Perhaps if I'd spent the Saturday afternoon, that went on looking for vaguely appropriate schemes, in practising instead I'd be closer to the WR08 mark!
1st. run for WR01 was with an Arkia scheme - like it would ever get clearance into Syrian airspace.
2nd. run was in the Battle of Britain Flight Dakota scheme for 267 ‘Pegasus’ Squadron, which flew in the transport role in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Theatres during 1943/44. So my father probably missed them when he was recalled from home leave to India in '45 for Operation Zipper.
WR02 was done in a PAA scheme:
WR03 was LAN Chile, naturally - although I did not contact the deck, this was about the time I realised that I should have followed the waterway and not the compass bearing :
On the second attempt at WR03:
We're starting to get this kind of weather round here already:
For WR04 we moved on to Pionair, from the approach at the end I got the feeling we came here in '05 but from the other direction IIRC. As we had to turn this corner, perhaps I should have switched off the non-standard mesh along part of the route:
...and down somewhere in the vicinity of the runway:
For WR05, again the non-standard mesh may have been almost as much a hindrance as the cack-handed pilot, but in the end I followed a valley that I've used before and it was probably the right one
Before we got to the Alps it was back into the snow.
Coming round the Innsbruck approach as dusk set in for my favourite shot to date:
Off to the Hawaiian Islands for WR06 and some scenic cruising, except we set off from my least favourite part of Big Island - it's the perspectives I dislike with this slope that we're cresting
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A bit hazy over the islands:
I was going to post these over on the WR08 forum, but it is refusing to acknowledge my registered name, password or email at present.
I flew the first two legs using settings that I was sure I finished the last WR with, but then ended up flying faster than the average. So I flew deliberately slightly slower for WR03, and found it less fun so reverted to the numbers for 1 & 2 for the remaining legs before seeing that I'd overshot with the speed reduction when the scores came out for WR03. The nav is the fun bit anyway, so I'm sticking to the same old for the balance of the flights. As said at the top - perhaps more time practising would have been the sensible approach.