American Airlines Virtual

Using for the first time on an actual flight is the B748 - PMDG in the fictional AAL livery, An easy airplane to operate and virtually fly. I always liked the eye candy programs to enhance my visual experience with the flight sims. FSdreamteam airports, ORBX, combined with GSX2 make a good visual world. Open each picture in A new tab using the right mouse button for a larger picture.

Starting off in Los Angeles loading baggage and the passengers.



Pushing Back.



Taxi Cam activated.



lined up and ready for flight on the 24's.



A surprise plane spotter at the famous In-N-Out burger place.



Houston we have lift off.



A series of enroute pictures. I use navigraph to follow my flight and for all the charts.
My flight is the red triangle.









Finally into the Hawaiian airspace.



Oahu below.



Onto the final. Water vapor from the wings and flaps



The gear down moment.



Flaps



On the ground and tired from flapping my arms all the way.



At the gate with Honolulu and Diamond Head in the background.



Unloading the aircraft.



Ok now show me yours.

Great pictures Wayne.
Congratulations
Arturo

Oh man, this looks SO GOOD full width on a 1920x1080 monitor.
Great flight Wayne. Hope to do it myself before I leave town for part of the holidays.

Michael Blakely wrote: ↑12-18-2018 11:30 PM Oh man, this looks SO GOOD full width on a 1920x1080 monitor.
Great flight Wayne. Hope to do it myself before I leave town for part of the holidays.

No comment on the suprise plane spotter at the in and out burger? I thought that was pretty cool with your photo cropped in.

Todd Meek wrote: ↑12-19-2018 05:36 PM

Michael Blakely wrote: ↑12-18-2018 11:30 PM Oh man, this looks SO GOOD full width on a 1920x1080 monitor.
Great flight Wayne. Hope to do it myself before I leave town for part of the holidays.

No comment on the suprise plane spotter at the in and out burger? I thought that was pretty cool with your photo cropped in.

I was so excited about the In-n-Out shot, I made my wife get up and take a look. She thought it was funny 'cause she's spent many hours waiting for me to finish plane-spotting there, but she also didn't think it was worth getting up out of her chair.

Good Mich, very good !

Great looking shots Wayne. I also did the theme flight. I wanted to fly this using my new P3Dv4, however I don't have any heavy a/c in P3D yet. I have the PMDG 777 for FSX but PMDG wants me to pay another $100 to get the P3D version of that a/c which I won't do. Therefore I had to use my iFly 738 which is a GREAT a/c and iFly gave a significant discount to prior owners of the FSX verion.

My pics are not as good but here they are....

More pics...

Now on final for runway 8L.....

Touch down and to the gate to unload baggage.

I succumbed to the siren call of the islands in my brand spanking new iFly 747-8i. Here's my "proof".

And the journey begins. Climb out of KLAX. Leaving CONUS.

More pics

Land ahoy! Diamond Head and Punchbowl crater. Honolulu.

More:

Downwind. Approach. Touchdown.

To the Gate. Parked.

Great shots!