2012 Cape-to-Cape - Jeff - Modern Era PC-12

Starting Leg 2. FAGM-FWKI

Heading for Kamuzu International in Lillongwe Malawi, overflying but not landing in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
 
Leg #5 HKKI-FZIA Return to the Ruwenzori


My first flightsim experience with the Ruwenzori occurred back in 2001 while flying around the world in a Mooney Bravo with a group of fellow flightsim explorers, but my introduction to this part of the world goes back a decade earlier when I read a classic of mountaineering literature: “Snow on the Equator” by the remarkable H.W. Tilman. In 1932 climbing through the mist, rain, and fog he described the attempt to find the summit peaks:

“The weather was thick, so that our sole guides were infrequent glimpses of the rocks of Elena and Moebin Peaks close on our left. By three o’clock we were completely at a loss as to our whereabouts, so we pitched our little tent in what we had imagined was a sheltered spot, and prayed for the mist to lift. At sunset the longed-for clearing came, showing, to our amazement, our camp pitched almost on the divide. A few hundred steps up a snow-slope, and we were brought to a stand as much as much by a view that held us spellbound as at the sudden falling away of the ground at our feet. Far to the west and below us, through a rift in the driving clouds, we could see the dark green, almost black, carpet of the Congo Forest, upon whose somber background was traced a slivery design by the winding Semliki River. To the south showed a lighter patch, where the waters of Lake Edward reflected the last light of day; but in a moment sinking sun and rising mist merged all but the snow at our feet in a once more impenetrable gloom.”

Hoping for better weather and a view of these remarkable mountains on today’s flight.

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Jeff,

Are you using any add-on scenery/mesh/landclass for Africa, or just default? I was impressed with your pics of Kilimanjaro and the Oldoinyo Nyukie crater. And that PC-12 looks like a nice plane.
 
Modern Era Precision Race - Expected Race Time Declaration

Modern Era Precision Race - Expected Race Time Declaration

I plan to complete the Cape to Cape with Duenna Flight Time of 35:06:00


 
Leg #8 FZAB-FPPR

Leaving Kinshasa at dawn, across Gabon, then out over the Gulf of Guinea to Principe.
 
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