I fly my routes continiously (well, I only can think of this word,not quite the right word to describe) with real routes,airlines and aircraft.Right after I think of this way, I started my journey from Chicago Ohare to Madrid. Next, I continued by starting at Madrid and to Miami, and then from Miami...and so on. I have been doing this for the last 1-2 months and absolutely happy with it. At least I have something to think of,sometimes I really really want to go to an airport but from my current position, I have to make 3-4 stops :biggrin:Currently stucking at Kenedy KJFK and trying to get to one of Ryanair's destination. With only using 747-400 and 737NGHow about you?

I fly my routes continiously (well, I only can think of this word,not quite the right word to describe) with real routes,airlines and aircraft.Right after I think of this way, I started my journey from Chicago Ohare to Madrid. Next, I continued by starting at Madrid and to Miami, and then from Miami...and so on. I have been doing this for the last 1-2 months and absolutely happy with it. At least I have something to think of,sometimes I really really want to go to an airport but from my current position, I have to make 3-4 stops :biggrin:Currently stucking at Kenedy KJFK and trying to get to one of Ryanair's destination. With only using 747-400 and 737NGHow about you?

Sounds like a good idea to me. I'm not that systematic - I tend to follow my mood and a lot of the time don't do point to point flights. I may do a simulated aerobatic display routine, or a helicopter "mission" or low flying in a military jet - or a lot of the time, I just fly a non-precision approach to land or even just fly circuits. (Err - that's "the pattern" I think for the Americans among us!) :( But I may try your idea when I have more time after the current semester ends and I'm a man of leisure for most of the summer - it makes good sense...

Sounds like a good idea to me. I'm not that systematic - I tend to follow my mood and a lot of the time don't do point to point flights. I may do a simulated aerobatic display routine, or a helicopter "mission" or low flying in a military jet - or a lot of the time, I just fly a non-precision approach to land or even just fly circuits. (Err - that's "the pattern" I think for the Americans among us!) :( But I may try your idea when I have more time after the current semester ends and I'm a man of leisure for most of the summer - it makes good sense...

On a computer... ;)

I fly my routes continiously (well, I only can think of this word,not quite the right word to describe) with real routes,airlines and aircraft.Right after I think of this way, I started my journey from Chicago Ohare to Madrid. Next, I continued by starting at Madrid and to Miami, and then from Miami...and so on. I have been doing this for the last 1-2 months and absolutely happy with it. At least I have something to think of,sometimes I really really want to go to an airport but from my current position, I have to make 3-4 stops :biggrin:Currently stucking at Kenedy KJFK and trying to get to one of Ryanair's destination. With only using 747-400 and 737NGHow about you?

Yup, my default flight is 'previous flight' - has been for many years I just can't start the sim anywhere other than where I last landed, then on from there. Currently 'stuck' at EGLL, might hop the B200 to another UK airport to find greener 737NG pastures. Anal I know :(

I pretty much fly where I want, today i may fly CYYZ to CYQT, then tommorow i may fly CYVR to CYYC( not realistic i know, but I may start doing the fly from where i left off, as it seems quite interesting doing that way). I stick with the same aircraft and Livery(airliner, not a GA flyer.) as I like to be extremely "proficient" and learn the ins and outs of said aircraft, I also cant fly without fs2crew, and Im a 100% VC flyer.I have a pilot logbook from my real flying days years ago that i use to keep track of my flights, And I always make an entry after my flight, which is dedicated to the boeing 737(which is what i fly 100% of the time).Always ALWAYS use real weather, some flights online and some offline(50/50 ratio). When offline I dont use ATC as all I have is default, and cant stand it, so I control myself around :)Thats pretty much it.

When I fly it is very random. One night I will be flying in Canada and the very next night I will be flying in Europe. I fly airlines and business jets. When I fly airlines I fly nothing bigger than the 757 and real routes and when I fly business jets it will be a random route. I don't like long haul flights so all my flight are 3 hours or less. I like flying in the US, Canada, and Europe. I also fly to airports that I have add on scenery for.

I don't like flying non real-life routes/types, and spend all of my time in Europe. When I get UT USA and some good US payware I'll be doing the same thing in the US. When I don't fly real-world routes with the correct types it's normally when I'm just trying out new sceneries/aircraft.

Hi.My FS9 personality is split four ways...1. A round-the world continuous flight which has been going since March last year, starting where I finished and visiting any addon airports I can find for the current country. Except for very short hops that's all IFR as I rarely fly without Radar Contact. I occasionally change aircraft but even they are reasonably stable.2. Western Europe with Air Hauler in the stock Cessna. This one is continuous by its nature as AH doesn't allow magical hopping from one place to another: I am obliged to fly position flights from wherever I last finished. I only started with this a few weeks ago so can only use the stock C172 until my virtual bank balance has grown enough to buy a bigger plane. VFR for short routes and IFR with RC again for suitably longer journeys.3. Occasional test flights for new addons. Mainly circuits for new airports and a mix of circuits and longer flights for new planes. These start at EGCW as that's on my real world doorstep and often involve a position flight in GA to get to a suitable runway for a heavy addon.4. Sometimes I just want to go and look at something that came up in a conversation and don't wish to wait until my round-the-world flight has got there. This is rare though, and the list of things to see and places to visit is growing faster than I'm flying. The last can't-wait involved flying up the Grand Canyon as close to the water as I could...I don't fly much commerial heavy stuff, mostly single and twin props. I always use SIDs and IAPs when available, and usually use a portion of a suitable STAR. My sim PC has no connection to the real world so weather is fictitious (handy for tailwinds...) and flight planning comes courtesey of MS internal planner. But yeah, on the whole I don't just mess around. This often means no flight if I don't have the real-world time for the journey I wish to make.Regards,D

I've done round-the-world routes with the same aircraft;when I add new scenery, I'll fly to/from that airport for a while;ditto with new aircraft, I'll fly them for a while. N.B. trying to get another panel to work with the SkySpirit 767's is a bear, but it's worth it, as these are very nice aircraft.more recently, I've assembled new AI setups (e.g., Fed Ex); boy, does that take a lot of work!)

