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Following another road. We chose to stay out over the plains to avoid turbulence and also to fly lower and faster in thicker air
Back below the overcast, which has since closed up behind us, looking back at the convergence of the St. Croix and Mississippi
Still staying low to avoid Bravo airspace, the active approach corridor to KMSP is taking airliner traffic right over our heads
So here I am stuck "VFR on top" which means I have no way to safely descend towards the airport by means of instruments. This has caused people to run out of fuel and crash or attempt to descend anyways and crash. Luckily I still had plenty of fuel left and time to spare before reaching the airport as well
The huge hole in the clouds I attempted to descend through closed up as I was working my way down! Back up to 6,500' to try to find another...
It's really pretty up here with a soft fluffy bed of clouds below, but I can't stay up here forever. Where is a hole??
Actually over the hole it turns out to be a nice big tear that appears to be widening rather than contracting. Down we go!
Stepping on the rudder for some extra slip and drag as I drop at a stomach-lifting speed to make sure I get down through this hole
Taxiing to the active runway, pulling off to do our runup checks prior to proceeding to the hold short and requesting takeoff clearance
Descending to 1,200' to enter the VFR flight zone and pass by Detroit, starting at the stacks near the mouth of the Detroit River and heading towards Fermi Lab
Coming up on Stockton, you can see they got a bit too aggressive with the water masking for the canals running along the river - they are not that wide and in fact there are cars driving on the water :P
Trenton - ho! KTTN's beacon also visible further up the river. Andrew is still at least like 15min ahead of me
Aha! I am! Ahead there is the Delaware Water Gap. To be quite honest it doesn't look as impressive from the air
The river starts to become smaller and more snakey with tributaries coming in and wait am I still actually following the right river?
Okay time to head eastward and try to locate by dead reckoning the airport I want to land at - Andrew already made it by now but he has a GPS in his cockpit. Bonus sun glint
I had some IRL stuff that needed attention so pausing the sim and coming back later it was closer to full night when we continued onwards
Still heading south, reaching the junction of GSP and Rt. 35, which we will follow east out to the shore
No problems landing or taking of from Morgan Ranch once we confirm that is where we actually landed. Back to carving through the mountains
Looking out over the Rumoi Subprefecture on the west coast of Hokkaido and beyond to the Teshio Mountains
Have plenty of room to get through this valley but of course from the cockpit it seems like I'm squeezed in with barely any space to maneuver
NOOOOOO!!!!!! The runway is literally over that small rise in the distance and I've run out of fuel. Since I had to restart the end of my flight and didn't note exactly how much fuel I had I could have restarted with less than I had but I'm not sure. I think I would have run out of fuel anyways even if I hadn't restarted. I made a lot of bad fuel management decisions on this flight, not taking fully into account the non-direct flight plan and how much time it would take me to weave through the valley to get to the airport. Still, HUGELY frustrating as I had to then wait several hours before I could finally finish the flight