First trip in Alaska was just stunning. I could almost not believe how nice the scenerey is modelled in this area, almost like the team of FSX went to Alaska for some design discussions and decided to specially take care about this region. Maybe it is also because for the past 20'000 miles I haven't seen any big mountains ;-). So the todays leg led from PAYA to Juneau International - PAJN.
By the way: did you know the following about Juneau?
- Juneau is only 45 miles from end to end, but has over 130 miles of hiking trails.
- Juneau’s backyard is a 1,500 mile glacial ice field bordering Canada.
- Juneau has over 280 species of birds, all five species of salmon, brown and black bears, and three species of whales.
- The longest day here is June 21: the sun rises at 3:51 am and sets at 10:07 pm. The shortest day is December 21: the sun rises at 8:44 am and sets at 3:07 pm.
Interesting, isn't it - worthwile a trip I would say!
Happy Landings,
PT
Starting early morning, still at night I left the north island of Japan direction a new continent north america. Again the decision was made to fly a very long leg and also to avoid regions with very few population and therefore suitable airports. More than 2300 nautical miles long was the leg which and therefore it was clear that I will leave the night and fly into daylight - finally. Sunrise was beautiful and the scenery changed from garden green in Japan to flat blue ocean to mountaneous but very appealing landscape around Alaska.
The flight was without incidents, landing was good (at PAYA). Enjoy the trip with some beautiful pictures below.
PT
Instead of hopping at night around Kambodia, Vietnam, and also China this time I headed straight out to Japan. As I had enough time available I managed to directly fly to Hokkaido, Japans North rim where my next destination on the schedule should be Asahikawa (RJEC). The flight was very long indeed, but quite interesting leaving "Asia Mainland", crossing over China north of Shanghai and then almost over Soul/South Korea and finally touching ground again in a different looking scenery on another countries soil. Flight was perfect, landing too (because of bot letting me land on an ILS rwy - which is quite nice after such a long trip).
Konnichiwa,
PT
As you can assume from the headline of this blog, yes I left Indonesia and travelled to Vietnam. After the last very long leg, I decided to copy that and add another even longer leg.
This time the route took me to Vietnam, where I landed in the beautiful area of Hanoi (VVNB) Vietnams Capital City. Unfortunately in the middle of the leg, the HHG multiplayer server lost my VL-job and therefore the maximum points I could also not reach. Still I made quite a few points by just being online and flying and of course for the second half of the leg.
Approach and landing was again wonderful, this time especially since I landed morning local time and the sun was just set. A few clouds scattered around the area of Hanoi made the experience even more interesting.
Enough said - just enjoy the pictures:
PT
After a while and hopping short legs around Australia and South East Asia I decided to slightly accellerate my trip around the world. So in a day where I had a lot of time available I shortcircuited some of the destinations and flew directly from Whitsunday Coast (YBPN) to Indonesia again (WABB). The flight, around 1380 nm was quite long and the landing a little bit shaky. There is an interesting small hill directly in the final of the approach, so you want to fly slightly higher and choose a more steep glideslope :-)
Finally I made it and touched ground in Indonesia. All in all a very nice leg, quite long though, but the sceneries over the islands north of Australia are once more breathtaking.
Happy Landings,
PT
Today I reached another level in FSX!
After going through the manual of the brand new PMDG-737NGX I tried to do a flight by myself on a route defined on my own. As I have the beautiful Switzerland scenerery add-on for FSX I chose a short hop from LSGG to LSZH. Flightsimaviation.com calculated a nice route between these destinations and provided the necessary input for the FMC. During setup of the route I struggled quite a bit since the connection between the last waypoint on the airway (in that case BERSU) and the ILS approach (I used rwy 14) has to be defined, finding the proper transition. After a few trials I still managed and afterwards was also able to setup the rest of the cockpit accordingly.
Basically I knew that this is quite a short leg and things need to be done quite quickly one after the other. To overcome that I had to pause the simulation about three times (what nice feature compared to the real life ;-). So I took of and managed to engage the autopilot as needed. Everything was according plan, eventhough at some point I had to adjust the cruising altitude and during decent I had to engage the spoilers a little bit to reduce speed.
At the end I somehow made it to Zurich, even using the NGX-autoland function. You cannot believe how great this feeling is. Of course the effect in this special case is multiplied since I did the same landing quite often as a passenger on board of a real aircraft so the scenery looked really familiar. Finally the autoland was perfect of course and I could stop the airplane and leave the rwy via regular taxiway.
Really fantastic!
I'm looking forward to the next experience with the 737 NGX, especially in conjunction with the use of HHG or even IVAO network.
Big smile from Zurich,
Philipp
After installing a brand new PC and reloading FSX I was recently able to re-install my previous FSX fleet including the Swissair-branded DC-10. Finally I could take my good old extended range super machine and do another leg on my trip around the world.
That one was quite short and lead from Rockhampton (YBRK) to Whitsunday Coast (YPBN) a little closer to the north. After about 30mins of time I could already intercept the localizer from Rwy 19 and with the guidance of ATC (finally working again ;-) touch ground.
All in all a nice flight into another wonderful morning at Australias East coast.
With that I'm looking forward to the next few legs in Australia before the trip leaves this continent towards Asia again.
Happy intercepting!
PT
