Puerto Princesa → Manila

[hasegawa]

Route: Puerto Princesa Airport (PPS) → Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila (MNL)
Aircraft: NAMC YS‑11, Air Link International Airways, Japan’s first post-1945 civilian airliner, fully Japanese design
Flight Details: Monsoon trough with thunderstorms, variable visibility. Instrument flight under changing weather. Standard takeoff and landing procedures; extra caution required during thunderstorms.
Remarks: The YS‑11 responds precisely to control inputs and handles tropical weather reliably.

[Splitpin]

Great post...enjoyed the history.

[hasegawa]

Thank you very much. The YS 11 is one of those overlooked classics, and this model flies well. Of course, it has the simplified PTL engines from MSFS2020, but I don't see that as a negative.
I just downloaded some repaints from flightsim.to, and now I'm only missing one from Reeves Aleutian. But besides the Philippines, Japan, and the US, you can also fly it in Europe. Olympic Airways in Greece used it once. Was the YS 11 also available in New Zealand?

[Naki]

Nice series...No YS -11s have ever been here as far as I know....plenty of F-27s and a number of HS 748s (which look similar) though.

[hasegawa]

After all that flying in the Visionjet and the Citation 3+, it was time to fly the old-fashioned way again...