@Ribbonius and I participated in VATSIM's Cross the Pond East event on Saturday, October 19, 2024, flying from Toronto CYYZ/YYZ, Canada, to Amsterdam Schiphol EHAM/AMS, the Netherlands.
We decided to pick PMDG's excellent 777 for this event as KLM696, using YourControls to share the cockpit. Ribbonius was pilot flying while I was pilot monitoring.
Having never participated in a cross the pond event myself, we thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. ATC was excellent all the way (Toronto full ATC, Montreal, Gander Center, Gander Radio, Reykjavik, Copenhagen, Maastricht, and full Dutch ATC).
Being one of the first departures at Toronto for the event, we didn't experience any delays. I was personally happy so see that the Dutch controllers had opened runway 18 Center (with parallel approaches on 18 Right), a runway that is hardly ever in use on VATSIM. This also meant we experienced no delays at Amsterdam.
Using YourControls in the 777 was not without its issues, as can be seen in this video, especially towards the end, but we made it work.
VATSIM audio volume has been edited in this video.

Many thanks to VATSIM and all controllers for organizing this great event!

Ribbonius will also post a video of this flight, follow his channel to see his perspective of our flights: [ Ссылка ].

00:00 Intro
00:15 Departure briefing
13:00 Preflight checklist
15:00 Contacting Toronto Clearance for PDC readback
17:19 Before Start checklist
18:25 Contacting Toronto Ramp
19:25 Push-back
20:16 Before Taxi checklist & taxi out
23:25 Contacting Toronto Ground & further taxi
26:17 Hand-off to Toronto North Tower
26:42 Line-up clearance and takeoff
29:35 Contacting Toronto Departure
30:04 Enroute screenshots
30:19 Hand-off to contact Gander Radio
31:05 SELCAL check with Gander Radio
32:16 Entering Amsterdam airspace
32:55 Nice interaction with the controller :-)
37:30 Hand-off to Schiphol Approach
49:05 Hand-off to Schiphol Tower
52:30 Landing
53:55 Hand-off to Schiphol Ground
55:41 Arriving at the gate

Specs:
i9-12900 3,4 GHZ
RTX4080, 16GB

Hardware:
ProYoke 737 Tabletop Yoke
Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant Boeing Edition + combined throttle lever addon by sierradelta3d [ Ссылка ]
Saitek Pro Flight rudder pedals
Logitech radio panel
Stream Deck XL
Stream Deck Plus
TrackIR 5

Software and tools used:
MSFS 2020, mostly Ultra settings
VATSIM [ Ссылка ]
PMDG 777-300ER
YourControls (shared cockpit software)
YourControls 777 profile by Zitr0 [ Ссылка ]
RealTurb
Parallel 42 Flow Pro wheel
Parallel 42 777 immersion pack [ Ссылка ]
PilotsDeck/StreamDeck Profile for PMDG 777 by Guenseli [ Ссылка ]
PMDG 777-300ER Lights Mod by Mr. Saturday [ Ссылка ]
Charts by Navigraph navigraph.com

Livery:
PH-BVA by PMDG

Scenery:
Toronto by FlyTampa
Amsterdam Schiphol by FlyTampa

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