I attempted what I thought would be a "nice" flight on Pilot Edge.  I could tell from the get go that it wasn't going to go smoothly and that I was behind the power curve, basically, the entire flight.

Routing KTNP TNP V370 PSP V388 PDZ KRAL (That's Twenty Nine Palms to Riverside Muni in CA). 

It's a short flight and with air traffic services provided by actual humans I expected a bit of a workload.  On departure.... oh wait let's back up.  I never briefed myself the departure.  I departed RY 26 at KTNP, and which way should I turn back to the VOR?  Or should I just turn SW and join the TNP231R towards PSP?  I decided to answer this question while hand flying this snappy little Phenom, whilst speaking to air traffic (and CTAF).  I turned right and then left, and got all confused looking at the MFD, and lacked major situational awareness.  Anyway after that fiasco I got on course and headed towards PSP (that's where the pics start off).  I felt great, I picked up the ATIS on comm2, everything was going swimmingly.  I got the KRAL airport in sight for the visual, but then I just was too high and too fast.  I attempted to land but on about a 1 mile final I decided to go around.....  And entered left traffic for RY 27...eventually landed again normally.  Do you ever have an "off" day?  Anyway here's the pics.  Aerobask Phenom 300 and a wonderful metallic color changing livery by 'Digimagician'

psp1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

(oops gotta change that placard)

psp2 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Oh yeah, to make matters worse, this was a partially IMC flight - which is kinda rare for SoCal (or is it experts?)

psp3 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

psp4 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Out of the soup over San Bernardino

psp5 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

psp6 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Just waaay too high on about a 4 mile left base

psp7 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

psp8 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Aaaand on the go hehe.... I did land ok after this

psp9 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

 

 

Edited April 27, 20215 yr by ryanbatcund

Nice shots. Is the scenery using TE from ORBX?

Edited May 2, 20215 yr by Anxu00

That scenery looks great  and its modeled,  im using Megascenery  3  and landscape for the autogen , i like it but it dont look that good