Leg 18: WMKP to WSSS via CE, BP NDBs
Aircraft: Carenado Beachcraft Bonanza F33A w/ SimCoders Reality Expansion Pack;
Addon: FSFlyingSchool 2019 for X-Plane 11
Addon: ActiveSky XP;
Addon: UltraWeather XP;
Date: May 26, 2019
Weather: Historical May 26, 2019 @ TIME UTC (TIME local)
Takeoff: ~ 08:20
| Leg | Total | |
|---|---|---|
| Planned Distance | 333 nm | 7044 nm |
| NDB Beacons Tuned | 2 | 69 |
| Weather ‘Situations’ | 2 | 8 |
| Duration | xx H xx M | 45 H 21 M |
Location: Airline Cargo Road, Changi Airfreight Centre, Loyang, Kampong Ladang, Southeast, 819480, Singapore
Briefing Notes:
Straight down the coast from WMKP into the loving, safe arms of the CE NDB. It makes navigation so easy it is cheating (literally, for the time period that we are simulating) :-). Couldn’t be easier, right? Just have to find a suitable weather window on the west coast of the thunderstorm magnet landscape.
Turns out to be correct. I have some rain in the area and that translates into thunderstorms. In hindsight, ActiveSkyXP is set to generate these thunderstorms whenever it sees CB in the METAR - which means, and correct me on this if I am incorrect, that I have been experiencing more thunderstorms that actually happened because each potential thunderstorm cloud was converted into one. Oh my.
Out of the gate:
And the destination, if I end of being faster than my planned airspeed, which I usually am, will have something similar. If I wait, it gets worse at the start, but better at the end.
Other Media and Notes:
Ominous skies with the odd lightning strike. But … no one else seems to mind it, so I can’t back out now, can I? Of course in the real world, I would have tied the plane back down and left it for another day 
They don’t seem too shaken up…
Lightning in the distance on the climb out.
And I run into it. So much so that I end up stalling and plummeting back to mother earth. I tell you what is scary, trying to pull out of a stall/plummet in IFR flight.
But I manage to do it without too much altitude loss. So there is that. I may need to get a new seat however. So, add 1 to the ‘weather incident’ column for this flight
Shortly after I am out of that nasty weather and back enroute.
Scenery in the area is, again, very good. Much better than I expected, but I tend to not fly X-Plane a lot (this trip has multiplied by flight hours in X-Plane by a lot).
Trying for some fancy shots … and a beautiful model by Carenado of the Beachcraft Bonanza F33A.
Planning ahead as I come up on Singapore. I plan on following the water and counting the airports on my right … should be 5th one as I circle in from the coast.
And then the weather drops in on me. One minute, clear skies, the next I am being thrown around like a rag doll. I think I have my ActiceSky XP settings finally figured out but on this flight, it went pare shaped in a hurry. I will point you to this post for the video details but moments from the previous picture I went to this:
Note the sudden onset of a negative vertical speed But I was able to persevere, in spite of mother nature twice trying to end my virtual life.
Looking at the clouds, it is easy to see/pretend/imagine what I ran in to, I just wish I could have seen it coming
But, yeah. Gonna need a new seat 