July 17, 201510 yr Vectored off Indianapolis Intl (KIND) runway 05L toward VHP, the first waypoint on my route. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway in view after my turn to the northwest. The large Eagle Creek reservoir is ahead in the distance. There is a nice GA airport (KEYE) adjacent to the reservoir on its east side. You may be able to make it out at about 11 o'clock off the nose of my C90T. After passing over IMS, the city of Indianapolis can be seen in the background. (Megascenery Ultra-Res City scenery). You can see the White River stretching from north to south, and Fall Creek branching off of the White River toward the northeast. Today's route is via Champaign, then Peoria, Illinois, across the Mississippi river at Burlington, Iowa, and over Ottumwa, Iowa, to my destination of Newton, Iowa (KNTU). KNTU is very convenient as Iowa Motor Speedway sits right next to the racetrack. In this screenshot is the small city of Champaign, Illinois, and KCMI, the birthplace of MS Flight Simulator. MSFS was developed by subLogic Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubLOGIC, which was located at this airport. Looking ahead at my route I saw a developing line of thunderstorms, with a pair of new thunderstorm cells starting to pinch my route near Ottumwa (OTM). The weather you see on the Fltplan Go app (iPad) map is real-world live weather. I use FS Global Real Weather as my weather engine and it usually delivers accurate weather. I made contingency plans to divert on the route running northwest out of Burlington (BRL) if needed! However those cells dissipated and I was able to continue on my planned route. Here overflying Newton (KTNU) for the approach to R14, entering the approach with the hold at KOWDO to reverse course back to the airport. You can see the nearness of the speedway to the airport. The Daytona (Florida) Motor Speedway is the only other speedway that I am aware of that is so near an airport, Tracking my approach on the approach plate on the Fltplan Go app for the iPad, and how it looked below from the cockpit on short final under stormy skies. Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
July 17, 201510 yr Looks like a nice flight. Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
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