I’m still moving on with my around the world mission in X-Plane. In the last communication I was bombing around over Brazil having visited Antarctica. I’m still working my northwards at the moment to complete the east coast of the Americas. I do have some new kit on the flight sim – two desk extensions that hold the HOTAS system.
The updated flight system
So, my last landing was in the Falkland Islands so we shall continue with the next airport visited:
Rio Gallegos International Airport, (RGL/SAWG), Argentina Comandante Luis Piedrabuena Airport, Argentina Santa Cruz Airport, Argentina Puerto Deseado Airport, Argentina Cañadon Seco Airport, Argentina General Enrique Mosconi International Airport, Argentina Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport, Argentina Antoine de Saint Exupéry Airport, Argentina Comandante Espora Airport, Argentina El Palomar Airport, Argentina João Simões Lopes Neto International Airport, Brazil Aeródromo de Belém Novo, Brazil Diomício Freitas/Forquilhinha Airport, Brazil Florianópolis-Hercílio Luz International Airport, Brazil Costa Esmeralda Airport, Brazil Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport, Brazil Curitiba-President Afonso Pena International Airport, Brazil São Paulo/Guarulhos – Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport, Brazil Jacarepaguá–Roberto Marinho Airport, Brazil Rio de Janeiro/Galeão – Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport, Brazil Joaquim de Azevedo Mancebo Airport, Brazil Campos–Bartolomeu Lysandro Airport, Brazil Guarapari Airport, Brazil Eurico de Aguiar Salles Airport, Brazil Una-Comandatuba Airport, Brazil Val-de-Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport, Brazil Macapá-Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport, Brazil Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana Piarco International Airport, Trinidad and Tobago Maurice Bishop International Airport, Grenada Canouan Airport, Canouan in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Argyle International Airport, St Vincent Hewanorra International Airport, St Lucia Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, Martinique Douglas–Charles Airport, Dominica John A. Osborne Airport, Montserrat V. C. Bird International Airport, Antigua Princess Juliana International Airport, St Martin Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, British Virgin Islands Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, US Virgin Islands
So, not far to go now. Heading northwards and then I’ll curve over the Arctic to get back home. I’m looking forward to it.
It’s been a while since my last update to the list of airports and countries I have visited as part of my around the world flight in short hops. I can now confirm that I have reached all seven continents and am about to start making my way back home to the UK. There are some other communications from the first part to the second. So, here are the places I have been since the last communication and since updating X-Plane a short while ago.
Klyuchi Air Base Airport, Russia Adak Airport, Alaska, U.S.A. Lihue Airport, Hawaii, U.S.A. Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii, U.S.A. Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, U.S.A. Kahului Airport, Hawaii, U.S.A. San Francisco International Airport, California, U.S.A. Monterey Regional Airport, California, U.S.A. San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport, California, U.S.A. Santa Barbara Airport, California, U.S.A. Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach, California, U.S.A. San Felipe International Airport, Mexico Loreto International Airport, Mexico La Paz International Airport- Manuel Márquez de León, Mexico Los Cabos International Airport, Mexico Mazatlán International Airport, Mexico Tepic International Airport, Mexico Lázaro Cárdenas Airport, Mexico Chilpancingo National Airport, Mexico Puerto Escondido International Airport, Mexico Commercial Cd Ixtepec Airport, Mexico Ángel Albino Corzo International Airport, Mexico Toncontín Airport, Honduras Juan Santamaría International Airport, Costa Rica Enrique Malek International Airport (DAV), Panama Ruben Cantu Airport, Panama Tocumen International Airport, Panama Enrique Adolfo Jiménez International Airport (ONX), Panama Airport Antonio Roldan Betancur, Colombia Olaya Herrera Airport, Colombia Aeropuerto Antonio Narino, Colombia Aeropuerto Mariscal La Mar, Ecuador FAP Captain José Abelardo Quiñones González International Airport, Peru Jorge Chavez International Airport, Peru Aerodromo Maria Reiche, Peru Juan Simons Vela Airport, Peru Juan Mendoza Airport, Bolivia Diego Aracena International Airport, Chile San Pedro de Atacama Aerodrome SCPE, Chile Las Breas Airport, Chile Aeropuerto de Fiambalá, Chile Aeropuerto Internacional Domingo Faustino Sarmiento – San Juan, Argentina Santo Domingo Airfield, Chile Mocha Island airport, Chile Melinka Airport, Chile Caleta Blanco Airport, Chile Drummond Twins International Airport, Chile Porvenir Airport, Chile Almirante Schroeders Airport, Chile Ushuaia Airport (USH), Argentina Guardiamarina Zanartu Airport, Chile – moved to X-Plane 12 O’Higgins Skiway, Antarctica RAF Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands, UK
Boeing 737-800 Antarctic Ocean
So, that’s all the continents completed. Now to head up the east coast of South America, North America and then home to good old Great Britain – not so great these days!
