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Bush Pilot

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rayrey10

Charter Member 2012
After watching that show on the Discovery Channel "Flying Wild Alaska" and finally upgrading to Lionheart's updated Kodiak, I'm interested in bush flying.

Can anyone recommend any good scenery and mission packs for bush flying? It can be any where, not just Alaska.
 
I would recommend Holger Sandmann's stuff.

Glacier Bay 2 (free)
Misty Fjords (pay)
Tongass Fjords (pay)
Vancouver + (pay)
Victoria + (free)
There are many free downloads in these areas with small bush type strips.
This gives you a huge area for bush flying. Prices on the payware were reduced a while back for fs9. These programs are really great.

Then there are the short hops by Leon Louis, mostly fictitious and all free. Most are in Quebec but some in ME, WA, BC, AK. Lots of eye candy and fun.

For aircraft I like Aerosoft's Super Cub and Beaver in these areas. Also they have Freight Dogs which gives you something to do while bush flying. There are areas for this all over the world.
 
Come over and play in Arctic Canada:ernae: Just bring your Beer Keg Full for the Mountie's and they'll let you in lol.
 
Some of my favorite bush flying takes place from stock airstrips....namely the USFS strips in Idaho. The strips themselves may not be the prettiest places, but they are nestled in some of the lushest mountain settings you will find. Use a good mesh set to give the mountains some life and you are set. Be sure to use a plane with a good climbing ability...some of those strips are pretty enclosed in mountain valleys and you have to climb like a scared squirrel to get up out of them.

OBIO
 
Check out Peter Ham's and Sidney Schwartz's Viva Scenery Volumes 1 thru 4. All kinds of strips, many with built in AI traffic bits. They can be found at FlightSim (pss_1.zip thru pss_4.
The vast majority are located in Alaska and Western Canada.

BTW, there are about 350 airports in all.
 
I have to agree with the first answer in this topic. When it comes to Bush Flying, Holger Sandman's stuff (payware or freeware) is what you need.
 
racartron said:
Check out Peter Ham's and Sidney Schwartz's Viva Scenery Volumes 1 thru 4. All kinds of strips, many with built in AI traffic bits. They can be found at FlightSim (pss_1.zip thru pss_4.
The vast majority are located in Alaska and Western Canada.

BTW, there are about 350 airports in all.
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Very interesting and complete package indeed ! I didn't know about this.
Important notice is that the user has to download several object libraries before using this scenery. The libraries are referenced (with links for download) in the last package.
 
Daube said:
Very interesting and complete package indeed ! I didn't know about this.
Important notice is that the user has to download several object libraries before using this scenery. The libraries are referenced (with links for download) in the last package.
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Ooops, forgot to mention the scenery libraries bit. But the installs are straight forward and the results are awesome.
 
As far as missions are concerned Abacus has a payware pack called Bush pilot adventures. The supplied aircraft are a bit naff being a very early FS2004 product but you can swap them for an equivalent aircraft and the flights are good. The problem I find with flying is choosing where to go, what for and in what. With the adventures that cover Canada, Australia, Africa and South America, you get a little story about why you're going where you're going and stuff, like taking X amount of people or cargo that you put into the payload menu to make the flights that little bit more challenging with the weight increase. Flights with multiple legs and little sceneries that albeit basic in some cases, adds to the experience. If you have EZScenery or RWY12 you can spruce them up with extra details. Paying just for flights seems a bit extravagant but it is worth it in my opinion because it takes you places you would never think to fly to. I'd also recommend Sea planes adventures aswell. It's the same setup as the bush pilot adventures but with seaplanes and covers area's in Alaska, Florida keys and Greece. http://www.abacuspub.com/default_fs.html
 
If you want to know where to fly the best thing imo is to get Freight Dogs at Aerosoft. For about $20 you get two very nice aircraft, six nice strips and a job hauling freight in se Alaska. Plus many more areas can be downloaded for free at the fs cargo site. Someone even made area files for several of Tony Agramont's scenaries so you can haul freight in different parts of the world.

What you do is pick an area where you want to fly. Start at any airport, use any plane, tell how long you want the flight and the program will tell you where to pick up the cargo and where to deliver it determined randomly.
 
Thanks fellas! I'll check out all of your suggestions.

Clarke123 said:
The problem I find with flying is choosing where to go, what for and in what.
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That's exactly my problem. I don't know enough about Alaska/Canada/Siberia to do any meaningful flying. I spend more time looking at a map then I do flying. I also would like to fly to a strip with some scenery, not just a grass/gravel strip with nothing around it.

In lieu of this I've started a Caribbean "bush flying" adventure of sorts. I started at TNCA in Aruba and I am going to work my way north hitting every island on the way up.
 
Here's something I came up with a year or more back. It's a loop hitting most of the land strips on Kodiak Island. A few of the approaches are a bit of a challenge, especially if you have a good AK mesh installed. The zip includes a pln for your GPS, an fsn file for your FSNav if you use it, and a text file.

The object is to pick a box hauler that has good STOL capabilities when loaded, then load up at Kodiak and drop a little bit of the load at each airport, so that you make the last leg with no cargo. The last time I did it was with Mike Stone's Bristol 170. You should also be able to pull it off with Milton's D18 or Dash 7.
 
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