It brings me a tear of joy to see how far you've come, after just sharing a few VOR radials. Who knows, some day we may call you "Captain"? :LMAO:

LOL

It's taught me that Hawaii is woefully short on inflight rest areas... where a biplane can land and let a passenger go wee...

If this was a multiple choice question, I would check "all of the above".Plus if it can be considered a lesson, Flight has reminded me to never forget how to have just plain and simple fun.

Thanks for MS Flight I now finally know how to fly anywhere using VOR and how to reach real world approach charts. Awesome! I was FORCED to use them, really, and I love it! IN FSX I always used the GPS... boring...

It will be tougher if Flight proceeeds to Alaska. Alaska is rather short on VORs.

Thanks for MS Flight I now finally know how to fly anywhere using VOR and how to reach real world approach charts. Awesome! I was FORCED to use them, really, and I love it! IN FSX I always used the GPS... boring...

I'd like to expand on this a bit. As seen recently on the Hangar forum, I'm labled as a GPS troll. Now here is the reality of the situation. I find real life VOR & IFR flight as extremely "boring". I'm a mountain flyer. Those VORs & especially IFR flight routes don't go, where I want to be. Much of my real life flight is well below the tops of mountain ranges, and VORs are line of sight. You either fly high enough to pick up the signal, or you don't. I prefer more direct routes, and especially routes of interest such as national parks, backcountry airstrips, etc. GPS allows for more direct routing, and I'm sure as heck not going to fly above the mountain tops just to be able to triangulate VORs. My RV has no NAV radios at all. Just a handheld NAV/COMM if I really need it. In the meantime, it carried one of the best portable GPS's made, a Garmin 696. It's a large screen with a lot of terrain detail. I used it in conjunction with XM satellite weather, which is extremely useful when flying routes of 300 to 500 miles across mountain country. This is something that the VOR system was never capable of doing. You had to call flight service (if in range), and then make decisions. With XM weather, I can make in-flight real time weather decisions hundred of miles in advance, which I've often done.I'll just say, that if you'd like flying the mountains of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, and Arizona, then you'll find that GPS is far from boring, allows more time to see the scenery, and is much more efficient for time and distance. The same applies to Alaska. Especially Alaska! On the otherhand, the GPS representations on a computer screen don't much do it for me either. They take longer to adjust, too much of the screen to see, and are sometimes more of a pain to use than not. I seldom use them for flight sims either.L.Adamson