Leaving Bangkok, I headed into China, then Taiwan, Japan, and up to the northern edge of Russia.
I touched down at each of the following airports. You can click on each
airport identifier, to see a Wikipedia article about it:
ZUBD
- Qamdo Banga, China. This airport sits higher than anywhere I've flown
in real life. It's not on all charts, and is not far from the KDJ
VOR
navigational aid. The airport elevation is 14,219 feet, which is higher
than many general aviation aircraft can comfortably fly. When it came
time to depart, I thought it was pretty hilarious, that the Metro III's
pressurization system was warning me that the cabin altitude was too
high, before I had even taken off.
It
was a little tricky flying into this airport, as it doesn't show up in
the database on the SkyVector website that I use to plan my flights, and
there are no instrument approaches for it, in the X-Plane 11 flight
simulator I'm using. Not to worry, because the simulated air traffic
control made it easy, by vectoring me during my descent, right to the
final approach, and the weather was good enough, to see it from a
distance. You can see the airport in this view, if you squint, as it's
in the green area in the upper right corner of my view out the
windshield.
ZBAA - Beijing, China
ZSSS - Shanghai, China
RCQC - Magong, Penghu, Taiwan
RJAW - Iwo Jima, Japan
RJCM - Hokkaido, Japan
UEEE - Yakutsk, Russia
UEST - Tiksi, Russia
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