Everest fly past with Westland Wagtail in FSX

[ddavid 149]

I've always wanted to go to Everest after reading about Ed Hilary and Tenzing's fantastic feat in 1953 - my boyhood heroes! Anyway, I found some Everest scenery on AVSIM recently and decided to re-fly the 1932 fly-past organised with the aid of the RAF. Unfortunately, the Westland Wagtail (the nearest I could get to the A/Cs used in the original flight) is seriously under-powered - as you will see!

Here we are setting of from Purnea:

Making a turn to port to fly north:

The Himalayas, and the Everest group, in sight:

That's the moon rising over Kanjenjunga (I think):

The Everest Massif takes shape ahead;

Passing Makalu:

Over the Kanshung glacier, east of Everest - we're aiming to get over the South Col, ahead:

That's Lohtse's north face:

Close up of Everest's Kanchung face - we didn't make the south Col!!

Flying around the north east Ridge:

And over the North Col:

Passing the Great Couloir on Everest's immense West Face:

Over the West Ridge:

And that's the Western Cwm:

The fluted face of Lhotse:

Heading south, away from Everest:

The left hand valley leads to Lukla - I hope!

Downwind leg over Lukla:

Touch down - yes!

Hope you enjoyed that 'flight of fantasy'! A/C and scenery from AVSIM, as usual.

Cheers - Dai. :clap:

[mutley 4,498]

:good

Wow Dai, your best ever shots! I really enjoyed it, that scenery is stunning, You can never have too many geography lessons in my opinion!

A very entertaining post almost had me singing Jerusalem there!

Cheers

[hurricanemk1c 195]

Great posting!

Kieran

[mark.hudson6 0]

Great post and pics.

Cheers

Mark