AEROPARK VRSAR

After a long time I'm finally adding some new interesting content to this page...

I visited this nice little airfield in Vrsar, Croatia during my summer holidays in
a nearby village on the Adriatic Sea.
I met some very friendly people who showed me the airport and explained me
their activities. It's a must stop for the GA pilots! Great service, friendly staff
and just few minutes away from the wonderful Croatian beaches.

It's also been the base for the Redbull air race pilots, which was held last spring
in Rovinji, Croatia.

The main reason why I decided to visit this place is their open-air museum with
some nice planes which are possible to visit. They currently have 9 planes but
they have plans to install more aircrafts for exposition in the near future.

You can see some pictures below:

AN-2

Antonov 2 cockpit (AN-2)

 

Cessna C-172

 

C-172 cockpit

Let L-410 

Let L-410 cockpit

For further information please visit their site: http://aeroparkvrsar.blogspot.com/

Project Tupolev

Hi guys!! For those of you who want a new challenge and fly this beauty on your sim, I can advice you to install the Project Tupolev Tu-154. Models available: Tu-154B2 and Tu-154M. This add on for flight simulator is freeware, but it's been reviewed by many as one the best most advanced and most complex addons ever created for FS, and I agree 100%!! What I can say is: Read the manual and it would be raccomended to get acknowledged with Russian alphabet, it will help you a lot! It took me a while to study it but what a satisfaction when I made it fly the first time! :) With practice you'll see that it's not that difficult. Remember that the Tupolev 154 has a crew of at least 4 people while on your sim you are alone to get all the work done!! Enjoy it!! ;)

You can find it HERE

 

Here is a video tutorial that I found very useful in beginning. You'll be able to find even more:

Tupolev 154

Let me introduce you my favourite plane. Well, for many of you it doesn't need any introductions, but for those who are new to Russian aircrafts...
I'm talking about the great Tupolev-154 (shortly Tu-154, Tу-154 in Russian).
Some quick facts: it's a three-engine medium-range airliner designed and manufactured by Tupolev in the 60's.
It first flew on October 4th 1968 and during years the Tu-154 underwent various changes and improvements: newer and more fuel-efficient engines, western-like avionics etc... Its main variants are the Tu-154B (Ту-154Б) and the Tu-154M (Ту-154М), which is the latest one.
With a cruising speed of over 950 km/h its considered one of the fastest airliners in operation, however its era is coming to an end and currently there are more or less a hundred still in airline service.

For further informtion click HERE

Here is one video showing the Tupolev on landing and on take-off. I think its engine sound is amazing!!

Below you'll find some photos I personally took at Kiev's Museum of Aviation.

Cockpit

Flight engineer's panel