President/CEO/Chief Pilot for Joe Mini World Wide Tours, LLC. 
"If we get you to your destination in one piece, it's a miracle"  

Quick stop to unload a few passengers and gain a few brave souls.  Will be hitting Russia later in trip, so was hoping to see more Scenery but really didn't get much.  So, got refueled, more alcohol, and a new flight crew.

 
A new AI traffic airplane....Italy's own Alitallia.  Oops, might be going a little steep, but calm down people. I know what I'm doing.

 
Flying back west and over the Gulf of Finland.  Just reaching the western coast of Estonia.  Will be landing shortly.

 
Nice little landing...over water and a little rain showers. 

 
Couple more new airplanes - Estonian Airlines and Czech Airlines.

Landing Score:117.45            Flight Score:145.79  (My highest score to date with the Delta Bird)

Landing included the following problems:

• Not near the centre line - you can do better.
  

A smooth flight!

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First congrats on making it to "FSFlyingSchool Training Captain", here at the forum.

The story is fascinating and a good geography lesson for all of us.

Apologies if you've mentioned it elsewhere, but what add-on scenery and traffic are you using?

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No apologies...Seriously, the pictures I'm throwing up still doesn't do justice, however, what you might see though is how much of the area are "full" of stuff versus the old default scenery.  I couldn't believe how much different software covers different aspect of the game.  I learned a lot at the expense of software, but in my humble opinion, it is worth it when you are flying around in a low and slow plane.  The mountains look incredible.

Well, I bought a bunch of stuff lately, but here it goes.  I have bought: (FSX)
1.  All the SceneryTech Landclass software (N.A./S.A./Europe/Asia)
2.  All of the FSGenesis Mesh software (Entire World coverage)
3.  Ultimate Terrain X software (UTX)
4.  Ground Environment X software (USA/Canada/Alaska)

Waiting patiently now for GEX Europe as they claim it has even more "greatness" than GEX USA, which if that is the case, it should be awesome.

Cheers,

Joe Mini

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Now then - which add-on traffic software are you running?

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Nothing but WOAI traffic....I'm closing in on over 300 airlines loaded now.  Plus it's free.

www.world-of-ai.com

Joe Mini

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"If we get you to your destination in one piece, it's a miracle"  

Today's flight plan takes us south from Tallin, Estonia to the Gulf of Riga, and on to the northern city of Riga, Latvia.  Beautiful Day to fly, and then the weather got a little cloudy at the end, but a good flight down the coast of Estonia. 

 
The mysterious "Black" airline.  Such a mystery, I don't even know who's airline it is...

 
Closing in on the Gulf of Riga, and then eventually flying along side Estonia...

 
Low hanging clouds at 2200' but cleared up nicely for my landing.

Landing Score:126.65         Flight Score:140.88

Landing included the following problems:

• Too hard - may have damaged your landing gear.

Flight included the following problems:

• Steep banking - save your aerobatic flying for some other time.
  

President/CEO/Chief Pilot for Joe Mini World Wide Tours, LLC. 
"If we get you to your destination in one piece, it's a miracle"  

Vilnius International Airport Press Conference Room.

JoeMini WWT spokesperson addresses a small group of press reporters:

JoeMini - {Clears throats, sighs}  Ladies and Gentlemen of the press, it is with deeply sadden heart of mine, I once again lost another young jet jockey pilot who's ego was righting checks he couldn't cash.  As we are getting reports, Delta Flight 53 bound for this airport has crashed somewhere on the airports property.  We can't see for shit out there, so as soon as we can see our own hands in front of our face, we'll send some rescue emergency trucks out there.  I'm sorry for Delta airlines who graciously donated there airplane to us, but they knew what they was getting with our young pilots.  As details emerge, we will let loved ones know....Thanks...I'll field questions at this time..."

"Err..yes...Wolf Blitzer CNN news...we have heard rumors that your pilot...JoeMini....did not have his adequate supply of coffee for this flight.  Can you comment on this?
JoeMini - "We have heard rumors that he was pissed his Starbucks coffee was not there at the time of departure, and his mental sharpness was not there.  That is correct."

"Sir...Sir...Katie Curak...Is it true your so-called aviator pilot was hung over with massive quantities of tequila in his system?  If so, are you not concerned about the safety of your passengers?"
Joe Mini - "Rumors off the internet are running mad about his tequila addiction, but I can assure you he was not drinking at the time, because he has finally used up the last tequila bottle from his recent cruise and is out of the juice.  I firmly believe he was not in any shape or form 3 sheets to the wind during his flight.  One more question..."

"Tom Blowchow - Meet the press....we understand JoeMini has been under a lot of stress lately....can this have been a factor?"
Joe Mini - "Certainly without question his deep manic depression after his prize Salt Water prize fish had died recently due to a freak water tank incident, but he was going through counseling as of a week ago to get over it.  There is no confirmed citing at this time he was on a date with Lindsay Lohan....purely speculation at this point...."

 
Beautiful early morning 5:30ish flight....forecast called for clear skies, apparently in the immediate area.

 
Sun coming up, then the abyss happens.  What did a major snow storm hit the Lithuania area?  Where's Vilnius?

 
I thought about A/P'ing it, but couldn't afford the risk of losing points, so I'm bringing it into where?  Houston, we have a problem.

Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark

oleandreasen (9/11/2008)

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ZeroViz Airlines send you a kind thought!

Landing a big metalcigar in fog heavier than my mothers mashed potatoes is not a job for a mere deadly. I´m sure that the VFAA will come to the conclusion that you were not to blame in the landingmishap. It´s risky business to try to attempt that in a competition, but then again, when we fly with realworld, updated every 15 minutes, weather, then everything is potentially out there for us. A tough job, but someone´s gotta do it, isn´t that what they say?

I see you are using some kind of GPS other than the one that came with FSX.  What program is it, etc?

You know that you can cheat a little when things are as extreme as this. In flight, you can click "alt", and then "plane" and a droplist will appear, where you can click on "Visual glidepath". That could have brought you straight in I think. Try it out. It´s not AP and there is no rules aginst it in WWT.

You know there are a couple things I wish I knew how to do if I just took the time to piddle around and find it.  One thing that is happening with me that I can't figure out why, is when I'm in Virtual Cockpit (by the way...I love it now), everytime I go out to another view and back to Virtual cockpit, I lose my GPS window...well I was so close to the airport, that "I thought" the clouds/fog was going to go away....doh...was I wrong.  I believe that was the worst fog I've ever seen, or attempted to land in. Poor passengers....New flight manifest!   Who wants to fly with the kid again?  Any takers?

But on the other hand, I think that with the scores you produce on an daily baisis here, it´s good (for me) that you crack up, once in awile also. I dare not think of, how good you will be, in the springtime of ´09!

It´s great to fly with you. You make FSFS look even better!

I've got another question, prolly know the answer, but I'll ask anyway.  I don't particular like to fly in "darkness", but I do fly with real weather 95% of the time.  After I select my two cities, of course the time changes to the city under question.  Then I'll put in the "real FSX weather", and I'll move the time back to daylight hours.  Is the weather still for the evening?  I'm banking so.

And one other thing about time.  I live here in the U.S. obviously, and when I make a flight in my own timezone and the current time is correct on the opening window, I'll make a flight in the same time zone, it always moves me up 2 hours...why is it doing that?

Joe Mini

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