Wow. A true flight sim discoverer / adventurer.
My take is that you can’t cross the south pole because…
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I had similar issue when flying over North Pole in MSFS2020. I guess it’s the game engine limitation, I wonder how they model the sphere of Earth. Eariler FS titles had other problems near the poles. One of the weird bugs / features in FS2002/2004/FSX was that the cloud sprites were being elongated in the vertical the closer you got to the North/South Pole.
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Stokka to…
…well, initially I thought to Skagen but when checking the airport I realized that with the prevailing weather (=bad) and the fact that Skagen does not offer an ILS, I may as well be searching for a more suitable destination.
Which it turned out to be Helle, just few nm south of Skagen. Helle sports an ILS but its runway is a bit shorter at 2641 ft - not much for the Transall so let’s hope the wind blows straight down the runway!
Not so early morning departure but at this time of the year and these latitudes…
This was one pinky morning for sure 
A flight simmer’s dream!
With a combination of two NDBs and one VOR, I was looking down the fog to determine where the airport could be.
Let’s hope the glideslope works this time. For some reason, it does not always show on the gauges even if there should be one.
It did not work this time either so with the help of a DME reading, altitude and descend rate I sort of navigated safely down.
The scenery truly is dramatic. I hope for clear(er) weather at my departure next leg.
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Wow, those shots are amazing!
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Part 16 - Cannonball Run
If I am going to have any hope of completing this journey before Christmas, I will need to do a ‘speed run’ to the coast.
So I need something from the hangar that will get me as far as possible and as fast as possible in a single flight… And I am getting rather attached to this E1000. They sure do look comfy enough (in 3D rendered VR) and if they fly even half as nice as this for real, I would have one in a heartbeat.
An uneventful flight. But only because I realised that the ‘current’ flight plan was a ‘Direct To’ KMSP without an arrival and approach programmed and and I was able to insert that for RWY 04 with enough time to spare.
I think those white patches are meant to be snow?
175 miles to go, time to start my descent - This was a total SWAG, but it worked out fine with a comfortable 1,400fpm
I realised later that If I bring up my flightplan it gives me a target rate of descent for the next waypoint… Nothing quite like learning on the job 
And hello Minneapolis.
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Part 17 - Sauce for the Goose
Is sauce for the… Goose Bay!
Not Gander.
Which was an option in the E1000 or a slower aircraft like the Albatross, but Goose Bay gets me a little bit closer to my next destination and I will be flying a much slower aircraft for that leg.
Once again, I want to get there in a hurry and the Rocket is the fastest thing I’ve got that will get me to Goose bay in one hop… I hope?
This leg of nearly 1400nm is only a couple of hundred miles short of my max endurance. Fuel will be tight & pray for a tailwind.
Appropriate livery, because with the last couple of legs being about getting to the next stop as quickly as possible, this is really starting to feel like the Wings Around the Globe rally
Climbing at 3,000 ft/min and accelerating.
OK: FL250, Torque at 1450 and RPM set to 1800 theoretically gives me 1580 nm… @ mach 0.576 
Not bad for a Dusty Crophopper 
But look at at that cabin temp!
And that is with the heat set to ‘full blast’
Some sort of thermal underwear might be in order 
Halfway and fuel is looking good
Managed to get a bit of reading done while the AP took care of the flying
Until it was time to land
Made it. With fuel to spare. Wouldn’t want too many missed approaches though.
OK, now where does one go to thaw out at this latitude at this time of the year? That was rhetorical - I’m off to the the bar for some 80 proof anti-freeze, single malt if they have it.
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Man, that’s a good looking aircraft!
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Sure is purty ain’t it
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Leg 3 of my trip. Sees us going from KBOS to CYQX. Originally scheduled as a B739ER flight, We changed to an A380 flight.
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Ummm…damn, that’s quite the journey.
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Okay, I failed to make it all the way last year. Still limited to General Aviation so decided to upgrade to a Cessna 310R. Perhaps that extra engine will make the difference this year.
