Favorite Little Flight?

[Chairman7w]

Hi guys, noobie here, but having a blast with FSX.

I've been Flight Simming all my life (even the original Flight Simulator on my old Atari Computer!), but never been *really* into it.

I don't have pedals or yokes (but it's on my list), YET.

My question is, what are some of your favorite little flights that you like to do, or have done?

Like when you have an hour or two and you just want to sit down and have a nice relaxing little jump.... I did London to Paris the other night (a night flight, too) and it was very cool.

Made me wonder what other casual simmers like to do...

[pedmond]

I like the glasgow to machester run. Quite short and It can be done in a 737 or a turboprop. Also because Glasgow's my home base!!!

[jpc55]

I find myself a lot of the times flying to the airports that I flew to when I was a real world pilot, and I do it with different aircraft. I have duplicated my 3 leg 100mi cross country KSAC to KRDB to KSTS, and from there I had to go to KMOD then back to KSAC, because from KSTS to KSAC was under a hundred miles. There is only one airport that I had flown to, that I can not fly to in FSX now. That is because it is no longer an airport. Funny story, I flew up to this airport and stayed the night there at my then brother and sister in-law’s, and flew back the next day. About two weeks later, the owner of the flying club called me into his office, and asked me if I had been at that airport on said date. I said that I had, and he told me that the airport was closed and that I was not to land there again. It was an FAA warning; the local sheriff had reported the tail number.

[tatest]

For a short VFR flight I like Key West to Fort Lauderdale or Fort Lauderdale Excutive, or for a seaplane, from Chalk's Key West to the Miami seaplane base.

Easy to follow the keys and coast.

[Andy71]

For airline short hops I'll do Belfast City to Edinburgh, Birmingham to Glasgow or Jersey for example in any aircraft from an easjet A319 to one of my CLS 747-200s.

For just fun without any planning or the "daleks" at FS9 ATC telling me what to do I select a random airport I've never been to and do touch and go circuits in the Just Flight Vulcan or the PSS Concorde.

[aircav1970]

Hi,being a "bush" pilot I like my flights low-n-slow and any of the small airfields in the Pacific Nortwest/British Columbia/Alaska do very nicely for relaxing short hops,try Sitka,Alaska to Kake or Skagway to Juneau,two very scenic flights!

[bumpkin]

Sometimes if I need a little inspiration I use a program called Destination Finder available in the library here, set myself at an airport and if using GA perhaps set 75-125nm and see where it takes me........................

FS2002 - FS2002
FS2002/FS2004/FSX Destination Finder
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Name: destfn20.zip Size: 7,136,925 Date: 10-30-2008 Downloads: 1,785
FS2002/FS2004/FSX Destination Finder v2.0. This program is designed to make it easy for you to find suitable airports to start and end your flight. In the program, you enter the ICAO code of the airport at which you want to start (or end) your journey. Then (optionally) you enter the distance you wish to fly, and (optionally) the heading on which you wish to fly. The program will search through a database of all the airports in FS, and will compile a list of the airports nearest to your desired destination. Alternatively, the program can read your aircraft's position, and use that as the starting point of the search. You can also optionally specify: a maximum and/or minimum distance; a maximum and/or minimum heading; a maximum and/or minimum length for the runway; a maximum and/or minimum elevation for the airport; whether the runway must have an ILS; the runway surface; whether the airport must be civil or military or either; whether or not the airport must have a control tower; whether or not the airport must have at least one runway open for landing and/or takeoff; whether the airport must have any particular type of parking; and whether the airport must be in a particular state/province or country. The program can also choose an airport at random which matches your criteria, which can help you find new places to fly. The program now comes with all the data it needs to function as fully as possible with FSX, FS2004 and FS2002, and includes a database creator which will customise the data so that it takes fully into account all your add-on scenery and AFCADs. By Martin Gleeson. (Previous version had 2268 downloads)

Direct link
http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=120591

[Constinator25]

I'm a big fan of tropical flying, so I like to do flights in and out of TNCM and around Hawaii.

[Artkl]

I like the short hops we flew at Mohawk, like LGA-ALB-(no more Oneida County Airport in Utica, NY)-SYR-ROC-BUF. I like it best in the Mohawk CV-440 sim because that N-number (N4403) is in my real logbook. Never got bored at Mohawk.

Art

[FlyingKiwi]

I like to fly from Ardmore, Auckland's main GA field, to Pauanui Beach. It's about a 40 minute flight at 110kt, and it's one I do fairly often in real life so it's nice to be able to replicate the trip in FS. Due to the runway lengths and surfaces involved it's only really suitable for light prop aircraft though.