That's a tricky one. I've enjoyed some rw weather Alaska with the 707 Cargo lately and I also enjoy tours in the summer Spain with some GA plane. Not too long ago I did a round trip in Australia with all sorts of planes, just not really fast ones.
Hawaii is pretty nice too. I have freeware scenery and the FSDT airports and flew a lot small airliner and turboprop tours there.

I don't have a favourite.  

same for me I hanging out in AU, NZ, Oceania, Pacific. USA and Canada  lately (since i got 707) Now its cool to take-off in snowy canada, and land in Honolulu 707 makes it possible in 6 hrs

I fly exclusively around the British Isles.

Good afternoon everybody,

For me, I like to fly in europe, Taking of or Landing at Nantes Atlantiques LFRS . Sometimes, I use Orly airport  LFPO ( a Place where Lou have Hanted some years ago ).


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I think Pinatubo is lying, he mostly flies around the.. Pinatubo. I've seen him and remember that face.   

Beautiful picture.

Europe as a whole is good. Nice scenery, lots of large airports, plenty of nav and other planes, what more do you want?

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

I will download them during my off-peak internet service as I still have about 70GB of downloads left. The peak service is consumed by my sons and their online multiplayer games. I will let you know how they are once I download and install them.

YMMB Moorabbin is going to be interesting, I already have YMAV Avalon and YMML Melbourne v2. All three are pretty close (not much more than about 30-40 kilometres) and YMAV and YMML usually hit my frame rate quite a bit. It will get worse with YMMB Moorabbin and even more worse IF I buy YMEN Essendon, the former Melbourne International Airport (1950-1970) which is right next to YMML Melbourne, the current International Airport.

Mark

Update: I'm getting very good frame rates around Melbourne after adding YMMB to the mix (YMML, YMAV and YMMB)! Frame rate at YBAS is very good too (23 frames per second with the 737-200 with peopleflow on). I'm very impressed with it all now.

Unpaved runways are probably for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Central Australia is very sparse. Not very many people really. All the big "Station" (ranch) owners live up there. Anna Creek Station is the largest in the world. Its area is roughly 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km2; 9,400 sq mi) which is slightly larger than Israel, and it is eight times the size of America's biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi).

Imagine having to mow 6 million acres of lawn!!!

Pine Gap is OFF LMITS! Fly over Pine Gap and the Yanks (and a few Aussies) will shoot you down for sure. Not in FSX though.

I fly around the Great Dividing Range a lot, it goes from right near the tip of Queensland, to a place called the Grampians (about 100 kilometres west of me) in western Victoria. It is a hilly, I can't call it mountainous because the largest mountain here is 7,310 feet (2,228 metres) above sea level, would be a hill to many Europeans, and picturesque area to fly around in. Especially with Orbx AU.

Mark

USCG76 wrote on Apr 7^th, 2012 at 8:09pm:


Siberia scenery not very good in FSX, and there is no payware as far as a know. There is a HUGE number of small towns to the east of Ural mountains, where no other transport then aircraft works good. Roads - its just a words and scenery basically very sparse. forests up to  horizon (we call it taiga), tundra to the north, steppe covers huge region. I've been there - i was shocked. Looking at all that, you cant guess that civilization exist somewhere

Anyway, there is a some major ports like Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk available on avsim.su (russian forum). They are free and created by enthusiasts. Also you may want to try to find town of Mirny. its a diamond mine, look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HvaegcQm24
major aircraft on siberia regional routes a pretty old props an-12(cargo),24, jets tu-134,154, Il-76(cargo). so 737 can fit there very well, and many regional ports are challenging. no ILS, one beacon, but not so interesting to fly that place in FSX, as it wasnt modeled good. And no charts, or at least i dont know where to get em. This regional flights - heavy load for pilots. And maintenance....well, you know what i mean...old jet witch flies a lot far from major towns...

BTW sunsets in Novosibirsk looks something like in LA due to smog

LOWI innsburk! with real weather it keeps you on your toes!

Alps on a sunset! Man, thats something! i do fly a lot in EU. There was lots of rains a week ago.