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| Passing Edinburgh | Now arriving in Ireland and starting the descent | Into the clouds |
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| It's raining below | Land in sight | Receiving approach vectors from VIKING69 |
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| This weekend there were some major bandwidth issues at X-Plane.org so there were some savings to be made by using text communications | Passing the closed Gormanston Airport | Intercepting the localizer when a sudden burst of rain and hail damages the cockpit windows |
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| Final approach to EIDW | 6 miles out, landing runway 16 | |
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| For once the autoland is working flawlessly, guiding me right down to the runway! | Braking on the wet runway surface | |
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| Runway vacated | Taxiing to the gate | Parked at Dublin Airport |
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| The Isle of Man is very close by, so I hop into a Euromanx RJ70 for the next flight | Engines running - cleared to taxi | Taxiing to runway 16 |
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| Someone is doing aerobatics above the airport - in an airliner! Or maybe there's just no CSL file defined for that plane... | Cleared to taxi into position | Cleared for takeoff, rolling (no idea what that 747 is doing there, it's not moving and certainly not cleared for anything) |
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| Rotating | Taking off from EIDW - notice the 747 is still there | On departure vectors from runway 16 |
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| Making a left turn to heading 343 | I had trouble getting the autopilot to work so I'm flying this turn manually | A window view of Dublin |