Flight 19's European Vacation

Howdy!:salute:

A very nice flight from EYVI to UMII (Vitebsk) even the weather cooperated for a change. But towards the end of the flight it got real bumpy and landing became a real chore. But one good thing we didn’t have and fig for a change! Sure would be nice to head south to some warm and sunny weather. Sure getting tired of all the snow! :icon_lol:
 
Other than the bumpy roads, it was a pretty good flight to UMII. I think from here we're going to head south and search for Spring. Getting awful tired of all this snow and ice.
 
Don't know where the others got off to, but Taco and me headed south to UMGG Gomel. Nice flight although the wind kept doing big shifts back and forth. At one point there, I was headed towards Greece. Still no sign of Spring....
 
Still don't know where the others have got off to, but they sure are missing some really good flying weather.

We flew on to Cherkasy in the Ukraine and we're thinking about next heading on down to Odessa on the Black Sea to check out the Ukrainian Beach Bunnies...
 
We headed south to Odessa and found springtime enroute.

I found this ol' DC-3 at the local swap n shop and will be flying it out of here....
 
:kilroy:
Howdy folks,

Well shucks, we did it again a very nice and fun flight from UKKE to UKOO and a fun flight, but we sure had some strange radio chatter. Wow, no snow! And finally can change out of me long underware! Like Willy made my way over to the local swap n shop, and looking into the idea of changing planes. Mr Honest Ivan, the owner of the swap thing, took me around giving me his best used car saleman pitch, but we finally came upon this old goon setting out in grass with a US Navy jet. Started to walk over and check it out, but some very large SP sorts kind of changed our minds. We are close on making a deal on the goonie. Will follow up when the deal is signed.
 
Had a "small engine fire" just before engine start on the previous flight. Managed to put it out before it could cause any serious damage. I knew I should have inspected this crate more closely before signing on the dotted line!
 
We headed east to UKFF. Soon after takeoff, I found out why I got such a good deal on this crate. The darn wheels won't go up. When we got there it was fog with 1/4 mile visibility. I had that landing greased and when the wheels touched the runway, they folded out from under me. Looks like I'm going to be spending the night doing some repairs.
 
:kilroy:Hey there!

Sure didn't have any problems compared to what Willy was having with the DC-3, But it sure took me sometime to refresh my knowledge of the auto-pilot on this C-47. Yea! I finally got it! But also did a whole bunch of hand flying. Sure had some nice weather on the first part of the flight, but then, the old CN weather bug showed up! 1/4 mile visibility, you know I think the weather report was wrong I couldn't anything until I was almost on the runway! But any way we made it down OK. UKFF ought to be thankful we made it down, or other wise they would be picking up corndog sticks until the cow come home.
 
It took a major overhaul, but I got the landing gear on the DC-3 fixed. We took off from UKFF and headed east to URKK. Nice flight over some pretty country. We landed at URKK and when I looked over on the ramp, it looks like the Foreign Legion beat us here.

Next stop, Batumi! (UG0E) I bet there's a lot of Braves fans there...
 
Yep, a fun filled flight across the northern edge of the Black Sea.
 
We headed on around the Black Sea to Batumi Georgia. It was a great flight for me until I was turning to approach at Batumi, when my foot slipped and kicked the power button on my comp tower turning it off.

The Braves aren't playing there anyway....
 
Taco and I headed on along the coast from Batumi to Trabzon (LTCG) in Turkey. Nice shortish flight but net storms got Taco about 10nm out and he didn't make it back in.
 
:kilroy: Hi folks,

Here are a few snaps from the flights of the last two nights. For some unknown reason my puter towards the end of each flight just gave up. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

Taco
 
More Turkish delight along the Black Sea. Was so cloudy I only saw Willy when we took off and then on final.
 
Moses, Taco and I took a little side trip inland to LTAL. Nice flight although the airport was hid behind a cloud and I didn't see the runway on final until I was just almost on top of it.
 
Hi There!:kilroy:

Just a couple of photos of last night flight. Now don't ask me where we are, I don't have a clue as usual.
 
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