• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Strange Approach

Wing_Z

Wing_Z

Charter Member 2011
Still flying tubes in Japan, I visited Yamagata in the north. I was IFR, and made to dance this merry jig:

Yamagata2.jpg


Can anyone explain why?
It's a charming little rural airport in the Overland series, there wouldn't be conflicting traffic I'm sure.

Yamagata1.jpg
 
I stopped asking myself why the default ATC behaved loco when once, at FL330, they (the Artificial Idiocy) instructed me to begin descent at 45nm from the airport I should have landed to. In spite of my valiant attempts and meteoric descent rates, they told me (after a lot of messages to hasten descent times) to go around when I was still at 15000 feet. :kilroy:

That was when I stopped using the default ATC as well and began flying online, helping myself when needed with charts and FSnavigator. :icon29:

With the correct meshes, virtual Japan is quite a great place to fly in... and I guess the real one as well... with its varied orography and nice places, even in default scenery. I remember I flew in a Beech the approach to an airport that, like Lukla (in FS at least) could be practically approached only from one runway, as the other was propped against a mountain. Can't remember the airport's name... I've tried finding it again, for a time now, uselessly too... :ernae:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top