Aircraft type dictates flying locations

OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I have found that when I fly GA aircraft, I stick to flying in the Pacific North West area...Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, the central parts of Canada. This is true regardless of the national origin of the aircraft.

But when I fly jets (meaning military jets) I find that I tend to fly them in the nation they were built or used in. When I fire up the IRIS Tornado GR4 with the Royal Saudi Air Force desert scheme, I head to Saudi Arabia. When I fire up a Mirage with an Isreali skin, I head for Isreal.

Am I alone in having different simming habits based on the type of plane flown?

OBIO
 
Right now I'm thinking of starting a long distance flight based on Milton's Beech 18. I've got over 80 paints for it and thinking of doing similar with it. IE: take off in Canada, use a Canadian paint for that flight. Algeria, use an Algerian paint. I need to go through my paints for and figure out just which paints I have and where they go. Then figure out my flight path from there. Maybe make it an Around the World flight as well.
 
nope, same here, I even save flights and pack them into there own category by airforce or airline, ie, BOAC, AA, RAF, RN, USA(A)F, USN, etc, etc.

Even to the point were my 111sqn Tornado's flights are from Leuchars, etc, etc.

Jamie
 
I Take my Gen Av Stuff and Ultralights to Glacier bay primarily, fast Jets to RAF Valley to bash the Mach Loop or, Aktion AB to patrol Greece :jump:
 
I usually stay in one area regardless of aircraft type. However, sometimes I fly here in Phoenix and other times I'll head to Portland and stay there for a while. Even other times I'll spend time flying in Jackson hole, and right now I'm planning either to return to El Caribe or Hawaii.

Point is that I sually spend time in a certain place for awhile, and then I'll return to another place and stAy there. Where ever I have some good scenery. :)
 
I find it a good way to explore new parts, also to expand my Sim. If, for example, I get a nice new paint for a Croatian Mig, I'll go looking for some suitable scenery, if none exist, I'll tweak the stock myself, add some eye-candy, etc. I'll then maybe look for other types to fly out of said new scenery.

no brainer for me,
Jamie
 
Something I did for the first time in Flight Simulator over the weekend...
How's that possible you may think, after 20 years of flightsimming?? ;)

If you have a regional scenery like Austria Pro, say, you don't really see all the detail away from airports.
In a tubeliner you are doing instrument stuff, and up and away to your destination.
Even in a GA plane you might do some low and slow along a scenic route, but wouldn't do the very short hops like say 10nm.
A helicopter is ideal for that kind of low and slow and closeup, but they do tend to require serious attention to the flying part and so distract you from the scenery.

So I finally got a chopper autopilot working, and took the ICARO AW 139 on a little low and really slow, between LOWS and LOWZ in Austria.
Just brilliant...you set heading and airspeed, and use the collective to drift you up and over the ridges as they come.
Plenty of time to have a look around, and marvel at the amount of work put into producing first-rate FS scenery.

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Sure you could do something similar with an old biplane, but this way you can get a little hover practice along the way, and put down on one of those difficult-to-get-to crags and rescue a hiker ;)
 
I tend to have FS aircraft in places you would find them in real life.Since SoCal is my home I have lots of warbird types there as in real life.But I do stray a little some times.I use to have and fly a couple of Su-27s out about in the States but now that there are two real life 27s civil registered in North America is doesn't seem all that strange now.
 
Never thought about it till you mentioned it, but yeah I have some definate simhabits. Bush flying in the pac north west. Airshows at Oshkosh, Jet flying out of SoCal. and so on.....
THANKS for making simconscious!!!
 
For GA I tend to fly out of a custom Orcas island done by a friend (not Georender, my friend tends to make near impossible landing spots in anomalies he's found in FS2004). special in joke scenery in a beautiful area. Otherwise I try to fit the type and markings into an appropriate setting.
 
I must say that I tend to stay in the PNW for most my flying.

With the miltary jets I tend to frequent the larger airports like Boeing Field, McChord, Whidbey Island NAS, and Fairchild AFB.

With GA I can get in and out of the smaller fields like Tacoma Narrows, Bremerton, Pt. Angeles and a lot more out of the way dirt strips.

--WH
 
Since my default flihgt is out of KGSO, that's where my short test flights originate. If I'm actually going to fly somewhere, I pull up one of the US weather radar webpages and see if I can find a stormy destination to challenge myself. Otherwise, I have some old haunts I'll revisit, such as a Grand Canyon run, or Sion to Geneva at only 100' off the deck the entire way in a Mustang or P-38. There's a 90+° right turn in the valley that will sneak up on you in a hurry! I rarely fly anything region-appropriate - I just fly what I like, where I like.
 
For GA planes I like to fly in the US Midwest. Bush type aircraft I enjoy flying in the mountains, usually the Rockys. WW2 aircraft I try to fly in their historic places that they were used in, Europe, the Pacific, ect. Vintage aircraft I also like to fly in areas that they were commonly used in. Once in awhile I like to fly something fast or a big jet, Ill use Edwards.
 
small planes: south england and scotland to eire...and Puget Sound. DH 80 tour!
dc-3: Caribbean and Mediterranean ...and Puget Sound.
C-46: central america, venezuela, colombia ... and Puget Sound
Viking and dove: English Channel, London and Southend to Holland and France
dc-4 & early connies: miami to Rio, short haul routes south.
Turboprops: Alps and BC rockies, and ...Puget Sound
British Military: typically Gibraltar, also the south of England bases.
amphib ops: ummm....puget sound in the d18?
Out into the North Cascades and up the Columbia River Gorge

hmmmmm...looks like some of us owe Holger a root beer.
yeah, and I gotta get out the atlas.
Great flights to be had following the cal classic airports around. Cant wait for Africa!
 
Thanks for the reminder! I like to take my water planes to PHNL's 8W going up and 26W coming back. Downtown Honolulu makes a nice obstacle to contend with on departure and approach.
 
Thanks! I love the Austrian sceneries, and this helo (and stablemate BK117) really match them well.
Actually, it's something to think about: great scenery demands a great aircraft model, so maybe that's a criterion to use, too.
You could pick your aircraft according to how good the scenery is!
 
For GA I tend to fly out of Thruxton Circuit as it's my home airfield and Military out of Boscombe Down. For Tubes I tend to fly to major airports for the traffic.
 
Only for screens OBIO on my account. I generally take all serious flights at home or that wonderful PNW in FSX.

But for my repaints, yeah, I take 'er to the nearest airport where the plane may have served, I say that because most of my repaints are warplanes. I cheat though, often being in a hurry, I slew and compose. F1View, a most wonderful utility for FS2004, makes it all the easier. Wish they had a freeware equivalent for FSX.

Caz
 
Yeah....location, location, location...
Intense vfr, A high wing, a prop powered bubble canopy, or a biplane.
American mid-west or desert.....jet. B-58, SR-71....something.
Toronto-Malton.....CF-105 Arrow, CF-100 Canuck.
Italy or North Afrika.....Manuele Vila's models.
Pacific Northwest to California....Milton and crew.
Open Ocean....slew, or "go to airport" menu.
Tired...bed.
Breakfast...oatmeal.
 
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