March 19, 20233 yr The Polish pilot Lukasz Czepiela succeeded in his attempt to land on the small helipad(diameter=27mtr) at the famous 6* Hotel Burj Al Arab in Dubai. Airborned from the Skydive airstrip OMDU in Carbon Cub Crafter, made as light as possible(empty=425Kg) for a thrilling landing on the platform 220mtr ASL. I replicated this flight virtual and after many attempts I also succeeded to perform this flight, hereby some shots of it. Dubai-scenery pack is from Orbx. You can reed and see the real attempt via follow website: Bullseye Landing: Luke Czepiela lands on Burj Al Arab (redbull.com) The normal use of the helipad is only for helicopter-transport for the happy few residing in the hotel or having an exclusive dinner at the toprestaurant Here myself on same location during my Dubai-visit in Feb 2019, in front of the Hotel-entrance
March 19, 20233 yr Fine set and the last seems the best shot, real life is real life, nothing has a bigger statement.. 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.
March 19, 20233 yr Quite an achievement, And you've got the pictures to prove it. Glad you included that last shot (for authenticity). 🙂
March 19, 20233 yr Excellent! I'll add that to my list of things to try in the An-225 (maybe!) Like the motor, too! 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
March 19, 20233 yr Like you, I and I'm sure many others have been inspired by the latest bit of silliness in Dubai! Turns out it is Easy-peasy 🙂 The Burj has allowed a whole lot of interesting activities on its helipad which I'm sure is a little larger than regulation size. One year when I was in Dubai there was a tennis match held there. Great series, well done.
March 19, 20233 yr There's a track of this on Flightradar24. Quite fascinating as he seems to have done a number of orbits before finally touching down at a speed of what seems to be a "silly" 28-32 kts. Presumably because of the strong headiwnd at the time. Surprised he got permission for that stunt as they are usually quite conservative in that part of the world. MSI Pro Z690-A DDR4 | i5 13600KF | G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB 3600MHz | RTX 3080 (12GB) | Samsung 980 M.2 NVMe 500GB | Samsung 980 M.2 NVMe 1TB | Samsung 850EVO 500GB | Crucial P3+ 2TB NVMe | 2TB Seagate HDD | Deepcool AK500 CPU Cooler | Thrustmaster T16000M HOTAS | CH Yoke | Various Winctrl hardware | 21:9 1440p UW monitor | Win 11 23H2 build | MSFS2020 | Tony K.
March 20, 20233 yr Great shots, Johhny. the last one is the best 😀 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
March 20, 20233 yr Nice shots and well done! Have to have a go myself. Might be easier than actually landing a helicopter on there in a controlled fashion haha. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
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