at a global scale, since not every latitude has recognisable "seasons" per se (i.e. Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn) - more just "Rain" or "Dry". Be interesting to see how they handle that - and presumably they can be pre-set like the weather.

Faded Glory · Sep 18, 2020

Some real life arrivals into Saba... It would seem the prevailing wind means they often land from the north west which looks even more challenging than from the east. I approached it from the west one time and went around.

There's a couple of other vids on google maps if you select 'the saba flight deck'.

Old Duck · Sep 18, 2020

askavir said:
Seasons are part of the roadmap, so you may still get your wish.

They'll need to be quick if they want to match my reality this year. Winter is also a bust, since all they do is put snow on top of green grass and green, full-foliage trees.

AkenBosch · Sep 18, 2020

Looks like they'll need to do nothing if they want to match my local reality this year.

(18th September, almost 30 °C during the day, flies and mosquitoes as it was mid-July).

Faded Glory · Sep 18, 2020

A couple of screenshots flying to Barbados. Happy to say the airport there does have lighting as it was dark by the time I got there...

askavir · Sep 18, 2020

Faded Glory said:
Doing a little jaunt in the Caribbean at the moment, got my timings a bit off and while the sunset was lovely, unfortunately it seems like they don't have lights at Douglas Charles Airport on Dominica... Despite giving clearance to land.

Already had a night landing on an airport with no lights, it was odd, only made it because the Garmin panel showed the runway...

It's weird we can get landing permission at night to a pitch dark airport, but the game recognizes low visibility weather and denies VFR landings accordingly. Makes me wonder if those runways are really supposed to be dark or if it's just a bug...

askavir · Sep 18, 2020

Just seen this video on YT... This game is not just a love poem to aviation, it's a tribute to our planet.

[VR] optimal_909 · Sep 19, 2020

So, I made a decision on my controls - I am getting rid of the T.Flight through the store buyback and get an Airbus stick only (same price, no cost swap). I will set it up for left hand flying and will operate the thrust plus vital controls with KB+M.

Once VR is a thing, I will just turn right at my desk, continue to have the stick in left hand and ample space to operate everything else in the cockpit with touch control. It will be very immersive in the A320.

Hairychest · Sep 20, 2020

Well I am half-way around my Scottish Tour linked above. Interesting as the wind yesterday was an easterly and quite strong but the weather was glorious. The old RAF bases I chose are now closed so landing at them is fun! I am at Scone in Perthshire, ready for my stint up the north-east and off to the Islands. I hope the weather holds.

Juniper · Sep 20, 2020

Hairychest said:
Well I am half-way around my Scottish Tour linked above. Interesting as the wind yesterday was an easterly and quite strong but the weather was glorious. The old RAF bases I chose are now closed so landing at them is fun! I am at Scone in Perthshire, ready for my stint up the north-east and off to the Islands. I hope the weather holds.

What plane are you using for this trip?

Reason I ask is that I finally had a chance to fire this game up and actually play yesterday, and decided to do the Yosemite bush trip. It's in a Cub. First leg (the longest of all of them, winding through the Sierra Nevada mountains... glorious) which takes about an hour (they say 41 minutes, but they lie) went well... found all the various turnoffs I was supposed to take and didn't need the "Get Me Back On Track" option... only to finally facepalm the runway at the end due to the plane tipping over when stationary! TWICE!!!

Third time was finally the charm and I finally managed to get the plane to stop whilst still upright.

I decided four things yesterday.

1) 3rd person flying is a lot easier than 1st person, plus you see more. This now includes landing!
2) I hate the Cub.
3) Yosemite is beautiful...
4) I hate the Cub.

Still, I'm going to carry on today with hopefully the next couple of legs which are shorter. Once that's complete, I'll be doing your trip... although I may modify it slightly to take in more of the east coast where I'm from.

Edit: Also, if you want to know what a drunk Latvian looks like whilst flying, this should answer your questions (warning: language, Timothy)

Faded Glory · Sep 20, 2020

The Yosemite bush trip does indeed have some lovely scenery. Quite a bit of it covers places I am familiar with, although not as a pilot - I'm not one...

And as I said in an earlier post, one of the stops is literally a few miles from where I live. We are actually right under the flight path into the runway.

