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Not the greatest shots, but I've been enjoying flying circuits around the Downtown St. Paul Airport/Holman Field following an update/fix released at Flightsim.to that cleans up the St. Paul/Minneapolis photogrammetry (fixes problematic areas within waterways and foliage overgrowth). The same individual has been making similar addon fixes for many different photogrammetry locations. As a result of the fix, the photogrammetry also seems to display far better than it has, and now looks as good as it did back when the sim was first released. Part of the fix has corrected the way in which the barges, parked along the sides of the Mississippi, by the St. Paul Airport, are displayed (no longer covered in water) - it makes for flying in/out of the airport a lot of fun and adds to the immersion.

Here is all of the addons released by said individual: https://flightsim.to/profile/FreakyD/uploads









Part of the BNSF Railway yard, near the airport (I noticed, following Sim Update 5 or 6, that many of these 3D trains had collapsed, due to lowered LOD - following this update, they're displaying really well again/how they used to early on).



 
An early morning US mail flight, somewhere in Colorado.
 

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Just flew into LFMN, it was quite Nice!

Jokes aside, I continued cruising around Europe with the 6, from Finnland via Stockholm, back to Helsinki, Lüneburg in Germany to Hangar 7 in LOWS for an engine overhaul. From Salzburg I took her to Athens last weekend and today my target was Nice. During takeoff I noticed the rpms of #1 going way to far. Trying the prop controls, I managed to catch it manually at first but when the AFE went to climb power the prop switch for #1 wouldn´t respond anymore. So before completely losing the engine, I shut it off. Began a turn back towards Athens and feathered the prop. Feathering worked fine and the engine stopped. While turning around, I wanted to give it one more shot. Moved the mixture forward and unfeathered the engine. #1 caught nicely and I had regained prop control. Took over from the AFE and set the engines up nicely for climb. Having no reason to turn back immediately, I headed for the originally planned heading and climbed to 8000'. #1 showed slightly low oil pressure and high oil temperatures. Pretty reasonable for a slight main bearing damage due to overspeed. Still not critical when watching temperatures and the pressure. Even if I'd have to shut it back down, that's no real threat with 3 remaining healthy engines.

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Athens City below including the Akropolis
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Nardo high speed testing center in Italy. Until now my work has not taken me there, but maybe I can see / drive it at some point.
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Got some refreshments, Hopefully the Co-Pilot is just hiding in his seat.
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Travel towards France was quite uneventful with a watchful eye on the #1 engine gauges. Beatiful atmosphere though and quite a nice day for such a flight.

Passengers point of view on the way to Corse
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Damn Co-Pilot left again...
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Some distant rain over the island of Corse
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Approaching Nice. The chart for the assigned VOR DME approach has two pages, quite a lot to do.
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Hardly any time to admire the scenery. Coming in quite high, time to set the flaps to 50° and get that bird down.
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Manual control in the final corner of the approach.
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The approach was quite a challenge to do by the books (as far as I can manage) but very interesting also. After landing engine #1 oil pressure gauge was at the lower rest, so I quickly shut the engine down. Time to find some old school mechanics around here who still know what a piston is.
 
Bomber_12th said:
Yeah, there is a fresh bit of powder on everything now (I just wish they would add a mask to the highways, since they hardly ever gather snow, and/or are the first to be cleared).
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Hah I was flying that same livery today as well. It's a little out there - I'd call it a tennis ball!
 
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