remingtonbox 18 Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Been hanging around the area for a few days, some to get acclimated to the climate and moreso to make sure the red headed bandit hasn't flown in to interrupt my plans. Had about enough of resort seafood for the time being so figured it was time to head out. One problem. I flew in commercial. I went out to the airport early this morning to see if I could beg, borrow or steal a ride out of here and most importantly - able to get into Tympaki, and got lucky. Turns out the Embraer test crew is here testing some hot weather improvements to their incredible Phenom 100. A few minutes later... some greased palms, some fuel put on the credit card and here I am, we have the GPU hooked up, the engineers loaded and ready to flip the switches and bring this beast to life. Clearance picked up, looks like FL280 for this trip "4L via A, Xray Romeo Victor" "Strobes, Bleeds, Transponder, Landing Lights, before takeoff checklist complete" "Positive rate, gear up" 100 ft, its getting hazy 250 ft. totally in the clouds Coming up on the ginormous bustling metropolis of Cairo Sea as far as the eye can see... shows how small we are on the earth TOD Turning to our final waypoint Getting closer now and closer Wind is calm, so we are on an extended left base for 27 The AWOS lied Down a little long but manageable Ailerons into the wind for the taxi Marcellus, I'm under that rock over there with the baton, the Embraer guys took their airplane back to HESH... didn't even shut down both engines, opened the door, shut down the left engine and kicked me out. I musta worn out my welcome. *Apologies for the crazy blue at the start, I just loaded a new REX texture set and everything is REALLY blue, going to try and change that* Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Wow! That is an impressive piece of kit Rem! It's great to see you flying with us again and so expertly, about time we had a decent flight by the book Thanks for getting the baton safely to Tympaki. Link to post Share on other sites
J G 927 Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Great PIREP Remmington. I am gad to see you were not harassed. I guess the bad guy is still in or around Lagos Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,284 Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Nice job Remington, love the artistic screenies. Never doubted we would see a good one from you. That is some fancy plane, I heard that one can fly it RW without a copilot. Looks more comfortable than my house, not a bad private jet if you have 4mil laying around. Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Well done Remington.. Looks like a really nice little plane that (wish I had had that one for my flight, it would have gone so much quicker than in what I got stuck with....) And that clear blue sky didn't bother me at all.. after this weekend I'm very much longing for some blue skies IRL Now all you need to do is protect that baton until Marcellus gets there and your work for this section is done Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Great set of shots Remmington - nice and simple (for once!) Link to post Share on other sites
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