These are really, really good ideas. Since I am an avid reader, I fly to locations in the books I am reading, sometimes duplicating flights in the book.Best,Bill

A. Point to Point flights in my RTW tour. Started from home city essentially traveling east aorund the world. Try to use a real flight number and type where possible, if not then a real route with another a/c type, failing that something believeable, ie an airline from the areas in question on a charter basis.B. Short GA flights - mainly short flights messing around in the area the RTW tour is currently positioned. Usually when installing, tweaking and checking AI & scenery for the next legC. Flights I've been on or performed myself previously in real life.D. Occasional flights that just take my fancy, usually somewhere with interesting approaches or features.Blantant promotion of screenie series.At the time of this post, the series so far has comprised of; 72 completed legs, covered a distance of 86,891NM in a total flight time of 231hrs 39mins.The tour started in December 2003 from Carlisle, UK (EGNC) and is currently positioned in Santiago, Chile (SCEL).The series is flown,REAL TIME with no UTC offseting, Real weather via the Activesky series (ASVe current), Full flightplanning, procedures and fuel loadings.All shots taken on the fly, no pausing or replays here. - Great for getting yourself more organised & enhancing forward planning in flight.Published shots are unedited with the exception of cropping, Resizing to 800x600 and conversion to *.jpg format.My Round The World Tour is located on the Flightsimmer.com site in the PAI screenshots area. Search "PSS/PMDG" and you'll find them or download the attached txt which contains direct links to the threads.Due to the length of time the series has run and it's evolution over time only legs 36 & onwards are viewable.Maybe some ideas in there for you guys.

Hey everyone. My first post here ever!Great thread, figured I'd give you all some extra choices.First how I pick my own flights:1. If there's cool weather around home I'll fly GA locally using Nav/radio. I often like to fly from the cottage back home to Toronto CYYZ or the Island Airport. Always lots of action at YYZ!2. World Tour - kind of got off track on this somewhere in Japan, but I have a complete log book of all my flights. Start at one place, fly to the next, consult map, rinse, repeat. Pick your plane to match the airports, or look for the International ones!I found the world tour extremely interesting as I started to learn a little about the regions I was flying to and learned some geography at the same time. South America was great along the Andes!3. Saved flights. Sometimes I go back to my log and just pick something I enjoyed.Anyways, here's some other interesting options. A while back I built this for what I believe is a now defunct virtual airline (Piedmont). It was to be their YYZ hub.Site Start area:http://www.asic.ca/piedmont_yyz/PiedmontYYZHubFrame.htmDetailed Timetables - select where to depart, fly one of the flightshttp://www.asic.ca/piedmont_yyz/PiedmontYYZHubSchedFrame.htm - pick a start point, it'll show you flights #s, durations, distance, destinations (derived from Air Canada)Lastly here's some pics from my world tour. I stopped tracking this a while ago but lots of pics to see.http://www.asic.ca/simgallery/gallery.html

I determine how i'm going to fly by using the wonderful tools at the VA I use. www.air-source.us They are a different kind of VA representing of 200 airlines and more being added daily. I can browse through the bids or I can sort through all the schedules by length of flight, type of a/c, destination, origination, or even airline. The humanitarian section goes to all the local news happenings... right now there are several flights going to pakistan to help with relief. I usually just browse through and will find something! check it out! www.air-source.us

What a brilliant idea!I have been doing this newsie all by myself for years.I shall have to get to Rescue flight centre from Sydney!Since SubLogic days I have been simming, (some say slummimg) and I never cease to be amazed at the width and directions this

Perhaps because I started simming with Sublogics ATP and was doing ILS aproaches to minimums long before I ever flew an overhead pattern, I find the 35,000 feet on autopilot to 10,000 foot runways quite boring now. MY typical aproach these days is a recce pass to get the wind direction from the cabins chimney smoke then slip the plane around that tree on final to plunk down on the beach in my piper cub. FS9 has scenery thats a shame to waste only seeing a location from 7 miles up. Add some freeware scenery like Alaska Trophy Tours and you have dozens of locations to chose from supporting everything from wheels, skiis, to floats. Things like learning to taxi and sail a float plane in real world winds is what keeps it fresh for me. When I do want to fly longer distances I find following the NASCAR schedual pretty interesting. The tracks tend to be near smaller regional airports with runways around 5,ooo feet. perfect for the lear jet or either beachcraft. one place that almost every airport has a challenging aproach is Nepal. Try flying the Caravan or DC-3 there. with the altitude and if temps are up landing either on even a 2,000 foot runway is quite a challenge and with the reduced performance at that altitude you rarely get out of the valleys enroute. Blue Skies

