Now that’s how to do the first leg in style!
Well flown, sir. 
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Takeoff and climb to cruise altitude uses up a disproportionate amount of fuel…so half way there with less than half your fuel remaining doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t get to the destination. Whether or not you have legal fuel reserves remaining would be up for debate though 
. You made a smart decision to make a fuel stop… 
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First time I saw one of those was when my Grandpa was 99 and in the hospital because of gallstones. Lol, he did not leave it behind after the surgery. Even though he was still quite mobile at that age that quaint little object helped make his evenings much less stressful after he returned home. Almost made it another 5 years after the surgery and passed about four months shy of his 104th birthday at the age of 103.
Crazy what memories an object or picture will trigger after 25 years. The other thing that pops to mind is my Grandfather telling the doctor who was getting ready to examine him to very gruffly “turn that baseball game back on” when they shut the TV off which had a St Louis Cardinals game being played on it. I can also still see the Doctors initial shocked expression and then laughing a bit at having been spoken to in such a manner. He did comply and move on with the exam. I was 28 at the time and it was one of the only times I ever saw him demand anything. The man would hardly say boo if his pants were to catch on fire…
Thanks for the trip down memory lane @Deacon211
Wheels
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Narsarsuaq to Goose Bay, second attempt.
As my first attempt ended up in the ocean, I left the DC-6 there as a tourist attraction and reminder to pilots approaching rwy 06 that they are entering dangerous territory.
A little dark in the cockpit. The weather was definitely better the last time.
T/O not exactly to the wind but we have four strong engines to go against the odds.
Airborne and in the soup.
Well… I regret to say that the new DC-6 was not flawless. It seemed we had a problem with #1 engine governor.
AFE was of course happily sleeping instead of…
Nevermind. We still had three good engines so if we lose one…
Out of the soup. Just about the time when looking out of the window started to get a bit boring.
Canada! Again, this is the first time EVER in sim when I am flying over this country 
Over the Lake Melville. Needles to say that all the DC-6 maths regarding descent and decelerating profile did not really work with three and half engines so I had an opportunity to marvel over the frozen land for longer than initially expected 
Trying to find the field. Not easy with just about everything frozen (including the runways and taxiways). Thanks Asobo! It should be right on the nose. Dunno.
Ahhh here it is. A little off but nothing I could not handle (in the sim, I mean).
Just when about to flare, I pushed with my palm a button on my joy which retracts the gear. Yeah, I let you guess what followed.
Only this time I did not leave the DC-6 on the runway and instead cycled “Y” to get it sorted. It worked. It actually worked so well that even the governor on #1 got fixed so at least I did not have to shut it down for taxiing
I like the the DC-6. Only I am usually so behind the aircraft that I feel more like a passenger rather than a pilot Quite likely, I will opt for a different machine for the next leg. Which it will take me… not sure yet. Probably somewhere around Prince Edward Island.
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Beautifully done!
It’s funny, we have all the same failures. I can only assume that it’s a bug, not a feature.
But it does keep you on your toes! 
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True
And I have forgotten to mention that while the gyropilot was able to follow the desired heading and altitude, it did not respond to turn & descent commands.
Apparently, this is being address by PMDG as we speak. Great to see the DC-6 being maintained. And shame I do not fly it more often 
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nice one for a first leg from Fox to Stream in no time
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this is happening a lot in both sims. now I am doing ‘destination reconnaissance’. I spawn in my destination in front to check it usually in helo. this is so convenient in the sims
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For today’s flight I decided to take the Just Flight Hawk from RAF Valley down to what used to be RAF Chivenor in North Devon, and then on to Exeter airport in Devon.
So here we are at my favorite parking spot… Seeing as we are in Wales, I thought that the Welsh Dragon livery was appropriate (and it looks good too!).
Gear tucked up, narrowly avoiding a birdstrike…
From Valley I flew south. Here we can see Mt Snowdon which is one of only two mountains I have hiked to the top of…the other being Mt Alfred in New Zealand.
Soon Llanbedr airfield comes into view.
After transiting the length of Wales, I crossed the Bristol Channel and coasted in over the North Devon coast. In this shot, just above the left most wind turbine, alongside the river, is Royal Marines Base Chivenor. I was stationed there 1990-1993 when it was a RAF training station equipped with two Hawk squadrons and a Westland Wessex SAR detachment. Before joining the RAF, as a teenager I was in the Air Cadets, and Chivenor was where I took my first ever fixed wing flight in a Venture motor-glider. I’m guessing that would have been in about 1987.
Setting up for a high speed pass, just for old time’s sake.
Flying past the Officer’s Mess - where much gin was spilled.
At the end of the runway, I pulled into the vertical for a last look back. It’s sad to see the yellow X’s on the runways. When I was there is was a very busy airfield.
