July 26, 20241 yr In my previous post, I'd roamed over and across the Isle of Man (IOM), a tiny island which had received a special mention in the (MSFS) World Update XVII. It was good fun (and a serene feeling) to fly around the island's scenic coastlines, along its narrow central valley, and past the highest summit, Snaefell. Naturally, I then thought of heading out of IOM to the mainland (towards UK on the east), past the Irish Sea. I noted that the Isle of Man (Ronaldsway) Airport is serviced by Aer Lingus, easyJet, and "Loganair". I have not flown Loganair in a long while, but recall flying it often in the past SIMs. And, for destination, I chose EGSS, London Stansted, also specifically been mentioned in the WU XVII. I don't recall flying to EGSS in recent memory either...it is typically always into Heathrow (twice in RW too) and many times (virtually) into London-City. I could be wrong, but this tertiary international airport of London, seems to be located in a rural setting, nicely secluded away from the din-and-bustle of the other two (big city) airports...🙂... I did not find on record, any direct (commercial) carrier flights from IOM to STN. I observed just one flight, on FlightAware, flown earlier this week, with an (Embraer) Phenom 300. As I can tell, from IOM, Loganair flies (e.g., its ATR 72s) to Birmingham, Liverpool, London-City, and London-Heathrow, but not to Stansted. In any case, for my flight today, with the ATR 72, I've (effortlessly) uploaded a SimBrief generated flight-plan into the on-board FMC, via the aircraft's EFB (see shot #s 6-7). I've lifted off westward from IOM's Rwy 26, and then made a sharp (CCW) turn to align myself with the southeasterly route towards STN (see the inset VFR MAP shots for a general geographical orientation; IOM being located almost equidistant from the Ireland and England coastlines). Overflying the stretch of sea, I made landfall (shot #s 8-9) at the town of Hawarden (EGNR), and then carried on over some pretty (rural) lands towards Stansted Airport. Hope you enjoy this collection pictures, from my flight today, along with this ATR 72-600 in the unique (black/red/white) colors of the "Loganair Tartan" print on the tail...been always fond of those patterns...reminds me of the similar looking British Airways (Benyhone) tartan designs. EGSS (Stansted), though with just one 10,000 ft Rwy (04/22), seemed like a large and sprawling airport complex. Here, I've landed on its ILS Rwy 22. MSFS Default rendition of it looks (reasonably) good, but it's certainly not up to the standards of the payware quality airports, often seen in the posts around here. I've included a few pictures of EGSS airport (final 4 images). It was curious (and nostalgic) to spot the "Hampton Hotel" (last shot) ...the (local) "Hampton Inn", a short distance from here, been the place of stay for my first 3 nights when I had relocated to Chicago many moons ago...🙂... Overall, it was a nice (blemish-free) flight, start to finish, with this nice a/c for the average simmers like me ...🙂...! Thanks for viewing...!
July 26, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, P_7878 said: a nice (blemish-free) flight, start to finish, with this nice a/c for the average simmers like me ...🙂...! Always good to be an "average" simmer, P-7878. 🙂 Some way-above-average shots here, though. And I'm quite taken by shot #5. Those red nacelles really do it for me!
July 27, 20241 yr Nice set, thanks for showing ! 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.
July 27, 20241 yr Always enjoy your thought provoking and entertaining content 100%75%50%d8a34be0e82d98b5a45ff4336cd0dddc Patrick
July 28, 20241 yr Author 21 hours ago, Alaska738 said: Fine set of shots! 😉 Will: Appreciated the comment. Thanks much. Cheers…! 15 hours ago, Phantom88 said: Always enjoy your thought provoking and entertaining content Glad you chimed in, Patrick…! And thanks for the positive comments…🙂…keeps us in the game…🙂…
July 28, 20241 yr Very nice set again P_7878, reminds me that I've forgotten that great aircraft a bit in my msfs....🙂🙃 PC: Ryzen 7 3700x AM4, 16 GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB, Storage SSD 3TB, HDD 8TB, USB 8TB, 2 Screens, Win10-64 SIMs: FSX SE, P3d 3.4/4.5/6.1, Xplane 10/11/12, MSFS 2020/24, Aerofly FS 4
August 4, 20241 yr Author On 7/28/2024 at 1:21 PM, andiflyit said: Very nice set again P_7878, reminds me that I've forgotten that great aircraft a bit in my msfs....🙂🙃 Thanks, Andreas. Yes, it's a really good one for us to fly in the SIM and I like it a lot ...though I don't see it not much around U.S....
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