A tour around Elba Island
Elba Island sits off the coast of Tuscany in the Tyrrhenian Sea, best known in real life as Napoleon’s place of exile but offering, from the air, a mix of rocky coastline, small harbor towns, and hillside terrain. This 22-minute flight circles the island with a scenic tour over Rio Marina, one of its harbor towns, departing and returning to Marina di Campo Airport (LIRJ).
Rio Marina and the coast of Elba
Rio Marina’s small harbor and the surrounding coastline give Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 a tightly packed mix of water, cliffs, and rooftops to render at low altitude — a different kind of scenery from the channel’s longer cross-country routes, closer in spirit to the island-hopping feel of a local sightseeing flight.
The Cessna C400 Corvallis TT
The Cessna C400 Corvallis TT is a fast, composite-airframe single-engine aircraft, new to this channel. Its cruise speed suits a tour that still needs to cover the full circuit of a sizeable island within a single flight.
Watch the flight
The full tour around Elba Island is embedded above, or watch it directly on YouTube.
Related flights
For more of Italy, see the Grosseto flight over Tuscany and the Venice flyover; for another fast single-engine aircraft, see the Beechcraft Bonanza flight over Klagenfurt, all linked below.
