Spring has sprung in FS..

Willy

Willy

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I've been doing a lot of flying Alaska lately and didn't realize that spring has come to the lower 48 in FS. I had a nice little hop from Boeing Field to Portland Intl in the JBK Stratoliner. My new Silver Wings install for FS 1954 is looking pretty good too.
 
Yep springtime has arrived in Cuba. 747 pic on approach to MUGM. 2nd set departing MUCU.
 
England is looking beautiful this spring. Onward forward to Ireland. This CG AWACS is on a spring hunting assignment patrol.
 
I love the greens in FS! Germany can get pretty green... Same with Ohio.

Not Phoenix though! Tapioca tan, year round... :d
 
Might be getting green in Ohio but in Michigan it's still looking wintry for some reason. Looking out my window it might be cold but there certainly ain't any snow on the ground in RL. Nevertheless here is what it looks like taking off from 08C today according to FS9 with the real weather updates put in...
 
A pleasant flight to gain some time over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Spring starts in the morning here, so I sort of jumped the gun back to the past. Spring, 1959, but i used real world weather. I do enjoy having silver wings in this install
 
I just got done flying from near Grand Rapids MI to Sikeston MO (there's a restaurant there, Lambert's; it's worth the nine hour road trip I can assure you). When I took off (today's date, real weather) it was showing all snow on the ground. It seemed to go away around South Bend IN but it got really green about 30 miles south. Nice.
BTW, Cowboy, where did you get that Brantley? IIRC Lasse Lindh closed his FS operation some time back.
 
Thanks Cowboy!:ernae:
I like the Skyhook too but it doesn't have a pilot figure in spot view...other from that it's pretty good
 
I wish i could find a painter that would be willing to help me. I would like to have a Bell 47G, Brantley B2, and a bell 47J. in the marking of the Oklahoma Highway patrol. On March 10, 1955, the OHP founded the Air Auxiliary Division. It consisted of 8 choppers and 12 fixed wing aircraft by 1959. It implied 24 pilots, 15 mechanics and 49 ground station specialists. The GSS personal operated radio relay stations across Oklahoma. The choppers were owned by the state of Oklahoma, but the fixed wing birds were owned by the Auxiliary pilots that flew for the State Troopers.

Their main purpose was before the interstate system to patrol the State's highways and report accidents to the ground support stations that would then by radio or telephone inform the nearest local police or highway patrol station in the area. They also pulled fire watches. Oklahoma has a bad hobbit of burning in the summer.

Due to insurance and the fact that the fixed winged aircraft were owned by the pilots, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol deactivated the Air Auxiliary Division on January 1, 1975. They replaced it with the Air Services Troop in February 1975.

In the 20 years of its operations the AAD reported on 1,541 motor vehicle accidents, over 5,000 grass fires, and helped in the apprehension of numerous escaped convects, suspects and assisted in tracking speeding cars. In 1972, the AAD was also tasked to spot Marijuana crops from the air.

I think it would be a great tribute to honor these guys who in most cases volunteered ther time and aircraft for use by the OHP.
 
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