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AW838 C208 20251201 PFF000 059 - Gerard Cuomo - 12-01-2025 Checked in at ops for weather briefing. It wasn't pretty, but manageable for life in the bush. Ceilings were between 700ft and 500ft with snow and ice along the entire route. The destination was showing low ceilings, but for the most part was in the clear. We had a narrow window to get there, and it was going to be challenging punching through the weather enroute. As the weather has been so bad lately, the survey team had concluded their mission early and left for home on a different flight. As we would be repositioning back to Anchorage, I offered to run people and parcels out of PAKI. Will do the same out of PANA back to PABE in a few days. Dep/Dest: PAKI-PANA Route: VFR Aircraft: C208 Total Time: 0:59 Just one of those days Temp below 0C, winds out of the north over 15kts, blowing snow, icing conditions, 500ft ceiling, and a partridge in a pear tree. 600ft was as high as we could get. Ended up going back down to 500ft De-icing boots getting some exercise today Had to get through one last blob before breaking into some better weather at the destination RE: AW838 C208 20251201 PFF000 059 - Huskydude - 12-01-2025 Great detail Gerard, very realistic looking RE: AW838 C208 20251201 PFF000 059 - Gerard Cuomo - 12-01-2025 It was tough. It was not too bad departing, marginal enroute, and not too bad arriving. Did a little self-evaluation when in the middle of it getting pushed down to 500ft and thinking about not wanting to go lower. Probably would have turned back in real life just for the icing alone. Had to keep hitting the boots switch every five minutes. This was in X-Plane 12 by the way. RE: AW838 C208 20251201 PFF000 059 - JoaoPaz - 12-01-2025 Great report, Gerard Tough weather for sure! The weather radar is also XP12? It looks like you already have X-Mao running as well.. how are you finding everything? RE: AW838 C208 20251201 PFF000 059 - Gerard Cuomo - 12-02-2025 Yes, the radar in the Thranda seems fairly accurate in its presentation of weather location and intensity. Laminar is getting a lot better at translating weather raw data into radar presentation across the entire sim. I do have it running. I don't have a powerful enough rig to run my graphics above the lower-end, and it actually doesn't make things look as good as the default. What I have done to find a middle ground is I installed the X-Plane HD mesh for North America so far. I plan on adding at least Europe next. That seems to make the default ground look a little better than default. RE: AW838 C208 20251201 PFF000 059 - JoaoPaz - 12-02-2025 Thanks, Gerard I don't have it all maxed out, either. My graphics card is a bit of a bottleneck on my system. But the 32GB RAM and having XP installed to a SSD NVMe disk sure helped a lot. This disk was worth the kinda budget investment. Anyway, the sim runs smooth, I like what I see and boy is this an upgrade from my old sims back in 2011 system: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | MSI B450I Gaming Plus Max WiFi | 32GB DDR4 | GTX 1080 8GB OS: Windows 11 Pro || storage: SSD SATA 1TB (OS) + NVMe WD Black SN7100 (X-Plane 12) Monitor: Samsung 26" 1920×1200 || Audio: Roland Rubix24 RE: AW838 C208 20251201 PFF000 059 - Gerard Cuomo - 12-02-2025 My card is a GTX as well, but I'm running 16GB of RAM. So, definitely on the lower end of the spectrum. Maybe one day things won't be so outrageously priced.