Watching a detective triggered my curiosity in large, just say enormous machines. Lauchhammer is the German city where the detective played. The city is also at the edge of a mining area, where lignite is extracted in open-pit mines. There is the idea of this adventure. Germany has three large areas where there is still lignite mining. Though the coal is non efficient as fuel and the power plants are in the highest ranking of carbon pollution, the mining goes on. The enormous machines however I find fascinating. In this trip you can see the mines and the devastation of the soil. It is a nice flight, across Germany, from the border with the Netherlands to the border with Poland.

You fly with a Cessna Skyhawk 172Sp G1000 or at your choice with a Cessna 152 for those who like VFR flying. Both trips will be visible in the simulator. It is a pity that you cannot change the aircraft per leg. Refuel is only available on some airports along the flight path. So, keep an eye on your fuel gauge. If you want another aircraft, you can change that with the MissionChanger by BuffyGC.

The trip is written in American English and with DeepL translated into: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Netherlands, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese and Portuguese (Portugal).

The flight information is spoken short before a waypoint turn, GPS is available and loaded for those who want to use it. When flying AP you have to go manual with certain sharp turns. Weather, PreSet is ClearSky. The explanation on the mines, power plants and other sights is available in the NAVlog. The text is also available in the Flight book.

Installation: Copy the folder ft-bt-opensitemining from the zip.file into your Community Folder.

After landing you have to park your plane and shut it down, else the leg will not end.

In the zip you find:

•             The BushTrip, 508 NM long in 6 legs

•             The written flight plan from LittleNavmap

•             A KML file to project the trip in Google Earth

•             A Flight Book

•             An Excel file with all translations

•             A list of airports where you can refuel

As always, I have to thank BuffyGC for his BushTripInjector and Alexander Barthel for LittleNavmap. All information is found in Wikipedia and some other sources on the internet.

To have nice environments and smoking chimneys you have to install We Love VFR region 1 by PuffinFlight. I thank PuffinFlight for the We Love VFR add_ons.