Climbing out of Alert, NT with the C-46 on 600 nm flight back to Resolute Bay to be followed by another 800+ nm back to the Buffalo Airways homebase in Yellowknife. It is actually 10 o’clock in the morning in the picture. Not much sunlight this time of the year.
Probably landed further North than ever before tonight. The mission was Resolute Bay,NT to Alert, NT in northern Canada. This time of the year there is not much sunlight at all.
I made a quick stop at Eureka on the 600 nm flight to Alert. Interesting place, which I will visit again another day.
So, still lot’s of the Virtual Pilot’s Association VFR World Coastal Tour left. The Mediterranean coasts are now done at least, after a flight from Algiers to Casablanca. I planned the flight via the Straits of Gibraltar, hoping for some interesting sightseeing too. The weather did not cooperate though. Approaching the straits and all along the Atlantic coast to Casablanca there was heavy cloud and haze.
This is usually the worst time of the year for R/C flying here in Sweden. Rainy and windy weather is the norm, and this Autumn has been no exception. Still, there have been a few really good opportunities. The latest one was this Monday afternoon. Broken clouds, later replaced by a high overcast and 2 knot winds is all you can ask for as an R/C pilot this time of the year.
Left work early and drove the short distance to the airfield. Managed to get a full five fllights with three different models and more than an hour in the air before dusk. Dusk comes early. Shortly after five o’cklock it was getting increasingly difficult to see the model in the air, so it was time to call it a day.
Enroute to Resolute Bay on what is a pretty long flight in old propliner. My first flight with the Curtiss C-46. Beatiful sunrise while climbing and turning between the clouds north of Yellowknife …while browsing a 109 page C-46 pilots operating handbook.
Interesting approach to Hay River in awful weather. Most of the flight from Yellowknife was in IMC and ended with a full procedure ILS approach. Part of the fun with flight simming for me is sight seeing and enjoying the view. This flight I did not see much more than a lot of clouds and the airports. But the challenge of flying in that kind of weather is also fun.
Yesterday I started my next world tour with the Virtual Pilots Association. This time I am doing their VFR Coastal World Tour, which means visual flying between airports located at coasts all around the world. I flew the first leg from London City Airport (EGLC) to Liverpool (EGGP) with the beatiful Sibwings SAAB Safir X.
Today’s first flight is a hop across the Irish Sea to Dublin in Ireland, and after that we are off Scotland and Edinburgh.
The outdoor flying season is fast approaching the worst part of the year. Today was a pretty good day for flying though, although my own flight session was cut short by increasing winds and rain. I managed to get three flights in at least.
Me and my father preparing the models for flight.
Ready for take off or launch or whatever is an appropriate name.
Doing my best to master hovering. Tricky as I am not used to that kind of aerobatics. Even more so as the wind had picked up quite a bit. Great fun though!
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