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Ohio...the State of Boredom

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
Being in the middle of an ice and sleet storm here in North Central Ohio (got about 2 inches of ice so far, more to come tonight and tomorrow), and being stuck at home (no way I am going out in this stuff), I figured I'd do a midnight flight. Fired up my GA install, selected John Woodward's de Havilland Beaver with one of the new skins I did for it, selected KMFD (my home airport, 3 miles from my house) as the start point, selected a farm strip in central Kentucky as my destination. Set the time for a mid-day flight (I have flying at night...can't see the scenery below me). Real weather via FsMetars. Had my TrackIR 5 system fired up.

Took off and right away the ATC got super stupid. I was flying a heading of 160 degrees and turning to my right to get to the proper heading to get to my destination. ATC had me turn LEFT to 205. LEFT...from 160 all the way down to 0, then continuing LEFT to 205. I was 45 degrees from that heading and going there on my own, but ATC had me go the LONG LONG way there.

Got to 205, climbed to my 4000 foot altitude, set auto pilot, fired up the CD player...and that is about as fun as the flight got.

Ohio is BORING to fly over. FLAT, FLAT, FLAT. For an hour and 10 minutes, I looked out my windows at FLAT NOTHINGNESS! Flat farms, flat cities, flat trees, flat rivers, flat lakes, flat pancakes, flat tires, flat road kill. Everything was flat. And boring. And there wasn't much air traffic to keep me company.

With only 28 minutes to go in the flight, I ended the flight. I could not take anymore of the State of Boredom. Now I know why I do most of my flying in the Pacific Northwest, along the Rockies, Alaska, Vermont, Maine, Tennessee.

I told Deb that if I were rich enough to be a real pilot and to own my own plane, we would move because Ohio would just be too darn boring to fly over for more than an hour.

OBIO
 
Can't help you with Ohio, but the ATC is why I like flying either VFR or online. Heck, I fly propliners VFR most of the time.
 
Willy said:
Can't help you with Ohio, but the ATC is why I like flying either VFR or online. Heck, I fly propliners VFR most of the time.
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:salute:Jees! I love this stuff. Willy's right about propliners VFR! Not only does he have an airforce of Beech 18s for relaxation, he's got the 'big' stuff for when the adrenalin starts pumping.
Hugging one of those 'big fours'...Dc-6B...Connies...or whatever, to the landscape in the Rockies or somesuch. You'll soon see things liven up, with scenery flashing by fast and furious! And the sound of four powerhouses churning out all those horses...

Cure for boredam Obio: load up one of those properliners, turn up your sound
and get rockin' n rollin' down in those valleys!
:ernae:
 
Obio, I prescribe the following:

1 L-39C

CAVU VFR

1 hour low level in New Zealand's Southern Alps

Take twice daily as required

N.
 
The day someone creates real mountain weather for FS with the threat of being punched down INTO one of those mountains, maybe then I'll reconsider flying the Rockies.
 
aeromed202 said:
The day someone creates real mountain weather for FS with the threat of being punched down INTO one of those mountains, maybe then I'll reconsider flying the Rockies.
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Cumulus! does that.
It's a program that creates ridge lift according to the surrounding terrain shape and wind direction and strength. When a mountain is facing the wind, the program creates a vertical wind that helps you gain altitude. But as soon as you get behind that mountain, the program creates a down-winds that makes you loose altitude.
When you're flying an approach with a liner in mountain area, the situatio can sometimes gets a bit tricky.
I'm not sure the FS9 version is as complete as the FSX version, though...
 
OBIO said:
Being in the middle of an ice and sleet storm here in North Central Ohio (got about 2 inches of ice so far, more to come tonight and tomorrow), and being stuck at home (no way I am going out in this stuff), I figured I'd do a midnight flight. Fired up my GA install, selected John Woodward's de Havilland Beaver with one of the new skins I did for it, selected KMFD (my home airport, 3 miles from my house) as the start point, selected a farm strip in central Kentucky as my destination. Set the time for a mid-day flight (I have flying at night...can't see the scenery below me). Real weather via FsMetars. Had my TrackIR 5 system fired up.

Took off and right away the ATC got super stupid. I was flying a heading of 160 degrees and turning to my right to get to the proper heading to get to my destination. ATC had me turn LEFT to 205. LEFT...from 160 all the way down to 0, then continuing LEFT to 205. I was 45 degrees from that heading and going there on my own, but ATC had me go the LONG LONG way there.

Got to 205, climbed to my 4000 foot altitude, set auto pilot, fired up the CD player...and that is about as fun as the flight got.

