Pokhara to Lamidada and Lukla, all in Nepal.
As I already made an experience trying to land the Transall in Lamidada where I discovered that a runway length of 1700 ft at an elevation of 4000 ft is perhaps on the short side for an aircraft that needs more than 3000 ft of runway to land at that particulate weight, I decided to go for the Caribou instead.
Which it was a great choice. Look how great the Caribou looks with the Himalaya as the background.
2D screen does not do a justice to this screen. It is only in VR where one can fully appreciate the depth of the scene and magnificent scale of the mountains.
Enroute to Kathmandu VOR station.
Kathmandu.
I am in love with the Caribou’s cockpit - check the crazy detail of the throttles.
No one joining for the flight today. I wonder why?
Enroute to Lamidada.
Lamidada has a NDB station that gives me a bearing to the field but no distance. Conveniently, the Caribou sports a GNS 430 which can provide me such info.
This is Rumjatar airport which I considered as an alternate destination to Lamidada.
Approaching Lamidada.
Just look at what the light does with this cockpit 
Checking the wind at the field - kind of impossible in the absence of a windsock 
Traffic pattern and landing at Lamidada.
After a short stay in Lamidada I departed towards Lukla.
Lukla poses a number of challenges to the pilots: difficult terrain, sloped one-way runway, no option to go around, elevation… you name it. I guess there is no Mudspike member who has not landed at Lukla at some point in time 
Climbing to 10400 ft. Dunno why but I found the Caribou’s climbing performance less than stellar. It should have a ceiling in the excess of 20k ft so I wonder what did I do wrong?
Lukla to the right.
I have not realized that the field elevation on the map is for the apron which is located at the top of the field. The runway threshold is considerably lower. Combine that with the Caribou being still pretty slippery even when in landing configuration and you can see the potential problem…
…which materialized few seconds later in the form of slamming the Caribou hard on the runway 
Resting in Lukla.
One more thing...
Of course I could not resist and took the Caribou towards Mount Everest.
Did I mention I had hard time to climb? I took this screenshot at some 12500 ft shortly before I stalled and crashed. Need to figure out what went wrong. The Caribou should be capable of more than that.
Next one? Paro in Bhutan. I am looking forward to it.
Stay tuned.