Southern Germany - Revisited, Part I

[Viking01 181]

Rivers, Cities and - of course - castles!

This is the same flight we did in October 2017, but with much nicer weather and summer textures. The flight plan has not been changed, the Pilots Guide has been updated, mainly to correct some misspellings...

We start at the small airport of Betzdorf-Kirchen (EDKI) and visit many cities, castles, and monuments until we land at Speyer (EDRY). Landings en route include Bonn-Hangelar (EDKB), Merzbruck (EDKA), Dahlemer Binz (EDKV), Winningen (EDRK), Buchel AB (ETSB), Mainz-Finthen (EDRZ), Worms (EDFV), and Mannheim (EDFM).

Flight Plan
The Pilots' Guide package contains flightplan files (P3D & GTN), and a short description of the POI we will see during the tour. It is available here.

Aircraft
The route has a length of about 280 NM. Cruising along with about 150 KIAS should be sufficient to finish the trip in time. I will use the A2A C182, but as always, the choice is yours!

Scenery
ORBX GES will greatly enhance the experience of flying in this part of Germany. 

Weather

We will use real wx, if possible. If not, using historical weather from July 16, 2018, 12:00 UTC will get us nice VMC. 

Where & When
Date and time: Saturday July 21, 2018. 18:00 UTC.
 

Where: AVSIM RTWR Teamspeak - Casual Flights Channel
Teamspeak Server Address: ts.teamavsim.com
Cross-Platform Multiplayer: JoinFS. (FSX, FSX-SE, and P3D).

If you want to help others enjoy the multiplayer experience, don't forget to enter your aircraft details on the multiplayer spreadsheet (linked here). Your courtesy will save others a lot of time and effort. Thanks!

Recommend that you set your departure clock to 18:00 hours local time. This will lead to a dusk approach at our final airport Speyer (EDRY), which is well lit.

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

Sounds great!

Now to ponder the airplane... Bonanza, maybe?

[MM 422]

If you please, here are a couple of sources from last year's flight.

First, if you are worried about having to take more than one approach into the final airport at Speyer, then you have company. Here is the 1999 arrival of the Ukrainian An‑22 into Speyer for display in the museum. You might like the Tecknik Museum Speyer's description of the details. The video is more dramatic: the cinematic Antonov film and the rougher Museum film.

Then here is Gunter's reference to the very different arrival of the Lufthansa aircraft. "This is how the 747 got there."

And finally, Bert posted: "This is the hotel that Ricki and I stayed at. Click on the map at the bottom for a detailed view" of the castles over which we shall fly.

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

Texan.

[Viking01 181]

Texan would be a bit slow I‘m afraid...

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

Spitfire then.

[Viking01 181]

Will be good, some interesting landings maybe...