RTW Retro Flight #90 Hanover to Hamburg . . . . . 1961

KLM flight 212 is a Convair CV-340 on a short early morning flight from Hanover to Hamburg (EDDV - EDDH). We have 200 gallons of fuel on board for the 71 nm flight of about 23 minutes. We have good weather with moderate high cloud cover and we will be cruising at an altitude of 5,000 feet.

Thanks to:

Aircraft: Convair CV-340. The model and original textures are by Greg Pepper and Tom Gibson. The 1953 KLM Europe paint is by Jaap de Baare.

Propliner AI & Traffic: CalClassic & FS Aviator - Tom Gibson, Mike Stevens, Jason Krogmann, Manuel Jagmann, Bill Towers, Nikko Yaginuma, Richard Wright, Frederick Coleman, Dave Jones, Paul Haak, Marty Lochmiller, Ake Lindberg, Harland Sandberg, Richard Wright and Gary Harper. At www.calclassic.com

Scenery and Add-ons: MS FS2004 v9.1 Standard and:

- Hanover Langenhagen and Hamburg Fuhlsbuttel Airports are from the 1961Central Europe scenery package by Wolfgang Gersch, Harry Biard, Michael Schneider, Jaap de Baare, Nikko Yaginuma, Tom Gibson, Bernard Leuenberger and Mike Stevens. At www.calclassic.com

- Rwy12 and EZ Static Object and Scenery Libraries.

- FS2004 Classic Scenery Libraries v4a by Wolfgang Gersch at www.flightsim.com

- REX FS9 w/Overdrive & SP5 for sky, cloud, weather, water/wave, runway, taxiway, sun, grass textures and runway lighting.

- Flight One Ground Environment Pro II

- FS Genesis UT Europe.

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1. Passengers boarded, we are buttoned up and starting number one.

2. Taxiing out to runway 27 for departure.

3. We are airborne and retracting the gear.

4. Turning on course for Hamburg.

5. About 10 nm from Hanover at our cruising altitude.

6. Cruising near the city of Soltau a bit less than halfway to Hamburg.

7. Passing the town of Jesteburg below our right wing.

8. Descending through 3,500 feet and turning to intercept our approach to runway 5 at Hamburg.

9. Flaps 40 and gear down we are passing over the northern suburbs of Hamburg about 4 nm from the airport.

10. Lined up on short final and have added more throttle because we were sinking a bit too fast.

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11. Touchdown, although a bit more hard that I would like.

12. Taxiing to parking we see lots of aircraft still on the ground at this early hour.

13. Parked, engines shut down and Passengers disembarked. Thanks for flying KLM.

Fantastic Larry,

I'm converting my FSX to the classic period and slowly building up my traffic, yours look great.

Col.

Hi!

Albeit not specially vintage aviation, a fine flight over Germany!

thanks for choosing the KLM Convair, stunning flight over Germany :cool::cool::cool:

For once even Jan is correct!!:p:p Nice Convair and nice shots!!

Michael