Very Simple English Channel Crossing By British Midland

[aharon]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice British Midland airline flight from EGKK Gatwick Airport located 29.5 miles south of Central London, England to LFPG Charles de Gaulle Airport located 25 km to the northeast of Paris.

Waiting for pilots to board the plane



Fully boarded with passengers and ready for pushback!



Taxiing via J toward runway 08R passing runway 08L



Holding short of 08R awaiting for clearance for take off





Entering into 08R to start take off run



Airbone on climb to FL210 with nice wing view of sunrise



Climbing climbing with background view of weird fog or smog haze hovering over ground



Still on climb to F210 with background view of waters of Ardingly Reservoir seen below the plane



Nice sunrise





Dig the tail view



Intercepting SFD above town of Seaford



Crossing famous English Channel



Cruising at FL210 crossing the Channel



Approaching French shore with background view of bay of La Somme





Making sharp turn while intercepting TANCA



Descending through clouds



What kind of brains would put nuclear reactor next to airport?? Do not know name of nuclear reactor as I cannot find on maps





Seconds before touchdown



TOUCHDOWN



Starting reverse thrusters



Reverse thrusters in full!!



Thank you for viewing!! Stay tuned for next exciting flight.

Regards,

Aharon

[Erik]

Hi Aharon,

BMA and later their low-cost daughter bmiBaby as well used to fly a lot to my homeport EHAM and I remember their DC-9's. Unfortunately, the last that was left of them, operating as Flybmi, stopped all flying just last Saturday night and is most likely bankrupt. The looming Brexit has been mentioned as one of the main reasons for that. Too bad, they were always a joy to work with.

The callsign of British Midland was 'Midland' and that of bmiBaby was just 'Baby'. A great quote I remember from a Schiphol ground controller to a bmiBaby aircraft asking for push-back was "Stand-by to push as mama is just pushing behind you". 'Mama' was by then a BMA A320 or A321.

The nuclear power plant near LFPG is in FS9 as well but it does not seem to exist in real life. All I can find there (in Villeparisis) is a toxic waste dump facility. Not to mess with either, but at least not as high as those cooling towers. Thanks for another very colourful flight!

Erik

[Dan]

Hi Aharon,

Perfect as always! Especially this sunrise: it looks just magnificent!

Dan

[Deleted]

Feb 19, 2019 18:02:33 GMT -5 Erik said:

The nuclear power plant near LFPG is in FS9 as well but it does not seem to exist in real life. 

This power plant is more or less situated at nearby town of Sarcelles. But there was never such a plant indeed. It can be easily removed either with Instant Scenery excluding tool or ExcBuilder. Unfortunatly there seems to be no other way to remove them worldwide in FS9.

[aharon]

Thanks all for kind words.

Regards,

Aharon

[aharon]

It turns out that there is in Paris surburb called Sarcelles, France some NON-nuclear Icare Energy SA Power plant specializing in converting domestic waste to energy which you can see in my screenshots.

Aviavirt is indeed correct about specific Paris suburb called Sarcelles

Regards,

Aharon