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Post by Darren Elliott on Aug 25, 2022 18:15:54 GMT -5
looking good there Devon, hope your enjoying your time at pen state.
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Post by serge on Sept 1, 2022 4:38:10 GMT -5
@devon it looks great, enjoy your time. and i know it is also lot of hard studying too... remember my exams time in college. enjoy and study well
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Post by devon on Apr 7, 2024 11:57:11 GMT -5
Been getting a lot of time in the sim lately, it's a nice escape when classes are constantly killing me. With how good the scenery is in MSFS 2020, I enjoy general aviation more than airliners now! It makes me feel like I'm really flying! The Cessna 152 is one of my favorites, as it has no autopilot, and is all steam gauges, nothing digital. I taught myself NDB and VOR navigation, and I find them very enjoyable! Of course, that does not take away my love for the airliners! The Learjet 35 is real fun to fly - its flight dynamics are a little challenging but it is a rocket! The thing takes off so quickly and can climb to FL450 in about 15 minutes! It's also very analog, something I love.
Flew a Cessna 172 with skis to the Denali Base Camp in Alaska. It was a little bit of a challenge as I had to get to high altitudes quickly to clear mountaintops even if I was only clearing them by 100 or 200 feet.
Not a great plane to fly in my opinion. The Robin DR400 climbs super slowly, and stalls with the slightest imperfections in conditions, I hate it, but I wanted to keep the theme European on Saint Patrick's Day this past March when I flew over Donegal and Ballybofey, two towns in Ireland where my family came from 120 years ago.
Alaska is such a great place to fly, and the DHC-2 Beaver is a great plane for this. Not the best performing, but looks great and can land pretty much anywhere!
As I said, I love the Cessna 152. Spin recovery is one of my favorites, as you can send this thing into a spin so easily. Just get it to around 50 knots, then full elevator and rudder, and it'll go into a spin. It's so easy to recover though, simply wait for airspeed to die and then go full opposite rudder and itll recover itself. For a stunt I took it above the Penn State campus at an altitude of only around 1200 feet AGL, sent it into a spin, and recovered without even getting close to hitting the ground. This screenshot was taken on a different flight, when I was flying a 152 from a local airport, KLOM, to wherever I ended up, which ended up being KWWD, using NDB and VOR navigation. I haven't delved deep into instrument flying and it is something I want to focus on more.
Of course, airliners are still a great time. Here's an A320neo en route from San Diego to Seattle, with both Mount Saint Helens and Mount Rainier in the shot. The A320 is nice to fly, but I should probably get to know the autopilot a little better.
I got the PMDG 737NG, and I forced myself to learn a true study-level aircraft for the first time. This is the real deal. I had to program my entire flight plan into the FMC myself, it sucked, but it felt cool especially when the aircraft did everything I asked it to. The 737 is real fun to fly, and while it is a little sluggish at times, its complicatedness compared to the A320 makes it real fun. This is a 737-700 and this pic was taken on a flight from Philly to Detroit.
I just got this one a couple days ago, the A330neo. It's real fun to fly. It too is a little sluggish, but that's alright. It's an absolutely gorgeous plane, I've always loved the look of the A330 family, and they always land so smoothly! This A339 screenshot was taken on a flight from Dublin to Philly.
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