content_pasteCase Study: Capetown. I spent a week flying in one of the 250 plus areas in MiGMan’s World Tour, just the two missions from Africa Visual Vol.4: "The Cape" and "Dam Busters". In each location there will be one mission which takes you across or around the capital city, then one or more cross country flights. In many of the adventures recorded here I flew to just the first waypoint in the first mission. That took me to the centre of town and then I explored. Some of my explorations lasted a few minutes, some an hour. Check them out and get inspiration for your own flights.
content_pasteComplacency killed the cat, or so the saying goes. After logging about 1850 hrs in Microsoft Flight Sim and recording over 700 flight videos from takeoff to landing I felt pretty confident. But that was in an MB-339 jet. By contrast I wouldn't have logged 2 hours in the EA-7 Optica. That lack or experience and overconfidence shows at the end of this video when I stalled and crashed. Luckily I was thrown clear and landed in a haystack.
content_pasteCrossing False Bay and nearing the airport the sim crashed. I can'r complain as this has happened less than a handful of times in 18 months and nearly 2,000 hours of flying.
content_pasteAfter the events earlier in the day the team decided I had better get in some stall practice, so I headed over the water just north of Cape Town.