Not to be without challenges, I have updated the settings to include chance of failure. Just to add that little bit of adrenaline.
I figure I need to fly vaguely like this:
Just need to make sure there are airports for me about every 450NM. Just to be safe, my first leg involved shuffling off to Buffalo.
…and…I made it without incident
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Great job and great choice of plane!
I’ll be interested in seeing if you get any failures along the way! 
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Interesting. I am able to get into troubles on my own so this type of options usually gets unnoticed by me. However…
…do you know what triggers the failures in the 310R? User induced? Just random?
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Nice use of the old “Blue Canoe”.
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Beautiful sky!
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It’s just random. A fuse popping out, oil low, grear not going down. That sort of thing. Notice I chose “rare”
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LEG 15 (Folie à deux…legs…but less sucky): Perth International Airport, Perth, Western Australia (YPPH) TO Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport, Trelew, Chubut Province, Argentina, (SAVT)
When we last left our intrepid hero, he had entered some sort of time tunnel by overflying the South Pole.
How will he ever escape his perilous plummet from the precipice of paradox?
Eyeballing it on the map screen, I managed to place myself within about 150NM of the pole.
Hopefully, this will be far enough to allow a return from the raging rip in reality!
OK, that’s enough of that.
Reprogramming the box and resurrecting the exact date and time where the sim crashed proved to be a bit of a challenge. Luckily, I had a screenshot of the Zulu time on the EFIS. Trying to wrap my head around the local time down here is a little mind bending, I’m not too proud to admit.
After a little trial and error however, I do manage to get the Sun about where I remember leaving it and the box set up on an intercept course.
Even at this distance the sim continues to stutter, and I can’t pan the exterior camera up. But it’s manageable and getting better now with every mile north.
Once I get everything settled down, the thing I notice almost immediately is the lengthening shadow across the Pensacola Mountains. I had hoped that the long days of early southern summer would hold out for at least a good portion of the journey. It looks as though I may soon be disappointed though.
And in the dark.
Almost sunset and I still have a long way to go.
The clouds close in as I enter the Antarctic Peninsular Mountains. I just barely get a few glimpses of 13,746ft tall Mt Jackson on the edge of the Weddell Sea, beneath the broken layer.
After a few hours, and with control of my view and normality restored (“Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.” Sorry, how often do you get to use a quote like that?.) I leave the roof of the world behind me, for those australnauts amongst us 
, and enter the great Southern Ocean.
In what seems like the blink of an eye compared to the long overwater transit from Australia, I reach, and round, the Horn. A moment of silence for those voyagers before me and for whom it wasn’t quite so easy.
Back out to sea, I cut the corner across the inner curve of Argentina and begin to notice…
The Sun is no longer setting.
Cutting across the pole as I did, I wasn’t precisely certain how the transit time and the Sun angle were going to work together. But apparently I have successfully passed through polar midnight, and it is morning.
I mean, cognitively, I understood what to expected on this flight.
But…
Still weird. 
I finally come to Cape Dos Bahias on the far side of Golfo San Jorge; my final landfall of the journey.
Just in time for breakfast! 
Lacking an ILS in this direction, I choose the VOR to runway 02. 8,361ft sounds like a decent amount of runway.
In practice though, you forget just how big the 74 is!
Speaking of which, this is what happens when you try to flare a 74 at the same height as an Airbus 320!
You know, that runway been about 20ft lower, it have been a nice landing!!! 
Alright. Well, I got her in.
Now, getting her out…
And that’s that. 6,294NM and I’m in the Western Hemisphere.
I still have the 78 to check off my list and I did spend a goodly amount of time flying down South America a few years ago. So, it may be time for another (hopefully more successful) swell foop across the globe, which should get me close to spittin’ distance (an infinitely variable unit of measure ) of our goal for this year. 
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I’m just curious if there is anyone who has more successfully installed the scenery into XP12. I don’t have a terminal building, but I do have a runway and the place isn’t covered in water.
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Amazed and astounded at awesome application of alliteration
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