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Doing business in Eastern Africa

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Recently I saw a documentary on TV, where some creative businessmen with a pilot license and an aircraft at their disposal help some African nations to get badly needed nourishment. Of course, all of what the small TV team was seeing/filming was highly illegal, the pilots (of Rus, oh sorry, of unknown nationality) didn’t want to be filmed or interviewed. I must admit, most interesting! It was for me a small wonder that the pilots allowed the TV team to come along for such a trip at all. They claimed to do two such trips per day. At least as long as their slightly dilapidated looking An-24 was air worthy (according to the pilots’ standards, most probably not ours). So, hop on and let’s repeat this trip. 😉

 

The crew at work

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Landing at Bosaso International Airport. No kidding

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We are here in a different country, mind you, yet unloading of these precious goods started as soon as the plane came to a stop. Turn around time was remarkably fast 😄

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The gauges of my FSX An-24 don’t work in MSFS (the plane does), and I didn’t want to use again the default King Air’s VC for this plane. It just doesn’t look right. So I use an FS9 An-32 instead, which I converted first to FSX, before I ported her over to MSFS. For some strange reason, most of those plane’s gauges work in MSFS

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Here, the FS9 origin is especially obvious, but the plane (hand) flies quite well and is refreshingly different from all those modern Garmin-equipped VCs

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PAPI lights? What’s that?

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On short final into Bosaso International Airport. The airstrip looks very much like the real thing

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This is the first time I can say that a default MSFS airport looks better than its real world counterpart

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Thanks for viewing

Edited by bernd1151

Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds

My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080

Great shots buddy !

Good work your porting to MSFS..

cheers 😉

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Very nice! Love the storyline!

 Is that Piglet's Antonov? I remember doing a few paints for that

All my FSX/P3D repaints are here on Avsim, for my MSFS repaints, go to FS.2

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Many thanks for your comments !!

22 minutes ago, jankees said:

 Is that Piglet's Antonov? I remember doing a few paints for that

Yes it is, Jan. I think I have your paints for that plane 😉

Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds

My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080

Very good assembly and shots buddy! 😉 

Wonderful post Bernd . 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you both, Will and John !

Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds

My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080

Great (RW) story, bernd...!!

I recall from decades ago, a colleague of mine, once a year, used to participate in the Habitat for Humanity based trips and activities in Africa...not sure though if the plane there was an An-24 ...🙂...

Agree, your legacy An-24 (conversion), looks so nice, in its new home....🙂.... And of course, the surrounding scenery and vegetation looks wonderful too...!

 

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