December 25, 20205 yr My plan today is to reproduce a flight I make whenever I have to join Las Vegas to Page (AZ), then mostly to fly to Monument Valley but this is another story. I took the C172 analog with the N4975F texture replica of a Plus One Flyer club plane based at San Diego. Las Vegas scenery is from Flytampa. All the rest is stock from MSFS. As usual I connected my Foreflight tablet app to my sim. Looking at the sunset time at Page, my destination, I choose accordingly my departure time. My plan is to reach the lake Powell with hot colors. The route is simple KLAS BLD HooverDam then the Fossil Corridor to go through the free flights zone of Grand Canyon SFRA As a backup I enter the “route” in the GNS530 (mod "pms50-gns530") Today, runways 8 are in use. I started from Signature FBO but I turned on the other/wrong right and headed to the 19’s by mistake MSFS is a great training tool! The awesome rendition of Las Vegas strip by Flytampa Finally, I make a 180 and headed to the correct direction… Let's go the other way Holding short 8L Foreflight receives XmapSy 3.1 trafic data and displays it on the ground chart Is that enough for my tiny C172? Initial climb, looking at tubeliner's terminal Awesome rendition of McCarran: Leaving Las Vegas 11'500 ft is the minimum altitude for the VFR corridor into the Grand Canyon SFRA and Foreflight advises me to climb as much as possible to benefit from tailwinds. But for now, I'm vector into the Bravo 😉 Overflying Hooverdam... ... and passing by Grand Canyon west airport The timing seems to be perfect for cool shots Before reaching the Marble Canyon then Page, I reached this green plateau Entering the Marble Canyon, I've started my descend Descending to Pag and letting Marble canyon airport at my left wing. Not enough fuel for a stop & go. Next time soon. Horseshoe with a decreasing light. Better come sooner there next time 😉 High left base 33 at Page (KPGA) Turning final 33 Short final Before touch down Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
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December 26, 20205 yr 7 hours ago, vbazillio said: The route is simple KLAS BLD HooverDam then the Fossil Corridor to go through the free flights zone of Grand Canyon SFRA Great shots, I always enjoy the background information you include. One question, is HooverDam a VFR waypoint or is that something that you can select as part of your route with foreflight? I was looking at the VFR charts for the area on SkyVector and though the Hoover Dam is shown on the charts i couldn’t see a VFR waypoint for it. I was wondering if you entered that point into your GNS530? Edited December 26, 20205 yr by regis9 Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
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December 26, 20205 yr Author Thank you to all for your kind comments. 5 hours ago, regis9 said: One question, is HooverDam a VFR waypoint or is that something that you can select as part of your route with foreflight? I was looking at the VFR charts for the area on SkyVector and though the Hoover Dam is shown on the charts i couldn’t see a VFR waypoint for it. I was wondering if you entered that point into your GNS530? The "HooverDam" is a Foreflight user waypoint created manually 😉 Unfortunately, I don't think if a VRP somewhere. Edited December 26, 20205 yr by vbazillio Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
December 26, 20205 yr Moderator @vbazillio Great shots but please adhere to the screen shot rules of no more than 20 photos per screen shot topic. I’m not going to delete any of the photos to make it adhere to the rules, but please stick to the rule going forward. The screen shot posting rules are posted at the top of this forum. Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
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