Morning 🙂
Here is a small project I’ve started "working" on. The idea is to travel all around the globe and visit all continents in Flight Simulator 2020 over the next few months, with Belgrade as both the starting and ending point.
Aiplane of choice: Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX
Cruise speed: 195KTAS ( 361 km/h )
Max Altitude: 25 000ft ( 7 620m )
Range: 964NM ( 1785km )
Flightsim settings: realistic, but with little bit of UI eye candy
Weather: Real-time weather for each flight, except I will adjust the time of day so I don't fly at night - I actually want to see the scenery.
I will fly visually (VFR) and use navigation aids (VOR and ADF) only to find the general direction of the airport
1st part - will lead over Mediterranean parts of Europe: Serbia, Croatia, Italia, France, Spain.
2nd part - Africa
3rd part - Middle East
Then i will decide where to go next.
So, expect stories and screenshots from this epic adventure 🙂
Todays flight:
Departure: Belgrade, Serbia (LYBE)
Destination: Split, Croatia (LDSP)
Flight time: 1:24
Flight distance: 358km
Take off at LYBE
Sava river, near Belgrade
Drina river, border between Serbia and Bosnia
Rama lake
Islands Brac and Hvar. Mountain Biokovo.
Let me know when you're flying over my city so I can look up and wave to you. 👍
Todays flight:
Departure: Split, Croatia (LDSP)
Destination: Rijeka, Croatia (LDRI)
Flight time: 0:55
Flight distance: 255km
Total distance covered: 613km
Mountain Velebit
Croatian islands ( Adriatic Sea )
More islands...
Some bad weather...
Todays flight:
Departure: Rijeka, Croatia (LDRI)
Destination: Milan, Italy (LIML)
Flight time: 1:20
Flight distance: 431km
Total distance covered: 1045km
Venice
Lake Garda
Todays flight:
Departure: Milan, Italy (LIML)
Destination: Montpellier, France (LFMT)
Flight time: 1:54
Flight distance: 585km
Total distance covered: 1630km
Into the Alps!
Matterhhorn "pyramid"
Mont-Blanc
Back to Mediterranean...
Todays flight:
Departure: Montpellier, France (LFMT)
Destination: Barcelona, Spain (LEBL)
Flight time: 1:54
Flight distance: 310km
Total distance covered: 1940km
Just Mediterranean sea...
Are you heading over Andalucía at any point?
"En cualquier dirección que recorras el alma, nunca tropezarás con sus límites." Sócrates
Are you heading over Andalucía at any point?
Yes, i'm planning to cross to Africa at Gibraltar. So, probably in next few days 🙂
Todays flight:
Departure: Barcelona, Spain (LEBL)
Destination: Ibiza, Spain (LEIB)
Flight time: 0:41
Flight distance: 295km
Total distance covered: 2235km
Beautiful Mediterranean sea
Near Ibiza.
That’s a really cool project you’ve got going—feels like a proper grand tour of the world, one leg at a time. 👍
Great mix of realism and actually being able to enjoy the scenery, and those routes through the Adriatic and over the Alps must have been spectacular. You’re covering some serious ground already.
Looking forward to seeing how the jump into Africa unfolds—should be a great next chapter. Keep the updates coming.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Well, i am using Flight Simulator a lot, so i decided to make that interesting and meaningful. Flying around the world gives me opportunity to "visit" some places and use time during the flight to read about their history and geography.
Todays flight:
Departure: Ibiza, Spain (LEIB)
Destination: Murcia, Spain (LEIB)
Flight time: 0:45
Flight distance: 259km
Total distance covered: 2494km
Ibiza
Back to Span mainland...
Todays flight:
Departure: Murcia, Spain (LEIB)
Destination: Gibraltar, British Overseas Territory (LXGB)
Flight time: 1:30
Flight distance: 479km
Total distance covered: 2973km
Malaga
First view of Africa in distance
Gibraltar approach, Rock Of Gibraltar
Landed. They didn't even stop the traffic....
Todays flight:
Departure: Gibraltar, British Overseas Territory (LXGB)
Destination: Tangier, Morocco (GMTT)
Flight time: 0:15
Flight distance: 95km
Total distance covered: 3068km
My destination was Casablanca, but due to unforeseen circumstances i had to land in Tangier 🙂
Good bye, Europe!
And hello Africa. Also, hello some heavy weather over Atlas mountains.
Looks great. You flew over my place on your way to Gibraltar from Murcia!
"En cualquier dirección que recorras el alma, nunca tropezarás con sus límites." Sócrates
Todays flight:
Departure: Tangier, Morocco (GMTT)
Destination: Ifrane, Morocco (GMFI)
Flight time: 0:59
Flight distance: 271km
Total distance covered: 3339km
Lake Oued El Makhazi
Landscape has changed...
El Wahda dam