*Memories Part 3*

[yv35p]

Hi Folks

Ok..fast forward to the year 1989...July 24th to be more precise..This flight was done in the beautiful lady, 1982 Beechcraft Super King Air 200, YV-554CP..At this point, i had learned to love the venerable Pratt & Whitney PT-6 reverse-flow turbine..after quite a few hours with only one of those hanging in there and almost always by night, i came to fly this beauty with a pair of them! this was too much..sadly, this gorgeous lady was stolen on June of 1992 from the airport we'll be arriving to this flight "Caracas Machado Zuloaga" SVCS so who knows where she ended, doing what :-(....that was in fact a period of time when many birds were stolen, preferred airplanes for the bad guys were Cessna Stationairs and Caravan Is, Rockwell TurboCommanders and King Airs..some of them were kidnapped in flight after "costumers" contracted a charter flight and once in the air they took control of the planes and pilots.. some good friends of mine were taken with the planes and let them free after many days, some of them had to walk for days through a jungle and stuff...anyways, is better to remember her flying in FS!! cool indeed...so here we go, from Puerto Ordaz "Manuel Piar" International SVPR an industrial city located in Southeastern Venezuela to SVCS...hope you like these ones amigos!

Best Regards

Carlos

Sitting at the hot ramp, doing what all charter pilots do, wait and wait!


And now the reward for the waiting time :D


Positive climb, gear up!


Overflying the mighty Orinoco river, what a sight


The sun has started to come down, what a nice and smooth flight


Starting oir descent from FL185, the highest we can go westbound without having to fly under Instrument rules (passengers arrived suddenly and were in a hurry so lets go visual! lol)


Here we are in a right-base for runway 10 at SVCS


Turning final, doing some close circuit..remember they are in a hurry!


Looking good..well, the King Air makes it so easy


And a very smooth touchdown to end this flight, ok remain in your seats will you? lol


See you amigos, have a good night :D

[DINOBAT]

Stunning!!!!!!!!, just gorgeous pics Captain Flores, really liked them a lot :), it's a shame that this nice plane was stolen, who knows where it ended :(, anyways nice to see her flying again!!!, portate bien, saludos,



Jacobo

[spitfire222]

Awesome shots Carlos, the first & second one are especially great! :-)

Best regards,
Vincent

[yv35p]

Thanks Jacobo and Vincent for the kind comments, much appreciated amigos!

Jacobo:...seguramente recordaras esa etapa de robos y secuestros..mi Papà sufria cuando me preguntaba "verga hijo, para donde vas a volar hoy?".."para Cartagena" ccoooññoo.....HAHAHAHAA!!..de pana que si no fuera por eso, aun estaria volando charters, divertido y se gana bien pero que se hace con los malandros? y ahora que son gobierno? LOL

See you guys, take care

[Peer]

Superb post Compadre, Fantastic pics and I like the story ofcourse!
A good night to you and Andrea also my friend!
I asked it in your other post also, can you please check my Henks post, all I see is red crosses, might be my PC, or someone stole my pics lol

[yv35p]

Man this is some spooky night LOL...im having weird issues with my monitor..suddenly goes black! but well, the old kick and slam over the top seems to work so far Thanks Compadre!...greets to Bianca

[Peer]

I bought a new JMC plane, do you like it???

[yv35p]

Wow my friend, yeah i like it very much! The landing gear doesnt looks rugged though so we'll have to ask Dave to shovel a little more what kind of rare bird is that Compadre?

[Peer]

It's a German Rohrbach-Roland from the late twenties (in Iberia livery) 3 Wooden props, crew in "free nature", sparkling exhaust, all included lol .Freeware in the new 2004 files.



I'm off to bed now, See you!

[yv35p]

Thats an awesome shot Compadre, thanks for posting and also for the heads up on this classic and rare bird :D have a good sleep :7 Oh let me try the avatar and banner for one last time