P3DV4 The A340 Part 5 - Qatar and beyond.

[iwebber 207]

Following on from my previous post, we're approaching Europe from the Middle East on our way to Barcelona.

Still AI sightseeing, a rattle of Bulgarian Air Charter MD80s (I don't know what the collective noun for MD80s is).

Out over the Med now

A Siberian A321 making it's way to Barcelona just to the north of us.

A sureal out-of-body under wing view of the French coast

Being vectored out over the sea for the ILS to 25R, look at that lovely long beach...

As ever in BCN, they've kept us high and now demanding speed and alt restrictions that are right on the limits of the aircraft. I'm doing my best here with the speedbrakes out desperately trying to kill energy...

That marina is Arenys de Mar... I think.

Being joined by a LATAM 767 from South America

Managed to get the energy back to manageable levels and now nicely stable approaching 1000ft RA.

Slight crosswind from the left, AP out and ready to finish her off by hand...

Wing view of the rollout, about to exit the runway.

Parked at the gate.

The next A346 flights are going to be with Lufthansa but I thought I'd make a little detour via a Mauritius A340-300. I'm going to pick that up in ZSPD so now need to get there from LEBL.

Obviously, I'm going via South America

Avianca 788, AVA19 from LEBL to SKBO. Has dodgy RR engines so down to 140min ETOPS. Harvesting a flight plan off Flightaware gives the following, looks like 140 mins being used in real life here; 140 mins just doable...

Parked at the gate.

Just after take off.

There are some fairly large turns early on on the 25L SIDs out of LEBL, here we are in one of them.

Looking out of my window as we climb out, the three marinas/ports you can see are Cala Vallcarca, Garraf and Ginesta.

Making our way out over the Atlantic, next stop, The Azores...

Over the Azores we come across this German P3 Orion.

After the Azores the sun sets and as we pass over the Caribbean we catch this InterCaribbean Jetstream descending towards it idyllic destination.

Very dark by the time we reach Bogota, just one last on of us on the approach.

Getting out to China from here will involve a flight down to Santiago, I initially planned to do it in the 788 (Avianca again) but they run that at night, the day flights are done in a single aisle Airbus... and Aerosoft had just released the A318/319 for P3Dv4. The temptation was too much so next up, a daytime flight from SKBO to SCEL in an A319...

 

[WingZ 547]

As a declared AI-phile I do enjoy this stuff.

A "rattle" of MD-80 eh?
That'll do 😎

[John F 2,423]

Wonderful wing views!

John