RTW Retro Flight #91 Hamburg to Bremen . . . . . . 1961

Lufthansa flight 20 is a Douglas DC-3 on a short late evening flight from Hamburg to Bremen (EDDH - EDDW). We have 150 gallons of fuel for the 57 mile flight of about twenty two minutes. We will have moderate high cloud cover, but we will be cruising below it at 4,000 feet.

 

Thanks to:

Aircraft: MS FS9 Default Douglas DC-3. The Lufthansa paint is by Tim Scharnhop.

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:

- Hamburg Fuhlsbuttel and Bremen 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, engines started and preparing to taxi.

 

2. Leaving the gate and heading out to runway 5 for departure.

 

3. Passing a maintenance building and the fire station.

 

4. It is a long way to runway 5 and we see more aircraft and airport buildings along the way.

 

5. We are finally off and stowing the gear as we pass the terminal building and parked aircraft.

 

6. Turning on course for Bremen.

 

7. Continuing our turn to the southwest as the sun begins to set.

 

8. We are leveling out at our assigned cruising altitude of 4,000 feet.

 

9. Passing over the Elbe River.

 

10. We are about halfway to Bremen near the town of Zeven.

 

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11. The port city of Bremerhaven is ahead and off to our left with the North Sea beyond.

 

12. The city of Bremen and the River Weser is off or left wing and we see runway 27 at the airport.

 

13. We begin to descend and circle around to the west side of the city.

 

14. Continuing our turn to intercept our approach to runway 9.

 

15. About 4 nm from the airport we are lining up our approach with flaps 10 and gear down.

 

16. Now on short final with flaps 20.

 

17. Touchdown.

 

18. Turning off the runway.

 

19. Approaching the terminal. We have been assigned gate 5 for parking.

 

20. Parked, engines and systems shut down and passengers disembarked. Thanks for flying Lufthansa.

Great DAK and great airfields Larry :cool::cool::eek: You made my day again my friend! :)

Great shots Larry!! As a long ago RW pilot I can relate much better to cockpits with real gauges than touch screens like a laptop!;) Plus the light and shadows could have been from a well painted still life!

 

Michael

Wow! These are absolutely beautiful! The ambient lighting in the pictures is perfect and I really enjoyed the flight. Well done my friend. -Glenn

Thanks for your comments Jan, Michael & Glenn. Glad you liked it. :)