I'm a sucker for the EGLL-KSFO route! I'm yet to go to Singapore > Auzzie. Waiting for CS 777 to do that as BAW15 

I love to do short hauls, normally I do EGPH-EIDW which takes less than 45 min and is quite amazing especially if you are using old "steam gauges" aircrafts!

Overall, I guess I do most of my flights out of LAX, but I like flying in Europe the most. The only problem is that I get my routes off of FlightAware, and since Europe mostly uses Airbuses, and I have mostly Boeings in my collection, so it's hard to find a good real-world route.

I've done a few flights in Australia lately. Those of you that live there, what do you think of the FSX scenery? I've been rather impressed.

boeing247 wrote on Mar 18^th, 2012 at 8:42pm:


im not from Au, so guys will tell better, but i fly AU most of my time. Before i bought FTX AU SP4 - there was a kinda dull places mostly. Big ports fine, but i fly 727 on regional routes, so a lot of regional airports does'nt have towns they tied to. just desert with some autogen trees, and in the middle - airport. FTX AU brings life to it. That's totally different. So defaut FSX scenery for AU not so good if you look  far from major cities. Default USA looks much better.

I've made KSEA my home base rather than KSFO. KSEA is one of the default airports with a fair amount of detail on the west coast(for the time to load PST), the jetways at KSFO do not work with the CS757/767 I'd like to get the KSFO add on **** Airports San Francisco. Do any of you have it?)

I use flightaware.com and will search the United Airlines tail number from my CS aircraft and see where in the world the plane is and use the last or next flight plan. A lot of times its the north Atlantic tracks east coast(KIAD, KEWR) to Europe and back, which change daily.

I like the New Zealand area too but have only flown there a few times. The Lord of the Rings wouldn't have been the same filmed somewhere else...it is a beautiful country.

One of the places I would like to fly in FSX and real life would be Patagonia and The Andes, kinda like New Zealand, what I would call remote and wild.

Markoz wrote on Mar 19^th, 2012 at 1:49am:


Here are some places I would really like to see...(and to give Mark and his countrymen a nod.)

this place is truly a wonder of the natural world, along with...Ayers Rock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata_Tjuta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ularu

There is an episode of Naked Planet featuring Ularu along with Kata Tjurta here on public broadcasting and it was amazing!

I've looked at this area via Google Earth quite a bit...so beautiful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Apostles_(Victoria)

another place I would like to add would be the Tepui's of Venezuela

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepui

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Orbx FTX AU Red has both the Olgas (Kata_Tjuta) and Ayres Rock (Ularu) very nicely represented. I was flying around there in a GA aircraft on Wednesday. I have been to Ayres Rock in real life too (1970). The airport is further away from "the Rock" than it was when I flew there from Alice Springs.

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This one isn't represented in Orbx FTX AU Blue. Not only that, one fell down a few years ago, due to erosion, so there are only eleven left now!

Mark

windplayer wrote on Apr 6^th, 2012 at 9:22am:

I just bought AU YBAS Alice Springs Airport, AU YMMB Moorabbin Airport and AU YBBN Brisbane International. In two weeks time, when I next get pocket money, I'll probably buy AU YMEN Essendon and AU YBCS Cairns International Airport.

I wonder if they'll ever do YSSY. I really want that one the most, now that I have Brisbane.

Mark