Route distance: 842nm
Plane used: BV-170
Route: UEST - UOHH - UOOO
Change of plans - after tweaking the flight model, I don't think I can make the 1,600nm trip to CYLT, so instead I'm headed to UOOO via UOHH.
I decided to head out at dawn.
This was pretty much my view for most of the flight.
I was veeeeeeeery glad to arrive at UOHH. It was the longer leg of the journey, and arriving here meant I only had another 350nm to go.
At about 150nm to UOOO, the clouds rolled in. I tuned in my ATIS to here that conditions were worsening. "Expect ILS landing" and "snow falling and drifting" and "winds at 30kts" were... not was I was hoping for.
At about 80nm, I dipped down into the soup to confirm something I was worried about - Terrasync had failed (again). I ended up having to jot down my GPS coordinates and restart after manually downloading the scenery. I don't think I'm ever going to rely on Terrasync again, but I'll keep it running in the background. It's just disheartening to make a ~900nm trip only to have to reset the simulator because you don't have the scenery.
Back on topic: the soup was thick, and IFR flight in the BV-170 is very hard. It just flat out doesn't have the instrumentation for it. My view:
And this was my landing conditions. Holy moley.
So, there you have it. Aside from simulator issues, a moderately boring flight until the landing.
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