Hmmmm, I do almost all (more than 90%) of my flying in GA aircraft. As I'm one of those FSEconomy buffs that's taken up almost of my flying time for the last few months. Haven't got any real reason to fly the big iron but I do occasionally take one up just for the fun of it. I rarely ever finish one of these flights though.:D

Because I fly exclusively GA, up to light twins and more recently with FS Passenger, and I have had to fly on quite a few charters locally, I mainly try to re-create these flights and repetitively, all within 300 nm of my local GA airfield.FS Passenger is great in helping me to ensure that I follow some procedures and general airmanship (as it used to be know when I was a cadet... many years ago).Chris Porter:-outtaPerthWestern Australia

Since I like flying airliners in challenging IMC, and I am the father of two small children, I will usually consult the domestic US or world weather maps, and pick a short (60-90 min) flight somewhere, and file IFR. I spend a few minutes getting the charts, especially if there is mountainous terrain involved, and give my self a quick briefing before I taxi out and go. SIDS, STARS, the whole 9 yards. I also like re-creating challenging accident flights, like former secretary of state the Ron Brown's 737 accident in Bosnia in I think it was 1992, JFK Jr's tragic Martha's Vineyard flight, or the American Airlines 767 crash in the Columbian mountains a few years back. There is much to learn from studying accident flights. I'm going to post a few of these flights, with the appropriate weather, season, and time of day, as a package for download in the coming 2 weeks. Watch for my post in the file library soon.Regards,http://www.animation-station.com/planes/images/plane001.gifAlex ChristoffN562ZBaltimore, MD

1. If I fly with a group on-line or in multiplayer - that sets the flight.2. I fly point to point - and try to takeoff from the previous destination. Since I like flying different aircraft - I have three flights currently in operation: EGSS - B757; VNKT - B1900D; FMEE - C-337.3. Occasionally when doing AFCAD or other work - I'll fly in the area for a bit.

I either pick a random destination from a random page in an old KLM timetable, or I pick a random departure and destination point from a flight planner (just close my eyes and start poking at keys).That's if I don't have a preset plan to fly, like when flying with friends or on one of my round the world trips.

Ah Ha...ATC and ILS San Diego...I remember it well.Way ahead of its time.R

OK, i like to fly the bush, what i do is take a deck of cards and pull out as many cards as the airports i like to fly to then right the code on the card, now pull a card and thats where you fly to next and since this is charter work it works out great that way,ciao!Brian S

When I don't have any particular destination or flight plan in mind, I open the spreadsheet FS9Airports&Runways.xls which I have downloaded, and then refer to a simple random number generator that I have put on the next sub-sheet of the s/sheet. Voila! The decision is made.It needs a bit of elementary s/sheet skill, but the beauty of the s/sheet is that the data lists every FS9 landing strip in every country, and the data can be sorted and re-sorted by airport code, country, state, city, ILS presence, or any mix of the criteria. My number generator is made to conform to the range of the data I'm interested in. It returns a numeric answer that refers to a line number of the s/sheet, which carries the airport/airstrip name, length, height ASL and landing aids, if any. It's brilliant!Having had the asssignment set for the session, the next task is researching the start and destination points, planning how to get there, in what aircraft, and taking account of downloaded real weather. Another random number generator could be added to select a departure time, avoiding the wee small hours.I can limit the session's adventure to within a specific country, or State (in the USA), and let the number generator select two from that range, if time is going to be short. It's a bit like walking into the briefing room and being told where you've got to fly to today. The randomness adds to the sense of apprehension.I hope that's all clear. Anyway, there's how I do it. It's no better than all the other wonderful bright ideas that this thread has thrown up, but it might appeal to someone else.Don Hunt

FS Economy ,Gentlmen!Good evening.This is my way of exploring the world.I have an FBO at PAKW and two months ago went to Vancouver for some goods but there I` got a very good assigment to Aspen.Then I made all way down to Antilles and now I`m sitting in BGSS,Greenland and waiting for the weather to go to BGAA and Then I have two options :Turn back to Canada or make some more money in Iceland but there just a few hundred miles to Norway.So as you can see I`m coming back home via Aleutian Islands.With all add-onn scenery I can get-free or payware.For example I got all scenery,mesh,landclass and traffic for Greenland and Iceland before I left Newfoundland and so on.Plus FS Navigator(Plane`s icon-off),FSE,ASV(real Weather).Time is otional but depends of weater and Nav minimum at the dest. airportAnd finally my Plane - DC-3 (MAAM) See You in EuropeAll the Best DCA1259FX-55 ATI