MSFS Fly the Maddog X: Helsinki to Budapest

Time to feed the Maddog! Let's embark on a flight from the Finnish capital down south to Budapest, Hungary, taking the recently released Leonardo Fly the Maddog X.

We are going to operate a Finnair service, AY1251, which indeed used to be flown by the MD series until the middle of the 2000s when eventually, the "buses" completely took over.

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Sweden. Home of the delicious Polarbröd and the even more delicious Havregurt. How I miss those! After having eaten all of them, creating serious food shortages, duty is once again calling. This time we are rostered to fly a Karair DC-6 to the town of Vaasa on the Finnish west coast.

The plan was to fly VOR to VOR but checking Skyvector revealed there is not only a Polarbröd shortage in the region but also a VOR station shortage. Lacking the desired coverage we eventually borrowed a leftover Garmin GPS to conduct the flight.

By the way, am I doing something the wrong way, or reversing the PMDG DC-6 is really a matter of hit or miss?

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No commentary, no music, only stock in-game sounds (engine and environment). The default ATC was not utilized for this flight.

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Event timeline:

00:02:15 Flight preparations
00:21:30 Pushback and engine start
00:29:40 Taxi
00:27:00 Takeoff
00:41:50 Passing FL100
00:54:00 Cruise
02:25:50 Descent preparations & descent
02:39:00 Approaching Budapest (LHBP)
02:47:00 Final approach

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Platform: Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
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Aircraft: Leonardo Software Fly the Maddog X
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Scenery: Helsinki Vantaa (EFHK) by JustSim
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and

Budapest-Ferihegy (LHBP) by LHSimulations
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Pushback utility:
Toolbar Pushback
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G1000 NXI:
Working Title G1000 NXI mod
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Charts:
Navigraph
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My flight sim gear:

Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog Dual Throttle
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Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog Flight Stick
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Thrustmaster TFRP Rudder Pedals
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My gaming rig:
I7 6700K 4.5 GHz, 16 GB RAM, NVidia Geforce GTX1070 card with 8 GB VRAM, 500 GB SSD for MSFS only, 250 GB SSD for the O/S, 1 TB HDD for everything else.

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