325nm, 2.4 hours (total: 12,335nm, 76.1 hours)
Well, Eaglesoft's spiffy new Twinkie has finally reached FSX, and the default texture features 'chromalusion' - supposedly the first commercial addon to do it. (if you don't know, that's the magic colour-changing paint they use on pimped-up cars). Yes folks, welcome to leg 1 of "Pimp My Plane"!
San Pedro can hold us for only so long, and so we must press on into Mexico. Like everyone else, we've seen pictures of the flooding on TV, but our route stays in the mountains to the South of the affected region, so we're not anticipating any trouble. Anyhow this plane is so pimped up, it probably has a switch somewhere to activate floats!
Although we're planning on a VFR flight, the airport is currently IFR, forcing us to file an IFR flight plan, which hopefully will take us the first few hundred feet, and, sure enough, within seconds we break through the top of the fog layer into bright sunshine. "Tower, cancel IFR!"
You can see how thin the fog layer is, when much of the city is poking through!
Away from the city, and in a leisurely cruise climb. This baby purrs!
Do you notice that if you take kids in the plane, they don't care about this miracle of flight - all they want to do is watch videos!
It's hard to show the chromalusion ™ effect in a still picture. Hey kids, this is Guatemala: We're not stopping. Kids? Kids? Oh, never mind!
We're over the Chiapas Highlands, and into the wide Cuilco river valley, where we can start our descent
Somewhere around here is the airport...
Ah, here it is!
Way to go:
