Thread by @prchovanec

Since I have no real-life travel photos these days, I have to explore the world virtually on MSFS. Here I am coming in for a landing and taking off in an XCub over Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Flying into and out of a small grass airstrip in Yendegaia National Park, just across the border in southernmost Chile.

Following an unknown river down to the Lago Cami, in Tierra del Fuego, Chile.

Crossing the intimidating expanse of the Straits of Magellan, heading north.

Crossing a deeply weathered landscape north of Punta Arenas, Chile.

A glacier stretching down from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field near Cerro Balmaceda.

Turning past another huge glacier and down the path of the glacial streams.

The vast panorama of the Torres del Paine, in southern Chile.

Climbing up Grey Glacier in Patagonia.

Reaching the top of Grey's Glacier and beginning a steep descent down another glacier on the other side.

Perito Moreno Glacier reaches all the way down into an arm of Lago Argentino. Below it, the landscape becomes arid desert before reaching the airport at El Calafate, back in Argentina.

Taking off from El Calafate and crossing Lago Viedma, to the north, before coming down on a rough dirt airstrip near the mountains again.

Following the twisting mountain valleys in the Lago O'Higgins border region between Argentina and Chile.

Flying past a small glacial lake on my climb to conquer the pass between Cerro San Lorenzo (in Chile) and Cerro Penitentes (in Argentina).

Here comes the pass, looming up ahead. That's San Lorenzo to the left. I'm at 4,500 feet above sea level and climbing.

I'm on full throttle,

At the top (at 6,500 feet), there's a narrow gap and then a steep descent down the other side. From full throttle, I've gone to idle and am just gliding down

All the way down, down to land at a grass airstrip next to Lago Brown, in Chile.