After a lot of deliberation for years of flight simming on and off, I finally got around to learning how to fly the PT Tu-154M.................For those who are yet on the fence because of the complexity of the aircraft, take this up as a challenge and see if you can master. It will take your flight simming experience to a whole new level, there is possibly no other aircraft for Flight Simulator that can quite match the experience of this masterpiece.

:Applause:That's the truth!

 

On a separate note, if after reading the opening post in this thread anyone is inspired to fly their PT 154M in Alrosa colours, there's a very nice repaint available. Download details here:

http://www.protu-154...p=191563#191563

 

I could't resist and as soon as I had some free time I put my Tu-154M through her paces in the Alrosa livery. Sadly there is no scenery available for Izhma airfield, so I couldn't try to recreate the landing there. But there is nice freeware scenery for Ukhta Airport, which is where the Alrosa plane went after the successful take off from Izma following the incident.

 

 

 

I tried to make the conditions as difficult as possible to create a really challenging flight. I may have gone a little too far with limiting the visibility, setting crosswinds and heavy snowfall. When I tried to land back at Ukhta, and also when I was latter trying the Alrosa livery over St Petersburg and trying to land at Pulkovo under those conditions, at one point FS9 ATC told me that my request for landing was denied! They did let me land in the end, and it was a very nice challenge - crabbing to the runway and then managed to pull off a nice looking wing-low landing almost like the one in this photo:

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/9/4/7/0975749.jpg

 

Some screenshots of my approach and landing at Pulkovo (only posting links to them as its becoming too many images in this post):

 

http://forum.avsim.net/uploads/gallery/album_9/gallery_158959_9_180683.jpg

http://forum.avsim.net/uploads/gallery/album_9/gallery_158959_9_49960.jpg

http://forum.avsim.net/uploads/gallery/album_9/gallery_158959_9_96523.jpg

 

As its snowing over Europe I felt like flying in a snowstorm and what plane better to do it in than the Tu-154, after all she's built for these conditions.The Alrosa livery is certainly very nice and suits the Tu-154 very well. I strongly recommend it, especially if you're going to fly in 'snowy' conditions!

Very nice pics, she looks wonderful :) , will get that livery thanx!