This highly detailed aircraft was discovered by my friend Chergo. He also dove head first into the nittty gritty stuff to get us started with tasks, a challenge where you have to fly a rout of waypoints in the shortest period of time possible.
The Schneider AS33 offers great performance and is a beauty to fly. It comes fully equipped, even the ballast tanks are simulated.
SCC FR Tallard 353 S
This task took place in the French Alps, a really astonishing place to fly in MSFS2024.
Chergo and I crossed the starting line at Tallard together and the race was on! Up to waypoint 3 I was in the lead and higher as well. But a mistake right after that and Chergo overtook on the way to WP4. He continued to stretch the distance between us and even with my last effort, flying as fast as the AS33 allows, I came second by 6NM.
None the less, one of the greatest flights of all time.
Grand Canyon Tour- Part 1
This task starts at Lake Mead and follows the river Colorado upstream. Chergo and I thought there was little opportunities to claim altitude next to our starting airport, Pearce Ferry, but our tow-plane got us high enough to start the task immediately.
Despite the upper limit of 6000ft we stayed way down in the canyon and had a lot of fun tracing the ridges. It seemed you could ride the upper ridges and cut some corners or stay lower over the river and have a blast down the narrow passages.
Later on the tour, the winds got more unpredictable and near the end even treacherous. Chergo clipped a rock with his wing and was down right before the last checkpoint. I made it to the finish line (just) and found myself bobbing at 4000ft but the destination airport was outside the canyon at 8000ft. I tried to find an uplift for nearly half an hour before I finally ran out of space and had to crash land in the canyon.
A difficult route this, but we will definitely try again!
