petakas wrote:
Locher airstrip has been released as scenery available for Microsoft FSX and Prepar3D Flight Simulators
Oh… I did not see that before. Now where are my avsim credentials?
As I am not crazy enough to ever fly there myself nor can my plane handle this place, FSX is a good way of trying it out.
I need to read more carefully
According to a guy on YouTube, cables 3 are gone now.
Locher airstrip has been released as scenery available for Microsoft FSX and Prepar3D Flight Simulators
https://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=locher_airfield_vd_100.zip
Video of it in FS:
Videos of real flight as guide to this peculiar approach:
Here’s a really short landing on the PC12 on an Italian grass strip with same guy:
…not often you see 390 knots groundspeed…
Late to this thread but what I see is:-
- Beautiful location
- Fantastic aircraft
- Lucky bloke
- Lots of sour grapes
@slowflyer – amazing! My grandparents live one village over in Ahnatal – visiting as a kid we often walked up the Dörnberg to see the gliders. It was only when I learnt to fly that I realised just how dodgy those landing strips are!