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I had the chance this afternoon to test fly the upcoming v3.0 of the Xtreme Prototypes Learjet 25, my route was Santiago de Compostela (LEST) Airport to Almería (LEAL) Airport, both available from PILOT'S. Absolutely gobsmacked by the high detail in their latest rendition of this insanely fast business jet! Doing a quick walk-around before departure. The aircraft features various clickable hot spots, such as on the stairs for example to add or remove the cockpit crew. The dynamic lighting effects are really superb! The Learjet features PBR effects, as do some of the airport surfaces. The Santiago de Compostela region …

I can recommend flying out one of the improved airports in MSFS, YPBO, Paraburdoo in WA. The terrain around it is quite outstanding. Here we are heading west to the coast. Fuel up, its a long way to anywhere.......

Starting the final re-entry at around 200,000 ft and Mach 10. The moon rises Readers of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy know the name of the star above the 3 horizontally ones Approaching KEDW - Bakersfield in sight RWY 22 of KEDW is where we will land - man that's a steep approach A few seconds before touchdown Landed and rolling out Stopped. The chute just falls down

AH C-119 Fairchild in a circa 1960 Belgian Air Force livery, on its way out of Antwerp. This is the P3D v4 freeware version available via Orbx. I was able to get it to run in P3D v5.3 HF2, & it runs very nicely, too. T45

A Scottish city on the river Tay - two football clubs, a university, a busy port and a lot of history. Lodestar by 'OlixSim'.

Basically a walking trail for hikers. After landing a plane the only way out is via sling load.

The origin and roots of all major airlines are always fascinating.... almost all major airlines of today had started small...usually by another name...and usually dedicated to transport mail rather than pax...e.g., in U.S. in the days before passenger service, contracts for mail transportation sustained fledgling (and newborn) U.S. airlines...Also, due to lack of reliable airplanes and land-based airport infrastructure, the norm then was to use floatplanes that could follow and land on water bodies...And for long-haul, seaplanes became the mode of transport... Today, I caught sight of a Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL) Short Sandringham, in the library uploads. I the…

On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:03 PM (local time), the final commercial (pax) DC-10 (DC-10-30; Reg. "S2-ACR") landed, in Birmingham, UK, ending 26 years of service with the national carrier of Bangladesh, and a 43-years run of scheduled passenger service of the type, around the world. The journey of flight had begun, ~5,000 miles away, at Dhaka International Airport, some 12 hours earlier. "Biman" in local language means "Sky; Aeroplane", and Biman Bangladesh Airlines, commonly known as "Biman" is the national flag carrier of Bangladesh. In my previous post, I'd shown an image of Biman Bangladesh DC-10-30, and had indicated the significance of this airline, as the holder of t…

Well, rare for me! KDLH WISCN FGHRN MADII6 KORD (Visual 27L). I was unable to change the units to InHg in the cockpit - not sure why. Departed RY 9 Untitled-1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr A fairly frozen Lake Superior (normal for this time of year) Untitled-7 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Still some open water in the middle Untitled-8 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr City of Superior, WI (and airport Richard I. Bong KSUW) Untitled-9 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Up and away as Duluth approach hands me off to Minneapolis Center on 126.45 Untitled-10 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Climbing into the high sector at Mp…

jk2537 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr jk2554 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr jk2548 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr jk2549 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr jk2557 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Someone has had their nasty paws all over my windows:

Back to Lukla with the Kodiak.

[Note: I'd also got the livery pack with the JF/CLS DC-10 base install (please see my previous post), but never got to install the livery pack, so, I installed these repaints today, primarily motivated by looking for the CP Air livery (due to a comment by "rmeier" comment in my previous post),...the pack did contain Canadian (but no CP Air) ...anyway, I posted below few other liveries, too, that I liked...Enjoy...] The DC-10-30 variant became popular among many global airline operators of the day, serving the respective carriers for long periods...typically 20 years or more...till it was replaced by the likes of MD-11, B747, and A340 (I was fortunate to experience th…

[We know well the "DC-10" and also the "MD-11", but what exactly is an "MD-10"? This is a topic that has caught my attention, since a long time, so, I have been lately collecting bits and pieces about it. So, here we go, an account of it all...If you care for some aviation reading, please read the text...or, you may just jump to the screenshots below, which I hope you might like...] First of all, the (better-known) DC-10, from which the "MD-10" is derived, is an a/c that has not received due attention in our SIMs. DC-10 was a fascinating trijet in its own right. Though it had started wrong-footed (aka the fatal cargo-door design flaw), eventually it recovered from th…

Finnair is the flag carrier of Finland. In my post of DC-10 Classic Airlines, I'd included a screenshot of the Finnair DC-10-30. And today, I ran into a current Finnair livery on an A350-900 (XWB)... Finnair was a predominant operator of McDonnell Douglas jetliners for nearly 30 years, and had a remarkable history with both DC-10 and MD-11 a/c. However, as the MD-11/MD-11Fs were gradually phased out, it has finally (and currently) evolved into an exclusively all-Airbus fleet (including the latest A350 XWB). Finnair livery has gone though some subtle but significant changes, over the years. You will find here a few examples from the virtual world. The first shot,…

Palmer, close to the confluence of the Matanuska and Knik rivers is a farming town with a nice airport. Default scenery with a supplemental mesh - Alabeo C170B Knik Glacier, southeast of Palmer, produces the fairly short river of the same name.

Cub Crafters XCub NX Beta leaving Barrow, AK, not in Winter. The NX Beta is available via Bush League Legends Discord. There is also an Amphibian XCub available from BLL site. T45

Fockewulf 190D Ta 152H Höhenjäger .

Anchorage St Croix

Just some of my recent pic's.