July 31, 20223 yr OK, so now I've got this thing working I took it for a trip from KCVG to KBKL. Nothing fancy, start on runway all powered up, hand flown (flight plan - wassat?) but with a bit of basic AP and kept down just below 5000 feet so I could look at the scenery. No particular reason for these locations, very much a stick a pin the map job. Boring flight, but I'll go back through the replay a couple more times and experiment with weather etc, and it was a part of the world I didn't particularly know so it's always nice to see what it looks like. Went perfect fine until the end. I'll explain later. But here we go, out of KCVG Turned round and heading NE roughly mid-way. Nowhere specific Love the modelling and the detail on this aircraft. Only reason I bought it. coming in towards Cleveland at this point Cleveland airport below, but I fancied going on to the lakeside airport at KBKL, just the other side of the city And there it is ahead Lots of birds down there, might be awkward As you can see, lots of birds all around the aircraft. Bird strike not modelled though, had a couple of them just fly right through the aircraft! Bird strike wasn't my problem. Speed was. Most of the time when I bring something that I'm not overly familiar with in to land my problem is that I tend to bleed off speed too early and come in too low, and have to hit the gas and get back up in the air a bit so that I avoid whatever is a few hundred feet before the end of the runway. But this thing is the opposite. Throttle way back, flaps way down, air brakes on and still the thing is thrashing in to land. The really annoying thing is that I actually managed quite a smooth touchdown, no bouncing or anything, but it was just too far down the runway and too fast I had to apply the emergency brakes, or airport buildings as others might call them. Still, I enjoyed the flight and who knows, I may even get around to such esoterics as flight plans and the like at some point. Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
July 31, 20223 yr Enjoyable (I never tire of watching Midwest farmlands/small towns pass underneath my wings) and a nice chuckle at the end. John
July 31, 20223 yr Excellent shots! I would have done a go around, i don't want to end up like Sully 🤣
August 1, 20223 yr Author 7 hours ago, Alaska738 said: Excellent shots! I would have done a go around, i don't want to end up like Sully 🤣 Didn't get the chance - was required back here on the real world so needed to get the flight over with. Hey - it's only pixels <grin> 10 hours ago, John F said: Enjoyable (I never tire of watching Midwest farmlands/small towns pass underneath my wings) and a nice chuckle at the end. John Yes, I don't know what it is about such scenery but I always find it fascinating. I actually much prefer it to grand mountain-scapes or exotic islands - they bore me generally. Guess I must have peasant farmer genes buried away somewhere. 9 hours ago, johnbow72 said: The magic of MSFS in these shots Andy along with a magical landing . 😉 Not sure magical is the word I'd use for that landing. In fact, from memory I'm prety sure that wasn't what I said at the time! Thanks everybody! Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
August 1, 20223 yr Great screenies, unfortunately it looks like you didn't engage your parking brake. 🙂 Darryl
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