On 11/17/2020 at 1:01 PM, Will Fly For Cheese said:

This year it's the North East Passage by air.

Something tells me that at this time of year, the weather will not allow you to see the coast on this Northern route. It would be a very difficult flight.

I have lived for a quarter of a century since childhood near Murmansk on the very shore of the Arctic ocean and I know the winter weather well.

In addition, at this time, the polar night is kept in the North and the sun is almost invisible (although I do not know whether the movement of the sun and the continuation of the day are implemented correctly in MSFS).

In any case, success to you in flight, but it is better to do that in the summer. 🙂

P.S. And I, too, like everyone else, am very much looking forward to DA62 from Robert. It will be very interesting.

Edited November 20, 20205 yr by Nickbe

1 hour ago, Nickbe said:

Something tells me that at this time of year, the weather will not allow you to see the coast on this Northern route. It would be a very difficult flight.

I have lived for a quarter of a century since childhood near Murmansk on the very shore of the Arctic ocean and I know the winter weather well.

In addition, at this time, the polar night is kept in the North and the sun is almost invisible (although I do not know whether the movement of the sun and the continuation of the day are implemented correctly in MSFS).

In any case, success to you in flight, but it is better to do that in the summer. 🙂

 

Thank you Nick for your warnings. I had factored those in - including Polar Night and visibility. My intention is to stay low! If things prove to be intolerable I will come South - but I hope not as this will be defeat. Each year I do my Big Trip I try and make it a little more challenging than the last. Perhaps this time I have bitten off more than I can chew. We will see.

Murmansk is a city I fully intend to visit in real life one day. 

36 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

Thank you Nick for your warnings. I had factored those in - including Polar Night and visibility. My intention is to stay low! If things prove to be intolerable I will come South - but I hope not as this will be defeat. Each year I do my Big Trip I try and make it a little more challenging than the last. Perhaps this time I have bitten off more than I can chew. We will see.

Murmansk is a city I fully intend to visit in real life one day. 

Murmansk is very beautiful in autumn, in August. A riot of colors in nature.

After the North, I lived in St. Petersburg for another 11 years. In my opinion, this is the most beautiful city in the world, but there are also surprises with the weather, often rain. It must be like London.

And for the last 10 years, I have been living closer to the South - this is the Kursk region, close to the border with Ukraine. The climate here is milder in summer and winter, but in recent years, it seems to me, the North of Russia has become much warmer.

As for your flight , it will be a very interesting adventure in any case. Although, as I noticed, poor coverage of satellite images in remote areas, such as where Anadyr, can slightly spoil the impression. But it is always interesting to visit places in the simulator where you will never be able to visit in real life.

I've been flying around Canada (British Columbia) all the time lately, and I really like those places, but I don't think I'll be able to go there in real life.

17 minutes ago, Nickbe said:

Murmansk is very beautiful in autumn, in August. A riot of colors in nature.

After the North, I lived in St. Petersburg for another 11 years. In my opinion, this is the most beautiful city in the world, but there are also surprises with the weather, often rain. It must be like London.

And for the last 10 years, I have been living closer to the South - this is the Kursk region, close to the border with Ukraine. The climate here is milder in summer and winter, but in recent years, it seems to me, the North of Russia has become much warmer.

As for your flight , it will be a very interesting adventure in any case. Although, as I noticed, poor coverage of satellite images in remote areas, such as where Anadyr, can slightly spoil the impression. But it is always interesting to visit places in the simulator where you will never be able to visit in real life.

I've been flying around Canada (British Columbia) all the time lately, and I really like those places, but I don't think I'll be able to go there in real life.

I read a very excellent book by Henry Swain "Return To Murmansk" detailing his WWII Convoys experiences and his return to the city in 1990 in a 30' yacht. I have similar reasons for wanting to go there; my grandfather and his shipmates were sunk off the coast of Murmansk in January 1942. I am looking forward to it. My intention is to sail up from the south of England, up the coast of Norway and round the corner to Murmansk in my 26' sail boat.

