Last night I finally completed my tour of every FSX airport in the UK from north to south (including all the islands) after working on it since just after Christmas. It took me 35 separate sessions of between 1-2 hours each. I saved the flight when I got tired of it and picked it up again later to continue the tour. All flights were done in real weather and between the hours of dawn and dusk. I set the time for dawn at the start and as I restarted a saved flight so the time would be carried forward. When it got dark I would advance the time to dawn of the next day and continue.
I used a variety of GA and small mil aircraft but aircraft choice is critical as some fields are very small and hard to find especially in bad weather.
If anyone would like to give it a try I have attached the text file I used to keep track of my progress. The airports are listed in the order I flew them and to help keep track of where you are simply remove the leading space in front of each line as you fly it, save the file and then you will be able to instantly see where you are by the 'stagger' in the list.
Be aware that there are a lot of very short 'hops' in some places as airfields in the UK tend to be clustered together especially on the east and south-east coasts as a lot date back to the WWII period and large numbers of fighter and bomber airfields were built close together.
It is a lot of fun and at times quite a challenge and has kept me busy for several weeks but now I have completed it I need a new challenge so today I used the FSX flight planner to create a route around all the FSX airports in British Columbia, Canada! This one could be fun if the weather turns bad! Wish me luck!
I used a variety of GA and small mil aircraft but aircraft choice is critical as some fields are very small and hard to find especially in bad weather.
If anyone would like to give it a try I have attached the text file I used to keep track of my progress. The airports are listed in the order I flew them and to help keep track of where you are simply remove the leading space in front of each line as you fly it, save the file and then you will be able to instantly see where you are by the 'stagger' in the list.
Be aware that there are a lot of very short 'hops' in some places as airfields in the UK tend to be clustered together especially on the east and south-east coasts as a lot date back to the WWII period and large numbers of fighter and bomber airfields were built close together.
It is a lot of fun and at times quite a challenge and has kept me busy for several weeks but now I have completed it I need a new challenge so today I used the FSX flight planner to create a route around all the FSX airports in British Columbia, Canada! This one could be fun if the weather turns bad! Wish me luck!
