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 p.905 #6 · Mustang Air to Air: The Sequel | |
anthonysemone wrote:
I decided today to follow the route taken by my son who, with his fellow pilot, was flying the company's Bombardier Global Express. His route was taking him today from Sion, Switzerland to Luzerne, Switzerland. My Flight Sim affords me the opportunity to fly anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world. Landscape is not Google Earth quality yet, but still enough to afford some (to me) remarkable pics as would be seen were I to "really" fly them.
Now that I have some increasing skill with programming the digital instrumentation - takeoff, through departure waypoints and then on to the main course of flight, with each required ALT and HDG automagically followed. My aircraft, the DG50 RG Magnum, does not have auto throttle so I have to manage airspeeds manually. I have yet to learn how to program arrivals and approaches via G1000 VNAV, but, that's the next step.
Anyway, this picture is from the cockpit. I have head-tracking, so the displacement of my FOV reps my head orientation at the time. Amazing. Sion is at roughly 1527' MSL, the mountains surrounding the valley range up to 15k'. AWESOME. I expect the gummint has drones that'll take these kinds of pics. Certainly satellite imagery will do it. I found it, even so, to be a remarkable, real-time, immersive experience. I expect that this could be another form of photography for those of us who are former aviators (even though relative to some of you all, I'm a neophyte) to see sites we've never seen before.
On a side note: at almost 85.5 yoa, and with increasing physical limitations secondary to the many years of endurance training I've had, but can longer do, the issue becomes how does one forestall the onset of cognitive decline. I've 50 years of service as a Clinical Neuropsychologist and have evaluated enough formerly brilliant, physically and cognitively, individuals who, as their age advances, cognitively go down the crapper. At least for those of us with piloting training and experience and w/o the ingestion of drugs (my declining relative is taking EIGHT meds to forestall decline, all the while the meds have such decline as a warning), we are blessed.
Good grief, thank you, Wright Brothers, and all of the rest of those pilots who made it possible for us through their sacrifices to be able to do this kind of activity. Tony...Show more →
Super adventure my brother!
The "decline" is all around us, health, our Country, our leadership-or lack of from BOTH parties, brother!
I hate going to the doctor anymore! Suzanne has spent the last 2 years recovering from a perforated colon that should have never have happened or been done!
I guess it is a "sign of growing older"
I am an incessant reader of books but I can feel my memory declining rather rapidly despite this.
Such is life brother!
RD
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