Yes. Many new POIs were added and Paris shows up in Photogrammetry, That was proof to me that I got the France + other updates. Strange the Basilica does not match the ad.
Release Notes (1.15.7.0) World Update IV: France/Benelux
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Yes. Many new POIs were added and Paris shows up in Photogrammetry, That was proof to me that I got the France + other updates. Strange the Basilica does not match the ad.
DennyA
SOH-CM-2023
If you're looking for some beautiful mountainous scenery and a challenging takeoff/landing...
So yesterday I decided I’d challenge myself by taking off from the destination in the current landing challenge, LFPS Notre dame de la Salette. Takeoff was really challenging in the Jabiru J160 – I actually had to pushback farther up the hill to succeed. It was stupid-easy in the Savage Grravel, but that’s not a plane to use when you want to challenge yourself to anything except maybe landing in a 50-foot open space.
Little did I know what challenge awaited me. I looked at the map for the closest destination airport and found LF79 Mont Aiguille. So took off, admired the beautiful valley and towns below, and flew towards LF79.
I see that Mont Agille is a huge, stone mountain. Impressive! I approach it and start looking for the field near its base.
Oh.
The field is not at its base. Looking at the GPS, I realize… It’s on top of the mountain. I was near the base of the mountain, and the Jabiru doesn’t climb well at all at that altitude, so I had to fly out away from and it do a circling climb to get up to the level of the mountaintop.(Pic above.)
Turns out there’s not an actual ICAO airport up there, but there was a stunt pilot, Henri Girard, in the 50s-70s who’d landed a J-3 Cub up there, and started taking paying passengers up to the mountain.
It’s a big area to land on, but you don’t want to overrun the runway. Again, the Jabiru made it much more challenging than the Grravel.
I got the Jabiru down safely, but I landed directly upslope and started sliding backwards! I just managed to turn it around, finally, at which point the downslope made it easy to get enough speed to take off again.
I recommend this flight plan.
So yesterday I decided I’d challenge myself by taking off from the destination in the current landing challenge, LFPS Notre dame de la Salette. Takeoff was really challenging in the Jabiru J160 – I actually had to pushback farther up the hill to succeed. It was stupid-easy in the Savage Grravel, but that’s not a plane to use when you want to challenge yourself to anything except maybe landing in a 50-foot open space.
Little did I know what challenge awaited me. I looked at the map for the closest destination airport and found LF79 Mont Aiguille. So took off, admired the beautiful valley and towns below, and flew towards LF79.
I see that Mont Agille is a huge, stone mountain. Impressive! I approach it and start looking for the field near its base.
Oh.
The field is not at its base. Looking at the GPS, I realize… It’s on top of the mountain. I was near the base of the mountain, and the Jabiru doesn’t climb well at all at that altitude, so I had to fly out away from and it do a circling climb to get up to the level of the mountaintop.(Pic above.)
Turns out there’s not an actual ICAO airport up there, but there was a stunt pilot, Henri Girard, in the 50s-70s who’d landed a J-3 Cub up there, and started taking paying passengers up to the mountain.
It’s a big area to land on, but you don’t want to overrun the runway. Again, the Jabiru made it much more challenging than the Grravel.
I got the Jabiru down safely, but I landed directly upslope and started sliding backwards! I just managed to turn it around, finally, at which point the downslope made it easy to get enough speed to take off again.
I recommend this flight plan.
gribouil
Charter Member
Hello Fnerg,
I think I can help you as I'm French...
You may try these:
LFBT: Tarbes Lourdes Pyrénées airport close to the Pic du Midi Observatory
LFIP: Peyresourde Balestas mountain airport in the Pyrénées
LFHM: Megève mountain airport close to the Mont Blanc in the French alps
LFKX and LFKJ: Méribel and Courchevel mountain airports located also in the French Alps (both airfields are very close)
Other beautiful places that are worth a look:
LFCM: Millau Larzac airfield south of the Millau viaduct (countryside)
LFCH: Arcachon La Teste de Buch airfield east of the Dune du Pyla and the Cap Ferret (seaside)
LFMK: Carcassonne Salvaza airport just west of the Cité of Carcassonne (countryside)
The airstrips descirbed by DennyA located in the South East of France are very fun and very challenging!!!
hope this helps!!!
Cheers,
Stéph.
