msfs Green Bay to Milwaukee

[ryanbatc]

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. 

Untitled-1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

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!

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[P_7878]

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 by P_7878

[John F]

Solid presentation and a very sharp livery.

[andiflyit]

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.

[SP2472]

The Duke screens always look good Ryan.

Darryl

[ryanbatc]

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!

[andiflyit]

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.

[bernd1151]

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

[Jack_Sawyer]

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

[Tim-HH]

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