This is the first post after a really long time... Basically I stopped the RTW for more than one year. In my defense I can say I have been flying for real - I took a paraglider license in Switzerland and that activity lasted from December 2011 to November 2012.
Also, I decided to buy a new PC (nothing wrong with the old one but I wanted to experiment a little): this new machine has a i7 3770k processor which has been overclocked to 4.5 GHz. It is not a major overclock but I am proceeding step by step.
Back to FSX anyway and the Twin Star. I had also considered to switch to another plane, I particularly like the Cessna 337 but then I decided to remain with the Diamond.
No failures for this first flight. I am very rusty with the aircraft, so here we go:
Shortly after take-off I can see the delta of some river. Unfortunately I did not find any information on Google Earth:
And immediately after, what looks like a long highway extending in direction NE along the coast of Yemen:
Possibly some Oil Depot, there is also a rather small runaway extending toward the sea (upper right corner of the picture):
The flight proceeds. The scenario is pretty much desert and nothing more. But it is nice to see{
I have to climb to 7000 feet to avoid some mountains, I believe I have just passed the city of Ash Shihr on my right side:
And after that, a plateau - desert again -
Now descending toward the coast again. What I am overflying is the city and airport of Al Ghaydah:
The flight plan is now over the sea with the coast on the left side. A few pictures taken:
And now moving toward the coast, I just passed Al Fatk:
Time to enter in the C airspace surrounding the airport of Salalah, here are a few pictures of the airport and the city:
After Salalah, desert again:
And finally the destination of the flight, the airport of Marisah Island, Marisah Air Base:
Looking good on final:
And finally landed. Now, the next flight will most likely aimed to cross the Gulf of Oman and enter either in Pakistan or India (in India, I will aim for the Himalaya Mountains to land at Lukla of course):
That's it for this flight. I hope you enjoyed the summary.
