'Round the World in the Connie - Italy, Greece and the Middle East

[mglan80]

So a big chunk of the journey in this post (previous post here).  Just some random favorites I have and a bit of narrative.

 

The routes:

 

LOWI --> LIRF  -  LIRF --> LGAV  -  LGAV --> OMDB  -  OMDB --> VABB  -  VABB --> VRMM  -  VABB --> VCBI

 

 

Leaving LOWI

 

Climbing over the Alps

 

Initial Descent over Tuscany

 

The eternal city

 

Beautiful Greece

 

Outbound for Dubai

 

Finally sighting land after a loooong flight over the eastern Medd.

 

Departed Dubai and headed toward Chhatrapati Shivaji International on the west coast of India.  Not much remarkable about this area in P3D even with Global.  Needs the Orbx openLC treatment!

 

Off to the Maldives,

 

which has a very cool approach.

 

And finally SriLanka

 

Next up for the posts is a bit more of India, Paro(!!) and China.  I'm currently in Singapore about to head to Bali, then (finally!) the last few legs in Australia with stops in Darwin, Alice Springs and Canberra.  Only 3,600 nm to go!!

 

 

[Rob Abernathy]

Thanks for such a great travel story and pics!

[Captain Lars]

Amazing story indeed. Judging from the first map view, you landed in Pisa, not in Rome, but never mind... Very brave that you dared to fly over Syria!

[Rodger Pettichord]

Hey myglan80. Really liked your shots and commentary. Had to laugh--I'd just been reading about the Connie and the early engine reliability problems. Pilots at that point said she was the best three-engined four-engine plane in the air.

[Jack Sawyer]

That was extremely excellent!

[mglan80]

2 hours ago, Captain Lars said:

Amazing story indeed. Judging from the first map view, you landed in Pisa, not in Rome, but never mind... Very brave that you dared to fly over Syria!

You might be right, Capt.  I kept thinking I flew through Rome on this trip, but maybe it was Pisa (I looked at the map like four times and thought - that's not Rome).  I did Moscow - Rome on another one off flight and maybe I mixed up the two!  Regarding Syria, in my sim there are no wars, just the routines of simulated life.

 

2 hours ago, Rodger Pettichord said:

Hey myglan80. Really liked your shots and commentary. Had to laugh--I'd just been reading about the Connie and the early engine reliability problems. Pilots at that point said she was the best three-engined four-engine plane in the air.

Only had one issue so far, and that was with the pressurization system just after crossing the Himalayas(!).  Hopefully my luck holds out!

 

Thanks, Jack and Rob!  

[Iain Emms]

Fine set of shots.

cheers

Iain

[VH-KDK]

A very interesting part of your world tour with some seldom seen places.

I agree with you that this area desperately needs OLC but still Global is a vast improvement.

[paulb]

A great tour in a beautiful airplane!