I was lucky enough to visit Moscow and St. Petersburg in the early '90's as an "Intourist" and enjoyed St. Petersburg immensely; particularly the Hermitage museum - one of the wonders of the art world as well as the architecture of the city - quite unlike anything seen before. I also remember the basement bar of the Hotel Intourist - now called the Azimut, I think - memory is vague!

Yes, I'm expecting the satellite imagery to be lacking for much of the northern coastal passage in the sim but that part of the trip is more about endurance than pretty sights. They will come later as we transit down Japan and further south.

I have yet to visit BC in the sim but I'm looking forward to it. I may wait until the mesh is improved at some point in the future.

55 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

I was lucky enough to visit Moscow and St. Petersburg in the early '90's as an "Intourist" and enjoyed St. Petersburg immensely

Yes, the Hermitage is a Museum that cannot be viewed in one day. I've been there a lot of times, but I don't think I've been able to see it in full. Also, most of the time in St. Petersburg, I was lucky enough to live in the very center on the main Avenue-it was Nevsky Prospekt. Thanks to Google, I can even see the house where I lived. 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qfL1jX_nHel8-Lo5Fc4s-Uf7ZCH8Yi25/view

 

 

Looking forward to testing the DA62 mod.

This SDK must really be in bad shape. Rob is never late.

43 minutes ago, Nickbe said:

Yes, the Hermitage is a Museum that cannot be viewed in one day. I've been there a lot of times, but I don't think I've been able to see it in full. Also, most of the time in St. Petersburg, I was lucky enough to live in the very center on the main Avenue-it was Nevsky Prospekt. Thanks to Google, I can even see the house where I lived. 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qfL1jX_nHel8-Lo5Fc4s-Uf7ZCH8Yi25/view

 

 

I bought a Gorbachev-style hat in a shop somewhere on Nevsky Prospekt. I had that hat for many years when I lived in London. One night I left it on the back seat of my rubbish old Talbot Horizon car (think Honda Civic with more rust) and the car was stolen. I didn't care about the car but was really angry the hat went with it.

Maybe I will go back to St Petersburg one day and buy another. . .

2 hours ago, DJJose said:

Looking forward to testing the DA62 mod.

This SDK must really be in bad shape. Rob is never late.

Jose- you aren't scratching the surface-  the SDK is currently rubbish and Rob is burning the midnight oil to make up for it!

Here's a teaser of the latest Beta... sitting at KLM (not the one based near the Spijkerboor VOR)...

and a short while later, since we thought life wasn't interesting enough already.....

She's VERY close now... and you WON'T be disappointed mate!

C

Edited November 20, 20205 yr by cavaricooper

BTW- the lack of feathered props is another current Asobo limitation... NOT Roberts.

“Very soon!” and “VERY close now” sounds good to me!! Can’t wait to get this baby on the ramp and fire her up! Anyone want to meet at KORS for a test flight later? If it’s available that is.

How have you managed to get the A/P stable?

Curious because all developers I've seen have said it's currently difficult to change given it's controlled by Asobo code.

5 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

Jose- you aren't scratching the surface-  the SDK is currently rubbish and Rob is burning the midnight oil to make up for it!

Here's a teaser of the latest Beta... sitting at KLM (not the one based near the Spijkerboor VOR)...

 

and a short while later, since we thought life wasn't interesting enough already.....

She's VERY close now... and you WON'T be disappointed mate!

C

So there is no way to feather default prop model?

Not at the moment.

I believe Robert also said he was feeling under the weather. 

5 minutes ago, cavaricooper said:

Not at the moment.

It kinda' baffles the mind that such a fundamental aircraft feature is not modeled.

I bought a new car off the showroom floor, and when they rolled it out in to the lot for me to drive off, it didn't have a steering wheel.   Guess that was not an essential part of a car. 😄

I know that feathering is not "essential" if you have a fixed pitch prop (duh Steve)...but I think it's kinda' important if you're in a twin if you lose and engine and don't want all that extra drag or a windmilling engine to deal with as you're handling that emergency.

Sigh.....hope MS/AS gets around to added it soon. 🙂