Nuuk has claimed its share of runway excursion victims… @Troll tosses and turns in his sleep after seeing images like this…(I do too…)
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Yeah…
We’ve had our fair share of RWY excursions too.
As one of my DHC8 instructors told me: “We call these strips short fields, but they’ve never been too short. However, they have been too narrow, occasionally” 
Which is why we say that unless you’ve pulled the levers behind flight idle, you can always go around.
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Reminds me of the old joke…
A plane is coming in to land at an airport that neither pilot or copilot have been to before. The weather is a bit cloudy.
As they begin final, per their procedures they set flaps to one quarter and lower the gear. The following is a transcript from the CVR:
PF - I’m picking up the runway. It looks shorter than I thought. Give me half flaps.
PNF - one half flaps
PF - Yeah that looks very short. Lets go with three quarters flaps.
PNF - Three quarters flaps
PF - Clear of the clouds and wow! That is a short runway. Full flaps!
PNF - Full flaps.
[after landing and a successful stop]
PF - That was the shortest runway I have ever seen.
PNF [looks left and right] - You are correct - but it is the widest that I have ever seen.
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Lars and Sven, before they switched careers to delivery couriers?
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Messing about in the new Aeroworx Tiger Moth. She is a delight to fly, and for a tail dragger, quite docile on the ground. Wonderful in VR!
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Some favorites from a bygone age… (all freeware and a lot of fun to fly in VR)…
The Potez 25
The unmistakable Stearman
And the new Aeroworx Tiger Moth, which is just wonderful. I tweaked this one just a bit, by adding the pilot figure and removing the registration lettering.
And then today, I found this on the Org… 
She is a real handful if you get slow, and with the burners lit, fuel becomes a problem very quickly. The 3D pit isn’t great, but it is functional.
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Used to go camping here in the North Cascades. Ahead is the Marble Creek Camp.
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Headed back west toward Renton.
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There was a Lightning for FSX with TACPACK. I spent many an hour saving northern Scotland from Soviet Bears…and flamed out more than once. An aircraft that has to be “flown by the numbers”. I may have to give the XP version a look. 
That Lightning should be saving Casco Cove… just sayin’
Just be sure to remember that it is a freeware project. It looks a lot better from the outside, and the flight model is ‘interesting’, but definitely a fun challenge. It isn’t suited to short runways I have discovered! 
The EE Lightning is such a cool aircraft!
Let’s stack the engines ontop of the other, because…why not!
Let’s see how far back we can sweep those wings, before it becomes a delta!
Oh…! We swept the wings so far that we need to use the entire wing to house the landinggear… What the heck! Put the hardpoints ontop of the wing. Problem solved.
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It had to be done (the sale ends today)…
Just Flight’s Piper Arrow III
I took my Single Engine Commercial checkride in one of these back in 2004.
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Yeah. great solid instrument training platform as well. Love the Arrow.
I just bought the FlyJSim 737 which was also on sale. …think I already got the Arrow…or was that FSX…too many sims; too little time.
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And with MSFS2020 inbound, that isn’t going get any easier. 
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That’s really pretty, though! Would be lovely in VR too with that vintage cockpit.
You won’t regret the Arrow purchase, it’s a nice module with a well detailed cockpit. I certainly have got my money’s worth out of the Arrow / Turbo Arrow bundle…all thanks to that crazy air race marathon. 
Interestingly, the Arrow cockpit feels more detailed (in terms of graphics, not realism) than the Just Flight Duchess’ cockpit, even though the Duchess is a newer module…but maybe the XP11 Duchess is a conversion or something. Either that or it is all in my head, who knows.
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The Arrow is definitely a work of art. I might have to look into getting the Turbo Arrow as well. 
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Considered Responses:
1 - Blasphemy!
2 - But Paul, whoever dies with the most planes, wins!
3 - So switch to helicopters…
4 - Me - Surely you jest. Paul - No, and don’t call me Shirley.
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