Part 15

Once you read this installment, you will understand, after a terrible crash while on a site seeing flight in Athens, once I recovered from the coma, I still have been laid up in a Greek hospital unable to move my arms or legs, I'm okay now though.

Actually I have just been into some other things lately, I'll tell you honestly, as much as I love flying this simulation, I have been finding myself getting a little burnt out on the round the world flight, but I am still determined to complete the trip, even if it takes a little longer, and updates to Misadventures occur a little less frequently.

Anyways, I decided to fly a heavy from Istanbul to Athens Greece, I wandered through my hangar and came out with a KLM 747-400, I don't know if KLM actually flys this route and I don't rightly give a crap, this is make believe anyways right?

The flight went perfectly and I had a great landing, there was not much other traffic at all, I expected quite a bit considering that Athens is a pretty popular place.

I don't recall adding any scenery for this area, but the airport was very detailed and nice looking, with taxiway signs and gate markings on the concrete and such.

I had this cool idea that I would search the internet and find some Greek music to listen to while I was in this area, I found a live audio feed from Athens and what do I here? Wham! You know, with George Michael, the 'I'm never gonna dance again' song? WTF??

When the DJ talked it sounded a little like spanish, one thing I noticed was that the windows media feed was constantly losing contact and having to re-establish the feed, this would not do.

I liked some of the music I heard but there was no way for me to know who the heck was singing due to the fact that I don't understand Greek talking, so even if they did announce the artist between the tunes, I wouldn't even have known.

Once I got bored with listening to Greek radio, I figured I would go explore the city, WOW, Athens Greece, isn't this supposed to be one of the coolest places in the world? Should be plenty to see here, so I borrowed a Kingair and took off to see what I could find.

The first thing that caught my eye was a good sized arena or coliseum, I did a couple of fly-bys and snapped some photos, I then noticed some ancient looking buildings on top of a small mountain, I assumed this to be the acropolis, I only knew this from back when I watched Yanni live at the acropolis.

I flew around it a few times and took some photos, then decided to do a real close fly-by and get some real good close up shots, this of course is when disaster struck.

It was kind of wierd because I didn't actually realize that I had clipped the acropolis with a wing tip until I discovered I had no control over my aircraft, the next thing I knew I was tumbling through the air and spiraling into the ground, I got some great shots of the incident! Normally I forget to take pictures of the good crashes but not this time.

So there I was once again, in a foreign hospital in a light coma, with multiple broken bones, after a couple of surgerys to put my face back in it's original place I was GOOD AS NEW!! and ready to go crash into the next town.

I would like to thank all the cute little nurses for giving me my dailey rub down with moisterizing lotions to keep my skin from drying out and also for keeping my happy stick erect.

No trip to Greece would be complete without visiting Mount Olympus, I mean c'mon, that's where Zeus and all his party animal God friends hang out, so I had to go there and flip a thumbs up to all the deities, besides that, my digital camera is named after this place.

Now you can laugh at me if you want, I'm not from this area, and I know my world geography pretty good, but I really thought Mount Olympus was somewhere in the Athens area, I had to really study my atlas to find that it is actually located far to the north, so I would just have to hop in a jet and fly to Thessaloniki, this would take me right past Olympus and I could take a break to figure out where I would go next.

I don't remember what plane I took for this flight, I know that I wasn't very impressed with Olympus and while I was on final approach to Thessaloniki the program froze up, this is only the first or second time this has ever happened, poo!

Now came the time when I had to decide a course of travel to visit all the great places in Europe, I don't really know what made me decide to go with the decision to fly to Bucharest next, but that's what I did.

The plane of choice was a Lufthansa 747-400, a meljet version, it was a great trip with some nice scenery along the way, but for some reason that I never figured out, ATC decided to cancel me while I was setting up for final approach into Bucharest, Oh well, I continued on my course and made my landing without any further instructions from ATC, who needs 'em?

So I headed back to the airport and seeing how busy this airport was compared to Athens, I just slowly cruised along on the ground checking out the airliners, and that turned out to be the only cool thing about Bucharest.

I guess that's it for this leg of my journey, I can't promise the next update will come any quicker, all I can promise is that it will come, just be patient and enjoy the time you spend flying around in FS2002 or 2004, depending on which you are currently using, I will be so happy to finish this trip and switch over to 2004, hopefully this will happen before the release of FS2006!