On Friday I was chatting to the Legend and I said I wouldn’t buy X-Plane 12 because XP 11 is pretty good and most of my payware might not transfer over. Well, it took all of about 12 hours to change my mind and buy X-Plane 12 even though it’s the development product. It took a while to download because I got the scenery for the whole world – why wouldn’t you!
I had to set up the joystick and configure the keys so they work as I like. This didn’t take a massive amount of time but it’s frustrating when all you want to do is fly around and see the world.
Citation X in the Andes
The scenery is amazing. I have turned most graphics settings up to maximum and this works well with my RTX graphics card. I’m getting >20fps which for a flight simulator, especially X-Plane, is pretty darn good. Also, using the taskmaster I can see that the GPU is being used at around 90% and this pleases me. It’s worth having something you’ve paid for working as it should.
Citation X in the Andes
I’ve added in some of my custom scenery and it seems to be working well. So, I have my airport in Keswick, which doesn’t exist in reality but it does mean I’m in the Lake District immediately and can fly around and bomb shit.
F-14D in the Lake District
Now all I have to do is continue my flight around the world and get back to the UK so I can attempt to learn more. My payware aircraft from XP11 kinda work. I’ve tried the T-7 and as long as I keep the throttle high enough it seems to work ok. If I drop the throttle to idle the engine dies and that’s a touch embarrassing.
Citation X in the Andes
I’m somewhere in Chile at the moment and I’m heading to an airport on Antarctica. I have no idea what will exist when I get there and I’m only doing it so I can say I’ve “been” to every continent in my around the world flight. Here’s to many more hours of fun.
I’ve written here about my current Flight Sim challenge which is to fly around the world in short stages. Each leg is somewhere from 50 miles to 2000 miles, sometimes you have to fly over the Pacific and there isn’t a load of airports there. I’m currently in Peru and my previous journey had me landing at Aerodromo Maria Reiche in Nasca. While heading there I flew over the Nazca Lines and so I decided to download a scenery pack and go back and see what it looks like. I didn’t want to zoom over at 500 knots so decided to take a Grumman Goose out for a trip. As I’m heading to Lake Titicaca next I might make that trip in the Goose and land on the lake. It’s not very fast so I’ll have to see how much time I have. I might take the T7 to closer to the lake and then swap.
I’m still flying around the world in X-Plane. There are a few very boring communications about this within this site. This communication is just to have my recent Avro Vulcan landing published somewhere other than my YouTube channel. I think most of my landings in that airplane had been “less than satisfactory” but this one went ok. I’m still going to keep trying. I’m starting to vary the aircraft a little to see how they are different and to stave off the boredom of another flight sitting at 35,000ft for half an hour.
I am still flying around the world in a series of flights on the flight simulator. I’ll have to look back through here to figure out when I started but I’m currently on the Kamchatka peninsula heading towards the Bering Straights. My most recent flight looks like this:
Kamchatka Flight
I’ve generally been doing flights of a few hundred miles but every now and then I put in one of a few thousand. I’m not sure if I’m going to Hawaii or not at the moment. I wonder if I head there, then California and on to South America. I honestly am not sure. I do know that once I get to Iceland I am pretty much done and then what do I do? It’s been fun planning the flights and heading around the world in this simulated world.
The last communication that covered a list of airports ended at Tenzing Hillary Airport in Nepal and so here is the rest of the list to bring us up to date:
Tumling Tar Airport, Nepal Lhasa Gonggar Airport, Tibet Paro Airport, Bhutan Yonphula Airport, Bhutan Kyaukhtu South Airport, Myanmar Yangon International, Myanmar Kyaukhtu South Airport, Myanmar Dawei Airport, Myanmar Myeik Airport, Myanmar Kawthaung Airport, Myanmar Singapore Changi Airport, Singapore Brunei International Airport, Brunei Syamsudin Noor International Airport, Indonesia Selaparang Airport, Indonesia Sumbawa Besar Airport, Indonesia Sultan Muhammad Salahuddin Airport, Indonesia Komodo International Airport, Indonesia El Tari International Airport, Indonesia Darwin International Airport, Australia Broome International Airport, Australia Port Hedland International Airport, Australia Karratha Airport, Australia Kalbarri Airport, Australia RAAF Gingin, Australia Bunbury Airport, Australia Albany Regional Airport, Australia Ravensthorpe Airport, Australia Esperance Airport, Australia Norseman Airport, Australia Port Lincoln Airport, Australia Adelaide Airport, Australia Kingston Airport, Australia Portland Airport, Australia Warrnambool Airport, Australia Apollo Bay Airport, Australia Moorabbin (Harry Hawker) Airport, Australia Burnie Airport, Australia Hobart Airport, Australia in the Avro Vulcan Te Anau Airport, New Zealand Invercargill Airport, New Zealand Ryan’s Creek Aerodrome, New Zealand Queenstown Airport, New Zealand Christchurch Airport, New Zealand Woodbourne Airport, New Zealand Wellington Airport, New Zealand New Plymouth Airport, New Zealand Auckland Airport, New Zealand Nouméa Magenta Airport, New Calendonia Honiara International Airport, Solomon Islands Rabaul Airport, Papua New Guinea Lae Nadzab Airport, Papua New Guinea Goroka Airport, Papua New Guinea Kagamuga International Airport, Papua New Guinea Dortheys Hiyo Eluay International Airport, Indonesia Rendani Airport, Indonesia Domine Eduard Osok Airport, Indonesia Buli/Halmahera Island Airport, Indonesia Sam Ratulangi International Airport, Indonesia Naha Airport, Indonesia General Santos International Airport, Philippines Francisco Bangoy International Airport, Philippines Lumbia Airfield, Philippines Surigao Airport, Philippines Panan-awan Airport, Philippines Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport, Philippines Catarman National Airport, Philippines Legazpi Airport, Philippines Bagasbas Airport, Philippines Fort Magsaysay Airport, Philippines Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport, China Wenzhou Longwan International Airport, China Zhoushan Putuoshan Airport, China Jeju International Airport, South Korea Pyongyang International Airport, DPRK Orang Airport, DPRK Yanji Chaoyangchuan International Airport, China Vladivostok International Airport, Russia Sapporo Okadama Airport, Japan Monbetsu Airport, Japan Iturup Island Airport, Russia Elizovo Airport, Russia Klyuchi Air Base Airport, Russia
And there we have it. The list so far since the last communication. Not sure how to conquer the Pacific, will keep thinking about it.
Kamchatka Peninsula Flight
This is communication number 2021 and so here are some things that happened in that year of our lord:
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter performs the first powered flight on another planet in history.
Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
The number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 surpasses 5 million.
Barbados becomes a republic on its 55th anniversary of independence while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
I’ve been heading around the world in my Boeing/Saab T-7, just hopping from airport to airport. It started as a round the UK coast trip and I’m now in Nepal so I got distracted by more coastline and then mountains. This is not going to be an interesting communication as it is a list of every airport I have stopped at on this journey. X-Plane keeps a log of journeys and so I am able to write this here, also, I have a bit of paper covered with names of places and that is about to run out of space so I need to get this started:
Manchester, England. RAF Valley, Wales. Aberporth Airport, Wales. Bristol Filton Airport, England. RAF Lyneham, England. Lee On Solent Airport, England. Jersey Airport, Jersey. Quimper–Cornouaille Airport, France. Nantes Atlantique Airport, France. La Rochelle – Île de Ré Airport, France. Cazaux Air Base, France. San Sebastián Airport, Spain. Seve Ballesteros-Santander Airport, Spain. Santiago–Rosalía de Castro Airport, Spain. Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, Portugal. Monte Real Air Base, Portugal. Humberto Delgado Airport, Portugal. Faro Airport, Portugal. Base Naval de Rota, Spain. Gibraltar Airport, Gibraltar. Rabat–Salé Airport, Morocco. Ben Slimane Airport, Morocco. Marrakesh Menara Airport, Morocco. Agadir – Al Massira Airport, Morocco. Tan Tan Airport, Morocco. César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport, Spain. Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, Spain. La Palma Airport, Spain. Dakhla Airport, Morocco. Nouadhibou Airport, Mauritania. Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, Mauritania. Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, Senegal. Banjul International Airport, Gambia. Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, Guinea-Bissau. Conakry Gbessia International Airport, Republic of Guinea. Faranah Airport, Republic of Guinea. Lungi International Airport, Sierra Leone. Monrovia-Roberts Airport, Liberia. Man Airport, Côte d’Ivoire. San Pédro Airport, Côte d’Ivoire. Félix Houphouët Boigny International Airport, Côte d’Ivoire. Takoradi Airport, Ghana. Kotoka International Airport, Ghana. Aéroport de Lomé-Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togo. Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport, Benin. Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Ibadan Airport, Nigeria. Benin Airport, Nigeria. Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Nigeria. Ajaokuta Airport, Nigeria. Bamenda Airport, Cameroon. Bafoussam Airport, Cameroon. Ngaoundéré Airport, Cameroon. Yaoundé Airport, Cameroon. Yaounde Nsimalen International Airport, Cameroon. Bata Airport, Equatorial Guinea. Port-Gentil International Airport, Gabon. Omboué Hospital Airport, Gabon. Agostinho-Neto International Airport, Republic of Congo. Kitona Base Airport, Republic of Congo. Luanda Airport, Angola. Porto Amboim Airport, Angola. Aéroport de Waku-Kungo, Angola. Benguela Airport, Angola. Welwitschia Mirabilis International Airport, Angola. Aéroport de Xangongo, Angola. Ruacana Airport, Namibia. Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Airport, Namibia. Grootfontein Air Force Base, Namibia. Uis Mine Airport, Namibia. Walvis Bay Airport, Namibia. Aérodrome de Lüderitz, Namibia. Aérodrome d’Oranjemund, Namibia. Air Force Base Langebaanweg, South Africa. Cape Town International Airport, South Africa. Air Force Base Overberg, South Africa. Port Elizabeth International Airport, South Africa. Margate Airport, South Africa. Maputo International Airport, Mozambique. Beira International Airport, Mozambique. Aérodrome de Nacala, Mozambique. Julius Nyerere International Airport, Tanzania. Moshi Airport, Tanzania. Abeid Amani Karume International Airport, Zanzibar. Aden Adde International Airport, Somalia. Iskushuban Airport, Somalia. Abdullahi Yusuf Airport, Somalia. Socotra Airport, Yemen. Salalah Airport, Oman. RAFO Thumrait Airbase, Oman. RAFO Masirah, Oman. Muscat International Airport, Oman. Fujairah International Airport, UAE. Khasab Airport, Oman. Dubai International Airport, UAE. Al Bateen Executive Airport, UAE. Jebel Dhana Airport, UAE. Delma Island Airport, UAE. Qeshm International Airport, Iran. Jask Airport, Iran. Konarak Airport, Iran. Turbat International Airport, Pakistan. Pasni Airport, Pakistan. Ormara Airport, Pakistan. Jinnah International Airport, Pakistan. Rajanpur Airport, Pakistan. Zhob Airport, Pakistan. Miran Shah Airport, Pakistan. Saidu Sharif Airport, Pakistan. Skardu Airport, Pakistan. Muzaffarabad Airport, Pakistan. Chilas Airport, Pakistan. Hotan Airport, China. Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport, India. Ngari Kunsha Airport, Tibet. Simikot Airport, Nepal. Jumla Airport, Nepal. Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal. Tenzing Hillary Airport, Lukla, Nepal.
