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Great shots of this great plane !

How many members of an internet forum does it take to replace an electric bulb ? * 1 to replace the bulb and write to say he replaced the bulb. * 14 to say they also replaced a bulb one day and talk about how they did it. * 7 to warn about the hazards involved in replacing a bulb. * 27 to point at the typos in the messages about replacing a bulb. * 53 to shout after the ones who pointed out the typos. * 6 to debate if you should say "electric bulb" or "lamp". * 6 to say the 6 above are being pedantic. * 2 industry professionals to say the proper word is "incandescence lamp" * 15 I-

Cruise speed is more around 150 knots. It's also a plane of the 60s, are there still many flying ? I know in France Reims Aviation built around 160 of them in the 70s, most for assistance, patrol and rescue missions. I found one on sale in France for 70.000 Euros : 1968 - 2912 hrs

Nice shots.

My rules in this part of the world are simple : as long as I can see the river and follow it, I consider it is flyable... If not I float ! EDIT : today really low visibility and clouds at 800 ft in Iquitos. I keep on visiting the town on foot...

Finally could do my cargo flight today... Ceiling was 1600 ft at Yakutat, it was enough since PAYA has ILS, VOR and NDB... It was a nice ride through the mountains, listening to some good appropriate music on Winamp ( Bootliquor channel of SOMA FM )

Iquitos is the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest and the fifth-largest city of Peru. It is also the capital city of the Loreto Region and Maynas Province. Located in the Amazon Basin, the city is along the Amazon, Nanay and Itaya rivers. Its name in Iquito language translates to "the people". The official city nickname is "Capital of the Peruvian Amazon". Already in the 16th century, the region is crossed by conquistadores looking for the El Dorado. During the early 20th-century rubber boom, it attracted many European immigrants; they contributed to a period of weal

Days 3 to 5 - Pucallpa - Orellana - Requena - Iquitos I leave Pucallpa with a very average visibility and a low ceiling. After a one hour flight low over the river, the conditions are the same on arrival in Orellana. The small town is named after Francisco de Orellana, who was the first european to discover the Amazon river in 1542. Next morning the weather is a lot better when I leave Orellana. I use the better visibility to take some shortcuts over the loops of the river. And the approach on Requena is easy after flying an hour and a half.

Well looks like Matt gave all the details... I can only approve his message ! Edit : today the ceiling was very low over Yakutat (between 500 and 1000 ft) so I couldn't fly my cargo flight. I still have 20 hours to deliver, so I hope tomorrow will be better...

Nice planes ! Flights are a bit pricey too...

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Matt : "I was flying the Wash/Ore coast today in helis today...caught a bit of rain there and dodged ceilings and ridge lines a bit to stay GPS/VFR. Looks like you got a nice break today up North." It was a positioning flight to pick up some cargo for Yakutat. I took off 20:15 GMT ( 12:15 local ) from Gustavus with a lower visibility and broken clouds at 2500 ft. It cleared up only 15 - 20 nms south of Skagway.

Inside the fjord Starting a backwind with a half turn inside the valley For finals on runway 20

Nice shots,

Day 2 - Atalaya - Pucallpa The flight plan for today is simple, it's almost straight along the Ucayali to rejoin the largest town in the region. On take-off around 10:00 weather conditions are satifying. A good visibility, a few clouds at 4500 ft, 3 knots of wind and 75° F on the ground. Only thing to do it to follow the Rio Ucayali ... ... until I reach Pucallpa and its airport after a one hour flight. A short backwind leg, landing and taxi to the parking ! In short a cool and easy flight... I have plenty of daytime left to have a look

Dynamic weather from Pilot's FS Global Real Weather and FEX for textures and colors.

Day 1 - Teresina - Atalaya The flight plan for today follows the Rio Tambo. With my amphib, I prefer staying close to the water, easier to stop in case of a technical or weather problem than over the rain forest ! Departure from San Francisco airfield in Teresina around 9:30 local, with a rather low ceiling and an average visibility... almost no wind, 75° F and a high humidity ! Most of the flight is still in the Andes and although I fly along a few large reserves, there are several villages and small towns along the Rio Tambo. Visibility gets a little bit better.

Finally I forked 13 more Euros (a real bargain! ) to buy NA Blue Pacific Northwest so I will have all of British Columbia covered down to the US border. My AH company often has flights across the border from my base in Port Hardy CYZT. May be one day I will open a base further south ?

So, as it was planned at the end of the Aéropostale ( see in members blogs ), I am going back to Cayenne in French Guyana going down the Amazon River. From La Paz where I left the Staggerwing, I went to Cuzco and after some tourism rejoined by road the closest airfield in Teresina on the Rio Tambo. ( This one is formed by the Rio Mantaro and the Rio Apurimac ) The idea is to follow it to Atalaya where it joins with the Rio Urubamba to form the Rio Ucayali which gives its name to this province in Peru. Then going down the Ucayali I will reach the upper Amazon just before Iquitos. Fro

Matt it looks like we have the same story... I installed FSX Gold after seeing Air Hauler videos on You Tube while looking for something else. I had also been only in combat sims since the 90s. Now I keep on with World War 1 combat sims only.

Andrew, I've been using PWCG for a couple of years now. One main reason being that I can play offline and the saves are on my HD. ( I'm a bit "old school" for this and I don't like to depend from a remote server). It gives you the possibility to start on January 1st 1916. Second reason is that there is a lot more historical research in the units, the aircrafts, the liveries and their airfields ( Pat Wilson is a veteran modder of the WW1 era and was already well known for his mods in Red Baron 3D) It gives you more flexibiliy in the mission planning if you are flight leader ( altitude

Using mainly Chrome but also have Firefox installed.

Finally could check my AI ship traffic has installed OK. I met 6 different ships while flying from Wrangell PAKW to Sitka PASI. My new Sitka with Tongass Fjords X looks good as well.

This is my german Jasta 4 ride at the moment ( Halberstadt DII ) I'm still in July and the Albatros only arrive in September... It's nice to fly, lighter than the Albatros, but has only one Spandau.

Nice story ! I see you have taken an Aldis sight from a downed allied plane... never noticed it was not mounted on the same side for the the two D IIs because of the radiator pipe on the late one. I prefer the iron sight ...