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I have not the foggiest. But if HL is correct, my hats off to him :wink:

Superb screenies as always from you, HL

Thank you all very much. I'm right now in the process touching up the VC a bit, making it slightly less used. Once it's done, I'll let you know and show you pics

Thank you my friends for your kind comments. I'ts very much appreciated

Hi John, it was Ramon and myself, who redid the Shrike's VC. Ramon even went so far and gave the entire interior a make-over. Luckily this is not needed here. So "only" the VC. I just had a look at the respective texture file. I'll try to do something about it. But please give me a few days before I come up with a proposal. I am retired, so you know, I have very little time at my disposal :smile: :smile: Bernd

Magic, pure magic, Scott

Superb shots, I love the last one

Hi Manny, I don't have Katmandu, but I have Bhutan. I did a flight into Paro recently with a Tupolev Tu-114. Quite an experience Yes, HL, you are right :smile: :smile:

I knew that once the Do-228 was out, Lukla had to be one of the logical destinations. The landing strip is built on the steep incline of a hillside. Its length is 527m, width 20m and the runway inclines an amazing 12 percent. No landing aids are available! Landing in Lukla leaves no room for errors. As a pilot you have to throw your propellers into hard reverse before you touch down, if you don’t want to end in the wall at the end of the runway. There is a big hill right behind the landing strip. The pilot also needs to clear a high ridge, bank left. Descend steeply, straighten your plane and try to land. Navigation is by sight only. Oh and if you come in too high, you’ll end up in the wall. If you come in too fast, you’ll end up in the wall too. If all of this sounds terribly exciting, go for it. May the fear factor be with you Thanks for viewing

I finally came to terms with the stupid pop-up window after I had reinstalled the Do 228. After the first install it constantly re-appeared. Not anymore. Now she works like a charm, and flies fantastic. We haven’t been friends the first time we met, but as the old saying goes: “Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship”

At least with me it comes up every time you switch from another plane to the Do, it even pops up when you switch between different liveries. I am too old for this crap and I don't want to wait everytime I use this "thing" for over 5 minutes before that pop-up disappears. And mind you, it's not a small one, it's fairly large and very annoying! Here is, how it looks:

Excellent screenies

Amazing screenies again, HL

Fantastic screenies of an old favorite of mine.

Excellent screenies, HL

Thank you both very much. I'm happy that you like them.

But this time with a different kind of aircraft…or shall I better say: flying boat. Because where we plan to go today, there aren’t too many places to land. The plane is a Lohner Type “R”, which was used during WWI as photo-reconnaissance plane. It was designed and built in Austro-Hungary and came equipped with a 100hp Mercedes engine. It offered space for two to three people, had a max take-off weight of 1,040 kg and could achieve a top speed of 100 km/h. I can imagine that being almost fully exposed to the elements, nobody had the desire to fly any faster in this thing. Here is a photo of the plane from around 1920 And here at a beach somewhere in Samoa in Sept. 2016 :smile: We get ready to turn the plane around. It will be a challenge to navigate through all the corals without hitting anything Just a few scratches, but all went well and we are up in the air With the tank filled to capacity, we can cover a distance of around 500km. That should be enough to cover this part of Samoa This looks like a nice cove, where we can land and have our lunch After lunch with a few locals it’s time to get airborne again to do some more photo-shooting Thanks for viewing.

What a superb video. I have explored that area in our RV a few times, but have never seen it from up there. It's even more beautiful. Thanks for sharing, Chris

Superb flight, HL. Btw, if MSE will decide to come out with an Arizona v3 version (and eventually they will I guess), would you be tempted to buy it or would you stick with the MSE2 version?

Thank you very much, gents, for your kind comments

Beautiful shots. If you have the freeware Embraer 170 to 195 family by Hangar FS, they all come with the default Microsoft CRJ700 VC. I fly them in P3D 3.35 and they are fairly nice (and simple) to fly. There are quite a few upgrades to the default CRJ700 panel available here on avsim, which you can use for the Embraer too. I'm not sure, whether the planes are available here, at least I couldn't find them on avsim, but if you google them they will come up on another flightsim site

That's a superb shot. The Italian photoscenery is just terrific. I am addicted flying there, the good thing is it covers also part of Austria and Switzerland, so you have some mileage to cover before you run out or mountains :wink:

Excellent shots, HL. I have to admit, I have bought AS Aspen some 6 weeks ago and haven't even installed it yet. Too busy flying in other places. So thanks for reminding me that there is still a task ahead

Awesome !!

I admit, it’s slow, but soooo enjoyable. And on top, Samoa was begging for it :smile: :smile: Thanks for viewing