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Birthday Milestone For An Aircraft

PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2026 5:18 am
by Aharon
Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Today is MD-11's thirty-six year birthday after its debut on 10 January 1990. My native country's EL AL had 2 MD-11ERs in service for about 2 years. I am presenting you recreation of real life EL AL MD-11ER flight as seen below

Presenting a nice charter flight from EPKK Krakow John Paul II International Airport located 7 miles west of the city centre of Krakow in southern Poland to EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol located 5 nautical miles southwest of Amsterdam, Holland.

Airborne on climb to FL360 after take off

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Nice engine view and cool Polish landscape!!

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Still climbing to FL360

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Passing city of Katowice in Poland

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Now cruising at FL360 in era 1998 Kodak photograph style

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Descending from FL360 to 10,000 ft

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Descending through clouds

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On final approach to runway 36R with background view of waters of Westeinderplassen

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Seconds before touchdown

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TOUCHDOWN

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Front landing gear gliding down in smoothly graceful manner while still producing cool tire smokes

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More tire smokes

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Exiting from runway into taxiway for long taxi to gate

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Arriving at gate

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Thank you for viewing!! Stay tuned for next exciting flight

Regards,

Aharon

Re: Birthday Milestone For An Aircraft

PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2026 8:32 am
by deeknow
Nice one Aharon, amazing aircraft and a nifty modern looking livery that's aged well (haven't seen that one before)

Re: Birthday Milestone For An Aircraft

PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:02 am
by Aharon
Deeknow,

Thanks for your kind words. Great to hear from you. Hope all is well with you.

Regards,

Aharon

Re: Birthday Milestone For An Aircraft

PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2026 3:50 pm
by Splitpin
My goodness Aharon what a post ...you work your FSX to the max.
Well done young man :thumbup:
What model is the MD-11 ?

Re: Birthday Milestone For An Aircraft

PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2026 3:19 am
by Aharon
Shalom Splitpin,

Thank you for your kind words.

Splitpin wrote: What model is the MD-11 ?


It is freeware Overland model base. It is great and comes with MD-11 panel.

Regards,

Aharon

Re: Birthday Milestone For An Aircraft

PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2026 4:58 pm
by Splitpin
I remember that model.....did CLS do an MD-11 or just the DC-10...They were great models.

Re: Birthday Milestone For An Aircraft

PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2026 3:36 am
by Aharon
Splitpin wrote:I remember that model.....did CLS do an MD-11 or just the DC-10...They were great models.


Splitpin,

Great question. CLS never made MD-11 but but CLS is famous for DC-10s. It is actually PMDG that makes payware MD-11. It is unfortunate that PMDG stopped selling MD-11s.

Regards,

Aharon

Re: Birthday Milestone For An Aircraft

PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2026 12:22 pm
by deeknow
I always loved the CLS A310/300 and their MD8x series, many flights in those back in the FS9/2004 days.