US Flight Suggestions?

[Dain Arns]

Yes, Bill is absolutely correct.
Lost of interesting airstrips in northern Idaho and western Montana.
With some searching, you can find quite a few backcountry airstrip sceneries for this area, at various sites.

 

[dominique]

I checked out <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Idaho</st1:state></st1lace> in FSX as I had never been and found.............total flatness and very little else!
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You didn't check in the right places . Northern Idaho is a joy to fly (this is FS9 though).

 

[NoNewMessages]

one of the things that i find most disapointing is that in fsx, utah is devoid of good canyons. i really hope that gets corrected sometime soon.

Pssst, I think it already has been looked into. I need to donate to SOH to get my signature with the web site addy in it!!

Couple a quality mesh with some nice photo scnery and there are parts of Utah that are just marvelous!

 

[Tako_Kichi]

You could always try my New England Tour(s) I posted in this thread...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=23659

There are three tours in that package, one is for New England airports and all airports have asphalt runways in excess of 3,000 ft, the second is for New England airfields and has asphalt/concrete runways less than 3,000 feet or gravel/grass runways and the third tour is for New England water-ports for floaters/amphibians only as every take-off/landing is a wet one!

I am still trying to complete the airfields tour as there has been some nasty weather in that area for the past month or so (I only fly in real weather) and have had to spend a lot of time flying choppers as they were the only things that would cope with the low visibility and short fields. Some of those tiny strips are very difficult to spot (never mind get into) especially with the winter textures that are active now. For fixed wing flying I found the freeware Auster a godsend as it can do everything a Cub/Super Cub can do in terms of short field flying but has a slightly higher top speed to get you from A to B without getting bored.

 

[Dain Arns]

Cheezy, I suggest you go here:

http://www.blueskyscenery.com/ (Freeware/Donationware)

EDIT: In fact here is a map of the area of coverage right now: http://www.blueskyscenery.com/UT.html
Each section of that map is a 5x5 grid of photoscenery tiles, 25 each, so there is a whole lot of coverage.

Gottfried just released a whole bunch of photoscenery for Utah over New Years.
I think he uploaded some to AVSim as well. That isn't as high of resolution as available though his site.

The Monument Valley is very nice.

Also, do a search for "Utah Complete" by James Udall. He corrected a lot of things in the state.

 

[dswo]

Yeah, listen to Bill: Idaho is intense. Grab the Great Falls sectional from AVSIM:

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And then start at Missoula International (KMSO). (Ok, technically that's in Montana.) Follow the Bitter Root Range or the Clark Fork river NW to Lake Pend Oreille. Park your plane at Sandpoint (KSZT) and when you're ready for more fly south to Coeur d'Alene (KCOE).

 

[cheezyflier]

oh sweet! thanks for the heads up, guys!
i'll be doing some downloading as soon as i get home.
gotta make a cookie run.

 

[IanHenry]

Thanks everyone for some great places to fly, now I just need to decide where to start! Still waiting for the Sibwings Bird Dog to download, after one failed attempt, this one is taking nearly 3 hours which is a little worrying!

Many thanks everyone,
Ian.

 

[JimC1702]

I like to fly in New York State, using the "Low 'n Slow" landclass for the state, available here:

http://www.eboyztoyz.net/article.php?ncat=00100

as well as my own upgraded NYS airports. NY has many scenic features. The Mohawk and Hudson Rivers, the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, the Great Lakes, and Niagara Falls. Near me is the man-made Great Sacandaga Lake and there are five large reservoirs in the Catskills that supply water to New York City. My county alone has 44 lakes.

And if you get bored in NYS, you easily pop into Massachusetts, Vermont, or Canada.

Jim

 

[dswo]

Here's what Idaho looked like this afternoon.

 

[IanHenry]

Ok, I've just done the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Great Falls</st1:City> flight from <st1:City w:st="on">Missoula</st1:City> to Sandpoint, and maybe I did <st1:State w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Idaho</st1lace></st1:State> an injustice, it's a very wild (and cold looking) place, great for bush flying.
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Ian.