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Hi simmers 😃 From my todays flight WADD to VHHH, Flighttime around 4h.. If you want to see the shots in the best resolution then please click on the picture !! cheers 😉

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Today's post is a little different... A few days ago, I created a Blender 3D model of the Guimbal G2 to paint a livery and do some sightseeing in French Polynesia. As I was creating my livery for that adventure, I thought to myself..."this would make a great tutorial for anyone interested in learning to paint a simple aircraft in MSFS". So away I went this week on a mission...create an introductory, step-by-step video (and all the paint kit materials) for a paint tutorial. In the tutorial (if you're interested!), you're going learn to paint a fictional "NYC Air Taxi" based on the Cabri G2 Helo in MSFS. The paint kit (on Flightsim.to) includes a Blender 3D model …

Hi all, now I am still in the older XP10 because of some interesting planes. Here you can see the real Jumbo Jet and last 2 shots the very good freeware heli Gazelle.. The orthoscenery runs in number 10,11 and 12, must only be installed the correct version of simheaven overlay. Thank you very much for viewing! Cheers Andreas

Haven't had much sim time of late, but grabbed a quick session at EFIV, Ivalo. This is either the stock A320 or the LVFR version - not sure which! Just having a tentative play with GSX. This is the MM Simulations EFIV (via Orbx). The airport is nicely done, with good interiors, but is let down by the really weird looking characters. Very plasticene and fake looking, so that rather inhibits any interior shots. But we'll start inside, nice and snug, getting a coffee before going outside into the cold. So there's our ride getting gassed up waiting for the crew now here they come baggage arriving and now the passengers …

[Note: This post is partly triggered by a member suggestion to visit the Blue Mountains of Australia (please see my earlier post on "Red Devils and Red Flame" A320 flight). I'd planned next to explore the Gold Coast, but I've added here a visit to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales for this post.] Having just arrived in Sydney after overflying the Snowy Mountains, for this post, I lift off Sydney heading first northwest towards the Blue Mountains which are almost bordering on the outskirts of Greater Sydney area (just about 30 miles far as the crow flies). While (virtually) visiting this Blue Mountains range, I felt that though it's not as widespread as e.g., the …

First of all, the Pilatus Aircraft Webpage of the Company touts the PC-12 as the "The World’s Greatest Single" with surely justifiable credentials, and states the epithet we've often heard, assigned to this a/c, "PC-12 – Swiss army knife of the sky”. Pilatus also does not forget to remind us, in case any of us forget...🙂...that "PC-12 is Crafted in Switzerland". So, even in the virtual world, it's hard to put this a/c back after flying it in MSFS for the first time yesterday...🙂... I'd previously toured the (local) Lake Geneva (80 miles north of Chicago), (faintly) raising the hope of a few here that I was actually visiting the Lake Geneva that's known the world-ove…

Hi all, this is a little flight from San Diego to Las Vegas, I always like the desert scenery there. The plane is the other top ATR in flight simulation and it's featured with analog cockpit and the old Proline avionics. Don't have a paint for an US-airline in the package so I took the Azul again, always looks good. The mexican border and Tijuana in the background. Palm Springs again. Into the desert. Nice scenery at Boulder City. And Casino city. And only a little outside the desert again. …

Hi all, the shot shows the stock XP12.09 EGLL as it is downloaded from the XP scenery gateway, Everything including all the AI-aircraft is supplied by XP12. Ortho4XP scenery and Simheaven on top is all around. And the little Bell 47 is freeware from Xplane.org. Thank you very much for viewing! Cheers Andreas

A long while ago, when I lived in Columbus (OH), I knew that the city was named after Christopher Columbus, even though the city does not really have any direct connection to the explorer. BTW, finding a city by the name of "Columbus" is all too common in the U.S. (after all, this was part of the so-called "New World" the explorer was heading out for...🙂...) ...In fact, out of the 50 U.S. states, there are now 23 states with a city called "Columbus", including my own state Illinois, which fact had escaped my attention till today. This village of Columbus (IL), I gather from on-line sources, has a population of "114" and an area of "one-fifth" of a sq mile...Oh well...stil…

OK, first of all, I have to admit I cannot resist the red color in an aircraft repaint...🙂...the redder the better...So, for this post, I'm piloting an eye-catching, red-colored plane for the Belgium National Football Team (to the U.S. folks, this is not Football but Soccer...🙂...), travelling in the Country Down Under for a match with the local team. In this leg of my journey, I am flying the A320 between Melbourne (YMML) and Sydney (YSSY). Some of the Team members were inquiring of yours truly, the (virtual) Pilot-In-Command, if Australia has any mountains. Being a lifelong mountain lover, I responded, "Sure, it has, and, in fact, it's pure coincidence that the Sno…

Hi simmers 😃 Some sightseeing over New York.. If you want to see the shots in the best resolution then please click on the picture !! cheers😉

Hi all, we spoke about various PC-12 models in the sims and now I wanted to check again if my Carenado is ok or not. So I did a little round at Courchevel only to land at that STOL-airport. And the plane can do it, it's easy. Just as it is in real life where they go to Courchevel in a PC-12. It can do 65 ias speed with full flaps, nose slightly up and a bit of throttle and it's easy to land it in this configuration. Landed a bit to the left side on the runway because I started too late to align it to the runway but that's not so critical if it's not too much. Must not be too fast there of course. I've seen videos from real life where they crashed…

Hi simmers 😃 A couple of shots with the FBW A320 over Africa.. If you want to see the shots in the best resolution then please click on the picture !! cheers 😉

Hi all, one shot here from Paris. The little heli is the hcg Mosquito downloaded from flightsim.to and it's really fun, it's a single seater kit aircraft. Thank you very much for viewing! Cheers Andreas

Hi all, like these shots, they are nearly 3 years old. So far Marcus Nyberg didn't bring the scenery to msfs I think. The plane is a really hot GA, the Aerocommander 690, very powerful. Thank you very much for viewing! Cheers Andreas

My Title sounds a bit like that of a (possibly romantic) novel...🙂...but it's not. A long while ago I was once talking over the phone with a colleague from Slovakia, who was in Slovakia... (now, where exactly is Slovakia located in EU again...🙂...?). Anyway, though not admitting my ignorance up front, I made a (polite and amicable) comment to her that it's a beautiful country that I would like to visit sometime. Of course, I was quite sure that such countries in EU though not as frequented by (mass tourists) as some of the well-known EU countries, are typically very beautiful with that old European charm distinctive to the country and culture. Then, I happened to speak wi…

If I were to ask you (no need to answer...🙂...), what would you prefer to visit, in the natural world, given a choice of Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, and Seas....what would you say...? And no combination is allowed...🙂...noting that Mountain, my top preference, goes smoothly with each of the others... (i.e. Mountain + (Lake, or, River, or Sea) indeed creates an irresistible attraction). I can vouch for it personally e.g., after my most recent virtual (and long-gone RW) visit to Sausalito...because I recall when I was driving along the heights of Sausalito, with the roads often meandering past (and very near) the private residences, I was looking down on the Bay below, and wa…

Hi all, was interested to see if there is some scenery for the Mount Everest base camps in msfs and indeed there is a base camp scenery just where it should be. Don't know which one because there are more than 1 but it's a nice little scenery in the correct place. The chopper I fly here is the HPG Airbus H125, another great freeware from flightsim.to. The great scenery at Lukla, really beautiful. This is called Siangboche. And the airport there VNSB which is more a large meadow, can be used as start location at 12.000 feet. The famous monastery Tengboche, it's all there... This is…

Hi all, don't take this too serious, it was only a first attempt to do such a long flight of a big airline including time shift and so in the sim. But it was fun and most interesting and I realized that it can well be done in Aerofly, have to practice it. Thank you very much for viewing! Cheers Andreas

It’s hot down there, so I fly fast 😄 I take off in Alexandria, Egypt and fly across the Sahara desert to Belkebir in Marocco. In order to cover the distance, I use additional tanks under the wings. Thanks for viewing

No, if I fly 50 miles from my home base (KORD), I will be nowhere near the famous Lake Geneva of Switzerland...🙂...But there is indeed another Lake Geneva (may not be that well-known outside U.S. or even outside the Midwest), located 50 miles north of Chicago, in the state of Wisconsin. I do recall a few pleasant visits there, when I used to live nearer to the Wisconsin border. This Lake Geneva came up in some recent discussions, and I wished to (virtually) travel there to see what I can recall from my RW visits. Lake Geneva, btw, was not named after the sister Lake in Switzerland, but the adjacent city (and the lake) was named after the town of "Geneva, New York", which …