Golden Wings Flights

[SgtT]

I love to fly my vintage planes in FSGW3. I really enjoy the low altitude flights especially flying through the mountains. That brings me to my question, any recommendations on some good low altitude flying? Looking for other mountainous spots or somewhere with forests etc. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks,

T.

 

[Taco]

Hi SgtT,

You might want to check out Flight 19 Rocky Ramble at Around the World Race/Multiplayer event thread. They are planning a new adventure about Flying in Idaho low and slow.

 

[SgtT]

Thanks, I may have to check that out.

T.

 

[OBIO]

From time to time, I also head to Idaho and fly from one forestry service strip to another. These FS strips are located way out in the mountains, surrounded by beautiful scenery. Bewarned...some of these strips will require a plane with some serious climb out ability. Piper Cub...not a good idea. T-34C Turbo Mentor....works great. But for a vintage GA for these flights, I like to use Brian Gladden's Super Pacer. Has the guts to get up and over the mountains. Still a great plane for low and slow.

OBIO

 

[Willy]

I'm going to be flying Piglet's Antonov An-2 for the Idaho madness. Big radial powered biplane that can climb like a scalded cat.

 

[Tom Clayton]

The Kodiak is also good for strips like that. It can handle the low and slow when it's needed, or it can climb up and get you where you need to be without having to watch sparrows pass you overhead.

 

[SgtT]

Thanks guys, I'll check out Idaho. OBIO, any one strip in particular you would recommend?

Thanks,

T.

 

[Daube]

I love to fly my vintage planes in FSGW3. I really enjoy the low altitude flights especially flying through the mountains. That brings me to my question, any recommendations on some good low altitude flying? Looking for other mountainous spots or somewhere with forests etc. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks,

T.

One of my favorite "low and slow" flights in FS9 was flying from Concrete Mun directly South, headind toward Mt.Rainier, and going around it (over Ranger Creek) to land at Packwood.
The surrounding scenery gets beautiful once you install the freeware "North Cascades" by Holger Sandmann !!

 

[SgtT]

Thanks Daube,

I downloaded the scenery this morning and will check it out this weekend.

T.

 

[OBIO]

Thanks guys, I'll check out Idaho. OBIO, any one strip in particular you would recommend?

Thanks,

T.

T

I really can't recommend one forestry service strip over another...they are all nice, remote, challenging places to start a flight from and to crash...I mean land...at. They are not real detailed in terms of buildings and stuff...but that is how they most likely are in real life...just a place for the Forest Rangers to land at so they can walk into the forest to determine if bears really do poop in the woods.....or what ever Forest Rangers do way out in the middle on no where.

For a really nice Concrete Municipal airport...and some other nice Washington state back woods strips...head over to Simviation.com and do a search for Kenny Fox. Grab his 2 Washington Back Woods packages. Lots of nice places to fly from....all surrounded by breath taking mountains. I really like Williams Air Patch...a nice log cabin, some horses and an air strip nestled in a deep mountain valley. Concrete Municipal is a great one....take off in the right direction and the runway drops away below you and you are over a river valley with mountain peaks on either side of you, follow the river for miles and miles. Love that flight in the Piper Cub or the Aeronca Champ.

OBIO

 

[Daube]

Concrete was my overall favorite airport in FS9.
Nowadays in FSX, thanks to the OrbX sceneries, it's still one of my favorite airports. In fact, it's my airport of choice when I have to test a new small prop plane

In any case, SgtT, I strongly recommend you to download anything that has been released by Holger Sandmann. Bella Coola is quite nice, and Glacier Bay is really great.

 

[Ralf Roggeveen]

It's true that Golden Wings is essentially atmospheric and THE place for low & slow bush flying, usually in the USA. I frequently bless Bill and Lynn Lyons for having so utterly romanticised the turgid Bill Gatesy Microsoft Flight Simulator like that!

But although the 'default' GW flight is indeed a Stinson over Idaho in the unforgettable Fall of '37, other parts of the planet should not be ignored...


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I've recently been working on a tour of a place called Europe, 1926. There is some fine contemporary airport scenery out there...


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Koenigsberg (try finding that, or indeed the whole of its province of East Prussia, with your Satnav). There are plenty of big mountains to avoid here in Europe too:


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But you may well be drawn to the cold, far north including Scandinavia, the lonely Sea and the Sky as the poet* puts it.


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Places where only the occasional distant smokestack shows you that there are any other people still down there at all. And there are some fine old machines of the time to dust off and have them wheel out from your hangar...

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A whole new experience, adding myriad extra dimensions to fs9!


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But be careful, concentration is required - as with every aspect of human existence, however pleasurable, things can still go horribly wrong...


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(Don't worry, had one of those newfangled parachutes and managed to land in a Christmas tree).

*John Masefield

 

[SgtT]

OBIO,

Thanks for your comments, I'm going to check out more of the Forest Service airstrips.

Dauber,

Thank you for your recommendations, I'm searching the FS sites for more of his scenery.

Ralf,

Thank you for your post. I do most of my flying in GW3, I liked the screenshots that you posted. Could you tell me where they were taken? Were they part of your European tour?

Thank you all,

T.

 

[nigel richards]

It's true that Golden Wings is essentially atmospheric and THE place for low & slow bush flying, usually in the USA. I frequently bless Bill and Lynn Lyons for having so utterly romanticised the turgid Bill Gatesy Microsoft Flight Simulator like that!

But although the 'default' GW flight is indeed a Stinson over Idaho in the unforgettable Fall of '37, other parts of the planet should not be ignored...


View attachment 53886

I've recently been working on a tour of a place called Europe, 1926. There is some fine contemporary airport scenery out there...


View attachment 53887

Koenigsberg (try finding that, or indeed the whole of its province of East Prussia, with your Satnav). There are plenty of big mountains to avoid here in Europe too:


View attachment 53890


View attachment 53888


But you may well be drawn to the cold, far north including Scandinavia, the lonely Sea and the Sky as the poet* puts it.


View attachment 53889


Places where only the occasional distant smokestack shows you that there are any other people still down there at all. And there are some fine old machines of the time to dust off and have them wheel out from your hangar...

View attachment 53891

A whole new experience, adding myriad extra dimensions to fs9!


View attachment 53892


But be careful, concentration is required - as with every aspect of human existence, however pleasurable, things can still go horribly wrong...


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(Don't worry, had one of those newfangled parachutes and managed to land in a Christmas tree).

*John Masefield

Thanks for sharing Ralf.

Always a delight to see your 'vintage' shots.



Was the bailout because you found a nice little cosy place to settledown for a while? Lol!

 

[Ralf Roggeveen]

Was the bailout because you found a nice little cosy place to settledown for a while? Lol!

Ha, ha!

Might post the story of Mr & Mrs Thomas's 1926 European Tour some time. Note that my pix tied in with another thread here, many of those superb aircraft being by Ralf Kreibich :salute: