Beautiful Chitral, Pakistan Scenery

[FlorianR]

Finally did my first flight to ncc1701e's newly released Chitra, Pakistan scenery package . I flew in from the south, IFR rules (there are no IFR approaches for this airport), with ATGCBS's Fokker F-27 (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=11933). The visual flying through the mountains was a first for me, since I have ever only flown into big airports with ILS approaches. Nevertheless, it was extremely fun, and the panorama was marvelous too; high mountain peaks as far as you could see. After descending into the valleys of the Himalayas (or at least that's what I think those mountain are ), and maneuvering through the craggy hills, I turned left around the face of a cliff, and WOW! In front of me lay the entire scenery: beautiful buildings, amazing animations, trees, airplanes sitting on the apron, and much more. The landing reminded me a lot of the Kai Tak landing, where you turn right, and there's the runway. Anyways, this landing was one of the most scenic and exciting landings I have done in a long time, and the author of the scenery deserves round of applause! Thanks and Congrats mate  !

some pics:

[FlorianR]

After some more research, I learned that this airport actually doesn't have runway lighting. Shouldn't be hard to fix though. Now if only we could find someone that wants to be the ATC on Vatsim for this airport  .

[samen]

You would be surprised that there was a time that a Boeing 737 used to fly there