Airplanista 🇺🇦

Still bopping around the EU in my #Xplane #flightsim #Cirrus SF50 Vision jet. Took off from Salzburg, Austria, and here I'm on final approach flying the ILS to RWY 24 at Naples, Italy (LIRN). I believe really good pizza is what's for dinner.

My pax are here for seven days, so I might rent something interesting and go explore Sicily VFR. They have a sweet G1000 172 Skyhawk on the line here, €160/hr (Hobbs) wet.

#avgeeks #aviation #flying #EU #Italy

Apr 5 at 3:43amWeb
Show threadJohnOCFII1d ago
@Av8rdan so - will you experience fuel shortages in Europe in XPlane? If so — damn realistic!
Show threadAirplanista 🇺🇦1d ago
@JohnOCFII Yes, the Jet A at Salzburg has gone from €0/gal. to €0/gal almost overnight. Fantasy fuel is like that.
Show threadoscarfalcon1d ago

@Av8rdan

Nice alignment...

Show threadAirplanista 🇺🇦1d ago
@oscarfalcon Thanks to the G1000 panel in this jet. It is the Laminar Research plane, so really solid and works perfectly. It can fly an RNAV or ILS down to about .5NM from the numbers, dead on the glide slope, pop off the A/P and drive it in. In horrible low vis to minimums, I fly the autopilot right to the numbers, disconnect, yank power and slide a layer of grease all the way to the first taxiway turnoff.
Show threadoscarfalcon1d ago

@Av8rdan

Amazing!

Show threadAirplanista 🇺🇦1d ago

@oscarfalcon Yes. I have never flown this panel for reals, but I fought with my autopilot in my Cherokee 235 for years, never worked quite right. These new avionics packages from Garmin link the panel to the servos so well, you really only hand fly it off the runway, and back on at the end of your trip.

In real-world flying though, you need to practice hand flying once in a while in case the panel goes FUBAR.

Show threadoscarfalcon23h ago

@Av8rdan

Absolutely. We took a demo flight when they brought he Cirrusjet here and it started to drizzle a little as we turned to final but the thing behaved fabulously, didn't even make the pilot sweat (or make him visibly worried). I was right seat passenger so I could see him just fly, it was so cool.

One Day; one day I'll get to fly it Fo'realz...