Antalya (LTAI/AYT) to Yerevan Zvardnots (UDYZ/EVN)

Mountains

Today we’re flying JARDesigns A320.

Turn

Turns out Antalya has some beautiful scenery nearby!

Approaching Ararat

This volcano is seriously impressive to fly near – and is visible for an incredible distance!

Final Approach

Safe Parking

Album Here!

Yerevan to Istanbul Ataturk (LTBA/IST)
Gate

This flight will be done in FlyJsim’s 737-200 – mainly because I didn’t want to do another flight in a Turkish aircraft!

Foggy Take-off

Breaking Out Of Clouds

Wing

Seriously has to be the best-looking wing built in X-Plane.

Minimums

Vacating Runway

Istanbul

Scenery is a conversion of Taxi2Gate’s Istanbul.
See more images here (and I really recommend it, they’re gorgeous!)

Istanbul to Bucharest (LROP/OTP)
Engine Start

More flights with the A320 – The more I fly, the better I get with this aircraft and the more enjoyable it becomes! Still not quite greasing my landings but I don’t bounce all over the place now!

Departure

Sunset

This flight was so, so pretty. Skymaxx really knows how to make sunsets GORGEOUS!

Gradient

Look at those colours…

Baneasa

This is Bucharest’s old international airport, now serving GA and private aviation.

Decelerating

Nightlight

This is the first night movement I’ve done on this tour – normally I fly in daylight for better screenshots (and because most sceneries lack night lighting!), but now I’m not so sure that’s true…
Album! Click me!

Bucharest to Budapest (LHBP/BUD)
Not a confusing destination pair at all…
Windy

Pretty grim day here in Bucharest – Fair crosswinds and a lot of overcast cloud. I know the livery looks the same as last flight, and that’s something I don’t normally do, but I made a lot of modifications since that last flight to make it different!

Escape

Always a good feeling to get clear of the bad weather by climbing over it!

Wizz

Really pleased with how this update turned out. The changes are subtle but make a big difference! This was shot on descent into Budapest.

Landed

Budapest

Quite a nice airport, but I had to do a lot of work merging two FSX sceneries together to make it look right! Sadly, this means the ground markings differ from what the objects suggest so getting lined up to park was a bit tricky!
Here’s the album.

Doha (OTHH/DOH) to Dubai (OMDB/DXB)
Today I’ll be trying to fly the Jetsim A330-300 and… botching it I’m still making these photos look like I did a decent job of it though!

Gate

This scenery is one of the rare few to have modeled gate areas, which is nice!

Engine Start

Wing View

I really love the A330’s wing…

Climbing

Don’t ask what happened between here and the runway… 

Ubiquitous Nose Shot

Thankfully, things settled down enough to get this shot!

Dubai!

Just starting to see some of the buildings along the coastline!

Dubai! (2)

This is FlyTampa’s FSX scenery converted to X-Plane, and it is AMAZING.

Crosswind

Pretending this went well would be a lie… Turns out the problems I’d been having through the flight were actually due to a glitch leaving a UNIVERSAL 55 knot wind… meaning even this low on approach I had a groundspeed of under 100kts… makes for a very weird landing! We got down in (just about) one piece… Probably want to get a good maintenance check done though!

Dubai (OMDB/DXB) to Bahrain (OBBI/BAH)
Time for a flight to Bahrain in FlightFactor’s B777-300ER, wearing an Emirates livery (they’re everywhere in real life, and there’s no escaping them in the sim world either!)

Pushback

Engine Start

Taxiing

Airport Overview

Dubai

Cliché

Seriously, this angle is just the best. Trust me.

Planespotter’s View

Decelerating

Look, this view works at any stage of flight!

Runway Vacated

Gate

Full album here, as always!

Bahrain (OBBI/BAH) to Sharm El-Sheikh (HESH/SSH)

A350

Today we’re flying in the newly-released Flight Factor A350 – and she’s gorgeous! I originally planned this with a custom-liveried 777-200ER but the release of this aircraft overtook that imediately!

Departing Bahrain

Not the prettiest of sceneries today unfortunately, this area has no payware airports and I didn’t fancy making photo texture for the ground… The A350’s bandana-ed beauty more than makes up for it in my opinion though!

Winglet – Up close and personal

Can’t help but stare at these unusual looking winglets – they’re very cool!

Approach

Such a pretty plane… really smooth flyer as well, it has the QPAC plugin driving the FBW systems, making it have some of the most advanced Airbus behaviours of any aircraft in X-Plane.

Sharm

Just a bit of scenery eye candy for you. I don’t normally focus enough on the airports with these screenshots as it doesn’t tell much of the flight story sometimes, but would you like to see it more?

Busy

There are far more ground services for this aircraft than any other. Really makes being at the gate exciting! Album.

