LOL...Good question...Often I will fire up the sim, but sit at the airport in my plane for 20 min trying to decide where to go. Most of the time, I fly from the home city, and airport. So, naturally, I fly this part of the country quite a bit. I often fly SW 737's, so naturally, I must have flown the Hobby-Love Field routeabout 829 times.... :/ If I'm flying a prop, it just varies..Sometimes I'll fly a short hop, but sometimes I'll just get it up in the air and fly until I feel like landing, or run outa fuel... :( Sometimes, I fly real long multi-legtrips. Sometimes with the same plane, but often when I stop at an airport I'll change planes to break the boredom abit. Sometimes I'll get a wild hair, and just go to the airport menu, and pick an airport I've never been to, and go fly around it a while. But even still I usually keep normaltime, and real wx. I almost always fly real time, and season,just like it was real life. When flying jets longer haul, Again, I'll often sit for 20 min trying to decide where to go. Then I'll finally decide, and make a flight plan and go.I often have a tough time deciding where to go... And it seemsto get worse, the more airports we have... :/ I've flown around the world quite a few times. In that case, it's the ole fly till the gas nearly runs out routine usually..I'll stop, take a break, maybe change planes, and take off on another leg. I often mimic real Southwest flights when I do those. And I'm hearing my SW buddies and buddettes on the real radio as I fly. I audio mix a real radio, with the FS radio... Adds some realism...Here in Houston, I can copy a SW flight from Hobby, all the way to Dallas nearly . I only lose them when they descend below about 9,000 ft going into Dallas. Thats pretty good range.. Nearly 250 miles.I can hear ACARS for nearly 300 miles or so. My radio is my Icom IC-706mk2 ham rig...Good on the VHF air band..MK

I look for bad weather......I'll do that too. I like flying to places that have horrible wx. Snow, rain, fog, the worse, the better. But...It's always real wx loaded, so I gottawatch the real world wx, if I wanna know where it's at. MK

Another tool you can use to lookup routes for several airlines is here:http://www.cpavirtual.org/ATPFINDROUTE.aspSay for example you want to fly out of KJFK, just enter it into Dep ICAO and click search. You can specify it by airline say jetBlue for example. Once the schedules are listed just click on the clock icon to the right and the real world schedule from Amadeus.net is displayed. There's also a random route feature if you have no idea where you want to fly.In the near future we plan on adding an aircraft type search as well. That way you could look up say for example all 737-800 flights that depart from KATL.Try it out. :)

I fire up FS Economy http://fseconomy.com, find a profitable trip for my business, and fly it! :)Regards,Paul

cool like the idea!

Speaking of SunLogic's ATP, there are city pairs that are flown when one is working up through the career assignments. I recall there is something like 20 "primary" cities, with various combinations of city pairs, weather, etc. However, they are all in the US, but this does give you an assignment of cities to fly from/to. Bruce.

I'm currently on a "round the world" trip an hour at a time. I started out at DFW (home) and just pick a leg that's about an hour away to hop to next (using a Citation, although its' panel is irritating me at the moment). So far I've done DFW-LIT-TYS-DCA-BOS. I might have to extend a bit to get to Greenland-Iceland-Scotland but this way I can have fun an hour or so at a time (without having to use 4x speed) and get to see new places. I'm probably going to do quite a bit around the coastlines, so I'll go all the way down and around Africa and such. Or I could take a more direct route across the middle of Siberia or something. Haven't decided yet. Maybe I'll do both. :-)Denny

You guys are gonna laugh at this (as most do) or think it's ingenious (as I do). I've always played computer baseball (Hardball, Front Page Sports, High Heat, MVP), have always played as the White Sox, and have always played out my season in parellel with the real world.A few years ago I got the PMDG 777 for Fly! and came upon this question "where am I going to fly this thing to?" It dawned on me that the 777 could be the "team plane" for the White Sox, and I could fly it from Chicago to and from all their away games.Now I have N738WS, a custom repaint that I made of the PMDG 737-800 in a White Sox livery. Here's a link to a pic of the -700 one I had last season:http://home.comcast.net/~jmlouden/n737ws.jpgIn MVP this year things matched up very closely to real life. I ended up with the exact same record as the real White Sox (99-63), swept the Red Sox in the ALDS, and am now 2-0 against the Yankees in the ALCS. I just finished a flight from MDW to LGA.Also sometimes I just fire up my Thunderbird-painted Viper and tear up Free-Flow Florida ;)Edit: I guess what I do isn't so dorky after reading about the guy who takes Britney Spears to her shows or the Nascar crew to the races, or maybe it still is.... :(

Jeremy,Not dorky at all, check out http://www.uniair.org.

I thought about doing that with the Detroit Red Wings/Tigers DC-9.http://library.avsim.net/sendfile.php?Loca...e&ImageID=86436In Fact, maybe I'll fly from LAX to PHX right now. Wings are playing the Coyotes tomorrow night.

I look at my map of the world and at random, select a nice place. I then find out who flyes here, and what airport. Then i select an airline and what route, and how long. This process can take hours.Then, i file the plan and flyI usually fly a jet such as A320,737 or 767. Great fun

I have become a fan of live ATC websites. I tend to let these determine my flightplan/location. I look to see what is online and plan a flight around it. My current favourite is the Netherlands on www.liveatc.net I did a flight once into Amsterdam in FS with real weather and heard the pilots complaining about a thunderstorm, which I was experiencing in real time as well.You also get the correct runway designations when you do it this way. The real world, real time, and FS simulation match. That was really amazing and adds greatly to immersion. I use Project AI traffic with ATC set to text only, which means I get simulated traffic in FS (and no american speech), and real radio transmissions using Real player, which I run simultaneously with FS, in the background. The effect is very real. What I do is start FS, go to desktop, run the live ATC with real player, and then go back to FS. It seems to work well with no adverse effects. Another trick is to set the FS ATC to very low, so you can hear a transmission, but can't hear any american accents.Give it a go. I used to go online with Vatsim all the time, but I find this great at the moment. Incidently I usually start on approach at about 300 miles from my destination, at cruise level, since I find landings the most satisfying.When I first tried this I thought that the mismatch between the FS traffic and real ATC would be too obvious. In actual fact, it seems to make no difference. This is because when you are on final, you see the text tranmissions of the aircraft in FS, and it is as though your radio (ie the voices that you are hearing) is tuned to another frequency. It feels very real.I have tried this also in LOCKON, and have been very impressed with the result. Though of course with LOCKON you have to "pretend" that you are somewhere were you are not and the military cockpit tends to take something away from the experience, unless you are simulating a military flight of course.The availability of real live ATC tends to mean that I go to different places, since one particular link is not available 24 hours per day.HGNK

I live in UK but travel to USA frequently. When I'm over there I travel on domestic carriers. So, when I get on my FS at home I repeat the journeys I just did. Last week I was in Nashville. I flew down from Chicago O'Hare with American Eagle in an RJ. While I was at Nashville I flew to Orlando with Southwest on a 737 and back. So, sometime in the next few days those will be my trips. I'll save the Heathrow - Chicago on an AA 777 until the new 777 is released!Kev

Anywhere I have not flown before! :)regards,Macs :)

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