I've done round-the-world routes with the same aircraft;when I add new scenery, I'll fly to/from that airport for a while;ditto with new aircraft, I'll fly them for a while. N.B. trying to get another panel to work with the SkySpirit 767's is a bear, but it's worth it, as these are very nice aircraft.more recently, I've assembled new AI setups (e.g., Fed Ex); boy, does that take a lot of work!)

Yeah sure it does. I've just spent almost completely 2 days to update my European flightplans and still have lots to do.Everytime I edit an airline I always back them up, now I already edit more than 100 airlines,can't believe I've done that much :(

Wherever I fancy in whatever I fancy. I'm perfectly happy to fly EGLL to EPWA in an MD-11 one day and them LMML to LICR in a TU-134 the next :(

i have 4 ways:1- round the world... with 747-400made 3-4 time/year. create my own flight plan paper. so each flight i will write down my last gate, destination, time, fuel load, etc... i will depart at my last gate and end it at destination airport's gate.2- routine route.. with 747-400daily, some with own flight plan but mostly not. depend on my mood either fly from WMKK-RJAA or continuously fly from WMKK-RJAA-WMKK-RJAA-WMKK-RJAA until i or my laptop tired. i also made this route as gate to gate.3- landing practice.. with 747-400just save game before i get into ILS and make it default load. each time i load the FS, my plane will be right there... 3000ft on the sky... 7 minute to touchdown.... currently i made practice at heavenly IGS RWY13, Kai Tak, HK.4- drive me crazy.. with 747-400select any airport, with clear weather or hurricane like weather, treat 747-400 like acrobatic aircraft and fly like drunken people...and bullying any on-final aircraft :(

Being like Winnie the Pooh (A bear of very little brain) and having a short attention span, I tend to stick with flights that are somewhat brief and keep me busy enough to not notice the unpaid bills sitting on my desk next to my PC and other such horrible "real" stuff. I figure if it's a long enough flight that I would get bored in the real world (yes Virginia, pilots do get bored cruising along hour after hour at FL330) then I'm really going to get bored in FS9. (Sorry if I insult any of you long-haul folks - I admire your patience...) So if I'm doing a complete flight then it's usually short haul - Hawaii, Europe or New Zealand all make for perfect options with great add-on sceneries available to make it visually immersive.Here's a fun thing to try. Pick an airfield that looks great and has great frame rates and do an air show. I choose a variety of aircraft - say the MAAM DC3 and try to do a display that wouldn't bore the audience (low pass with one engine feathered) a stomp-on-the-brakes, reverse thrust ultra short landing in the Captain Sim C130, an aerobatic display in the RAS Spitfire and a finale in a loud, smokey Cloud9 F4E. Challenge yourself to keep the display tight so the audience can see, but maintaining proper distance and alignment so you're not going to kill a hundred spectators if you screw up, and make it polished and then taxi in, shut down and take a virtual bow! :( It gives you lots of variety, challenges you to fly skillfully and has a unifying theme instead of being a series of random flights. It can be a lot of funAnd if you really want to challenge yourself, purchase the Aerosoft Lukla scenery and see just how big an airplane you can actually land on that short, 9,400' altitude sloped runway. Getting them off is usually okay - my biggest is the DC3 - but landing is an incredible challenge other than the usual STOL a/c like the FSD Porter. My best one yet was the Milton Shupe Dash-7. Not much runway to spare but we survived! LOL. I really did feel an adrenaline rush when I was done...Ian

I fly mostly classic airliners, i.e. from the period from 1945-1970´es. Starting out with converted WW2 bombers, the next 25 years development gave us the Concorde and 747 - a gigantic step forward in technology!In this period you could find piston-engined DC3´s and Connie´s, Vickers Viscount and Vanguard turboprops, and Fanjet propelled VC10´s etc. All such aircraft is available as excellent Freeware for FS9. And I would be kind of bored with FS, if I only had a Ryanair 737 or an SAS MD-80..I live in Copenhagen, so most of my flights begin at EKCH. I start out with REX, letting it find the current weather, and then load it into FS immediately after FS is started. For European trips, I normally navigate around with VOR/NDB´s. For long haul trips, especially across the oceans I use INS. With "only" 9 waypoints, an INS flight is never boring.AND if there is a long leg between two waypoints, you can always take a break from the flight deck, and do some cooking, go for a cycling/running tour or maybe even vaccum clean your house, until next pilot action is required.. BR,Anders

Its quite interesting to read how others fly, there are sooooo many ways to utilize this sim, Some like to fly a multitude of aircraft, some like myself only fly one type of aircraft, some fly short, some long hauls, some VC flyers, Some arn't, Some fly classics, some newer technology.Its a very interesting thread.Puts it into perspective how much is possible with this sim. :( :(