Elias hadn't flown in six years. Not since the tremor in his hands grounded him from the 737 cockpit. Now, he lived in the digital skies of Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Lockheed Martin's Prepar3D — his way of staying above the clouds without a medical certificate.
The first sign something was wrong was the smell. Jet fuel. Real, sharp, chemical jet fuel wafting from his computer's cooling vents. Then the windows of his home office flickered — not with light, but with altitude . For a split second, he saw 38,000 feet outside his curtains. world fsx p3d package
He flew over Ulaanbaatar. The buildings cast shadows that moved with the sun. He tuned to a local ATIS frequency and heard a real Mongolian controller, speaking real weather. Elias hadn't flown in six years
"Ulaanbaatar Approach, Cessna 172 Echo Lima Victor, with you at five thousand five hundred." The first sign something was wrong was the smell
Fly safe, Captain.