A full flight topic coming out from me… my first and probably last.
So, I was bored. Instead of watching YouTube videos or playing Clash Royale, I decided to do something I’ve been planning on doing for a few days: a full flight on Infinite Flight. But, coming from me, you know it’ll be anything but your typical full flight, where you take off, engage the autopilot and forget you’re flying and get essentially no pleasure out of it. Instead, I decided to handfly the WHOLE journey. After all, for me, it’s quite contradicting to destroy your device’s battery and performance for seemingly no reason.
Today’s journey will take us from Joinville (SBJV) to my home airport, SBSP on a Blue1 717. Why? Well, there’s the excuse and there’s the real reason.
Excuse:
This flight was supposed to be done with an Azul E195. Since there’s no E195 in IF anymore, I had to downgrade to the E190. However, the E190 is too expensive for me, so I stuck with the closest thing there is (what I like to call the poor people’s Azul E190).
Real reason:
Everyone flies (rather, “flies”) 737s and A321s, so they’re boring. Further, A321s don’t operate at either airport. Add that to how much I love the 717 in IF, as well as how essentially no one flies it, and boom, perfect match. As for the livery, I went with the closest thing there was to a Brazilian airline (in this case, Azul). A perfect replacement for the Azul E190!
Here’s our ride for today, a 10 years and 2 months old Blue1 Boeing 717-200.
A closer look at this underrated beauty.
Backtracking for runway 33.
And we’re airborne!
Hello, Curitiba!
I’m too lazy to caption this picture.
Banking into São Paulo.
Airport in sight!
Not exactly my best landing, with a pretty floaty bounce (mainly because I refused to use autothrottle, despite its use being essentially mandatory to get a good landing, unless you have extremely good manual throttle handling skills), but hey at least both touchdowns were pretty smooth.
What a bag would see if it could see.
Thanks for joining along this ride! Even though this flight was only about 40 minutes long, I’m willing to bet that if you’ll probably feel a lot better about yourself by spending 40-60 minutes completely focused on flying, and actually deserving every single second of flight time than flying the so overrated long haul overnight flights in which you don’t even know what happened in most of the flight.