Meandering over Old Mexico (And Points North)

***falcon409*** · March 20th, 2013, 04:22

It's amazing the difference between the mesh I installed and the mesh you have Willy. Mine is pretty much flat compared to what I see in your screenshots.

**KellyB** · March 20th, 2013, 04:40

Originally Posted by Willy

Lionheart's Bellanca Super Viking

(we didn't have a post dated the 15th

)

Thanks, Willy.

But now I'm confused: Post #37 appears to be dated March 15 on my machine?

***falcon409*** · March 20th, 2013, 05:13

Nope, we didn't have a post on March 15th....the post in question was done by me on March 14th. We setup to fly on the evening of the 15th. . .had several no-shows and decided against flying without them, so there was no flight that evening to post. Not sure why yours would show the 15th as none of ours do, but that's incorrect.

***Willy*** · March 20th, 2013, 09:00

Kelly, I have no idea about why you're seeing the 15th, but I can ask.

falcon, mine is a former payware mesh by Raimondo Taburet that he used the space shuttle radar mapping data in creating. When he switched to FSX, he made it available as free for short while. MM told me about it and I spent most of a day downloading every bit of it (almost all of the world).

**KellyB** · March 20th, 2013, 12:31

This is what it looks like in my world...

***falcon409*** · March 20th, 2013, 14:52

Mystery solved. . .I posted those shots at 23:07 CST. . .you are on the east coast, 1 hour later, so it posted March 15, 00:07.

***Willy*** · March 20th, 2013, 20:06

Another great flight but to Topia this time. Kind of a hole in wall up in the mountains.

I've got a lead on a light twin that the locals say the pilot didn't think he could get back out of here, so he just left it....

***falcon409*** · March 20th, 2013, 20:43

Ok. . .I'll say it. . .Damn!!! That's a tough approach Willy. . .I see what you mean about the brick wall. Wow!

Here are my shots from FSX:

**KellyB** · March 21st, 2013, 04:52

Originally Posted by falcon409

Mystery solved. . .I posted those shots at 23:07 CST. . .you are on the east coast, 1 hour later, so it posted March 15, 00:07.

Now I can sleep better; thought I was losing what's left of my mind.

**Taco** · March 21st, 2013, 04:53

Yep, here we go into the unknown! TOPIA, dirt runway at 2200 feet with a rock wall on one end, and trees and buildings on the other end!

Now believe this, it is going to get very darn interesting before we can fire up the BBQ, and enjoy some liquid refreshments. Just a few photos of the flight, but none of the final approach had me bloody eyes closed! hehe

***Willy*** · March 21st, 2013, 19:54

Pulled the trigger on the deal for the "light twin". Once I cleaned out the cabin and put a little gas in it, it was good to go. It was kind of a tight fit getting it out of there though. Had a pretty good flight to MMLM via MMCL.

***falcon409*** · March 21st, 2013, 21:20

Enjoyable flight out of Topia, hated to leave really. . .very nice folks there.

**Taco** · March 22nd, 2013, 04:58

Hot Dog! It was sure a lot easier getting out of Topia than landing here. At least this time I kept my eyes opened.

***Willy*** · March 22nd, 2013, 20:22

Flew on to Chihuahua. Just hoping I don't get bit by some mean lil dog.....

Pics are a bit scrambled up.

***Moses03*** · March 22nd, 2013, 20:24

Heading north to Chihuahua as the jungles and forests are giving way to scrub and desert.

Note the peculiar pointy peak off to starboard.

***falcon409*** · March 23rd, 2013, 00:48

Back in FS9 and off to Chihuahua:

**Taco** · March 23rd, 2013, 04:54

Hey there! Some more photos from flight #19. Now, most of these were taken before take off.

***Willy*** · March 23rd, 2013, 19:50

Fred's collected up so many soveigniers that I had to get a little bigger aeroplane. Anyway it was a good flight to Casa Grande.

**Peacemaker** · March 23rd, 2013, 19:54

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***falcon409*** · March 24th, 2013, 08:23

A few more from last night:

***Moses03*** · March 24th, 2013, 19:44

Rather pleasant flight over rugged terrain to Nogales. (Interesting landings in a tight box canyon). Two Czech planes along for this segment; LET 410 piloted by Falcon and myself in a Avia 57 (on temporary loan).

Willy took out a tamale stand departing MMCG but we distanced ourselves before the local authories could do anything about it.

***Willy*** · March 24th, 2013, 19:56

A thoroughly interesting and entertaining flight. Taking off from MMCG was interesting in that I didn't use enough runway for the Boeing and not to mention the tamale stand, I took the tops out of a couple of trees on the end of the runway. And then when I was leveling off at cruise altitude, otto decided it would be fun to put the Stratoliner into a tail stand. Got that all sorted out and had a decent flight to Nogales. Nogales was entertaining as it was down in a hole and I just barely cleared the top edge of it on final. Then I bounced it hard enough that I was looking back down into the hole again. I did finally manage to get it down and stopped though without too much more tension.

Now to go clean the tamales out of the wheel well.....

***falcon409*** · March 24th, 2013, 21:27

Quite enjoyable, although I missed Willy taking out the treetops, lol

***Willy*** · March 25th, 2013, 20:19

After I got through picking pinecones out of the engines, we flew on to MMPE on the coast. Nice flight, even if I did almost have a mid-air just after takeoff. We're about to run out of Mexico.