Flying at the Baltic. Vilnius International Airport (EYVI) - Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (EETN)

[hasegawa]

It was a small flight on sunday morning, from south to north over the baltics... from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania over Latvia and to Tallinn, the capital from Estonia. Aircraft of the day was the Cessna 510 Citation "Mustang", a VLJ, a little bird for people that have used aircraft like the Cessna 310, Beech 55/58 and other small piston-engined or PTL-aircraft with two engines. 470 of these "Mustangs" came from the line from the Cessna-factory in Independence, the last in Mai 2017.





Vilnius Airport (Lithuanian: Vilniaus oro uostas) was build in a time, Vilnius was under the rule of Poland. On 17 August 1932 it came into use as as Wilno–Porubanek, Porubanek was the name of the neighbouring village which today is part of the Kirtimai district of Vilnius In 1939 Vilnius became capital of Lithuania, but not for long. With the Hitler-Stalin pact, in oktober 1939 it became a part off the USSR and did so in June 1940. Taken by Germany August/September 1941 and retaken by the USSR in August 1944 it was a part of it up to Independence in 1991.
Meanwhile the airport is renovated and has EU standards. At the moment Lithuania has no Flag-carrier since FlyLal gave up for financial difficulties. Some of there aircraft are stored here Boeing 737-300/500s
Aerosoft has bulid this airport for FSX/P3D.













After takeoff we flying northwards out of sight of the Baltic Sea. An alternative to view more interesting coast is first to fly to the west to Kaunas and then moving to north, via the Latvian citys of Liepaja and Ventspils over the Bay of Riga...
But we stay in the east and have a far shorter way to Tallinn. But have a look at the charts, because it is not far away to the border of Russia.







Reaching latvian airspace...







Reaching estonian airspace...







Coming in in Tallinn, but not at the best way. I "didn´t hit the ILS-beam", to high and a bit fast.









Leaving the runway... and moving to parking.











The Airport of Tallinn is an older one, was build around 1931... but opend official in 1935. Estonia was independent after WWI and this was the main gate by air. The first foreign aircraft where from Poland, Germany, Finland.With the okkupation of the USSR in June 1940 some foreign aircaft are internied here. The rest of toihe stoy is typical after the USSR, german troops pult them out juli 1941 and the USSR etake this Area in summer 1944.
In the Stalin-Ära the building in front of my aircraft was build and replaced with the new terminal in the 2000ths. But it is still there. It is the most eastern airport of the EU but with the sanctions with russia his position is difficult.
It wqas an interesting flight... a flight over the complete balitic and this is not without history...

[Charl]

Interesting area... is that Drzewiecki scenery?

[cowpatz]

A very nice bunch of screens.

[hasegawa]

Yes, Tallinn is the scenery from Drzewiecki Design and Vilnius is from Aerosoft. Für me it is a Problem, that the No. 1 - Airport in the Baltic (EVRA-Riga) is not aviaiable in the same Quality.

[Charl]

Interesting thing I learned about Stan Drzewiecki - like many flightsim scenery designers, he has a day job.
In this case, an evening job: he is a concert pianist!

[hasegawa]

Yes, this is not unusual. Also many of the russian designers like Sibwings, RF Design and some of the designers from Aerosoft are not at the first place Scenery or aircraft-designers....