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I took the Wilga out again, and was just looking around on the worldmap to see where I fancied checking out next. Looking for small, isolated farm type strips. Spotted EGH2 up near Doncaster and thought I'd try it out. Looked really nice, and was obviously either free or payware (rather than default), but the odd thing was I had no record of it on my spreadsheet. Which would mean I'd grabbed it but not documented it, and that is pretty much unheard of as I have to be fairly meticulous with such things as I have so many addons (literally thousands). So I checked my scenery folders for it. And nothing there either. So now I'm really intrigued. Long story short, it turned out to be an airstrip supplied as part of the Got Friends "Wilga" package that I happened to be using for the flight. The actual scenery files are in a sub-folder of the actual Wilga aircraft folder. So if you load the Wilga via the addons linker it brings in EGH2 automatically! And very fine it is too. I seem to be having a little burst of exploring these sort of places now, after having been playing with big tubes in XP for a few days, and it's great to have this sort of variety available. If this looks appealing to you, I notice Got Friends have got the Wilga on sale right now - don't know how long for but check it out - https://www.got-friends.com/products/pzl-104-wilga-35-80-series So not much flying here, pretty much just an exploration of the scenery package. And as we peek over the hedge, there's the Wilga in what is apparently her home base This next one really needs to be viewed full screen on a big monitor, as the thing that I was taken with are the two butterflies (yes, those are not birds). They are beautifully drawn and flutter perfectly across the scene. And here's another one And I do like the Wilga. Great little bird for pootling about these little strips Hope you enjoyed these.

Back in MSFS, so that I don't forget how to use it! I wanted to check out a bunch of freeware airports from the .to site. These pix are from Audley End, which is maybe ten minutes north of Stansted. I know the area as my sister lives around there, and I've driven past Audley End house many times (well, I've seen the signs for it but can't say I've ever been aware of the actual property or airstrip. The same author has done a bunch of other airfields and I downloaded them all but haven't tried them all yet. I suspect I'll be going back and making a suitable donation tomorrow, this and the one other I have seen are very nice. You can get EGTS here - https://flightsim.to/file/55539/audley-end-airfield-egts Thought I'd use the Wilga, as I have just been using one in XP and enjoyed it. First, let me be quite clear, this is a cow sim, right? Oh, sorry, no, it's a goat sim This is all actually quite fun. All the animals and people are animated, so it really is very lifelike. I love it, YMMV. How did these get in here? Little pixel person walking up and down waving his arm about as he's on his phone. Oh, you want to see some actual flying? Not sure if that's Audley End House down there or not That's the M11 motorway between the wheels Stansted ahead of us I'll keep away from the runway, and put down there instead I need to re-calibrate my pedals/brakes I think. I was wandering about all over the shop on landing, just couldn't hold a straight line, plus I could not get the d*mn thing to actually stop. By the time I'd hit every switch I could find (I'd long since given up on the brakes and didn't have an anchor handy) I was way up some path somewhere. Anyway, an enjoyable flight. And this is the IniBuilds Stansted so I shall do another flight with the AI all turned up and explore around the airport a bit more next. I've been playing with XP12 for a week or so now, and really been enjoying it. I love the vibe and the look of it. But then I fire up MSFS, and I also really love the vibe and look of that as well. Whichever one I'm in feels totally great, and yet they do have a quite different look and feel. I have absolutely zero interest in comparing them, particularly in any context of whichever is most "realistic", I'm just happy to have two absolutely top quality sims available to me now.

Hi simmers 😃 Since it's very cold in places in the USA, I thought I'd take a look at Niagara Falls up in Buffalo, and, look at this... ( Live weather from the Sim ) cheers 😉

Hi simmers 😃 Took a short sightseeing flight to Vancouver using the Wilga.. right side middle left side cheers 😉

Anyone know when we are likely to see these two soon-to-be-released aircraft in the Marketplace? Fingers crossed for Thursday. 🤞 Preview of the PZL Wilga: Preview of the Vision Jet: