I’m perplexed how that’s considered a runway in real life. I mean, it’s just a short grassy hill in the middle of a beautiful spot. I wonder how planes take off again after landing there? Up the hill and over? Or back down the hill after turning around?
Pedro
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That was quite an enjoyable landing challenge (I also got an achievement) but I don’t have the patience to try and improve my score.
I see you’ve reached Prison Town USA :(
Aw, I can’t see my flat on the loading screen any more.
Editer
3751
It’s there… I grabbed it a week or two ago. You’ll see it as an update in Content Manager.
Never saw an announcement or anything, though.
Editer
3753
Really nice freeware Edgley Optica now up at FlightSim. This one’s native MSFS, unlike the portover that appeared there briefly. OrbX is planning a more detailed version, but this one’s not bad at all, and is great for VR sightseeing.
Woah, being able to look below you without switching to external camera? That one is going to be awesome in VR I bet.
Apparently!
Was that not the one the police were going to use as an alternative to helicopters… until some early crash.
So there really isn’t a way to refuel in this game, except to assign a key to repair and refuel and press that button, correct? I’m wondering if I’m missing something in the interface when I’m at a landing strip, maybe I can legit refuel somehow?
Anyway, I forgot to use the key on Leg 17 or 18 last night, so I ran out of fuel mid-flight. What’s funny is that I pressed the button then (I assigned it to Ctrl+R) and my plane sputtered back on, and I got to my destination and landed, but the game immediately put up a dialog box saying I ran out of fuel and couldn’t reach my destination. Heh.
If the airport you’re at allows it, you can request a refuel from ground services via ATC. A lot of the bush trip ones don’t have it though.
In those instances, is that a button on the interface somewhere? How do you request something from ATC?
In the in-game menu bar, the icon with the tower.
And bear in mind that the fuel truck takes ages to reach you usually. So at first it may seem like nothing is happening. Try using the drone cam to float above the airport and see if you can spot it making its way to you. One more thing: I’ve found it to be quite buggy, in that it won’t always “connect” with you. You’ll know it’s worked because the fuel and weights page will appear.
Honestly, this is one realism I can live without. I just use the insta-refuel binding wherever I land. It doesn’t affect bush trip achievements if you care about that.
Not the best lighting conditions, nor the best plane to do this in, but:
Really want to try to recreate this photo:
Can’t quite get the cloud layer low enough or thick enough, but I haven’t really played around much with the weather before so I don’t know what I’m doing:
Did another leg of the Breckenridge bush trip last night. I absolutely love the greenery and lush vegetation mixed into the landscape now, it’s so different from most of this trip.
Also, why is it so thrilling to see a road or a railway line? I’m not sure what the explanation is. Maybe seeing that this particular scenery can be reached by road one day if I go on a roadtrip to this area? Or maybe just that seeing pure scenery doesn’t feel as real without some evidence of human civilization also mixed in? I’m not sure. But I always feel a little thrill when I spot a road or rail line winding it’s way through hills, or carving through countryside.
When I was doing the Breckenridge trip, it was because I had something to follow and couldn’t fuck up.
Another leg of the Brekenridge trip, and it’s just so gorgeous now. This time I landed at a huge proper airport! The next leg is called Lake Tahoe, so I’m guessing this huge airport and town are here because it’s close to Lake Tahoe.
There was a 1GB update to the game today btw.
And meanwhile my trip across Russia continues, it’s so cool to have found a railway line that’s going in the right direction again that I can follow.
I even ran into a large town and a huge river, and the railway line suddenly veered to the South to go through the town and across the river, and then turned back towards the East on the other side of the river.
Editer
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So yesterday I decided I’d challenge myself by taking off from the destination in the current landing challenge, LFPS Notre dame de la Salette. Takeoff was really challenging in the Jabiru J160 – I actually had to pushback farther up the hill to succeed. It was stupid-easy in the Savage Grravel, but that’s not a plane to use when you want to challenge yourself to anything except maybe landing in a 50-foot open space.
Little did I know what challenge awaited me. I looked at the map for the closest destination airport and found LF79 Mont Aiguille. So took off, admired the beautiful valley and towns below, and flew towards LF79.
I see that Mont Agille is a huge, stone mountain. Impressive! I approach it and start looking for the field near its base.
Oh.
The field is not at its base. Looking at the GPS, I realize… It’s on top of the mountain. I was near the base of the mountain, and the Jabiru doesn’t climb well at all at that altitude, so I had to fly out away from and it do a circling climb to get up to the level of the mountaintop.(Pic above.)
Turns out there’s not an actual ICAO airport up there, but there was a stunt pilot, Henri Girard, in the 50s-70s who’d landed a J-3 Cub up there, and started taking paying passengers up to the mountain.
It’s a big area to land on, but you don’t want to overrun the runway. Again, the Jabiru made it much more challenging than the Grravel.
I got the Jabiru down safely, but I landed directly upslope and started sliding backwards! I just managed to turn it around, finally, at which point the downslope made it easy to get enough speed to take off again.
I recommend this flight plan. :) Don’t do it this morning in real-world weather, though. Rainy and icy.