Sharm El-Sheikh to Antalya (LTAI/AYT)

Ramp

No Title

Is this getting overused now?

Clouds Off The Coast

Got quite bumpy on our initial descent into Antalya…

Mountains

…But cleared up for some fantastic views later!

Reverse

Another safe touchdown! Album here.

Larnaca (LICC/LCA) to Doha (OTHH/DOH)

From Larnaca, I was to set forth to Doha on what should have been the longest leg of the entire journey, at roughly a whopping (to me, anyway) 1,300mi! At the sake of full disclosure, I did suffer a system crash somewhere near Amman, due to a bad graphics driver, so I did continue the flight from there (still the longest planned leg so far, at 1,047mi direct!). However, I have no scenery for the area (other than some awful default buildings I hurriedly added to give me something to look at) and so took no photos of the takeoff. I have included it in the journey plan though, as the planned Larnaca to Doha route followed a very similar path to avoid Syria and Iraq.

Anyway, now that’s out of the way – on to some more screenshots!

Loading Cargo

Today we’re in the amazing SSG B747-8F, just released days earlier!

Takeoff
The 747 is one of the coolest aircraft when it comes to takeoff. Personally, I think the -8F has the best looks of any 747, too…
Climbing out (1)

…And this is why; isn’t she gorgeous?

Climbing out (2)

If you answered no previously, please consider revising that answer…

Passing Beirut

Beauty shots!

Seriously. How could you not love this aircraft?!

Cloudy Bahrain

We’ll be seeing you again soon, Bahrain. Please be sunnier!

Decelerating

Like crazy. Slightly forgot to set descent altitude, had to fall like crazy and now I have to deal with speed management 

Doha City

Final

Nice and windy today – we have a constant 11kts crosswind from the right

Landed!

Doha’s new airport is pretty cool, and this scenery does it so much justice! One of the nicest I have.
Bizarrely, the 747 stops on a dime – I managed to make the first high-speed exit with only half autobrakes – it was so fast I didn’t even get chance to react and open reverse thrust!

Parked at the gate

Unloading all the precious cargo – who knows what’s in all these boxes? Maybe a few extra photos from this flight, which you can see here!

Athens (LGAV/ATH) to Skiathos (LGSK/JSI)
This will be a a GA flight  using Carenado’s Mooney M20J, recently updated to V3, with X-Plane’s new GNS430 GPS system.

Overflying the sprawl of Athens

Passing Mountains

Skiathos in sight

Downwind

Touchdown!

Parked – next to a very nice business jet!

More images here

Skiathos to Mykonos (LGMK/JMK)
Next, We’ll be flying the Cirrus SR22, trying out what I now know is an excellent G1000 simulation!

Climbing out of Skiathos

Admiring Clouds

Mykonos in Sight

Overhead Join

Finals

Touchdown!

Parked at the Gate

More pics of this flight here

Mykonos to Larnaca (LICC/LCA)
Following on from Mykonos, I quickly prepared to fly the next leg in my Jetto A320.

Preparing for Departure

Climbing Out

Money Shot

Approaching Larnaca

Final Approach

(If it looks off, it’s because it is – Glideslope/Localiser data isn’t normally part of scenery packs, and in this case the conversion from FSX was slightly south of the X-Plane data to match photoscenery – Thus, I’m slightly north of where I want to be!)

Touchdown

As you can see, I didn’t quite correct the error from the last image, and I’m still a little off centreline!

Parked

More pics of this flight here

Bratislava (LZIB/BTS) to Belgrade (LYBE/BEG)
Ramp

Today we’re flying the mighty 757 once more, in Titan Airways livery as I didn’t have anything better for the route. Let’s say they’re operating on behalf of Air Serbia!

Taxiing

Can’t get over how well-made this airport is.

Climbing above the clouds

Cruising

Parked

Safely landed in Belgrade! See more of the flight Here.

Belgrade to Naples (LIRN/NAP)
This time we’ll be flying in an Pratt & Whitney powered 757 operated by Air Italy

At The Gate

Climbing

Over Italy

Threshold

Approaching beside Vesuvius is a great experience… wish I’d installed photoscenery beforehand!

A Safe Landing

As always!  Similarly, you can view the rest of the album here.

Naples To Catania (LICC/CTA)

Parked at the Gate

Turning South

Beauty Shots

Overflying Lamezia Terme

Safely parked

Catania To Athens (LGAV/ATH)
After climbing out of the B1900D, it was time for a night’s rest before an early flight to Athens the next morning – this time in JARDesigns A320neo, with a custom Jetto livery.

Preparing for departure

Taxiing

A steep right turn after departing to point us towards Greece

Climbing through some gorgeous clouds…

…and watching the sun rise

Cruising over Greece

Landed!