Since this was the first X-Plane.org fly-in near Lake Tanganyika, I took the opportunity to explore the lake and surrounding areas in a Cessna Citation after first flying the B1900 from Nairobi to Bujumbura. Later during the evening I also hovered around the airport in a Eurocopter Colibri before switching to daytime again for a flight to a small Rwandan airport near Lake Kivu and back. Notice how far X-Plane has come since the V7 days - the global scenery looks really great in these parts of Africa and all of the planes I flew this Sunday had very detailed 3D cockpits too.
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| Jan Grundke's Beechcraft 1900D in Holy Crap. Lions! Tours livery by me (3D cockpit by Sven Tunnermann) |
| Cessna 750 Citation X by David Austin, based on work by Brett Sumpter (3D cockpit by Sven Tunnermann) |
| Eurocopter EC120B Colibri by propsman (based on original V7 model by Beat B.) |
| Ryan Navion L-17C by Michael Wilson, Gerhard Strack, Richard Carper and Jon Peats |
| Kilimanjaro/Nairobi scenery package by Ted Davis |
Fly-in banner (featuring the Ryan Navion listed above):