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Radbie is currently on a GA trip from Sweden to USA, and the community surprised him with good company on his leg from ELVG to BIHN today.

While I need some time to process the recordings, I want to share some of the screenshots I took along the way.

Over six aircraft flew about 3 hours from one island to another, a distance of 470 km. One was even the Eurocopter, which has no auto pilot and that at FL10 with partially strong winds and plenty of beautiful clouds.

Fun fact: At this time of the year, the sun never sets down in this latitude, the golden hour lasted the whole flight.

It took me only two years to realise that no one has hair in this game. The only exception are people in videos (intro/news). It’s likely a limitation of the engine, but it’s so well hidden that nobody talks about this… until now 😅

We recently discussed the strange turbulence in https://www.reddit.com/r/MSFlightSimulatorPS5/comments/1t7ao2a/pilot\_error\_or\_is\_this\_supposed\_to\_happen/ and as it turns out, these physic glitches seem to be caused by the wake turbulence of other helicopters, which can extend 1 NM behind them and are influenced by the wind direction as well. Which can result in flying through them, even when the other helicopter is way ahead.

We did some extensive testing during the last week and the video only captures some of the observations, but long story short the wake turbulences can make your flight very unstable, even loosing control and crashing. They are very dangerous in low flight near the ground and hard to predict sometimes due to weather and landscape conditions.

I hope this post helps those who struggle with the same phenomenon when flying in groups.

We did an exceptional group flight session through Idaho's Big Greek valleys yesterday. We were about 10 players with mixed aircrafts. Mark B guided us through this wonderful landscape. Unfortunately some of the models were not rendered correctly, but see for yourself! ;)

I was flying in an Airbus H125 and also captured some moments with the camera drone. Winds got pretty strong, partially we had over 31 kts cross-winds, which made flying especially tricky.

Bonus: Wait till the end, were one of our pilots declared a mayday situation and performed an emergency landing in the mountains.

Enjoy watching!

- Check out more group flights on our Discord server -

Music by Olle August from Pixabay.

It really surprised me how stable the Draco X behaves in a steep nose dive, the throttle was not only put to zero, instead I put it in full reverse and had a pretty stable 80 knots during this exercise.

My favorite moment was actually, when I discovered my own plane’s shadow on the propeller.

The East coast of the Tsushima island right between Japan and South Korea is one of the most beautiful sceneries I’ve seen so far. Especially during the morning hours, when the light is illuminating the sky and reflecting from the Pacific Ocean.

I remember the beautiful representation of the island in the video game Ghost of Tsushima, but the scale of the real island is much bigger. Up next, I will do some flight seeing over here to visit the various temples and landmarks of the island. There is so much to discover 😍

Special thanks to all who participated in the event, here is an 11 minute long video, capturing some of the highlights and interesting locations we covered on our tour.

Take a warm drink, lean back and enjoy this relaxing footage of our group flight. Ask your question in the comments below or join the discord server and check out the photos we shared around the event.

Feel free to share this video with other communities. We captured this on a standard PS5.

I had this phenomenon multiple times and clipped it to share and see if this is my error as a pilot or supposed to happen. It happens in low fight altitudes during balanced fight, no input changes are made, but the H125 suddenly just goes crazy and stabilizes again. First I thought it’s some kind of vortex / ground effect, but watching the recording I’m uncertain what’s going on here.

Next Saturday at 19:00 UTC, we will meet at BIRK parking in Reykjavik, Iceland. In discord we prepared a VFR group flight with multiple highlight around the famous golden circle tour in Iceland as well some surprises along the way. As your tour guide, I will share some interesting background and personal experiences I had there in real life. We will use the discord voice chat + in game group to fly together and in close proximity. The tour will take round about 1.5 hours, free for all GA aircrafts. Fly safe!

3 new planes added yesterday for PS5, one is free. Plus, WU21 - Australia released

Who can guess what UPDL stands for? So much is said, you have to do it without crashing the airplane 😅

samsam101010 and me spent about an hour discovering Patagonia in Chile, it’s the most southern part of South America and very cold at this time of the year. A beautiful winter landscape, large lakes and small towns, quite a scenic experience.

I’ll try to get better capturing highlights, which is not easy while flying helicopters, but I really enjoy it and hope you too when watching the result.

Fly safe!

I’ve joined the discord server few days ago and teamed up with sillySnake0_0 last night for my first coop flight. So far I was only doing career mode and practiced flying since I got the sim three weeks ago, but I felt ready to check out the multiplayer options and what should I say, we had a blast traveling 263NM in close proximity upwards the west American coast. We were chatting about everything what came to our minds and shared tips and tricks along the way.

No HUD, no skipping, no auto pilot, just two strangers who shared the same passion.

This was an exceptional first time experience, and the two hours we spend together passed like in flight.

I’m so glad that we PS5 players finally have access to the sim and our own little community here. I’m looking forward to meet more likeminded pilots!

(The recording has been created and shared with consent from sillySnake0_0)

This happens when you signal the pilot too early that you’re ready, his engine is still running up and he won’t have enough speed before the end of the runway. Don’t try to repeat, I’ve already lost two draggers to figure this out.