Where do you Fly?

[vuldalm]

I like to fly to areas that I have got good scenery for. More often than not I depart from the UK (primarily Manchester) with recent flights to Palma, Malta, Canary Islands...the holiday hotspots I guess.

[Silverblade]

I suppose it depends upon which airplane I feel like flying that day. I use a Pilatus PC-12 for taking a gourmet meal tour across the USA, a Spartan Executive for putzing around all of the tiny airports in Great Britain, and a Caravelle for an around the world tour. For city sightseeing a Fokker Spin or Demoiselle is hard to beat for sheer low level fun. For Caribbean island hopping it depends on the era. For early days flying, a Sikorsky S-43 Inter Island twin works well as does a Lockheed L10A. For something more modern, I really like my Piper Cheyenne 400LS. I never fly any of the default aircraft, nor post 1970 airliners, especially the Airbusses. They are all garbage. No character, no style, no nothing! They are like a Tijuana Tourist Bus in the sky... stinky passengers, crying babies and chickens running in the isle. No thanks. I'm happy with my Convair 340 and DC-6B at a time when the passengers wore suits or dresses, checked their luggage at the terminal counter, and remembered to say "please" and "thank you."

[gizmosells]

3dhd monitor of course makes Minnesota and Wisconsin, Ontario look great in 3d . Try to fly places no one cares out like Fargo or Saskatoon. Carenedo PA28 and Flight One Cessna 162, and Carenedo V35 are planes of choice VFR most times try to follow rivers and roads and power lines and rail-lines. UTX USA and Canada and add my own scenery as payware scenery too much about the big airports that I get sick off. Orbx Australia looking at getting for my just want to know if it will conflict with UTX and REX scenery.

[hojack]

I live in New York State and fly sailplanes, being an ex-sailplane pilot. Harris Hill in southern NY is a place I fly occasionally but most of my soaring is done at Wasserkuppe in Germany. I also will fly at many of the German glider fields. I favor vintage gliders and avoid the modern glass sailplanes.

[crezipp]

I Fly short hops between European airports. From Munich to East Midlands, From East Midlands to Dresden from Dresden to Debrecen [LHDC] From there to Italy and so on.All airliner stuff and hops of about 1 up to 3 hours. Some periods 1 flight every day, then some after maybe 1 week. Got just over 2000 flights since 2003 [didn't note the flights between "96 and 2003]

[benRM]

Always the USA



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[Skyspin]

It could be anywhere. I like to fly short IFR flights between major airports with airliners. If I read about or see something interesting on TV or You Tube I like to compare it on FSX by flying the area and noting the scenery. Sometimes when I read about an accident or read a NTSB report I'll try to duplicate the flight to see what the circumstances were like (at least in a simulated visual way).
I enjoy staying current with my carrier traps with the F-18, F-14, T-45, and the great Grumann S-2. I usually set up a flight near the coast from a Navy or Marine Corp. base and chase down an AI aircraft (using MY Traffic X) and then do some traps with the AI carrier. Night quals are always fun!
I just signed up with VATSIM and have already made a couple of short flights. This will make the IFR flying much more realistic and challenging.
There's a lot of different things you can do in FSX to keep the experience fun and challenging.
Skyspin

[alexf]

Only in ORBx-land. Some of the best scenery available. Life is too short for default scenery.

[BLUCHER]

Three areas in particular. I live in the UK between Manchester and Liverpool, and particularly like to fly down through Wales, through all the valleys and along the coastlines. Another area I am very fond of is over in East Anglia. I like this because there are so many small airfields there and I like flying the single props of any kind really. Being a newb these big cockpits in the airliners make me dizzy presently until I have learnt to fly a bit better. Furthermore I have had many holidays and also worked in many parts of Norfolk and Wales so I guess that has some influence. The third place is flying in Africa. After watching a series called Bush Pilots on the TV it prompted me to try out the Botswana area. That makes interesting flying and is good training for flying a bearing and dead reckoning .

[GermanPilot]

Everywhere, especially in Oceania, Europe (Germany) and where I have my Addon-Sceneries.