I'll skip over the bulk of the flight (I was doing this manually and just whacked the sim rate right up once I got away from Dallas), so we're now heading in to Houston. The city and surrounds look interesting, so this is another place I'll come back and explore more, probably in a chopper.

I was quite close before I came out of speeded-up-sim mode, so we really are heading in to KHOU at this point

I do quite like the lines on this thing

Amazingly, a fairly neat landing for me, and not even a bounce. Give me a couple more years and I'll get the hang of this!

Even pretty much on the centre line. And that really is unusual.

So all in all, a pretty nice flight. KHOU is nothing special. Doesn't seem to be a payware version available but I might have a sniff round .to and see if there's anything there. Someone is producing a version for maybe April, according to the MS forum - might be good, who knows at this point. But I will come back and explore the surroundings. I seem to remember from P3D days there's some nice stuff down to the coast.

And now (roll of drums) -

The Blooper Reel

When I came out of high-speed mode in the sim (I was running it at 32x speed), I'd obviously not had the trim set right and had managed to climb a good 6 or 7,000 feet along the way. So I had to make a fairly swift and expeditious descent to try to avoid my frequent ploughing activities.

So this is why you should always keep your seat belt fastened (well, on my flights, at least <grin>)

But with the speed brakes full on, she did come down to an acceptable level and speed, and I did make the landing shown above quite happily.

And so, as she'd behaved so magnificently, I thought I'd let her have her way and do a little bit of grazing once we'd landed. You do realise these things like to graze?

Actually, the playback I was using to grab these shots finished but I'd stopped recording the original flight at the end of the runway and hadn't set the brakes, so once the replay stopped the sim carried on in present time and she just sort of meandered off into the grass.

As you might be able to tell, I'm really enjoying this sim now I've got my new setup working.

 

Edited January 25, 20233 yr by andy1252
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Nice flight, enjoyable viewing (both parts). And that's a very good looking plane you selected.

Nice shots! 😉 

Cool shots and narrative Andy, I had to chuckle over the grazing bit.