This reminds me of the time where I can claim that I worked with the SAS (loosely). They were doing an exercise when I was stationed at RAF Akrotiri where they jumped out of a perfectly good C130 in the dead of night, onto the airfield. They then proceeded to use some kind of IR illuminators to mark the runway for the C130 to land on the blacked out airfield after which the C130 departed with them onboard. My role was to sit in the Tower, along with a Flight Sargeant Controller, and a cup of tea, just in case for some reason they needed the runway lights turned on. It was dark, we saw nothing and all we heard was the C130’s engines. But yes, I worked with the SAS once…many years ago… 
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I did too! Only it was the Airline…
Few more from my Golden Age of Air Travel tour over the U.S. this time in Braniff colours.
The last two are from my arrival to Minneapolis last night which happened to be so fast that the sim threw “not enough bandwidth” on me and then froze completely 
That’s the Transall right? How do you like it?
I am glad I bought it.
AzurPoly is a good developer who gave the Transall a lot of after-release love. The product is now mature and the systems depth and extra features (para drops and air drops) make it well worth the 40 (or so) USD they ask for it.
You might like to check also the CaptainSim’s C-130 (steam gauge and - yes - the cockpit is included) for comparison. I do not own it so can’t say anything first hand about the C-130. However, it seems that the price is similar to the Transall, the systems depth and feature richness is not on par… but hey, it is a Herc 
I will probably get it once on sale (perhaps Christmas as always).
Though for now I am enjoying the Transall 
Here in a Vietnam camo on the way to Quang Tri
Getting briefed for Khe Sanh (got some 1970’ charts, georeferenced them and made a custom LittleNavMap map theme; works great and works in VR too 
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Entering the valleys
Finals
Someone’s got a rough day 
Hawaii? The second shot looks like the old lava flows on approach to Kona (PHKO).
Pretty much spot on - the second one yes right by Kona. The first is over Oahu West by Lualualei Forest Reserve.
It looked very familiar. I’ll be flying that approach next week…although not in a P40.
Love the Twin Beech (with Denarq mod) and love the MSFS clouds
Testing Low-range Radio Beacons in Alaska as a future expansion of my Golden Age of Air Travel 1958 mod.
Playing around with the PMDG 736…hoping that I might be able to join the Xmas flight this year and actually get somewhere. We shall see…
One thing I hadn’t thought about modern tubeliner simming before is that you can actually practice stuff on the laptop with just an xbox controller, so much of it is about commanding the aircraft rather than hand flying. It suits my life situation, as getting set up in the office with peripherals etc. doesn’t happen very often.
