Official 9th Annual Mudspike Christmas Flight 2023 - Discussion and AAR Thread

Back home IRL, time to leave again virtually :slight_smile:

The last year I started from my home in MSFS and took a car to get to the nearest airport. It did not turn out as a good idea since the roads in MSFS are what they are :slight_smile: This year, I decided to take more appropriate mean of transport to get from my backyard to the airport.

Luxembourg in photogrammetry introduced in the latest City Update.

ELLX the way I am used to see it!

And parked in front of our aeroclub hangars.


OK, that was just a starter. Now the real deal: ELLX to LOWZ - Zell am See in Austria.

Velocity XL ready to go with the flight plan punched in.

I am using FSLTL for injecting AI traffic for this flight and have to say that it does a nice job in terms of models and liveries…

…but not really in terms of air traffic management (which is up to the sim I presume) as I have witnessed three go-arounds by the time I got to the active runway.

Mosel river with Remerschen biodiversite - full of birds which will be migrating soon. This usually triggers appropriate NOTAMs.

Pirmasens in Germany. A nice field IRL and one of the sceneries I purchased for MSFS. Nicely done!

The Velocity XL has a canard in front so stall landings are a big no go. Therefore one has to pay a close attention to speed management on finals - anything below 70 kts will result into the nose dropping towards the Mother Earth. Oh and there are no flaps either.

Rhein river.

Munich.

And finally: the Alps. I will never get tired of the looks of it :slight_smile:

LOIJ - another little field to visit on my way. Here I was better in speed management.

And on the last leg towards my destination today.

Briefing for the approach and landing.

Summary

And the way I executed it :slight_smile:

Turning towards Zeller See.

Checking the wind as the field has only a traffic frequency.

Downwind trying to respect the circuit and min altitude.

Coming in with not many kts to spare. I was on my toes :slight_smile:

All good in the end. And even few meters of the runway still left.

LOWZ is a nice little airfield full of life in MSFS.

Beer, relax, some trekking and off to Slovenia hopefully soon :+1:

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