Scotland Tigers-5-Scone to Aberdeen

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Scotland Tigers-5: UK Scotland: Perth (Scone) (EGPT) to Aberdeen (Dyce) (EGPD)

For AVSIM Wed March 13th Flight:  

Perth (Scone) Airport EGPT

Today we bring out the old bi-planes once again to continue this low and slow UK-journey- Scotland Tigers-Part 5 exploring the country of Scotland. We are in the extreme northeast quadrant of the Scotland mainland. This NE area is much more rural that our previous trips. It is much more wilderness, parkland namely Cairngorms National Park as well as farm land.  

We start this part five trip in Perth, Scotland which is the 13th largest city in Scotland. Once upon a time, Perth was the capital of Scotland and a picturesque playground for kings and queens. Today, the city is laced with gorgeous city architecture, unrivalled surrounding landscapes and an intriguing royal history.

We’ll depart Perth to the west to a glider airfield then northward to another small field in the rural locations of Perth before heading east to the Scotland coastal area. On the way, we’ll overfly Blairgowrie and Rattray Burgh (twin suburbs of Perth), the towns of Forfar, Montrose, Stonehaven and finally we’ll reach the 3rd largest city of Scotland: Aberdeen. There are a few poi/landmarks along the way but many on both sides of the magenta line most of which are castles or castle ruins that are not depicted very well in MSFS. But there are plenty of golf courses to view. Again in this trip, although much more rural there are interesting locations such as dams, waterways, castles, ports, cities and towns as we travel.  

This part 5 of the Scotland Tigers totals 189 nm departing Perth (Scone) Airport (EQQI) with six intermediate stops at: Skydive Strathallan (EGAU), Blair Atholl Airfield (EGQI), Kirriemuir Farm Airfield (EGK1), Montrose Airstrip (EGMZ), Aboyne Airfield (EGAO) which is an official MSFS airport, and Insch Airport (EGIN) with our destination being in the third largest most populous city in Scotland: Aberdeen (Dyce) Airport (EGPD).

This is another “low and slow expedition” using our favorite bi-plan! We won’t have too much time for doddling if we want to reach our destination. Time permitting; we’ll make our destination but no worries as there will definitely be a part six of the Scotland Tigers (someday), so that we can continue this trek exploring the country of Scotland.

Flight Plan/Itinerary LINK:  HERE

Aircraft:
DH82 Tiger Moth, Stearman, Bucker or similar: IE: Zlin Shock or Zlin Savage Carbon will work or any other aircraft that can stay @ 100kts to take full advantage of this landscape. * (Might use a Stearman for this trip.. a tad faster than the Ants Tiger Moth dh.82 but feel to use your choice of aircraft).

Add-on Scenery: Flightsim.to: Freeware:
EGPT-Perth-Scone-Airport-v1.4-Scotflight: https://flightsim.to/file/29665/egpt-perth-scone-airport
EGAU Strathallan Skydive-v1.1-Scotflight: https://flightsim.to/file/27248/egau-strathallan-skydive
EGQI-Blair-Atholl-Airfield-v1.0-amb7364: https://flightsim.to/file/22060/egqi-blair-atholl-airfield-scotland-uk-upgrade
EGK1 Kirriemuir Farm Airfield-v1.0-amb7364: https://flightsim.to/file/21962/egk1-kirriemuir-farm-airstrip-scotland-uk-gb-0577
EGMZ Montrose Airstrip-v1.0-amb7364: https://flightsim.to/file/22144/egmz-montrose-airstrip-angus-scotland-uk
EGPD-Aberdeen-Dyce-Airport-v1.4-Scotflight: https://flightsim.to/file/50356/egpd-aberdeen-dyce-airport

A pre-assembled scenery package with above pieces can be temporarily found: HERE (zip is 60mb) (expands to 215mb).

NOTAM1: EGAO Aboyne Airfield is a MSFS Official Airport: path: Official\Onestore\microsoft-airport-egao-aboyneairfield.  It is contained in the 40th Anniversary Update.  If you don’t have it you can either download the 40th Anniversary Update from the marketplace or your can use an flightsim.to add-on: EGAO-Aboyne-Airfield-v1.1 by pbk: https://flightsim.to/file/38023/egao-aboyne-airfield-v1.0-pbk  (This add-on EGAO airport is not included in the pre-assembled package).

NOTAM2:  RE: Payware:
1-There is a Payware version of EGPD by Aurascenery, and there is EU Great Britain North (Landmarks) by Orbx. (Eye candy). Please feel free to use if you have but not necessary to go purchase for this series of trips.

Time and Weather
Prefer to fly real weather if possible but if not, the few clouds Jeff 2 or Josh, or few or high clouds stock preset might make a nice choice.  For takeoff: set the simulator time to @1400 local.  Hope you enjoy this scenic flight in north Scotland.
Aberdeen, Scotland

Multiplayer Particulars
Date and time: Wednesday, February 13, 2024 - 1900 UTC, (1400 Eastern)
AVSIM Discord Server LINK: https://discord.gg/K5Vy6UxWNm - AVSIM GROUP EVENTS-WED. COM1
Microsoft Flight Simulator Multiplayer: EAST-USA Server

If you want to help others enjoy the multiplayer experience, don't forget to enter your aircraft details on the multiplayer spreadsheet (linked HERE). Your courtesy will save others a lot of time and effort. Thanks!

Norm Richards
March 2024

Edited March 8 by nbrich1

[nbrich1 116]

Correct link for Flight Plan/Itinerary LINK: is  HERE  or  HERE >  https://tinyurl.com/3r95tmss

Sorry bout that!!! 

 

 

(Thanks Mike)

[nbrich1 116]

NOTAM: There is one more scenery addon that is present in the scenery download as well as shown in my pdf document... but I overlooked showing the scenery and author on the main avsim post above for some weird reason...

In any event, here is the mention: freeware add-on scenery:

EGIN-Insch Gairioch Aero Club Airfield-v1.0-amb7364:   

LINK: https://flightsim.to/file/22275/egin-insch-gairioch-aero-club-airfield-scotland-uk

Thanks amb7364 for your very nice scenery add-on for Insch.

 

Norm

 

(PS: Thanks again Mike)

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