Microsoft Flight Simulator
All things flight simulator! Having done hundreds of hours of flight simulation in the past, it's taken me a while to get back into things in the post-FSX era, but I'm managing, taking to the skies with VR flights across the globe!
Descending towards nothing: Jura's tiny ~1200ft long grass runway (shorter than the famously short Sabo Airport) is perilously hard to spot, even now on finals!
(If you're wondering, following the airspeed guage straight up to the horizontal gap in the trees around the centre of the image - this marks the end of the runway. The start of the runway is a little down where a small dirt road takes a 90 degree turn)
(If you're wondering, following the airspeed guage straight up to the horizontal gap in the trees around the centre of the image - this marks the end of the runway. The start of the runway is a little down where a small dirt road takes a 90 degree turn)
Above glidescope: on final approach to Islay Airport, the PAPI lights turn 3 white and 1 red, indicating we're just above the glideslope.
Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) are lights which tell pilots if they're on the optimal apporach (glideslope) into the runway. Two red, two white is ideal, but all white or all red is bad!
Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) are lights which tell pilots if they're on the optimal apporach (glideslope) into the runway. Two red, two white is ideal, but all white or all red is bad!
Can you see the runway yet? One thing I'm finding with the move to VR in the newer flighsims is just how tricky it can be to spot smaller airflields from the sky!
Here, we're on a rather elongated final approach into Cumbernauld Airport.
Here, we're on a rather elongated final approach into Cumbernauld Airport.
The view dowards Larbert and Stenhousemuir as our Diamond DV-20 overflies the M9 junction with the M876 on the way to Cumbernauld.
Flying lower than I should for an up-close fly by of the famous Kelpies just off the M9 at Falkirk. Thankfully, the CAA doesn't operature a simulator branch, otherwise I'd get my collar felt for this!
INEOS Grangemouth as viewed from the sky! Following the path of the M9 motorway, a Diamond DV-20 overflies the petrochemical plant on its way to Cumbernauld Airport.
A clear view above Scotland from the cockpit of a Boeing 717-200 as it makes its descent.
A view of RAF Leuchars from the cockpit of a low flying Boeing 717. Now known as Leuchars Station, the airfield is now operated by the British Army - but the air facilities are maintained to use as a reserve field for RAF aircraft.