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Skylar Darkfox

@skylardarkfox.com
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40. Straight ally. He/him (they/them works too). IT/database admin by trade, digital/traditional artist, eventual author. I nerd out about computers, aviation, space, and meteorology especially. Fox with a sword.

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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 29/09/2026
Today we're on leg 8 of the Meridional Round-The-World Flight as we continue north from Midway Island to Anadyr, Russia. Might be short-sleeve weather here, but we'll have to change into something warmer before we land. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 28/09/2026
Today we continue north through the Central Pacific on leg 7 of the Meridional Round-the-World Flight, from Tuvalu to Midway Island. Along the way we'll pass the antipode of Null Island at 0° latitude, 180° longitude. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 27/09/2026
Today the Meridional Round-the-World flight continues with leg 6 as we take off from Queenstown, New Zealand to join the 180th meridian on our way north to Funafuti, Tuvalu. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 26/09/2026
Happy Saturday! Today we're continuing the Meridional Round-the-World Flight after our equinox transit of the South Pole on Tuesday. Today's flight takes us from McMurdo Station back to civilization at Queenstown, New Zealand. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 22/09/2026
We're on leg 4 of the Meridional Round-the-World Flight, and this one is specially timed... we'll be crossing the South Pole at the moment of the spring equinox, to see the only sunrise of the year at 90°S. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 21/09/2026
Think you missed the flight to Antarctica? Well, good news: the sim crashed on our initial descent, so we get to do it all over! Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Meridional Round-the-World Flight, Leg 3: across the Southern Ocean from Cape Town to Troll Airfield in Antarctica. [Second attempt] | Streaming microsoft flight simulator 2024.
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 20/09/2026
We're now on the third leg of the Meridional Round-the-World flight, and today we're crossing the Southern Ocean to Troll Airfield in Antarctica to set up for our first polar crossing of the journey. Dress warm! Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 19/09/2026
Leg 2 of the Meridional Round-the-World Flight, and today it's a red-eye from Accra to Cape Town. Along the way we'll be overflying "Null Island," a patch of ocean made famous as a default location for mapping software. (0°N 0°E). Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 18/09/2026
Today we begin the Meridional Round-the-World Flight with an evening departure from London's Biggin Hill Airport to Accra, Ghana. We'll be following the Prime Meridian as closely as possible until the South Pole. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 17/09/2026
And across the pond we go. Today's flight takes us from Gander, Newfoundland, over the North Atlantic to London Biggin Hill Airport, which will serve as our anchor for the Meridional Round-the-World Flight starting tomorrow. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 14/09/2026
We're back to the Citation Longitude as we make our way across the pond for our next adventure: a polar around-the-world journey along the prime and 180th meridians (or at least as close as we can manage). First stop: Gander, Newfoundland. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 08/09/2026
Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend! Today's flight takes us from Calgary, Alberta to Whitehorse, Yukon as I cross off the Canadian provinces I have yet to visit in the Asobo versions of MSFS. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! Today's flight takes us from the legendary Sin City to the much chillier Calgary, Alberta. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 06/09/2026
A driver glitch cut us short yesterday, so let's try this again. Today we're back in the Starship, and we have a couple of choices for a destination. Which will it be? Let's find out. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 04/09/2026
Pfft. California? Well, Nevada I can understand. I spent a few chunks of my life there. But I was never really raised there as such. Kinda interesting how I've been in Texas so long now but it still apparently hasn't rubbed off on me.
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 28/08/2026
First I've stood in this long of a line here.
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 25/08/2026
Today is the last flight day for a week, since Stratosfur is coming up. But I've got an idea brewing for when we come back. But for now, we're headed back home from Sept-Îles after finishing the Great Lakes Tour, with a stop in Cleveland. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 24/08/2026
The third and final day of the Great Lakes Tour, and today we're taking off from Grosse Ile Municipal near Detroit to overfly the last two lakes in our itinerary (Erie and Ontario) and then continue to the end of the St. Lawrence River. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 23/08/2026
It's a nice sunny day in Gary, Indiana as we continue with the second day of our Great Lakes tour. Today we're flying Lakes Michigan and Huron, stopping at Cheboygan and continuing on to Grosse Ile just south of Detroit. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 22/08/2026
Now that we're set up at Bong Airport (heh heh) in Superior, WI, it's time to fly the Great Lakes. Today it'll be Superior and Michigan, with a stop in Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and then wrapping in Gary, IN. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 22/08/2026
Now that we've completed the Four Rivers Tour, why not try the five lakes? Today we're heading up to Superior, Wisconsin in the Starship to kick off a short tour of the Great Lakes. Come join us! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 18/08/2026
And that's a wrap for the Four Rivers Tour. Four long river systems beginning-to-end, multiple canyons (including the Big Bend, the Grand Canyon and Hells Canyon), two coasts, and numerous famous landmarks along the way... all experienced at nearly surface level in the C400. Hell of a trip.
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 17/08/2026
Today's the finale of the Four Rivers Tour. We've flown up the Rio Grande and down the Colorado, skimmed the Pacific coast, followed the Columbia and Snake to Yellowstone, then cruised down the Missouri and Mississippi. We've just got a few more miles left to go as we take off from New Orleans.
