Due to the deactivation of the Google Photos API on 31.03.2025, currently all pictures of pontiac51.com are OFFLINE!
I am currently transfering all the pictures to a new provider and deciding which gallery plugin to use in the future.
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Recently, I have become active on Twitch. For the time, I am building bricks with @LadyMacBrick, an old friend of mine. Usually, I do stream on Wednesdays, at or about 6pm CET. After the stream, videos also go live on Youtube. Like this one, buliding the DeLorean form Back to the Future.
It has become a tradition that the person having its birthday can choose the route flown on that day. It was Jörg’s turn and he choose Switzerland. We crossed the country from Zuerich to Geneva along its southern lakes.
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Altiports is a name unique to french airports with extraordinary features, usually sloped and short runways due to mountain terrain. And we had a lot of them on this flight towards Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps.
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The France bushtrip continued, we left the Mediterranean Sea behind us and climbed into the Alps. From now on all airports will be Altiports.
This part of France is beautifully modeled all around. Flying out of Marseille into the mountains was a truly breathtaking experience I can recommend to anyone.
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After flying in Australia and Vietnam, we decided it was time to continue the France bushtrip and flew 3 more legs up to Montpellier.
We admired the mountains and battled the weather and for the last legs it was getting dark as well. None the less MSFS provided great scenery and lots of foto opportunities.
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I had a sightseeing trip planned for my friends spanning four countries in a little over an hour. Thanks to various world updates there was a lot to see on this trip south from Klagenfurt via Ljubljana and Trieste to Pula.
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Yesterday this site was attacked and subsequently closed down by the provider. While it was easy to get what little files the server had (most is elsewhere anyway) from a backup, implementing more stringent security measures was not!
Kudos go out to my friend Chris! Without his profound help pontiac51.com could have been gone forever.
But I am happy to report that all is back and well! In addition, we are now graded “A” on SecurityHeaders.
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We (only Jörg & me this time) decided to continue the France bush trip as Chergo was still not available. Next time then!
We continued to marvel at the beautiful landscape, but later had to battle the weather and the mountains enroute to our first altiport landing.
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We (only Jörg & me this time) decided to start a new bush trip as Chergo was not available and we did not want to spoil the end of our Patagonia bush trip for him.
We have never flown in France before so we were curious what to expect from this trip. And we were in for a surprise.
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