We’ve landed the Grumman on Lake Zürich and now we found a sweet spot in the weather to continue our Trek southwards, to Venice, Italy.
But there’s heavy traffic on the lake, multiple big yachts are surrounding us. So we ask the tugboat for help.
Eventually we clear most obstacles and get a (more or less) clear run for take-off.
Via autostart we spool up the six engines of our Laetecoere 631 flying boat!
We don’t have much fuel aboard - so we take off in a short distance and climb well - for our flying boat.
Soon we see the Swiss Alpes in a distance - the mountain range is between us and our target in sunny Italy.
Following the Rhine valley for a while, we sometime need to continue straight south east to get to our destination.
Where is my crew? Nobody mans the stations!
Nobody here either.
The bunks are empty too…
Meantime we enjoy the flight and the nice panorama, with our without crew…
The term trim wheel has a real meaning on this boat!
A single modern instrument is available on the main panel.
Eventually we arrive over Italy and start our descend.
Wouldn’t it be nice to park between these cruise liners?
First we do a run by the city.
The landing worked, albeit we’re a bit close to one of the smaller islands. But at least we evaded all of the boats.
Close enough for the day!
The flight was a bit more hectic than anticipated, as I could not figure out how to control engine 5 and 6 with my throttle. I manually adjusted the lever in the cockpit and that did lead to some instability on take-off and landing. Otherwise it was a great enjoyable flight over the scenery in FS2024.
If all goes well, next stop will be Limmasol, Cyprus.
Makes me feel I need to re-read 
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) but the runway at Bintulu has a bit of a dip in the middle and I float and land long ( 
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