It took me a while to warm up to the cub, and yes, if you brake too hard while taxiing, even quite slowly, it has a tendency to facepalm. I actually used that 'feature' a couple of times so I could restart a leg where I did end up getting lost. But it's a very versatile plane and I actually quite came to like it. There are a few legs that length, and one longer one, Manzanar to Madame. Also, the final leg into Yosemite is quite a challenge but with quite stunning scenery.

askavir · Sep 20, 2020

Taildraggers are all prone to facepalming (and have bad visibility when taxiing), and I guess we're "lucky" that the propellers don't seem to have a collision model, I lost count of how many botched flights I had on IL-2 just from leaning forward too much and wrecking the propeller blades on landing and sometimes even before taking off

Ian Skippy · Sep 20, 2020

Juniper said:
What plane are you using for this trip?

Reason I ask is that I finally had a chance to fire this game up and actually play yesterday, and decided to do the Yosemite bush trip. It's in a Cub. First leg (the longest of all of them, winding through the Sierra Nevada mountains... glorious) which takes about an hour (they say 41 minutes, but they lie) went well... found all the various turnoffs I was supposed to take and didn't need the "Get Me Back On Track" option... only to finally facepalm the runway at the end due to the plane tipping over when stationary! TWICE!!!

Third time was finally the charm and I finally managed to get the plane to stop whilst still upright.

I decided four things yesterday.

1) 3rd person flying is a lot easier than 1st person, plus you see more. This now includes landing!
2) I hate the Cub.
3) Yosemite is beautiful...
4) I hate the Cub.

Still, I'm going to carry on today with hopefully the next couple of legs which are shorter. Once that's complete, I'll be doing your trip... although I may modify it slightly to take in more of the east coast where I'm from.

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Edit: Also, if you want to know what a drunk Latvian looks like whilst flying, this should answer your questions (warning: language, Timothy)

The club really needs the brakes to be on an axis. Using a button is fine on some planes but will indeed tip planes like the Cub. :/

Juniper · Sep 20, 2020

Ian Skippy said:
The club really needs the brakes to be on an axis. Using a button is fine on some planes but will indeed tip planes like the Cub. :/

After my second crash, I did a few test landings in the Cub and found that I have to brake and pull back on the stick until it stops. That works. If you don't, you'll just tip forward and hit the tarmac - game over.

Juniper · Sep 20, 2020

Faded Glory said:
The Yosemite bush trip does indeed have some lovely scenery. Quite a bit of it covers places I am familiar with, although not as a pilot - I'm not one... And as I said in an earlier post, one of the stops is literally a few miles from where I live. We are actually right under the flight path into the runway.

It took me a while to warm up to the cub, and yes, if you brake too hard while taxiing, even quite slowly, it has a tendency to facepalm. I actually used that 'feature' a couple of times so I could restart a leg where I did end up getting lost. But it's a very versatile plane and I actually quite came to like it. There are a few legs that length, and one longer one, Manzanar to Madame. Also, the final leg into Yosemite is quite a challenge but with quite stunning scenery.

I'll wave as I fly past.

It's not a part of the world I'm at all familiar with really, so even though by the 3rd attempt I didn't even need any of the instructions or VFR map because I knew the way, and obviously I was p'd off at having to do it all yet again... the scenery is so nice it's hard to really get bored with it. I'm looking forward to attempting the whole thing, though something tells me it'll take me much more than the 9 hours that it suggests.

Wish they'd add more bush trips... three doesn't seem enough. Seems like such a low-effort win for the devs, I'm surprised they haven't already added a few more.

Faded Glory · Sep 20, 2020

It's a very stunning part of the world, and I consider myself very fortunate to live here - from London originally. I'll look out for the wave, you've got a way to go before you get to me.

It certainly took me more than 9 hours to complete the trip, and I agree that it will be good to have more bush trips as time goes by.

One of the things I liked about the cub was how easy it is to trim, kind of important when there's no autopilot.

I've recently been playing around in the Robin 400, which I do like, but I cannot get it to trim to correctly under any circumstances, and as a result, either the angle of attack is completely off because the trim for even flight is actually lifting the nose up too much, or I'm having to have constant pressure on the stick if I relax the trim a bit (and then the aot is only slightly off).

It also seems to be a bit squirrely when it comes to rpm / speed for landing, it'll be way too fast, requiring a significant pull back of the throttle, and then the speed will drop to an extent that I need to go practically full throttle again to stop it stalling (but it doesn't really pick up much speed even though I'm still descending). Not had that issue with any other plane that I've flown - although I imagine it's something I'm doing wrong.

That said, I did manage to land it at Saba from the north west - as in the videos I linked to a couple of days ago.

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