Team Melrose and the Spirit of Adventure

[Milton Shupe]

Hey Bry ... great shots; thank you for sharing them.

John, she probably needs a wash job anyhow ... go for it.

[jkcook28]

Getting dark fast. 35min out.

[jkcook28]

Baton is free @ LFMD.

[MM]

Team Melrose Coordinating Daylight Flights

Here is a suggestion for Team Melrose.

• We set a common "local real life day" by UTC. (As opposed to European Time, Central Time, or Pacific Time.) That is, the new day begins at 0001 UTC on each day.
• The first pilot on each "local real life day" begins his leg at dawn "local simulator time"--to maximize daylight for the next few pilots.

What do you think?

[Milton Shupe]

Sounds great to me MM.

Milton has the baton, going from LFMD to LIRF at dawn.

[MM]

I'll be happy to take the next leg.

Weather coming in so touring Rome looks "iffy."

[Milton Shupe]

Down and safe at LIRF.

Sorry, I did not see your message until after landing.

The baton is free at LIRF.

[MM]

Congratulations on the excellent leg. Will take the baton.

Over the mountains, Rome-Brindisi (LIRF-LIBR) if the weather permits.

[Milton Shupe]

Rain, lightning, leaving Rome and large cumulus clouds all over the mountains ... be safe.

Here are a couple shots approaching Rome about 60 miles out on my leg. Uncertain weather was a bit disconcerting but only a bit foggy on approach.

[MM]

Safely into Brindisi, the historic Air Force base. Massive thunderstorm just on takeoff from Rome--for a long while it looked awful--but got out of the immediate storms and dodged the thunderboomers the rest of the way. The only trick was finding out which clouds had hills in them...

FSX does Southern Italy rather well.

[MM]

• Escaping from the the ferocious thunderstorm that made for some white-knuckle flying;
• Heading down the coast for Naples and Vesuvius to avoid storms and the higher Apennine peaks;
• Crossing the Apennines--being buffeted about by cross-winds made it difficult work to hold course;
• Puss Moth's unique looks is framed by the olive garden in village below.

[Milton Shupe]

Beautiful shots MM

[bpfowler]

great flying, dudes! I have been watching the race with real interest. Great screenshots of the weather, too. All using real weather from inside the sim?

[Bry Rosier]

Hi Brad , my Weather textures are from REX2 (Real Environment Extreme 2 ) generated by Active Sky X weather engine , Happy flying

[jkcook28]

Think I'll move this across the water to Greece.
Wx stinks, winds stink but going anyway!

LIBR-->LGPZ.