Over-Reaching a little now… lol.
The excellent freeware Hunter by Dave Garwood. Well worth a look.
Parked at RAF Valley with chocks, covers and ladder in place.
The office…pretty nice for a freeware aircraft.
Taxiing out…
And we are off!
On my way to the Mach Loop from RAF Valley.
Rain over the Welsh hills as I head back to RAF Valley.
I’m not sure why Aerosoft’s Simple Traffic thinks that a Turkish Cargo freighter would be flying at low level over Wales. I escort him out of the area. 
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That’s amazing for freeware!
She’s a beauty. Thanks for posting Paul.
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Ooh thats the sort of aircraft that makes me want to try MSFS again…
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Shiny! The Aeroplane heaven DH Chipunk was released late last night (Texas time)…
As always with AH products, the 3D modeling is top notch, and the engine sounds are much improved over the previous AH MSFS releases.
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It should look familiar…. Duxford! 
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Gotta love the Chippie!
Is it in the MSFS Marketplace?
I thought it was🤣
I guess I just had to try this one…
The cockpit is functional, and definitely a long way from study level…but there is enough here to get you from A to B.
Overall, for a freeware airplane this is worth picking up as long as you keep your expectations in check. It handles nicely enough. The 3D model is not bad at all. The main cabin and baggage doors can be opened. There doesn’t seem to be an APU, but you can attach a GPU, so you can at least power the airplane up before starting the engines.
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Now that I’ve got all the updates installed, the controls remapped (again- that was fun to find out they’d come undone), and the right updates for mods, I’ve finally gotten to do a bit of flying. This is literally my first flight from ramp to landing in MSFS.
BTW, is there an actual pause button yet that doesn’t just freeze the plane in place and send it diving into the ground after you press it again? Or doesn’t have all the menu items up in front of the camera?
Live weather flight through storms and rain from RDU to Wilmington, by way of FAY VOR. This is the Milviz Cessna 310R, since it’s one of my favorite planes from XP11 as well.
Not shown: the bumpy approach into KILM, crabbing almost sideways and just sneaking in before the rain (again, need to figure out what the actual pause button is).
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I grew up an Air Force brat, with one of the first bases I can remember as a kid, being Kadena in Okinawa. Based out of Kadena was the SR-71, and I can remember being able to sit in the simulator pit one time as I tagged along with my older brothers scout troop. I have had an abiding fascination since I was little with the Blackbird. I have flown it in various flight sims over the years, and I know that eventually it will make an appearance in MFSF.
With that said, the Darkstar is about as close to a SR-71 as we currently have in MSFS. So what do you do with a Mach 10 recon bird, you fly it right along the DMZ.
Our turn in towards the Korean peninsula
From inside the cabin, once we get on course, we’ll accelerate from our mach 6 cruising speed.
And decelerating to make our clearing turn to return to Okinawa.
It’s actually fairly technical to plan a route that allows for ample room to wrestle an aircraft around at FL120, figure out your acceleration and deceleration points, exactly how much maneuverability you have to follow waypoints on your recon route etc. Flying it can get a bit touch and go trying to hit your altitude and speeds correctly.
If we ever get A2A refueling etc, you could make some pretty solid missions around it. If y’all need me, I’ll be trying to figure out the best launch and recovery bases for a flight over the NATO border region.
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There is a Pause and an Active Pause. The Active Pause is the one to avoid. Even Pause won’t pause the weather, but at least it won’t stall you out, blow you up, or uncouple the HSI.
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Ok, I’ve got some catching up to do on screens over the last few months but I’ll break them down into a few posts. They’re all a mix of PMDG 737-700 and Fenix A320; some are random flights while others are re-positioning aircraft for my AH2 operation.
737 into Ketchikan, AK:
Arriving and departing Missoula, MT.
One of my favorite places to visit, though I don’t think I’ve stayed more than a night or two. I’ve hiked that hill! (or…most of it, I was a bit dehydrated and not in appropriate clothing so I called it quits after a bit.)
Pretty neat seeing ground services do their thing on AIG injected aircraft.
Fenix into Reykjavik
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