November 5, 20223 yr [I continue on, here, from my Part 1, with the rest of my flight...] After leaving the moor, River Dart flows southeast across the delightful English countryside, of rolling hills, picturesque meadows, and quaint villages...🙂...all observations would be certainly true in RW, but I'm speaking here (merely) from my (virtual) flight experience (see images, below). Then, finally, in Dartmouth, past the old Dartmouth Castle, the river meets the sea (English Channel). In my shots below (e.g., shot #5), you will spot the river's estuary and its mouth widening in eager anticipation of meeting the sea (a magical and energetic moment for any river, whether it has travelled 50 miles or 500 miles). Since Dartmouth does not have an airport, I've inserted its LAT/LONG into my SimBrief FlightPlan for navigation to it. So, the 2nd leg (the base of the triangle) of my Route MAP shown in Part 1, roughly tracks the path of the River Dart from its origin to the sea, and also forming part of my route in the sky. Then from Dartmouth, I have tracked and flown (up north) back to Exeter Airport (EGTE), and you will see there yet another twin turboprop, the NAMC YS-11 (you may recall it from my previous ANA posts), in the color of an airline, that just happened to appeal to me today, Asian Spirit, which was a LCC airline, once operating in the Philippines. So, the set of landing pictures, below, belong to the (please excuse) out-of-place Asian Spirit airline and the YS-11 twin turboprop...Japan's only post-war (mass) production airliner...! I also invite you to view this (nice) 3m:29s video, of a Fokker F27, and hear the unmistakable "high pitched whine" of the Dart engines, from landing all the way to shutdown of the engines. Please search for, "Fokker F-27 Friendship landing with sound of Rolls Royce Dart engines"... Thanks for your interest...! Good flying...!
November 5, 20223 yr Wonderful set of shots as always ! cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online :  ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage  HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
November 5, 20223 yr My introduction to spotting, watching BEA and Aer Lingus Viscounts at EGBB Birmingham, England. My first-ever flight was on BEA G-APEX, Heathrow to Birmingham, 1964. Rob Jones.
November 6, 20223 yr Author Paul, pmplayer, Rob, Jack, John, Will, Ed: Thank you for the comments etc... It was good fun chasing the Dart...🙂....!!
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