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 16/08/2026
Day 13 of the Four Rivers Tour, and we're nearly to the home stretch. Today we're taking off from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and flying down the Mississippi as far as we can get before dusk. Can we make it to New Orleans? Let's find out. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 15/08/2026
Day 12 of the Four Rivers Tour, and we're wrapping up the Missouri as we approach its confluence with the Mississippi at St. Louis. If daylight permits, we'll try to get as far as Memphis. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 14/08/2026
Day 11 of the Four Rivers Tour, and we continue down the Missouri. Updates forced a bit of a late start, so let's see how far we get. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 14/08/2026
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 11/08/2026
Day 10 of the Four Rivers Tour, and our second day on the Missouri. Today we're flying the Dakotas, and though we've got a late start today, we'll see how far we can get. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 10/08/2026
At this point on the Four Rivers Tour, we've completed the Rio Grande, the Colorado, and the Columbia/Snake. All that's left is the longest of them all: the Missouri/Mississippi. This one'll take a while. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 09/08/2026
Day 8 of the Four Rivers Tour. Today we'll be flying the Snake River from its confluence with the Columbia. Along the way we'll be passing through North America's deepest river gorge, and if daylight permits we might make Yellowstone. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 08/08/2026
Day 7 of the Four Rivers Tour, and after completing the Colorado River yesterday we have two more rivers to go: the Columbia/Snake and the Missouri/Mississippi. Today we're continuing up the Pacific coast to meet the Columbia at Astoria. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 07/08/2026
Day 6 of the Four Rivers Tour, and we're about to wrap up the second one. It'll be a short flight from Bullhead City to the mouth of the Colorado, and then we'll head up the Pacific coast to meet the Columbia. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 04/08/2026
Day 5 of the Four Rivers Tour. Yesterday we traveled to the Colorado River headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park, and today we begin our journey down to the Gulf of California. Can we make it to the Grand Canyon before nightfall? Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 03/08/2026
Day 4 of the Four Rivers Tour, and we've completed one of the four. We made it to the headwaters of the Rio Grande yesterday, and today we're cutting across to the headwaters of the Colorado to follow that down to the Gulf of California. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 02/08/2026
Day 3 of the Four Rivers Tour, and after a challenging adventure through the canyons of the Big Bend, we continue to follow the Rio Grande to El Paso and then north through New Mexico. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 01/08/2026
Day 2 of the Four Rivers Tour, and we're continuing up the Rio Grande from Laredo. We should get to roughly the Big Bend area by sundown. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 31/07/2026
Starting a new adventure today: what I'm calling the "Four Rivers Tour." As the name suggests, we'll be navigating four rivers: the Rio Grande, the Colorado, the Columbia, and the Missouri/Mississippi, making a lap around the western US. This one will be VFR the whole way.
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 27/07/2026
After flying to New Hampshire and Maryland, only one state remains before I can say I've visited all 50 states in the Asobo versions of Flight Simulator: Mississippi. Today we're doing just that, flying from Oakland, MD to Natchez, MS. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 26/07/2026
Now that AirVenture's wrapping up, we're heading out... to New Hampshire. Why New Hampshire? Because it's one of three states I have yet to visit in the Asobo versions of Flight Simulator. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 25/07/2026
Today we're taking a trip to Oshkosh in the Starship... which is where I had the chance to see this very aircraft in real life many years ago. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 23/07/2026
Alas, they didn't have Skibidi Strawberry or Ohio Orange.
Cringergy drink
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 23/07/2026
Low-effort storm chase.
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 21/07/2026
Bit of a rainy start here in Philadelphia, after finally completing the World Cup Challenge and visiting all 16 host cities in 10 days. Now we return to home base. Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 20/07/2026
This is what it looks like when you fly to all but two of the World Cup host cities in a completely random order. Our two remaining stops are Philadelphia and Guadalajara; the only question remaining is in what order. Let's wrap this up! Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 19/07/2026
Two days left in the World Cup Challenge, and three airports left to go. We've got a long first leg guaranteed from Vancouver, but to where? Let's find out! Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 18/07/2026
Day 7 of the Volanta "World Cup Challenge," and we've covered 11 of the 16 World Cup host cities. (We only needed 6.) Which of the remaining five will we be reaching today? Let's find out! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 17/07/2026
With four days left, we have seven cities remaining in the Volanta "World Cup Challenge." We've already earned the badge, but we're going completionist on this. Can we get them all? Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 14/07/2026
After four days we've covered seven of sixteen World Cup host cities, enough to complete the Volanta challenge and earn the badge. But why stop there? We still have nine cities we can cover before the July 20 deadline. So where to next? Let's find out! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
World Cup Challenge progress after four days
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 13/07/2026
Forgot to post yesterday, but today we're on day 4 of the Volanta "World Cup Challenge." So far we've visited Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas City, Monterrey, and Boston. So what's next? Come find out! Now boarding! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
Map with the current state of the Volanta "World Cup Challenge"
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Skylar Darkfox @skylardarkfox.com · 11/07/2026
Yesterday we got the Volanta "World Cup Challenge" started with a flight first to LAX, followed by a short hop from there up the coast to SFO. Where to next? Let's find out! twitch.tv/SkylarDarkfox
Map of World Cup host cities with the first two flights of the "World Cup Challenge" marked
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