The weather is still nice, although the weather report predicts clouds in our flight path. The airport is beautiful and I’m sure they are enjoying the scenery as much as I do. Well, my passengers don’t need to know this. Turns out, I simply planned for a different assignment than the one I actually loaded. I buy them a coffee while I try to figure out what went wrong. When I finally arrive at Venango Regional (KFKL), I realize that my passengers didn’t actually want to go here. Still, the combination of SkyMaxx and FSGRW works well so far. They still change the whole weather moment-to-moment, as opposed to simulating spatially stable weather systems that you can fly in and out of. So how about we add FSGRW to the mix? Weather transitions become noticeably smoother. One seconds it’s broken cumulus clouds and blue skies, the next it’s overcast and grey. What has been seen before are the abrupt weather changes. On the way, SkyMaxx Pro shows really nice overcast weather, that has hitherto been unseen in X-Plane. Akron Canton Regional is actually a very beautiful airport in X-Plane, with static airplanes and nice scenery thanks to the new additions from the Scenery Gateway. Picking up passengers in Akron works without a hitch. This is how it’s going to be here, too, it seems, and that is good! I remember from my PPL lessons that I constantly switched hands on the joystick, and really mostly flew with my left hand. Just like in the real world, my left hand is. But if my right hand is operating the throttles, who is operating the joystick? The thing is: Just like in the real aircraft, I put the throttles to the right of the joystick, which means I operate them with my right hand. This time I’m more careful with my run-up, and get airborne without incident.įlying with a physical throttle quadrant is indeed much more difficult than I anticipated. It’s a good thing the mechanics in FSEconomy work really fast, and it only takes minutes to get my plane up and running again. I immediately and unwittingly recreate this in X-Plane by firewalling the throttle, and thus breaking the engine.
My first leg will carry me to Akron Canton Regional (KCAK), where I’ll pick up four Corporate Charters to Venango Regional (KFKL).īut this day is not looking good: FSEconomy reports that my engine broke down due to a random failure. On the upside, SkyMaxx Pro 3 has since become available, and I am very much looking forward to trying that out! Also, I got myself a set of throttle levers, which should help me get a grip on my engine management. Deja Vu much? And to add insult to injury, all the nice jobs that would carry me further east from this airport have since expired, and I am left with no jobs available. So now, a week later, the battery is empty again. Last time I left the airplane, I intended to get back in the cockpit a few minutes later. Next time, I will have to plan my descent more carefully and start reducing speed much earlier. Manhattan looks waaay cool! But I seriously misjudge my approach, and overshoot my target by about 10000 ft. My goal is in sight: New York City is now only a few minutes away! The air gets bumpy. Soon after, the Hudson River appears on the horizon. At this pace, it will take little more than an hour to fly from Johnstown to New York.Īfter Harrisburg VOR (HAR), I follow the last wave of the Appalachian Mountains until Allentown VOR (FJM), and then head east straight for La Guardia VOR (LGA). And in today’s great weather, I can finally make use of the powerful turbocharged engine I have here, and rise up to 14000 ft, where the air is thinner, and the ride is smoother. With photo scenery, the mountains are a stunning sight! Really unlike anything I have seen before, these parallel waves of forests amidst a sea of farmland. Default X-Plane–or rather, the Clouds HD 2.0 package from the org–just looks so much more realistic.Īnd then it’s just a straight line across the Appalachain Mountains. I try SkyMaxx Pro v3 once again, and I am immediately disappointed by those cartoonish cumulus clouds in the sky. The sky is bright yellow in the early morning sun, with no cloud in sight! Perfect weather for a nice cross-country flight. I have flown a similar route before, in FSX at the time Murky weather made finding the destination airport quite difficult, and the undulating waves of the Appalachians where mostly hidden in clouds. Today I want to do a somewhat longer leg, from John Murtha Johnstown Cambria Company (KJST) directly to La Guardia (KLGA) in New York City.
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