I'm not the excitable shouty type, so instead of that, I'm flying about in Microsoft Flight Sim, with a little light pilot roleplay ("Good morning, passengers..." and the like, plus doing my air traffic control calls) and chatting away.
It's relaxed. It's chill. Working through the checklists has been described as "very soothing".
(Oh god I spent so long researching those checklists).
If that seems interesting or fun to you, please swing on by.
Microsoft Flight Simulator WU13
MSFS2020 Map Enhancement 7.1.7 GOOGLE
HYPE PERFORMANCE GROUP H145 (344)
XBOX Capture - NVidia 531.29
nvngx_dlss 3.1.11 (March 21st, 2023)
Windows 11 Pro 22H2
NATO aid mission to Poland. Firefly Air airline achievement mission with 4 legs. You must be member of Firefly Air to earn this achievement.
Information can be found here: https://fshub.io/achievement/2145-mil-nato-aid-to-poland/overview Pay attention to landing rates.
Join FireFly Air here: https://www.twotonemurphy.com/firefly-air
Each leg below is approximately one hour in a C17 or A320. There is the opportunity for low level valley flying in 2 legs watch your speed and banking. All flights are VFR with an altitude of 10,000 ft but you can fly whatever altitude you wish.
These flight plans are created with a ‘fly with friends’ theme not precision aviation flight rules. So they are not perfect and you may find glitches depending on your system and simulation setup.
If you fly these legs best to load the flight plan into littlenavmap first. You can then save as a lnmpln file. You can load this file into your LRM route and activate for your flight on fshub. You can also load the lnmpln into volanta. Make sure FSUIPC7 and LRM are running otherwise the achievement legs will not be counted.
I flew all legs of this mission in the RCAF C17 Globemaster at max speed (except the low level valley flights which are best under 220 kts) freeware project by Destroyer121 available here: https://flightsim.to/file/12408/msfs-native-c-17-globemaster
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Leg 1: Firefly NATO Poland VFR Casement EIME Mildenhall EGUN.
Your landing rate must be under 500 fpm. 540 km.
Leg 2: Firefly NATO Poland VFR Mildenhall EGUN Ramstein ETAR.
Your landing rate must be under 500 fpm. 730 km.
Leg 3: Firefly NATO Poland VFR Ramstein ETAR Zeltweg LOXZ.
Your landing rate must be under 500 fpm. 680 km.
Leg 4: Firefly NATO Poland VFR Zeltweg LOXZ Deblin EPDE.
Your landing rate must be under 500 fpm. 875 km.
Completed flight should look something like this. Ignore the northern route EGKK Gatwick to EPKK Krakow that was a different mission.
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The flight plans. There are 4 flight plans and unfortunately I have not bee able to post them here.
If your are a member of TwoToneMurphy discord you can find the flight plan in ‘pln’ format which you can load directly into the MSFS world map. HERE
American Airlines Flight 875 (DAL875) Flight from Sangster International Airport [MKJS] to Charlotte Douglas International Airport [KCLT], using an Airbus A321neo. The departure from runway 07 offers some spectacular views of Jamaica and all its beauty. Some exterior and interior in-flight views of the Airbus A321neo demonstrating the detailed design of the aircraft. #msfs #microsoftflightsimulator #microsoftflightsimulator2020 #flightsim #flightsimulator #flighsim #srpaviation #americanairlines #AAL875 #americanairlinesflight875 #Airbus #airbuslovers #airbusa321neo #airbusa321 #sangsterinternationalairport #mkjs #kclt #charlotteinternationalairport #msfsairbusa321neo (at Sangster International Airport Montego Bay, JAMAICA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjewUTnsxSW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
It's a lot of good fun managing all the aircraft systems, and doing interesting operations and procedures. And if you're on VATSIM, the mass multiplayer aspect is really rewarding and amazing to think about.
Microsoft Flight Simulator
HPG H145 Pack Luxe
Beautiful_Model_World
FSPilot Android
La Mède, Lavère, Port de Bouc
00:12:45 Fos sur Mer
Saintes Maries de la Mer
00:29:00 Le Grau du Roi
00:30:15 La Grande Motte
Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport, Carnon Plage
00:33:10 Palavas les Flots
Frontignan
00:39:00 Sète
Marseillan / Marseillan Plage
00:44:35 Adge
00:48:25 Béziers Cap d'Agde Airport (Vias)
00:50:50 Béziers
Coursan
00:57:10 Narbonne
Port-la-Nouvelle, La Franqui-Plage, Leucate, Port Leucate
01:08:40 Le Barcarés
Sainte Marie, Canet Plage
01:14:10 Perpignan
01:16:20 Stade Aymé Giral - USAP
01:17:50 Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport