I did the whole trip yesterday and I have to say I'm amazed! Great choice of landscape and a wonderful route. Halfway through I ended up hiding my map as well as the flight plan, and navigating using only the descriptions and visual landmarks. A truly spectacular experience in VR.
As others have pointed out, the mixture must be leaned at those altitudes, so nothing wrong with that. During the last leg, I had a bit of icing on the wings and the pitot tube that lasted until landing. In every descent I turned on my carb heat just in case! I kept changing the fuel tank selector in order to mantain the balance. I had enough fuel to complete the trip without refuelling.
I was wayyy behind the ETE of the waypoints (2' or 3' + minutes) but I assumed it was due to my way of flying (some turns, identifying landmarks, a few orbits before choosing the correct valley...).
Thank you for this, I enjoyed it so much. I'm from southern spain and I'm even thinking of give it a shot and learn to create a bush trip around Andalucía!
AMAZING bush trip! This was everything I wanted from MSFS at launch, and I am happy to have found it in the modding community. this was my first MSFS mod download, and it is EXCELLENT! As a semi-novice sim pilot I had some hairy-as-hell go-arounds, but I've so far made the two hardest landings and I will be coming back for the rest tomorrow.
Hello EdgeofCosmos, thank you very much. :) A couple months ago I'm pretty sure every leg of the bushtrip started at the same hour/time of the day. Something might have changed in the game so that now the time 'en route' adds up to the next takeoff. I'm just guessing... sorry, but in conclusion, it's not intentional.
thanks a lot for that trip, a couple of challenging fields made it quite an exiting experience. Quite hard to follow where the POI are, but its anyway nice with all the comments. If you know of other of those small fields, please write them down, they are really fun to practice!
You're welcome. I don't know of any other challenging airfields, but the new bush trip that was posted yesterday, East Papua Challenge, seems full of them. I'll be trying it soon enough.
Thanks for this amazing trip through a beautiful landscape. I agree that icing is a great issue. Is it at all possible by the way to customize the weather when creating a bush trip? So far, I think all just use presets...
Yes, the weather can be customized in a file, weather.WPR I think, in the bush project. I have to admit I did not pay too much attention to the weather in my bush trip... I just picked clear weather with few clouds and rolled with it.
I finished this trip yesterday. Quite challenging - partly one of the landings, but almost more so with the altitude changes and the icing. As soon as I touched a cloud at altitude I was covered in ice. Had to make two emergency landings and wait for the ice to melt away.
In the end, challenging for a sim beginner as myself, but also very fun and beautiful scenery. Now I want to go hiking in the Pyrenees.
This is absolutely great! You have got to be kidding me with that airstrip on the side of the mountain in Leg 3! Great stuff, but yes, the mixture thing is correct behaviour - may want to remove that wording from the trip, it kind of brings the thing down a bit. Loving it so far. Tomorrow gonna retry landing Leg 3. You can guess how the first attempt went (that's after 3 go-arounds!) ;)
I've now flown the two first legs. Indeed, much fun!
BTW it's not a bug that power increases at altitude when fuel mixture is leaned. Squirrel explained it to me here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AGv8kSZTHQ
Not meaning to report every leg flown, but I flew the next one also with the next challenging landning, which is exactly what it was. Not the touchdown itself, but making a reasonable descent in the narrow valleys. Ah well, I'm a beginner. Much fun again!
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Halfway through I ended up hiding my map as well as the flight plan, and navigating using only the descriptions and visual landmarks. A truly spectacular experience in VR.
As others have pointed out, the mixture must be leaned at those altitudes, so nothing wrong with that.
During the last leg, I had a bit of icing on the wings and the pitot tube that lasted until landing. In every descent I turned on my carb heat just in case!
I kept changing the fuel tank selector in order to mantain the balance. I had enough fuel to complete the trip without refuelling.
I was wayyy behind the ETE of the waypoints (2' or 3' + minutes) but I assumed it was due to my way of flying (some turns, identifying landmarks, a few orbits before choosing the correct valley...).
Thank you for this, I enjoyed it so much. I'm from southern spain and I'm even thinking of give it a shot and learn to create a bush trip around Andalucía!
this was my first MSFS mod download, and it is EXCELLENT! As a semi-novice sim pilot I had some hairy-as-hell go-arounds, but I've so far made the two hardest landings and I will be coming back for the rest tomorrow.
Thank you for showing me the beautiful Pyrenees!
A couple months ago I'm pretty sure every leg of the bushtrip started at the same hour/time of the day. Something might have changed in the game so that now the time 'en route' adds up to the next takeoff. I'm just guessing... sorry, but in conclusion, it's not intentional.
If you know of other of those small fields, please write them down, they are really fun to practice!
I don't know of any other challenging airfields, but the new bush trip that was posted yesterday, East Papua Challenge, seems full of them. I'll be trying it soon enough.
In the end, challenging for a sim beginner as myself, but also very fun and beautiful scenery. Now I want to go hiking in the Pyrenees.
BTW it's not a bug that power increases at altitude when fuel mixture is leaned. Squirrel explained it to me here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AGv8kSZTHQ
And thanks for the link too! The topic is very well explained.