January 2021 Screenshots

[Allan_Lowson]

Post your January 2021 screenshots here. You may change the subject to relate to your flight.

Cheers
Allan

[steveg]

Continuing the official BGA "Scottish Highlands and Islands Tour". This time in a Scottish Logan Air DHC-6 Twin Otter. The plans for today's flights are to leave Benbecula (EGPL) at sunrise, stop in Stornoway (EGPO), try to find Plockton (UK10), with destination at North Connel (OBN). In setting up my GPS flight plan I did not find UK10 in the X-Plane 11 data, so I searched the internet and Little NavMap, and found what looked like current nav data for Plockton with a short airstrip for microlights and helicopters. Plockton was about half way between Stornoway and North Connel so decided to see if my simulator had a small airport with ICAO XPLO. As usual scenery is by ORBX and is the True Earth version for the UK.

Ready to go at RWY 6 of EGPL.






Approaching EGPO Stornoway


At EGPO I noticed a couple of large old hangars and taxied over to find that the closest hangar was occupied by a helicopter. I thought this was odd until I noticed that the copter had wheels, and could taxi in and out of the building.


Departing Stornoway for a stop, I think, at UK10/XPLO. Leaving the Islands and heading into the Highlands of mainland Scotland, puts me in contact with many lochs, in the land of the lochs.


Half way to North Connel I did find XPLO on my GPS and flew over it to see if I could land. It was short but looked possible. A left bank was next, to fly up the loch and return for a landing at Plockton.


This is Plockton. They probably didn't see an aircraft as large as a Twin Otter very often. That Cessna 172 looked larger than a microlight.


Approaching North Connel (OBN). This has a new ICAO identifier but I didn't write it down.


The airport's largest group of neighbours is a mobile home park, or maybe you could call it a beach home park.


The Scottish Airline, Logan Air. Like most airlines they have had mergers, agreements, been subsidiary to larger airlines, but have outlived some of the UK big guys. They have one of these Twin Otters and it is based in Glasgow Scotland. This is the aircraft's proper livery.


God's best for you and yours in 2021.