You’re gonna laugh…but I actually considered that plane for the Christmas Flight. I would have had to leave in June though I think…and gone the downwind way around the world…
LOL… the world is a big place when you are only doing 30 knots. Plus, because the way the aircraft works requiring constant climbs and descents, you would really have to be hands on the whole way.
I see on the VSkyLabs website that a Solar Impulse 2 is in development. I might have to get that and try to recreate the round the world voyage the real aircraft did not too long ago.
My very last X-Plane purchase of 2018 (it has been an expensive year)…
The X-Rotors Leonardo AW319. I posted a few shots on the X-Plane releases thread, but here are a few more of this beautiful helicopter.
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What I’d like to know is how on earth do you guys with so many aircraft in X-Plane know how to fly them all? Is it a case of learn one and the rest are close enough?
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In the real world, the most types I was current on at any particular time was two. Some pilots do more and seem to get on just fine. For me though, I prefer to just fly a single type. That’s real world flying where the stakes are a little higher.
In X-Plane and DCS, as far as I’m concerned, the more types the merrier. I like to fly aircraft that I am unlikely to get my hands on IRL, doing types of flying that my career path didn’t lead me to (ie military flying, freight, bush flying, rotary, etc etc). Of course, that makes me a jack of all trades, and master of none in the sim world. I wouldn’t say I’m proficient in any of the DCS Modules right now.
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I don’t think I’d do it if it’s Khamsin, they never updated the P-51D for XP11 as far as I know and it either didn’t load at all or had some major issues.
Man that looks nice, how is the sound?
It sounds pretty good to me!
I feel like the Q400 for xp11 is going to come out as they’re ready to go to xp12. But I waaaaant it.
A little Medevac/SAR around Stewart BC in the AW139…
Not a pleasant day in Stewart. An ambulance has gone missing, and we have to find them.
Into the murk we go…
This is going to be a challenge in this weather. We don’t know the location of the ambulance, but we do know the distance. I am not using the GPS to find our hapless ambulance, but the plugin tells me how far away I am from it. That lets me work out a rough direction to fly.
I’m getting closer up in the snow covered mountains.
Eventually I get close enough to see some flashing lights. What was that Ambulance Driver thinking when he or she drove up here?
After everyone was loaded up, we head back to Stewart Hospital.
I drop back down into the valleys where the weather is still lousy…
And soon we are back at Stewart on final approach to the hospital helipad. Mission accomplished!
This was using the excellent Medevac plugin by counter25. Hopefully he will build on it over the coming months.
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You really should set an alarm for 2AM and get up and fly that mission then. 
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One advantage of the sim is that 2am becomes purely optional 
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Now that my Christmas trek is complete, time to look at Air Hauler again. I scrapped my company in BC, and started a new one in the UK (the OrbX True Earth scenery demands that I spend some time taking it all in).
Back in the C172, here we are somewhere between Perenporth and Dunkeswell. Dunkeswell is the closest airport to where I used to live in my teenage years.
Shut down at Dunkeswell just before dark.
Oh, and I found a freeware Eurofighter Typhoon to flesh out my X-Plane RAF hangar… not bad for freeware.
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I took the X-Trident Tornado for a spin this morning over OrbX’s True Earth GB North scenery… beautiful!
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A plane I’ve never flown! That’s a Navajo right?
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Yes indeed… Carenado’s PA31 Navajo. A nice little freight hauler .
Hi Paul, I saw your screen shots of Bela Coola and BC scenery. How was your fps in that region? I flew a Cub (freeware), and only got 50-60 on 2D screen (1440p) and less than 30 in VR with i7-8700k @5ghz 1080ti 32g ram. No add-on scenery or hd mesh. It’s it because of the terrain? Wanted to get the Bella Coola airport. But this kind of fps would make it miserable.
For VR I crank the settings down but then replay the flight at maxed out to get the screenshots. Even so, the Bella Coola airport scenery looks great in VR and fairly smooth. You just have to be ruthless with the settings.
Hmm… Ok. Feels like a bit of beating the purpose with “ruthless” low setting 
I’ll give it a try. Just wondering if I’m missing something tuning the system. Thanks Paul 