Islas Canarias

[Bryan Rosier 31]

 

 

Wednesdays Flight we shall tour the Canary Islands . Starting at the northern most island of Lanzarote, we shall depart from Arrecife INTL  GCRR. We head NW towards the Caldera Blanca Volanoes before turning south to the Timanfaya Park  (moonscape !!!!!) turning west to El Golfo then heading south over Playa Blanca and out to Fuerteventura.

Our first landing is at El Matorral Intl Fuerteventura  GCFV. From here we head SW over the island to Gran Canaria. Landing at Gran Canaria Airport GCLP. we depart S touring the southern coastline and land at El Berriel GCLB. 

Departing NW we head to the north of Tenerife approaching the coast at Santa Cruz de Tenerife crossing the city to land at Los Rodeos GCXO. Departing SW we follow the spine of Tenerife to the Teide Observatory Here . Leaving here we summit the crater of Teide ( a bit of a climb) before passing over Pico Viejo turning S to Reina Sofia GCTS , S Tenerife major airport.

Departing West we pass over the Tourist hotspots of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas before leaving Tenerife to our next Island La Gomera. We land at La Gomera Airport GCGM. Departing we carry out a circumferential circuit of this small Island before heading SSW to the Island of El Hierro. Landing at GCHI. We depart north, passing Tamaduste before turning and climbing steeply to Valverde then flying along the spine before turng back towards Frontera on the western side. we now head north to our final Island, the island of La Palma.

We arrive at the southern most point of La Palma and fly up the western coast past the active volcanc flows before heading inland at Puerto de Taza corte. Here we turn NE to follow the ravine before climbing steeply to view the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory Here featuring the Gran Telescopio Canarias here. We then head back to the crater wall before a steep descent to the coastal resort of Santa Cruz de La Palme then heading S to our final destination of La Palma airport GCLA.

 

Flight plans for this   Here

 

Aircraft recommended for this fight of 470 miles will be a Daher TBM 930 or the P-38 boys may wish another outing. As always your Choic

 

Scenery

Lots of freeware scenery for this. You decide how much you`d like to use.

Airports

El Hierro | Airport | GCHI » Microsoft Flight Simulator    

GCGM - La Gomera Airport - Canary Islands - Spain » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Luces del Aeropuerto de Lanzarote » Microsoft Flight Simulator

GCLB_V1 Luces en el Aerodromo de El Berriel ( Gran Canaria ) » Microsoft Flight Simulator

GCTS_Luces_V1 - Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Reina Sofía » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Full Monty Scenery  ( Big downloads )

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife), Islas Canarias, Spain » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Santa Cruz de Tenerife » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (GCXO photogrammetry approach and La Laguna), Islas Canarias, Spain » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Active Volcano: Cumbre Vieja / La Palma » Microsoft Flight Simulator

NeoFly smokes » Microsoft Flight Simulator  

Mesh  2M (optional but very nice)

CanaryDEM » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Telescopes

Flightsim.to » Downloading Canarias Telescopes

 

 

Recommend Departure time of 15:00pm local

Particulars:

•          Date and time: Wednesday 12 Jan 22   19:00 UTC
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ps , bit short notice,  but did get a few stutters at time particularly around north tenerife but didnt have time to fault isolate before posting 😉

[nbrich1 116]

Hoping to make this flight later today.  While setting up for it early this am, noticed a few of the comments on the 2m dem. I won't have time to test either but reading that stutters might be caused by the 2m CanaryDEM. (2m would be is very detailed/heavy). 

 

Norm

[MM 424]

Same stutters here with my older machine and not using the city photogrammetry. As an alternative, one could use the Mikeaa 20M DEM for the Canary Islands. A quick flight comparison over Tenerife revealed stutters for the 2M mesh and no stutters for the 20M mesh. However, the viewing experience is different. The 20M mesh is good quality for our type of flying. However, as Bry indicates, the 2M mesh is really spectacular in how the accurate ridge lines and the volcanic calderas truly make the photoreal textures pop when we fly over the rugged Canaries terrain. Both mesh packages have the occasional anomaly, so that is sort of equal. The question is whether it is worth putting up with occasional stutters for the extra wow factor. Personal choice. (I would normally pick the better flying experience of the 20M mesh, but at the moment think that I'll try the 2M mesh for this particular event...knowing that I may have to stop and reload the simulator to change.)