HaraldG

Thank you Ed for posting pictures and the video link.

--- These are very encouraging at a time when one realizes that the planned summer vacation (in the former USSR!) gets impossible and at the same time one's flightsim is plagued by scenery incompatibilities.

FS2004 looks familiar to me...

No need to say that the pictures are superb!

Red plane contrasting with white mountains!

Good to see no engine fail...

This is the only occassion that I want to live in the houses below final approach in Bucharest.

Thanks P_7878 for commenting! Plane is interesting, indeed, but veeery slow.

Regarding Bernd's comment about Kamchatka: Have been simming there with the Tu-134, but with a fast and high flying plane there's not that direct scenic impression. Will try it there with the Antonov or the Let 410... Thanks for the reminder!

On 4/13/2020 at 7:15 PM, bernd1151 said:

Have you been hiking there before?

Unfortunately not, but I never forget seeing the documentary "Am Limit" about the Huber brothers trying a speed climbing record at El Capitan. That video evening was the evening before crossing the Timmelsjoch by bike, but that's another story.

8 hours ago, edetroit said:

I am well and hope you are your family are too

Good to read that; same here - thank you! Waiting for more videos. Unfortunately, my only photo of an Il-62 shows only a little part of the plane, and I doubt that it has enough resolution:

An impressing row, nevertheless...

18 hours ago, PittsS2B said:

No end of interesting places to fly in Russia!

It is exactly so, John, and I only have to add that there are still new freeware add-ons for FS2004 coming from the Russian community from time to time so that there's always something new to try. Thanks for your comment!

Thanks for commenting Bernd and Mark. I probably won't try a barrel roll with that type until I have drunk a barrel of Vodka, and that is, let's say, quite unlikely.

Thanks Ed.

It's very loud!

Hi folks,

here are some impressions of a flight from Krasnoyarsk-Cheremshanka to Podkamennaya Tunguska with an Antonov An-28 along River Yenisey.

The next picture shows the two Krasnoyarsk airports: Cheremshanka, mostly for small aviation, to the left; and Yemelyanovo International Airport to the right:

Most time of the flight we follow river Yenisey.

At final approach to Podkamennaya Tunguska. This airport is named after the river of the same name, that flows into river Yenisey just at the opposite riverside. It's the very same river where 1908 the Tunguska meteorite impact occured.

Landed!

Now let's do some skiing, fishing or Lada'ing.

Best regards,

Harald

Bernd, I expected all - especially more scenic Yosemite pictures - but an engine failure. Great pictures nevertheless!

Btw, is it El Capitan in #8, the rock wall your plane's nose points to?

What a great video again. I enjoyed it the more as I learned that this very plane was first delivered to Interflug, my former home country's airline.

Hope you are well, Ed, in these times!

Regards,

Harald

Superb pics, from both simulators. I know the Zermatt area from many former vacations; these pics bring back memories.

Thanks PhotoReal Earth and Bernd for commenting!

And thanks Ed for posting these terrific pictures of a 727 in Africa.

No need to apologize, no need to feel bad. It's this spirit that keeps FS9 alive. Many thanks!

It's true, Emmanuel is very productive and his sceneries are getting better and better. His Bujumbura scenery is a true masterpiece. I did never expect such good additions for Africa in FS9 still to come until his offerings.

Ed, many thanks. Myself waiting for your B727 pics and films.

- while I will probably return to the Tupolev or another Russian plane. I've had too many functionality problems with my TDS/CS 727 merge.

Thanks John. Thanks to Emmanuel, the scenery map of Africa is filling airport by airport. Saw first construction shots of Kigali...

Thanks Phantom88!

Thanks guys for commenting.

Maybe there is a flaw in flaps functionality, have to check.

@ Luis Hernandez: Panel of the CaptainSim 727; I bought it exclusively for merging its panel with the TDS model; some problems with certain functions still exist.

Good evening,

here are some shots from a flight HTKJ - HBBA - HUEN with the TDS 727. All sceneries are (of course!) by Emmanuel Mwandosya, who brought us some of the finest freeware sceneries für airports in Africa that weren't covered by add-ons so far.

Kibo summit above the clouds:

Approach to Bujumbura:

Contemporary architecture:

Before take off from Bujumbura, we have to wait for a very interesting visitor from Angola:

Some smoke:

Lake Victoria:

Whole crew doing their duty:

Finally Entebbe:

I hope you liked these...

Regards, Harald

Great story, great plane, great scenery, great pictures - I'm out of superlatives...

I'd like to add the SCS Tu-134 to the list.

Furthermore, I second E69_Brisafresca that the Dreamfleet 727 is a superb plane, but it is indeed not (fully) compatible with Win7 (and probably Win10).

A new masterpiece by freeware developer Emmanuel Mwandosya: Melchior Ndadaye Airport in Bujumbura, Burundi. His African airport sceneries are superb:

A trip out of the northern coldness to the warm south... in a classic plane. Something which one should follow, particularly after watching these pictures!