My new office for the leg to Mostar.
Ladies (do we have any around here?) and gentlemen, the Cirrus Vision:
The flight deck is a bit… sterile? In comparison to some other aircraft that I fly in the sim it definitely is (think of the Learjet or DC-6). However, the switchology is pretty modern (=very simple) and the avionics straightforward. Looks like an easy flight ahead.
Sbohem! Do I see a Cairbou on the apron?
This was quite a scenic flight along the Croatian shore. Many moons ago, I spent my first real holiday on one of the beaches below… and then decided it was not for me as I’d rather go to the mountains 
One of the advantages of the modern avionics well implemented in the sim is that the charts can be displayed on the MFD. Nice touch. Mind, this is all stock MSFS 2024, no Navigraph.
Split. I remember I flew over this city on my way to Dubrovnik in the Christmas flight two years ago.
Approaching the IAF for Mostar.
Initially I planned to fly a NDB approach to runway 33 just for fun. And then I found that the Cirrus Vision did not sport an ADF.
It is probably too cool an aircraft to lend itself to such a vintage piece of equipment.
Anyway. I opted for an ILS instead and checked the chart (yes, on the MFD). The ILS is offset by some 30 degrees due to terrain.
Which, together with the wind, made for a nice approach.
The wind…
…I had to turn the real weather off for my visit to the next point of interest in Mostar because the bloody Jetson One top speed equalled the wind speed. And the wind was blowing in the direction FROM the city.
Anyway, a few moments later I was admiring Stari most in Mostar, a 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina which crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of the city, which is named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who guarded the Old Bridge during the Ottoman era.
During the Croat–Bosniak War, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina used the bridge as a military supply line, leading the Croatian Defence Council to shell and destroy it on 9 November 1993. Subsequently, the bridge was reconstructed, and it reopened on 23 July 2004.
Source: Wiki