Heading Past Mount Everest
And so this journey around the world continues. I have just flown past Mount Everest after [not quite] landing at Lukla. After passing the highest place on Earth I headed to:
Tumlingtar Airport, Nepal.
I think is almost, kind of, half way around? I have no idea. We’ll have to see what the rest of this journey looks like.
This is comms#1979 and so here are some things that happened in that year:
Sid Vicious dies.
Compact Disk displayed publicly for first time.
The last British soldier leaves Malta.
A human powered aircraft flies across the English Channel.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time recently flying around the world, in a flight simulator. Let’s make that clear, I’m playing a game on a computer. I’m not doing this in real life. This started as a coastline tour of the UK from RAF Valley heading south and I just got stuck following coasts all the way to Pakistan. One day there will be a list on this site of all the airports I’ve landed at, well, at least since I’ve been keeping a list, which I think starts in Africa.
I’m going to skip the coastline of India and head across the Himalayas to see some mountainous scenery. I’m not sure where I’ll go once I hat the coast again, and I’m not sure when I’ll head back to the UK. Maybe I’ll just do a trip around the eastern hemisphere for now? I don’t know.
The Coast Of Hingol National Park
While I’ve been flying I’ve been learning more about operating the aircraft and trying flight plans etc. I think I’ve just about managed to program a plan into the flight computer, but I haven’t yet followed it because I keep seeing valleys to get low down in.
China India Border With A Friend In Tow
I had been using some software to add other players into my game, but no one is really around where I am so I’ve been using the PC to generate other planes. This picture shows another T7 following me. I was worried it was going to shoot me down as I have combat turned on, but they just kept their distance and left me alone. It was quite nice to have someone else in the sky, even if it’s just an “AI” plane.
Just Over Surigh Yilganing Kol
So, I#ve recently landed at Leh, in India and I think it’s the first landing I’ve made in India. I’m not sure. The borders around here are a little hazy! Looking at Google maps I’ve just missed K2 and I won’t be going back for it. I’ve got to keep on moving eastwards.
This is comms#1971, so here are some things that happened in that year:
I’m not sure when I started this journey but I’ve been flying [in a Sim – X-Plane] around the coastline of the world. I started on Anglesey in Wales and am currently in Iran. I suspect a future communication will just be a big long list of the airports visited as I complete this journey. I nearly turned around once I reached the Red Sea but have decided to see what happens as I head further east.
Dayrestan to Jask Military. X-Plane. #roundtheworldtrippic.twitter.com/sfzrxm1xm1
As I pass through airports I’ve been tweeting my journey. I’m not sure when I started doing that, I think I just wanted a record of the flights somewhere. They are in my virtual log book and also on a scrap of paper on the table next to me. The first one on the paper is Bamenda. I completed that flight on 13 July.
Landing at Bamenda, Cameroon. Part of the round the world tour in twenty minute steps. Started at RAF Valley, Wales have mostly followed coastlines. pic.twitter.com/HZ2nH0zYlV
I’m not sure in what format to have all the airports listed in the end. Watch this space and see what I say. If you are lucky and go to this MAP when I am flying then you’ll be able to see where I am and what I’m doing. My aircraft user name is Kertz. Click on the aircraft to see which one is mine. You might be told it’s a Cessna. I can assure you it isn’t. Because the JoinFS software I used works across platforms you have to tell it what you are flying. There are some categories, but over all I have found that the system works well and I’ve flown with a friend while they are based in Texas IRL.
You Can Track My Flights
Above is what the maps will look like if you can find me. When you click on the aircraft there is information about them that pops up. It’s quite a neat little trick.
This is communication 1959 and here are some things that happened in that year:
Alaska becomes the 49th USA state.
A referendum is Switzerland turns down women’s suffrage.
British Empire Day is renamed Commonwealth Day. Why do we still have MBE medals??
