You guys are too kind.
I’m still kicking myself that I could have solved it way earlier if only I didn’t have the attention span of a goldfish. 
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Perhaps you’re familiar with my work then…
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Dominican Republic(MDPC) to Trinidad and Tobago(TTPP) in an E195
UP next we travel to French Guiana(SOCA)
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24 November …
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No need to go orbital… yet…
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So, here is a tale of how not to cross the Atlantic.
In my effort to put more miles behind me and get to an area where I haven’t flown much, I decided my route would skip Europe and I would hop down the Caribbean and then the north coast of South America before crossing over to Africa. But then, I thought to myself (dangerous), what if I could just skip South America and fly directly to the Cape Verde islands off the African coast…. Hmmm, what could possibly go wrong?
And so, with fuel tanks topped to the brim, I depart from Nassau heading for GVAC - Amilcar Cabral airport, Cape Verde Islands.
Turning out to the east…
Leaving the Bahamas and climbing into the night.
Once I was up at cruise altitude, I stepped away from the computer and came back to check on things when I was about half way across… and I did not like what I was seeing…
I climbed up to FL490 and throttled back to see if that would help stretch the fuel out a bit but the math still wasn’t working out. I looked at the chart to see what other options I had and saw that Sau Pedro International Airport was a little over 100nm closer than GVAC. I changed the destination in the FMS and the figures were still looking tight, but much better.
The very welcome sight of land over the dark ocean.
On short final, still sweating profusely.
Shutdown on the ramp with…gulp 80 lbs of fuel remaining. 
Route flown, and a spoiler for the next leg.
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So, technically, you did have some reserve.
Awesome, love the pics!
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Fortunately it was before office hours, so there was no SAFA check 
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SBBE to SBTE in an E190. Short flight
Next up we go to SNJP in an E190. This will be the last flight before the pond crossing.
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forests on one side and rain-forests on the other … Ecuador 
… and in Ecuador we crossed the Equator ! what a great landscape around Quito
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Leg 8: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya (HKJK) TO Naishi Airport, Naishi, Kenya (HKNB)
MSFS, I find, is like Paris in the springtime…laugh a little, cry a little. 
After the event which I will hereafter always refer to as “Hippogate”, I had learned to carefully scrub my intended flight path for those ever-illusive POIs, lest I miss simulated wonders uncounted!
As, at any great leg length, this meant transiting the in game map at, coincidentally, about the speed of a hippopotamus (and one of no great level of cardiovascular robustness), the practice was not without consequence for my sanity.
However, it was also not without its rewards.
Mother always said, “Never look a gift rhinoceros in the mouth”.
Thus, I decided to take a brief sojourn from my travels in the Stupendousphere to go find some.
I did not, by the way, find her saying this in any way strange or unusual.
So it was that I found myself charting a course to Naishi.
According to the Internet, Naishi Airport is an airport. In Naishi. Period. Apparently, I can find 200,000,000 entries of “cats playing piano”, but only about 8 regarding Naishi.
Crazy world.
Anyhoo… so there I was in my C-195, my sanity only slightly tarnished.
Sitting there on the runway, I had to take a moment to admire the 195. She had the kind of lines that’d make a bishop kick out a stained glass window.
But this was no time for gawking at airplanes. I had, after all, rhinos to gawk at.
In the stiff headwind, I was up in three shakes…and on my way to find some rhinoceroseses.
I transited the sprawling metropolis of Nairobi briefly.
Whereupon the land gave way to rich fields and pastures. Quite lovely really.
With a short leg length of only 75NM or so, navigation was easy enough. Once I was over the first ridgelines west of Nairobi, I just picked up the Naivasha-Mai Mahiu-Limuru Road towards my first checkpoint, Lake Naivasha.
And, with a quick hop over the foothills of Mt Eburru, which dominated Naivasha’s western shore, I could already see my destination in the distance…Lake Nakuru.
The RIQ’s (Rhinos In Question, natch) were reputedly basking along the lake’s southern bounds. The runway of my eventual arrival field should have pointed right to them.
But, as I scrubbed the area…what I found…was nothing.
No rhinos.
A veritable rhino-free zone. A broad, serene, expanse of lovely embankment entirely uncontaminated by rhinos. A rhino desert, if you will.
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This is the part where the crying comes in…
As it would happen, I found out that this was a known bug in MSFS 2020 after some SU or another.
Which made me wonder if “SU” stood for “Surreptitious Unrhinoing”. 
Well, as mother always said, “You can’t make an omelette without driving someone to a near multi-state chainsaw spree”. 
Come to think of it, she had a lot of interesting sayings… 
Well, I don’t know where the coffin, hehe, I mean rhinos are…but I know where they’re not…
And that’s right here…
Fortunately, the airfield is…and, if you remember my ill-fated flight to Panama a few years ago, you know that is no small accomplishment!
So, with a quick pitchout to the abeam.
I bring her back around for a somewhat bouncy landing.
It wasn’t my fault though,
And that’s how I found myself; listening to the warm savannah wind playing accompaniment to the ticking of my cooling engine as I sat contemplating a vast, wholly rhinoless, horizon.
Can’t say that I didn’t try though.
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SBTE to SBJP in an E190
Started out going to the wrong airport. Type SNJP in, Realization hit about 30 mins in when I realized i was going away from the coast. Anyway after a successful diversion all ended up good.
Up next a Pond crossing in an E1000
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At least the C-195 looks stunning 
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I’m no bishop but I fully agree. She got the lines…
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Nearing Madagascar…
Staying with the C-130 - the engines did not fail on the last leg - I am leaving Kilimanjaro Intl with the mountain in cloud, yet again.
Speaking of the C-130, I recalled this meme:
So it looks like @Deacon211 with his C-195 rules us all 
Anyway… getting above the cloud deck and taking a heading towards Dar Es Salaam VOR.
Initially I planned for Kisauni airport in Zanzibar, but since I landed at that place few years back on another Christmas flight, I opted for Mafia airport located on Mafia Island in Tanzania just out of curiosity
Mafia airport does not have any published procedure but sports an NDB. After some math involving my cruise flight level, distance of the Mafia airport NDB from the Dar Es Salaam VOR and 3 degrees descent profile to the airport, I commenced my descent some 20 nm distance to the VOR.
It may not look like it but the C-130 is actually descending at some 1700 ft/min.
I almost worked.
Only the C-130 is reluctant to slow down so I arrived hot (yes, we are in Afrika) and high.
Nothing that one 360 would not sort out.
With this perspective looking much better, I landed uneventfully.
Just was not sure how to read these runway markings.
Will probably have to get back to textbooks while the maintenance is made.
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That’s some good OG cipherin’ there! Gave me flashbacks of being yelled at sitting in the T-2C sim!
Interesting runway markings! I thought at first that it was just a long displaced threshold, like JFK, but those markings don’t look quite right.
The only picture I could find of Mafia online was this…
which isn’t very helpful. Interestingly, LNM seems to show that Displaced Threshold though.
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