We did a thread like this a while back.  I thought I'd do another one to see what people are doing with this awesome plane.

Since getting some great help in my "How to navigate using airways" thread, I've been flying some fun routes from the midwest to the east coast.

I've been doing Chicago to JFK in American Airlines and United liveries. 

Also, Indianapolis to Newark Liberty in Continental liveries.

I've  been taking the -100 in TWA colors between Champaign, Illinois (KCMI) and Washington Dulles, too  This one in real life was flown with an Ozark Airlines DC-9, not a 727, but I like this route and the 727 is my favorite plane, so why not?

I like these types of distances.  Just enough to get to play airway navigation, but not so long as to take up the entire afternoon with just one flight.   

So what's everyone else been doing lately?

CoolP wrote on Aug 14^th, 2011 at 11:11pm:

Same here. I'm flying the 707 much more than the 727.

I like doing long haul flights and because the 707 has a longer range I fly it more often.

However! When I do fly the 727, I generally do small trips between 1 and 2 hours, rarely longer than that. I have done 4 hour flights in the 727 before, but not very many.

Mark

CoolP wrote on Aug 16^th, 2011 at 12:56pm:

Oh alright then.

Mostly around Australia and New Zealand in the 727. If I get up to Northern Australia (Darwin, Cairns or Townsville), I might head for Indonesia or other close destinations in the South Pacific (Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu to name a few). Sometimes I start in the USA and fly around there.

I need to venture over to Europe more often because I rarely get there. And if I do, it's mostly England, France and Holand.

Mark

I fly in Australia, New Zealand, indonesia and so on. Started there just because my PC is too weak for USA and Europe, but i got used to that places. Will upgrade it soon. and buy ORBX Australia

727 - the only jet i fly now. last long flight was Perth - Port morseby. took a loong time, and i burned almost all fuel. Unrealistic route for 727-100 i think But im just having fun.

I want to try VATSIM. If i'll do that - then i'll be flying some Grumman Goose or DC3 in New Zealand at first

I have taken the 727 everywhere, well nearly. After spending some time getting used to the bird using Tamworth NSW as the training base I then did a re-run of the original TAA delivery flight from Seattle across the Pacific to OZ via many islands. I have done across OZ to NZ and back, OZ to Guam and then on to Japan and then spent about a month or so of simming time trying the old JAL 727 domestic schedule and ports. Mt Fuji looked great as does the Pacific. Currently I am seeing how the 727 200 with the flight dynamic/power mods goes up and down the east coast of OZ. I think i have done most ports serviced in OZ by TAA and Ansett when they operated the 727. Ah and yes a run into Timor from Darwin was interesting challenge given the short runway at Dili and the fuel and load limitations.

I use REX weather and capture several screenshots on all my sim flights on account of the fanstastic skies and textures it produces I will post a few when I get time and reduce them to the 200KB limit for attached file types.

Islander wrote on Aug 18^th, 2011 at 4:36am:


That cool. im doing something like this but from NZ to USA Problem is that im using random systems failure setting in FSX. And it allow to set max fail time to 600 minutes. So there is a huge chance to end long flight with some systems out   I dont know is there a way to set random time failure more then 6 hrs. I mean if i set it to 60 hrs, then chances to experience some inflight problems reduce, and that would be more fun to fly long flights, coz u will need to monitor systems, not knowing which one will fail. Now if fly 4-5 hrs, i almost know what to expect

My last leg with the 727-200 was YMML - YPPH, or Melbourne - Perth. Love flying in Australia with oldies, don't ask me why 

b1m2d3 wrote on Oct 21^st, 2011 at 10:41pm:
I'm sure you will love the 707. As for the CIVA-INS, I jumped in and started to learn it (still learning here). My next step is to change it to dual INS.

Sorry about going off-topic.

Mark

b1m2d3 wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2011 at 6:54pm:
Mr CoolP will hang you for that (the GPS thingy shhhhh)! But I hear you on the "new things to learn".

I have often had the "overspeed" warning come up on my 727 for that same reason. But I have never needed to restart a flight, even with realism maxed? Why did you? Or is that just something you do as a part of the realism?

Mark

b1m2d3 wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2011 at 1:56am:
I could easily be confused between the 727 and 707 (ouch). So I'll check on the audio warning.
Do you have failures ON or something else that stops the sim and resets the flight? I never get the flight reset.

Not sure why yours crashes when you overspeed and mine doesn't. I started making realism changes, but nothing made it "crash", I did get the overspeed warning in the 727, it's a rapid continuous "click click click click click" sound. I even flew the 727 for quite some time with the ASI "off the clock" at FL190 without it breaking. Beats me.

I did get something strange happen. I didn't see the red overspeed message in FSX. I think it has something to do with a setting in Orbx FSX Go, so I'll need to get that one turned back on.

Some changes were made to to the way the Captain Sim Forums can be used by new members. This was to stop the spammers that were posting in the forums. You'll eventually get past that. Soon I hope.

One of the most compelling reasons for me to switch to FSX has been this 727 since I saw some really good screenshots of it posted a couple years back. I owned and enjoyed the Legendary 727 for FS9 in it's day, it's still one of my favorite sim aircraft. Well anyway, I've been running FSX for a couple months now and just recently I've finally purchased the 727-100 + -200 expansion.

I've been through the forums the past few nights and got all the good tweaks going, one problem I had was I'm running a non-accel version of FSX so I had to get the updated autopilot to get it working. Sound issue, reload aircraft; works for me. Got rid of the "don't sink" warning, and watched a couple videos on starting from C&D. Thanks you guys in the forums for having all this stuff figured out and making the info available and easy to find.

So, now after having her in my hangar for a few days, getting the bugs worked out, and learning to fly her, I finally loaded up the C&D @ KSEA flight last night and did the most wonderful, completely hand flown, by-the-numbers (sort of) flight to KGEG that's ever been done in the history of FS! This thing is awesome!

Since then I added a United 80s -200 livery I had for the FS9 version and did a nostalgic flight from KGEG to KDEN which is a flight I did often in the real world (as a passenger) back in the 80's. Well actually we landed at Stapleton back then and sadly Stapleton is a suburb now, but still pretty cool. (Oh how I wish someone would do a 9-Dragons style Stapleton for FSX)

Next I think I'll find a Western livery and hit Salt Lake City on the way to somewhere, maybe Portland. From there I think I'll work my way toward Ketchikan...

Jim

im still eating dust in Australia regional airports. B727-100 is pretty solid bird. flies like on rails, lands almost everywhere. But i gotta calculate really good how much cargo i can lift from short regional runways. and try not to get lost without GPS thats a real fun.

Also i modified some checklists. I added this lines. WORKS FOR ME
Receiving aircraft: stereo.....on
Before takeoff: stereo....off
After takeoff : stereo......on
Landing: stereo......off
After landing: stereo......on

)

Anywhere the NY GIANTS are playing:)