From Chivenor, it was a short transit to Exeter where I landed without incident. It was a fun flight flown in VR. My next hop will take me to the area where I grew up…
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Wow, what a great report and memory.
Only one thing amiss.
A well trained RAF pilot always keeps positive G on his gin glass!
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Ah, well I wasn’t a Commissioned Officer, so the Mess was off limits to me. Who’d have thought they were in there having secret gin spillage prevention training? 
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Almost there was a good five or six hours practice from a 10nm approach… Take off is easy, I figured that I could work out the AP through trial and error once airborne (Honeycomb Bravo FTW by the way), but I wanted to make sure that I had a decent chance of getting back on the ground in one piece before I set off.
TheG-IV is still probably a bit too much aircraft for me?
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Well, there is a learning curve, but if you’ve done it once you can certainly do it again.
Plus, it’s all for fun, so who cares how many attempts it takes you to get there. It just makes for a better story!
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@Deacon211 Thanks for the encouragement
I’m trying to keep it as ‘real’ as possible (actual time, weather, etc). But I am creating a lot of save points
From here, I think I will break it down into shorter legs - Fiji is nice.
I will probably stick with the G-IV until I get to West coast USA, saves ‘learning’ something new. After that I reckon it will be something a little bit more my speed?
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I’m with @Deacon211 on this…fly what you want to fly and have fun. It really doesn’t matter if you bend a few simulated airframes while learning.
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God knows I am! 
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And the trek continues. This time I’m flying from Halifax, Canada, to Hanscom AFB, USA. Most of the flight will be over the North Atlantic again, albeit in short distance to the shore.
Again we prep the C-17 for MSFS2020. This time I do some extra work and download a dozen or so mods for Hanscom AFB scenery - hopefully placing the unpacked zips in the Community folders will do the job.
But first we’re starting from fairly sunny Halifax Intl airport.
The take-off is without any events, the C-17 engines accelerate the plane quickly into the air.
A quick look over the instruments, all seems in good order.
Here we go over Nova Scotia.
With little to do during the autopiloted flight, I discover that handrests can go up and down. What fun it is I can’t resist the comparison with arma where one can usually take any seat in the cockpit. Would be quite cool, especially in multiplayer multicrew cockpits!
Finally the island is left behind and over the sea we go.
I have enough time to wonder what the orange lines depict on the nav system? I guess some kind of navigation boundaries?
Finally over the US coast.
I only flew at 10k feet, so my descent is ~1000 ft, for 30 miles. I fly this part manually and of course the plane is a bit over the place, but somehow I make it to the airfield.
Ladies and gentlemen, Boston to our left - I hope
Definitely US territory, a football stadium on the ground.
Gear out and prepare for the final left turn.
Some correction before the touchdown.
And back on the ground.
Overall an uneventful flight with a few clouds, but for December excellent weather. Only a few hops left, so there are chances I make it before Christmas!
On a side note, my new system is now powered by the i9 13900KF but due to the high prices I refused to go for the envisioned 40x0. Instead I went for the 3070ti, which should be just good enough for my 1440p resolution. I might have toned down a setting or two - using the defaults, but with this setup I got solid 50fps from the C-17 cockpit, with the ‘old’ system fps at times drop to less than 20. Probably I had turned the graphics fidelity to high on the old system for this rather unoptimized mod.
Cheers,
TeTeT
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If you tuned into the last episode, you will know that…
Hey, I blame the guy that gave me the plane. The only manuals were full of charts and graphs and stuff that I looked and went, “pfft, I have NFI”…
I thought I had better do something though and at least the Hotel has decent wi-fi and I was able to read up on some of the things that look like they might just be useful for flying a G-IV. Besides, apparently some drunk Aussie tore up a bar in downtown Noumea last night! I don’t think it was me be but perhaps I had better get out of here in a hurry.
Bye-Bye New Caledonia, It was fun. I think. I was too drunk to remem… Bugger maybe it was me?
A little bit hazy with some light rain on take off but up here, what a great day for flying. Nadi International is only a few hours away. And these Gulfstreams sure are a pretty aircraft aren’t they?
OK, getting close so I take out my notes and am reasonably sure that I have managed to program an ILS approach??? Oh well only one way to find out.
Visibilility isn’t that great, I thought I’d be able to see the airport by now?
Do I trust the AP or… wait a sec, there it is
OK, that was another long and rough landing, but I don’t think I broke anything. I guess you could say I’m two for two
Looks like everything is shut down? Time to book a room for the night. Hmmm, I wonder if there’s a bar nearby I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
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I think that the motto for the Christmas flight is just this. Procedures and bold face checklists are optional to fun and being willing to fail keep trying
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no worries, they all handle almost the same the difference is in the systems which can be learned.
its actually funny that we dont have many weird frames in the sims. like from time to time there is something unusual as the Quickie Q200 or Pond Racer but usually its the standard stuff.
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