Classic British Flight Sim

TobyV wrote: ↑

17 Oct 2019, 21:07

I think we read the same article in De Tijd by the sounds of it! Be careful who you go into business with is the moral of the story there I think.

I'm hoping this is here to stay. The second most popular route was to Zürich, so I wouldn't be at all averse to them reacquiring a second Fokker and restarting that one too. Question is what on earth should replace the Fokker and for me, it's a large chunk of the appeal!

That's the one and what an article it was!

I'm sure I remember reading that VLM said the airframes had quite a bit of life left in them yet but spares must be getting harder to come by these days.
If and when it does get replaced, I fear it'll be with an ATR42. I hated dispatching those and flying in one wasn't much fun either.

There was a rumour already last year that had VLM stayed in business, they were planning to replace the Fokkers with ATRs. I've seen another wildcard suggestion of a "new" Do328s. Nothing has the character and the "regional connection" to the Dutch/Flemish speaking areas that the Fokkers do. Still as you say, spares will become increasingly difficult to come by and in the end, it's a commercial operation aimed at serious travellers, not an operation for aviation enthusiasts!

Turning Finals London City Airport



Thanks Toby, another great paintscheme for my fleet.

Regards
Nigel

Excellent Nigel. Actually I was quite pleased whren the pilot announced at the beginning of my flight the other day that there was a "strong easterly wind" at LCY, because I knew that meant approaching over Docklands.

Thanks Toby, my goodness the docklands.............When driving heavy goods in the 1970's I had a 20 ton delivery in the White Elephant area then after making a call to my depot I was told to go to Dagenham Docks for a 20 ton load of paper for the Lincolnshire Echo.

Now dockworkers in the 70's always worked to the book and when I arrived at 1600hrs was told I had to come back in the morning.

Found a truck stop nearby and got to the main gates at 08.00hrs the next day, there were only 2 artics in front of mine but it was 16.00hrs when I finally got away. Whilst there waiting one driver's foot somehow became trapped in-between the wooden panels (floor) of the trailer and Chinese Whispers came into play as the fire service turned up with four engines and heavy lifting tackle, they got the call that the driver was pinned under the trailer but we managed to free him before they arrived. Always knew that when I had a collection from the docks it would always entail a looooooong wait!!

Oh, happy days!!

Regards
Nigel.

Nigel - I guess that's all gone now, replaced by the suits at JP Morgan, CityGroup, HSBC and Barclays!

In the original post, I threatened to post some holiday snaps, here they are, plus all the aeroplane ones I mostly spared my FB friends from having to look through, but will hopefully interest you all.

Zürich and the lake of Zürich


Swiss Alps


Antwerp








Ghent


















Antwerp Airport


Air Antwerp Fokker 50 OO-VLS












Antwerp Airport


Antwerp






Arrival at London City Airport

Brilliant work Toby, you've got a real talent there

Wow! Beautiful!!

Brian

Great video, and very interesting photos here. Look at that architecture! You really do post some good stuff, Toby.

Brilliant photographs Tony and really like the night scene of Antwerp. Picture postcard quality!

Regards
Nigel.