Tradewind Vacations will come sooner or later

[CBreuer]

Hello folks.

Roughly a year ago I announced Tradewind Vacations, which primary tasking will be flying to the main holiday spots in different locations of the world. This of course includes destinations in Europe as well (mainly served from European origins like Amsterdam), as also some other places like the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, North Africa and the Middle East. 

So it happened on June 9th that I was able to finally fly from Amsterdam to Palma de Mallorca (LEPA). For the return flight I decided to take some pictures to show you the livery of the B737-800 and also take you along the route of the flight. 

So, first we are here at Gate 52 at Palma de Mallorca's very nicely done freeware scenery by EuroScene (https://flightsim.to/file/84186/lepa-palma-de-mallorca-airport) and the aircraft being loaded for the flight to Amsterdam. 


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After takeoff we followed the SID which took us around the island towards the Spanish mainland near Barcelona.
Here we are passing near El Toro and Santa Ponça. 


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Followed by Peguera


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As we were still climbing to our initial FL360 we were already passing Barcelona a little bit to the South.


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En-route we also flew past Toulouse, France.


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Later into the flight and I believe already in the descend or shortly prior we were passing near the city of Ghent, Belgium. 


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Already on the arrival to Amsterdam we passed some nice places along the Netherlands West coast with passing near Domburg


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immediately followed by Renesse


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The next picture shows us abeam IJmuiden and the North-Sea Canal with Amsterdam in the background.


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After landing on the Polderbaan (RWY 18R) we are already taxiing in to Gate D24


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Departing traffic from runway 24 (Kaagbaan) 


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And another aircraft taxiing to RWY 24 for departure. 


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Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of the aircraft at the gate. 

Anyhow, I hope you like the pictures and also the outlook of what to expect in the future. At least I have finalized the the flight numbers for departing/arriving Amsterdam - now I need to look at the times. I have also done repaints for the B777-200ER and B777-300ER for MSFS 2020. I still didn't get me MSFS 2024, hence there are still no repaints for this simulator, as the format of the textures is different. 

Have fun!