Ohio is BORING to fly over. FLAT, FLAT, FLAT. For an hour and 10 minutes, I looked out my windows at FLAT NOTHINGNESS! Flat farms, flat cities, flat trees, flat rivers, flat lakes, flat pancakes, flat tires, flat road kill. Everything was flat. And boring. And there wasn't much air traffic to keep me company.

With only 28 minutes to go in the flight, I ended the flight. I could not take anymore of the State of Boredom. Now I know why I do most of my flying in the Pacific Northwest, along the Rockies, Alaska, Vermont, Maine, Tennessee.

I told Deb that if I were rich enough to be a real pilot and to own my own plane, we would move because Ohio would just be too darn boring to fly over for more than an hour.

OBIO
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LOL, yeah Ohio is an extremely flat state....from the air it looks boring as heck
 
ThinkingManNeil said:
Obio, I prescribe the following:
1 L-39C
CAVU VFR
1 hour low level in New Zealand's Southern Alps
Take twice daily as required
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Great advice, Neil!

Just what I needed after working on that dang Phantom repaint for about eight hours today...

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Note:
Fortunately, my medical insurance allowed additional 20m mesh and NZ Topo prescription...


@ OBIO:
I know how you feel!
But you think your area is flat?
Around here, most of the higher hills (~400 ft, normal elevation is around 160 ft) were piled up after 1945, utilizing what the 8th Air Force and RAF Bomber Command left behind...

Cheers,
Markus.
 
OBIO said:
...Ohio is BORING to fly over. FLAT, FLAT, FLAT. For an hour and 10 minutes, I looked out my windows at FLAT NOTHINGNESS! Flat farms, flat cities, flat trees, flat rivers, flat lakes, flat pancakes, flat tires, flat road kill. Everything was flat....
OBIO
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...not to mention the wimmins...OH!!

J/K. Could be worse, you could be in Michigan. Upper Peninsula's not bad in some spots but most of the Lower Peninsula is pretty much indistinguishable from the Great Plains. At least we don't have to worry about CFIT as much as those who fly the Pacific Northwest.
 
Start at KGCN with something nimble like a Super Deke and drop into the Canyon. Stay as close to the river as you can until you get to Lake Meade, then buzz Hoover Dam. Land at KLAS after making one last buzz down the Vegas Strip!
 
I love flying down inside the Grand Canyon...just a few dozen feet up from the river. Usually, I do it in the IRIS Tornado or the Alphasim A-10.

OBIO
 
LOL Obio.

I just flew KMDW-KFWA yesterday to test out FS_ATC for a discussion we were having over at CalClassic and thought pretty much the same thing about the Illinois-Indiana landscape I was flying over in Jens' latest gift to the community.
Booooooring as heck once you leave the Windy City and the lake behind. I don't think even my beloved Connies could make that interesting. Heck with MSA of 2700' or so even a 2 engine approach in any of them would be a piece of cake.

In the real world however there is a marked benefit to flying over the flatlands.....you do get more flying in and there certainly is an abundance of neat little airports around OH,IN and MI.
Out here in the so called Mountainous West you often need a much bigger engine just to get off the ground with any kind of useful load in the airplane. And even here in SoCal....if it is not CAVU unless your plane can make 10000-13000 feet or more you ain't going IFR either....because the MEA are way up there to keep you out of the cumulus granite.

Cheers
Stefan
 
Good time to VOZ yerseff mate.

When it's low Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, I like to activate VOZ and go flying in high Summer of OZ.

Stay away from Queensland though, bit of a weather problem for those mates, now looking at a Cate 5 Typhoon after all they have already had to deal with! My prayers are with my Ozzie cousins.

Caz
 
Not all Ohio is flat

I grew up in Cincy and can assure you that the southern 1/3 of Ohio has many hills- not mountains but not flat.
 
Chicken2690

I was born and raised in Pike County...deep south central Ohio. I know that southern Ohio has hills. Some pretty nice hills. I used to climb and hunt and camp and run all over the hills in Pike, Ross, and Scioto counties. But those hills are not depicted in FS9...not even with the FS Genesis freeware US mesh. Not sure why Ohio is depicted as being FLAT. Northern Ohio...yeah I can understand....I live in North Central Ohio and even the hills here are nothing compared to the ones in the Southern part of the state. I wonder if there is some limiting factor when making mesh....like hills smaller than 600 feet or 800 feet simply are not able to be included in the mesh. Southern Ohio is the foot hills of the Appalachian Mountains...Pike County is the North West corner of Appalachia...yes, I am an Appalachian and proud of it.

OBIO
 
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