[A short while ago, I'd gone on a "freighter" purchase spree...🙂...and had acquired the (incremental) freighter model upgrades for several CS a/c (727/737/757/767/777/L1011...etc. plus the (JF) 146-300QT freighter of my earlier post...). Here, below, is a set of pictures for the (CS) 777F, that I had not got to fly till today...]

Large freighter a/c are always fascinating in their own right...and for cargo operators, the 777F has been (consistently) at the top of the list of favorite freighters. All (Boeing built i.e., not converted via BCF program) 777 Freighters (designated as just "777F") share (common) features with the (Pax) 777-200LR variant, including the General Electric GE90-110B1 Powerplants (see engine close-up shots). So, this 777F can be regarded as a "777-200LRF". There is no 777-300 based freighter, at this moment, but a -300ER converted freighter (-300ERSF) is in the making, due for delivery to Kalitta Air in 2022. I was reading a bit about the avionics of 777F and its redundant (and fault tolerant) flight control systems. An item caught my attention, "Each of the three primary flight computers contains three different and separately programmed 32-bit microprocessors, a Motorola, Intel and AMD, to manage the fly-by-wire functions..." So, I guess, "triple-redundancy" does make more sense, in terms of failure, when the microprocessors are also from 3 entirely different vendors... (rather than 3 processors from the same vendor) ...maybe it's the norm...but, it just sounded interesting...

Regarding the airline of choice, for this post, (the repaint of which, I picked up just today from the AVSIM library, here), AeroLogic, is a German cargo airline, which was formed as a joint venture between DHL and Lufthansa Cargo. The airline operates (extensive) international and long-haul cargo services out of its two main hubs, Leipzig/Halle Airport and Frankfurt-Main Airport. I noticed on the AeroLogic webpage, that it prominently (and proudly) touts, "The most modern air freighter fleet in Europe...", and justifiably so, because its (young) fleet exclusively consists of 20 Boeing 777F a/c, with an average age of only ~7 years. Moreover, AeroLogic was the first German operator of that type of Boeing a/c. 

Lufthansa, here, being one of the venture partners, it's worth noting, and one of the things, I've always found curious, is the fact that LH, though by no means, stranger to Boeing a/c, and actually been one of the strategic operators of Boeing a/c since the earliest times e.g. (707/720/727/737/747/767), never ordered any 777 (Pax) variants. On the transatlantic travels, while I'd found UA/AA and others, routinely deploying 777s, the type was conspicuously missing from LH's (long-haul) operations. Anyway, it might change, in future, if the 777-9 joins the LH fleet, in the coming years. However, in contrast, Lufthansa's Cargo division, has now followed suit, on the steps of AeroLogic, and has also recently acquired 12 777F freighters, having retired all its MD-11Fs last year (2021).  

Hope you enjoy this below collection of pictures of the 777F, in the color of AeroLogic. I've performed a (Tutorial-based) Cold & Dark start-up, and the images shown are for lift-off from Leipzig/Halle Airport (EDDP), for a flight headed for Frankfurt-Main Airport (EDDF), short ~170 nm miles away (see MAP) - guided by a flightplan uploaded into the FMC. The flight is not fictitious, indeed, per FlightAware, an AeroLogic 777, actually flew today, Friday, 08-April-2022, from Leipzig to Frankfurt, having landed in EDDF at 7:14 pm (local time).

Thanks for viewing...!!

Beautiful set of shots - at this time CS was still a good company but seems now this time is over, to bad !

Allways liked CS products at my older Flightsim times  ( From 2000-2011)

cheers 😉

Edited April 9, 20224 yr by pmplayer

Great set of shots! 😉 

6 hours ago, pmplayer said:

Beautiful set of shots - at this time CS was still a good company but seems now this time is over, to bad !

Always liked CS products at my older Flightsim times  ( From 2000-2011)

cheers 😉

Exactly true...the Golden decade for CS....🙂...

They were then producing quality a/c and their forums were quite active...too...though it was always a love-hate relation with the consumers...🙂...as I recall...but was good fun and learning...myself been rather active there too...I've not visited their site in more than a decade. The "base" 7x7 versions (for the freighter extensions that I got just a couple of months ago), I've owned for more than a decade for sure...but I had never got to get the freighter upgrades until now (e.g. this 777F), which were all also created by CS, surely, a long while ago...during the period, you've indicated...

Their (classic) Boeing a/c are all great to fly...once in a while...their 727/737 (-100/200/F) are my favorites...very well-done...I don't think we'll see all these a/c soon enough again...but we'll always have the modern airliners to play with...🙂...

Cheers...!

 

4 hours ago, Alaska738 said:

Great set of shots! 😉 

Thank you, Alaska...!!

Freight hauling son of a gun , great post Sir !! . 

2 hours ago, johnbow72 said:

Freight hauling son of a gun

Quite aptly and succinctly put...🙂...

Nice story (as always!) and interesting pictures to go with it, P_7878. I really hope (most probably in vain) to get one day a 707 or 727 for MSFS again. But the Aerosoft DC 8 will do too. All of them I flew quite often in FSX/P3D.

I am with you, here...bernd... (I/we surely must and should enjoy what we currently have....and hope for better things to come our way.... let's see... I know waiting is a bit hard on some of us...how should I politely say... the more experienced ones...🙂...) ...

Anyway, have fun with MSFS... (btw, welcome back after the break...) ...