Departing Kagoshima airport for
Pudong airport in Shanghai, China. Yet another of the many fun benefits of traveling virtually with a flight simulator, is that I can fly to all these interesting foreign airports, without having to be concerned about passports and Customs, accommodations and currencies, and the political ramifications of visiting countries that are perhaps not our best political friends at any particular moment.
For the first time, I setup X-Plane to use real-world weather, since category 2 typhoon Lingling was passing over the East China Sea at the time. I was wondering just how challenging this flight would be, with realistic weather, on a bad-weather day like today. As it turns out, there was only a little weather when leaving the southern tip of Japan, the trip over the East China Sea at 26,000 feet was completely uneventful, and there were some high winds with limited visibility when approaching Shanghai.
I don't know how the X-Plane developers decide which airports will get realistic airliner movement on the ground, but clearly Pudong airport didn't qualify for any of that ground traffic. It's mighty lonely, here at the airline gates at this rather large airport.
For the first time, I setup X-Plane to use real-world weather, since category 2 typhoon Lingling was passing over the East China Sea at the time. I was wondering just how challenging this flight would be, with realistic weather, on a bad-weather day like today. As it turns out, there was only a little weather when leaving the southern tip of Japan, the trip over the East China Sea at 26,000 feet was completely uneventful, and there were some high winds with limited visibility when approaching Shanghai.
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