This is a short repositioning flight from Green Bay, WI - Milwaukee, WI 

I initially filed 16,000 but with a small layer of clouds I opted for a quick climb to FL180.  Routing today was KGRB BJB KMKE.  I'm flying the turbocharged piston Duke with a phenomenal livery by TimHH.  MKE by iniBuilds and GRB by XWind.  MKE is the busiest airport in WI and GRB is the 4th busiest. 

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Taxiing out for a RY24 departure

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A nice climb rate as we turn towards west bend (apparently dme only now but we're rnav-equipped)

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Green Bay is home to just over 100k people, the Green Bay Packers NFL team, and the National Railroad Museum - here we see the water body Green Bay in the background (apparently in early spring the water appears tinted green, hence the name)

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And off to the east, the shores of Lake Michigan greet us

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Off my right wing lies an extremely popular July airport 🙂

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And a nice cockpit picture to show where I'm flying (some people have never heard of either of these airports hehe)

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The Duke is no slouch at 250 knots!

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Descent into Milwaukee with the downtown skyline in view

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Milwaukee is home to numerous breweries and has its roots in beer production, population over a half a million

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Approaching Muskego Lake on the left downwind for RY 01R

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We've been cleared for the visual and are turning base

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Tower has allowed us to side step to RY 01L, which is closer to our parking ramp

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I've seen this lovely great lakes ship in Duluth MN (but I cannot find the name!)

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Over with the nice jets

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Hope you've enjoyed!

Untitled-20 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

 

 

 

A very nice informative tour, Ryan. Didn't know about some of the smaller airports and landmarks you've pointed out...otherwise I'm quite familiar with this area. When I used to visit Madison often, I did make north up to Green Bay a few times... never to a Game...though...🙂...

Years ago, when I'd visited Milwaukee, they had just done a lot of (touristy) development around the Lakefront area...it was lovely...

BTW, the (immortal) Duke in MSFS...so great to see this classic here ...🙂...

[Forgot to add: Since you've mentioned the breweries of Milwaukee ...🙂...During one of the visits, the factory gave (used to give) free tokens for beverage redeemable anywhere in the city...made good use of it...🙂...The city is not too far from here, should make one more trip sometime...]

 

Edited August 16, 20241 yr by P_7878

Solid presentation and a very sharp livery.

Looking good, nice shots of the aircraft. Have an older model of the Duke in Xplane which was originally for Xp10 but works in Xp11 as well.

The Duke screens always look good Ryan.

Darryl

On 8/16/2024 at 10:54 AM, P_7878 said:

 

[Forgot to add: Since you've mentioned the breweries of Milwaukee ...🙂...During one of the visits, the factory gave (used to give) free tokens for beverage redeemable anywhere in the city...made good use of it...🙂...The city is not too far from here, should make one more trip sometime...]

 

Thanks!  That's a really cool thing to do!

On 8/16/2024 at 3:15 PM, John F said:

Solid presentation and a very sharp livery.

Much appreciated, TimHH always knocks it out of the park with the liveries!

On 8/16/2024 at 10:12 PM, andiflyit said:

Looking good, nice shots of the aircraft. Have an older model of the Duke in Xplane which was originally for Xp10 but works in Xp11 as well.

I have the same Duke - wasn't a huge fan of it but I tried helping the developer when it was initially released.

19 hours ago, SP2472 said:

The Duke screens always look good Ryan.

Darryl

Thanks, easy to make nice screenshots with a nice paint and nice product!

1 hour ago, ryanbatc said:

I have the same Duke - wasn't a huge fan of it but I tried helping the developer when it was initially released.

It's not bad in XP10, it all works and the flight model is ok and there is a piston and a turbine version. In XP11 there are some issues, it's not really updated. 

But I keep my XP10 as well, great sim.

Great trip Ryan and your screenshots are as usual almost lifelike. And indeed I had never heard of Green Bay before. 😉 

Always so professionally done Ryan, lovely trip and shots here.

Incredible pictures Ryan! Hard to pick a favourite, but the third one is just amazing! 😃