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Flying Tiger Line used to handle military transports. Dad was a young Marine stationed in Germany. My mom was there also. Around 1962 they flew from Germany to the US on an FTL Constellation. Also on board was my older brother who was a baby. I wasn't born for a couple of more years.

It's always lot more fascinating to be roaming (and exploring) in foreign countries, from the comfort of our virtual world. I am no stranger to digging deep into aviation themes centered in distant lands and rooted in distant memories, visited IRL or not...! Sometimes, we have maybe visited places nearby there, but wish to find more about places we never got to visit. In my pastime here, in my past SIMs, I've posted about Canadian themes and Airlines (e.g., CP Air comes distinctly to mind) and bits and pieces of their history. Here is a story, I have been meaning to do since the FSX days, but never got to it. To be honest, my (RW) exposure to the (neighbor) country up nor…

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Whenever I see a Lockheed Constellation (as in a member post here this week), or hear about this a/c, I think of one TWA Constellation I had a chance to visit, many years ago, in the Airline History Museum on the campus of the Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Missouri. This particular Constellation (an L-1049 Super Constellation) was apparently saved from imminent scrapping by the local Save-a-Connie, Inc. organization, then moved to the Museum and fully restored by the local volunteers and former TWA employees (TWA was the spirit behind and also the launch customer of the type in 1945). I'd been meaning to visit that Museum since a long time. So, one fine (very) early we…

I'm not Italian but I love flying in Italy.

Hi simmers 😃 ..is truly this Mig21 trimmed to look old.. If you want to see the shots in the best resolution then please click on the picture !! cheers 😉

For our flight from Ushuaia to Phoenix Field on Ross Island, we are using our good old Transall in a livery in the colors of the British Antarctic Survey (they don’t use the C-160 in rl, but I think it looks pretty good). The skin is based on the real livery of the BAS Twin Otter, which is used in the Arctic. Despite the (fictitious) additional tanks, we will have to refuel twice. Let the adventure begin. The Beagle Channel always looks impressive Of course we had to fly past Cap Horn The north-western foothills of Antarctica. It's quite impressive what MSFS offers us in this respect But that also exists:…

Took me 48 grueling hours to set the new PC up. Finally after resetting windows it works!

Hi simmers 😃 From a past flight i did with a A320 Condor.. If you want to see the shots in the best resolution then please click on the picture !! cheers 😉

Hi all, now it seems that my new joystick will arrive end of next week, I will see. So I have modified a few keys only in XP11 just to fly a bit. This here is from a little flight in the beautiful valley between Bolzano and Trento in northern Italy. All freeware scenery and aircraft. Thank you very much for viewing! Cheers Andreas

As many already know very well, different LOD settings matter. But changing them "on the fly" has until recently not been possible. AutoFPS enables this by dynamically changing TLOD+OLOD, in order to maintain a target FPS. With the right settings in the app, and the right hardware, it is possible to get higher than default TLOD + OLOD. Default is limited to TLOD max 400 and OLOD max 200. And remember: TLOD has a huge impact on CPU load (and probably VRAM), OLOD to a much lesser extent. As I've spent quite some time with this excellent app, I've been able to experiment a great deal with different settings. I'll take this opportunity to demonstrate different TL…

Nights in the Midwest Hopefully, you enjoyed these images, your commentary is greatly appreciated...Darryl

For me it is always a pleasure to use the sim to repeat real travels, in this case a hike I did 2 months ago. It would officially (and by helicopter) start from the Cradle Mountain Visitor Center. If you enter the National Park before the bus shuttles start, you may even drive by car towards Ronny Creek parking. You see the cars below... ... and the start signs here. Just for your orientation: We follow the Overland track until Crater Lake... Then it gets hard, the warning signs are no joke. Slightly easier in a helicopter... ... to get to Marions Lookout. The easiest part is walking over the high …

While I was waiting holding point 1L with AIG Traffic and the GA Stock Aircraft traffic mod

Hi simmers 😃 Yes it is time for the good old Lady to take a flight again.. If you want to see the shots in the best resolution then please click on the picture !! cheers 😉

Hi simmers 😃 Only two snaps from the Herk.. If you want to see the shots in the best resolution then please click on the picture !! cheers 😉

Because we're leaving Las Vegas for Thermal, CA! Stunning repaint by TimHH, LAS scenery by FlyTampa, and KTRM by vbazzilio Taxi out from the conveniently located Atlantic FBO, adjacent to our departure runway 19R. Untitled-2 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr I filed the RAYDR2 BLAQQ sid which requires a level off at 7000 for a brief moment.... then we'll be able to let our Lear show her true climb prowess Untitled-4 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-5 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-7 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Here we are.... 7000 fpm! Untitled-8 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-9 by Ryan Butterworth…

Hi simmers 😃 American 737-800 deboarding at Milwaukee after a 4h flight.. If you want to see the shots in the best resolution then please click on the picture !! cheers 😉

Hey, Round trip KTM/LUA with the Twin Otter. A rather pleasant flight of less than an hour. I would have thought the worst for this approach but in the end i came out well. So ready to climb Everest? 😂

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Here is another of my "Getting to know River XYZ..."...🙂...and bits of Geography Lesson via MSFS (for myself too). I am particularly curious about World Rivers that are not so well-known outside of their countries. I might have heard about them, but always curious to know a bit more. So, here we go. We all know of the famous Nile River of Africa, longest in Africa, and arguably the longest river in the world (running toe-to-toe with the other famous river, Amazon of South America). Nile may have originated near Kenya Border (Lake Victoria) with 11 countries sharing its water, but my subject, here, is the forceful and furious (Kenya's) Tana River that's wholly contained wi…

[This post is partially triggered by Bernd's post about Bella Bella and Port Hardy.] Now, please raise your hands if you like mountains...🙂...? OK, it is (perfectly) fine if you don't, but I am going to tell you about a mountain curiously named "Stupendous", so, please read on, if you're interested. First, however, I must say that my only (and limited) RW experience with Pacific Northwest (PNW), includes 2 visits to Seattle and a road-trip from Seattle to Vancouver via (a traffic-ridden and congested) Interstate Highway 5 on a (rainy) weekend, plus a day around Vancouver Island, hardly enough time to appreciate the splendor of this region. Maybe, instead of the roadway…

As the name says 😉: you can download it here. Gimmick The amount of cars on the parking area is dependant on the hour of day