Macroburst

VP2, Thank you! My coffee level was terminated @ time of production. Apologies . Initial & final take off & landings on terra firma. In between- all up to you. As far as craft choice- anything that can utilize solid and water runways. Enjoy! -Macro

Start out a new week with a new mini challenge- MPEJ to MPPA, daylight, VFR in a floatplane and travel directly over the canal. Depart from MPEJ and head to the canal southward. Enjoy the short jaunt over the cruise, freight and military ships transiting the canal. Check out the lowering water levels in Pago Gatun (Gatun Lake). Your flight path will lead south east, past Gamboa, and you will see Centennial Bridge. Knowing the high caliber of our fellow pilots I won't need to remind anyone to never, ever fly UNDER the bridge, Or for that matter to never memorialize the passing in a photo. With that out of the way, there's no need to remind anyone that there will be a second bridge, Bridge of the Americas, where a second photo wouldn't be taken. Now after the professional and courteous pilots have passed that point a quite unusual predicament occurs when you receive a phone call from your good buddy Max, next to the Flamenco Island Lighthouse. (Galivanting around in his sea kayak he bought in the late 1970s- his luck faltered) as he began to realize that he was taking in seawater faster than he could bail out. After a few frantic minutes attempting to make it to the harbor jetty next to the lighthouse he calls YOU!. Reduce speed and land next to Flamenco Island to retrieve Max. Return to the air and fly to center of Panama City, loop west and pass to the north of Cerro Ancon (Ancon Hill). And my astute fellow pilots, don't forget to follow all airport restrictions as you fly over Marcos A Gelabert Intl on an approach to Panama Pacifico (MPPA). Enjoy! No Carrots or walruses were injured during this flight. All Rights Reserved.

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Nice shots Especially enjoyed the wing shot at cruise

Nice run Darryl Your centerline landing was noticed! Now if my consistency could be improved.....

Interesting concept for the CH-47; "AURORA, Colorado—Piasecki Aircraft says an updated version of long-running concept studies of a radically modified Boeing CH-47 Chinook combining the helicopter’s existing twin-rotor system with a tiltwing and twin tilting ducted fans has become more relevant with the U.S. Army’s growing drive for longer range troop transport and logistics support." https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/piasecki-refreshes-hybrid-chinook-concept

Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Engine Data Plate

Sirrus, American and British naming conventions and nicknames add some relish in some history books. The TBF Avenger and F6F Hellcat, were named Tarpon and Gannet during initial lend lease transactions.

Beautiful Gannet!

Excellent!

Kit, When you settle down with a mug of hot tea in your favorite chair, exhale, and realize there's no yoke in front of you, what's next???

Berlopez, No doubt that I may have changed the "Pause off" command- I don't remember having done that. From Nel's comment, https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-how-to-actually-pause-the-sim/143817 3. The more traditional FSX style pause (default keys… NONE!!! yes, there is a pause option that mostly pauses the entire sim as you’d expect… but it has no key assignments by default and you even need two keys for it…! (Turn on/turn off) Amazing, odd, strange, whatever, but luckily it’s there and here is how you enable it: The turn on/turn off commands are two separate entities and the turn off command requires two keys to enable the action. For that command it freezes movement BUT NOT TIME. Seems to be great consternation as to the philosophy of that (if any....) It is very easy to map (or remap) commands as you wish. Hope that isn't clear as mud. Macro

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