Now from the low end of the spectrum.   Early morning. 1Z1 (retouched slightly for clarity)   Heading south   Over the rim   It's dark down here, keep the landing light on       Sunrise             Don't need lights now     Ten miles to go   Two more miles, time to climb out     Over the rim, and there is 1G4     88 miles in 1hr 18min   We now return you to the world of decent graphics, flowing rivers, and populated airfields.

Great shot. Picking along at 60kt. This is what I love about helicopters, real or sim!

I'd say this qualifies for "no more that 75' AGL."

Sorry for being a bit late on the join up.  My wife hosted a meeting at our house today with 20 women when the group leader could not host the meeting.  So I was busy the last few days helping to get everything organized and prepared.  Once their meeting started, I fired up the Merlin and got busy flying!   Flight 1: Page Municipal Airport (KPGA) to Grand Canyon National Park Airport (KGCN)   Flying in FSX Acceleration with Active Sky 2016 weather.  As per instructions for this adventure, not using my usual LittleNavMap this time around.   My helicopter of choice is the AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin.  I am using a Canadian Search and Rescue (SAR) version.  In honor of my birth in Canada.  The park rangers at Grand Canyon National Park asked me to do a low flight along the Colorado river and rescue anyone in need of assistance.  This first flight has more pictures than the other legs will.   My plan was to fly along the river until I saw Cape Royal on the right, then turn up the side canyon on the left.  In practice Cape Royal was so far above me that it was not a reliable landmark.   External view of my AW101 Merlin.  Brought my co-pilot along to keep an eye out for tourists, and to call out altitudes for me (especially if getting low)!   Cockpit view from my right seat.   Leaving Page Municipal Airport behind.   Over Lake Powell and approaching the dam.   Heading down into the canyon.   Down along the Colorado river.   You can see our rotor wash on the water.   Cruising along.  Getting used to this low flying.   Had to use steep bank angles on occasion to follow the twists and turns of the river.   The river narrows up ahead.   My FSX map progress so far.  Lots of twists and turns.   Still following the river.   Entering the enhanced OZx scenery.   Spotted a campsite ahead.   My Co-pilot spotted some Kayaks.   A narrow canyon ahead.  Wonder if my rotor blades are insured? 🙂   More Kayaks down below.   And another campsite.   The canyon floor is getting wider now.   A cool reflection on the water.   Still occasional steep bank angles required to follow the river.   After passing a tributary, the river is more orange now.   A larger Kayak group ahead.   Red rocks on the starboard side.   The left side canyon I need to take is marked ahead.   Just after our turn into the canyon.   Aiming for that cleft ahead.  First time all flight at full power.   Climbing steadily.   Just cresting the rim.  Looks like we used the correct side canyon.   A spectacular view behind us.   Approaching Grand Canyon National park Airport.   Landed safely on the ramp.  Is that an F-18?   A Cessna and some Piper Cubs are here too.   Leg 1 successfully completed.   Engines off and rotors stopped.  Going to find the Park Ranger and report in.  After that getting a good meal and a well earned nights sleep.   Here is the current local weather.  Turns out it was not a factor at all because I was so deep in the canyon.   I flew 112 miles at an average speed of 98 miles per hour, so not quite as slow as was briefed for this adventure.   But my altitude was within the briefed limits.  I have never had an altitude profile like this ever before in my life. 🙂      

Anything like a bass oboe?

Here is the path of where my custom saved aircraft camera views would be saved if installing the core installation of FS2020 onto D:\:   D:\WpSystem\S-1-5-21-918390606-74384954-1293146453-1001\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects\Airplanes\AircaftName   This is symlinked from C:\ as if I install the core FS2020 installation to D:\ the installation process will symlink it from this path below to the path listed above:   C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects\Airplanes\AircraftName   Should saved custom aircraft camera views carry over after reinstalling Windows if reinstalling FS2020 to D:\ and the install process will just verify the WpSystem folder on D:\, especially if they were stored on D:\ as mentioned in the first path I listed here?    

I finally had enough time to try Leg 2. I am now at 1Z1, though not really successfully since I had to refer to a GPS map twice as I was thoroughly lost. All those canyon walls look the same to me after a while. 1Z1 is such a minimal airport I don't think I ever would have found it without a GPS map showing where it was.   So, starting out...     Did a stop and got out of the helicopter to take a photo...     A couple of nice spots enroute...       Glad to be on the ground again after 2:15 hours of flying...    

"Assobo"  

Very wise, indeed.

Says it all.

I don't see any childish name calling?

A wise advice: stop discussion, wait and come back in fifty years! Then hopefully the situation might have changed.    Bernard

Nice!

We'll probably never know seeing he gave up.

Yeah but those Sites are allready beeing watched by the FBI... and they even allready closed a lot of filesharing sites... and torrent sites and sued the people behind over piracy encouragement with massive fees... and even some users...and they did house searches at peoples properties... and I really don't want that to happen to flighsim.com as well.. as this is one of my favorite Sites for Flightsim Addons and possibility to discuss with people.