This is a question aimed at people who fly in Europe, and to and from the UK.

 

I am curious, what airline do you chose to fly for in the Simulator?

 

Do you try and stick to real world routes/destinations, for example by only flying to/from places on the ailines' route map?

 

Where is your favourite place to fly to/from in Europe?

 

Where is your favourite place to fly to/from in the UK?

 

Just curious :)

 

For myself I used to fly with the 737-800 from Ryanair in the sim, and recently changed to Thomson 737-800.

 

Favourite UK airport is probably East MIdlands (EGNX) purely because I know it well.

 

Whichever airline I chose to fly for in the Sim I only fly to destinations they fly in the real world.

 

Favourite place to Fly in EU is probably Nice cote d'azur and Norway.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Danny

Airline - usually Turkish Airlines 738 and fictional JAT airways 738. I do not care about what airline fly what routes and similar, just fly where I want and when I want. Do not like to simulate RL airline business.

I usually use LYBE as my homebase and I can cover whole EU/ part of asia and africa. Mostly I fly regional routes - LYPG, LYTV, LQSA, LHBP, LOWW, LTBA... If I want to fly longer route I fly to LSZH, EHAM, EDDS, LIMC, LIRF, EGLL, EGCC, LFML, UUWW, LGAV. UK just EGLL and CC as I said. Exotic destinations: LPMA, URSS, LYTV, LSGS (the best one)...

I have been flying Ryanair since the NGX came out a few months back , I have become so accustomed with flying with them , I stuck to flying them all the time , and the 737-8 is by favorite 737.

 

My favorite part of Europe to fly in is spain , I love flying to airports such as Barcelona , Alicante , Palma de Mallorca ,Minorca ,Madrid and Ibiza.

 

Usually fly to Dublin because that's where I'm from , and its always nice flying in and out from where you are from , I also occasionally visit Cork and Shannon.

 

I use a lot of UK2000 scenery for the united Kingdom ,I do a lot of Dublin- Stansted legs or Gatwick and Luton, I really like The East Midlands ,and started visiting Bristol airport because its nice little regional airport.

 

Other cities I Like visiting would be Budapest , Amsterdam,Manchester , Edinburgh,Brussels, Athens, Vienna ,Zurich (also another personnel favorite) Lisbon, Nice ,Belfast , Manchester ,Birmingham ,Madeira , Innsbruck , Copenhagen,Paris, Faro ,Munich , Frankfurt .

 

Robin

I like to fly from Manchester EGCC to Almeria LEAM, and that is in fact the route I usually test stuff on for reviews if they have the range, which most airliners certainly do. It's an interesting flight, roughly two hours, and you cross three different nation's airspace in that time, England, France and Spain.

 

Generally speaking, that route would involve a Honiley 1 Romeo departure off 23 right at Manchester (see chart link below), which you can hand fly easily if you tune the MCT VOR and use DM and the PFD. Quite often you will get fairly hefty westerly crosswinds en route, and there is a good chance you will get interesting weather most of the time over the Bay of Biscay, thunderstorms being quite common, also often getting a radar-vectored descent in cloud down over the Sierra Nevada Mountains just before the flat coastal plain down to Almeria, since they generate a lot of updraft clouds including lenticulars, so you'll get to use your terrain map and VSD as well, and if you have the CS weather radar, that can come in handy as well over Biscay if you do the flight at night what with that CB activity. There is often a crosswind onto ILS-equipped runway 26 at Almeria, since it is right on the coast, and the runway is not massive, so it is a fun approach to do visually if you want to eschew the ILS, since you'll probably have to lay off to port quite a bit to track the centreline well. Radar Contact is a godsend for getting good vectors into there incidentally, but most of the time the default ATC will do a passable job once you get to the YES VOR.

 

You can get a reasonably authentic flight plan for that route even with the default FS flight planner if you choose ' IFR, high altitude airways', although you might want to remove the unecessary dog leg it throws in near Bilbao and the Pyrenees. You will need to add 500 feet to what it comes up with, since the FSX planner completely misses out the quadrantal rule.

 

I use the payware UK2000 Manchester Xtreme, and the freeware (Avsim library) Almeria, although you might also want to look at an improved terrain mesh for the Sierra Nevadas, as the default FSX is not as accurate as it could be, there's a freebie one of those kicking about on Avsim too. In reality, this flight is regularly made by Monarch Airlines with their 757, in fact my mum was on it last week since she is currently over there, but they also use A320s, so the 737 NG is a suitable substitute for that..

 

Useful link for UK airport charts: http://www.nats-uk.e...&Itemid=13.html

 

Al

I fly for Scandinavian Virtual Airlines and can choose among the real routes that the real SAS fly with the real flightnumber and the real departure and destination. You must comply with the real schedule, and you can follow the flights on http://scandinavian-va.eu/pages/home/home.aspx.

Air-Child virtual airline.

 

Not a real airliner but they have great routes and let you fly charter flights so you can fly your own routes between two airports of your choice.

 

Based in Cologne (EDDK) but they have serveral other hubs, EGCC Manchester included.

 

Plus, for each fly you do (and report through their system), some benefit goes to UNICEF.

 

http://www.air-child.com

i am flying for JETva.co.uk, i love it, it's very easy to do flight's the routes are very fun, and the 737 is one of the favourite there, you can have your charts, winds map etc... BTW if it wasn't clear the airline is eayjet.co.uk

I fly for Airsource Virtual Pilots Union http://www.air-source.us/Default.asp, which enables you to fly a host of real world airline routes.

 

As I live about four miles from Manchester EGCC, I fly a lot of routes from there (Jet2, Thomson, Ryanair - nice liveries for the NGX available here at AVSIM). Also have most of the UK2000 sceneries which I use regularly.

 

In a similar vein to Al, who likes to fly to Almeria, my personal regular trip is to Rome, heading down through the UK, France and then across the Alps into Italy.

 

I also like to visit Prague and Budapest simply because I've done the trips quite a few times in real life.

Good to know I'm not the only one in Stockport!

 

Al

Born and bred Stopfordian Al. As they say, It's a small world...but I wouldn't like to paint it !!

I just finished a flight from Zurich LSZH to Corfu LGKR, stunning approach and landing into VOR 35 at Corfu, Aerosoft's Corfu x is really nice! That approach gives you a view of nearly all of the island.

Ryanair, BMI Baby, Britannia, AKA Thomson.. Air berlin, Air Itlay. all real routes m8 and in Europe ..

Ryanair, BMI Baby, Britannia, AKA Thomson.. Air berlin, Air Itlay. all real routes m8 and in Europe ..

 

Ah awesome. I'm flying to Palme De Mallorca this July with bmibaby :)

Yeah very small plane inside you wouldn't want to travel to far on one of them unless you want someone in the front seat sat on your lap lol

Yeah very small plane inside you wouldn't want to travel to far on one of them unless you want someone in the front seat sat on your lap lol

so the "baby" stands for that, good to know.