I managed to get another leg done yesterday. It's available via my link as usual. The report contains two embarressing admissions   about my complete lack of expertise as a pilot, so you should get a good laugh out of those if nothing else!

One thing I've done is added the pre-booked destinations not yet visited, to the map. They're on there as bright blue dots. They don't show up well in places sadly, but they are there if they're in the pre-booked list in the flight log.

One more point: If you've made a booking and you don't see it in the list, please post again. I'm not sure, but I've a feeling I lost one or two when my posts went West a while back.

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Since I arrived in South America I've been getting a lot of practice at bad landings!

Feel free to nitpick - it's the only way I spot my typos! Fixed now thanks.

By the way - that was leg 11 you were reading... lol.

Always a good idea to do a complete thorough preflight even if it is a sim. I found a joystick glitch that way when the alerions didn't respond. Simple restart of my joystick app. fixed it so no mechanic's fees but that's better than taking off and finding out you can't turn.

I don't know whether you particularly want to fly to only default airports but I found an add on that gives you airports in Antarctica. The filename is ATAK2_A.zip by Bill Freeborn in the Scenery section here at Simviation.

The way I understood the Readme file, the airports are fictional but they correspond to actual stations. Most small scientific stations there wouldn't have a dedicated runway. They'd just use any flat smooth surface nearby to land a ski equipped plane (which wouldn't work with FS2002). I think he also used some artistic license in the buildings and looks of the stations.

"The names of the airports in the A/FD correspond to the actual names of the scientific stations.  The stated coordinates are for the respective airports with the stations being in near proximity.  Geographic positioning is as accurate as possible, but is governed by the default scenery.  There has been no attempt to represent any station, as such.  Beyond the station names and their approximate coordinates, you are subject to my imagination."

Don't know if that's realistic enough for your flight rules but since you particularly wanted to visit the farthest North and South I thought I'd give you a heads up. I think there was a glitch that kept the South Pole base from being anywhere near the real South Pole but I measured the farthest South one the add on puts in and it's about 650 miles away although this might be a bad time to fly down there with Winter coming on.

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Sorry, never noticed that page

Nice stuff John. I was pretty peeved about the missing statue too. That and the cable car with James Bond fighting Jaws (Moonraker) being absent!
Err why didn't you check the flaps sooner?

Ozzy

I have just caught up with Legs 11 and 12.

Wow.  I'm sitting in my study perfectly safe but sweating with all the suppressed fear of having to make that Rio landing myself.

As for the flaps problem, I have to admit that I did the same once with airbrakes.  I was doing an around Europe flight in a harrier.  Landed with airbrakes on, taxied to fueling point, re-fueled and saved then went to bed.

The next day my airspeed was appaling at full throttle and I had the range of an inebriated gnat.  It took me two hours to work out what I'd done.

Good luck with lucky Leg 13 tee hee hee.

Will

I once did the same thing, but it was the autopilot that was left on and I just couldn't figure why the aircraft wouldn't respong to the controlls

It took a couple system restarts before I finally figured it out. Boy did I feel stupid!