What's your favorite route to fly in FSX(Or route that you fly most)? And what is your favorite plane to fly it with? For example, my favorite is KBOI -> KSEA with the Dash 8 Q400.

PMDG MD-11......CYUL - KJFK, KSFO, KLAX, KLAS and KMIA

EGCC to LEAM. Or if you prefer that in English, Manchester International Airport UK, to Almeria Spain (and back again of course). With any airliner that floats my boat, although often some kind of 737.

 

That's a total distance in a straight line of 990 miles, but actually more like about 1,100 miles or so with procedures, airways routing, holds and such. So, around two hours flight time for a modern airliner, three for a classic prop airliner. It is a good route for testing airliners for FSX, since it is long enough to get them up to a high cruise, and interesting for both scenery and weather, since the route crosses three countries, England, France and Spain, and two major bodies of water, the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay, plus a bit of the Mediterranean if you do a wacky approach. You also cross the Pyrenees Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which you in fact descend over, so you get a good look at them. Thunderstorms are common over the Bay of Biscay too, so it can give you some fun winds and turbulence.

 

Most of the time, it is the route I use to test stuff when doing a review for Avsim or whatever, because both airports have relatively large runways suitable for stuff like the 757, and have SIDs, STARs, ILS facilities, and you can do visual approaches too of course. Turbulence and a crosswind on the approach to Almeria is also not unknown, so it's good for testing autopilots, and for practicing hand flying approaches.

 

Al

My favorite route has got to be the Seattle-Tacoma International (SeaTac KSEA) to Bob Hope (Burbank KBUR) in the 737-700. I have two good friends at Alaska, and thus I like any route they fly, with the exception of the 737-900, which is, to be blunt, a stupid airplane.

 

My reasons for liking that route are about the same as Chock's - though, I can't put in anything bigger than a 737-800, which means it's an ideal test route to a certain point. It's really fun landing an Alaska -700 with full autobrakes.

 

I too, am a fan of the Q400, as one of my two friends flies it out of KSEA. I really like the KPDX/KEUG, and KPDX/KSEA routes, since I live kind of near Portland.

EGCC to LFMN; Manchester International Airport UK, to Nice, France. Similar reasons to Chock's. A descent over the Mediterranean Alps, then a loop out over the sea, and an approach that requires the pilot to hand-fly a turn to the right on finals - rather like that approach into Washington Reagan where the plane banks to the right near the Pentagon.

 

EGNM to LIPZ; Leeds/Bradford UK to Venice Tessera, both in simulation and real life. A flight from my alma mater (in terms of flying lessons) to an airport across the lagoon from arguably the most beautiful city in the world. Did it in real life two weeks ago. The cognoscenti, being aware that the prevailing wind in Venice is generally from the east, will book seats on the right-hand side of the plane, vision unobstructed by wings, in order to get a view from 600? feet that is like an aerial Canaletto painting, as the plane approaches 04R. This can be very credibly reproduced in FSX with Aerosoft's Venice X.

Fave airplane?? The BN2. No!! Wait!! My A2A Cub!! No.... arggghh!!! Fave route?? Into someplace remote in the BN2 (think USFS remote landing strips in Orbx PNW scenery) and any dead reckoning flight in my Cub. Dead reckoning means getting there (correctly and not getting lost) is all the fun.

A little off topic here but which Q400 are you using flightsimfan? I've been looking for one, but cannot find it!

Hard to say one route, I mostly fly with my own Fspassengers virtual airline Southeast Airlines which is based in Thailand.

 

But this is probably one of my favorites:

 

VTBS - VTSM - VTSP - VTSG - VTBS

Bangkok - Samui - Phuket - Krabi - Bangkok

 

So this route goes basically through many of the most popular holiday destinations in Thailand, and I have good quality scenery for all these airports + my own Thailand mesh. I fly it with ATR 42, got FS9 Eurowings one modified for FSX as I found freeware ones out there to have weird flight dynamics.

 

Also I enjoy flying some flights around Himalaya with cargo 757, flew beetween Kathmandu, Paro and Lhasa airports. Especially flying to Paro with that addon scenery from Simmarket is amazing, one of the most interesting approaches out there.

A little off topic here but which Q400 are you using flightsimfan? I've been looking for one, but cannot find it!

 

There are a few. The one from PAD has any paint you can imagine, but it's a frame killer, has a horrible VC/Panel, and it's way over powered. The Dreamwings model is great, and a pretty good panel from FS2004 is available, which ports fine to FSX. Personally, due to my underpar computer, I use the AI model, with the FDE that comes with the panel (a nice treat).

c97019, The Dash 8 I use can be found here: http://www.flightsim...ts&cm=LISTFILES, the second one down. dhc8-q400_x.zip It has Virtual Cockpit which is really nice. By far my favorite aircraft to fly in FSX. It comes with 3 liveries: Horizon Air, Flybe, and QantasLink. Horizon Air I use all the time because they are Alaska Airlines planes and our family loves Alaska Airlines.

Not exactly a specific 'route', but my favorite 'trip' to fly is:

KSAW-KDTW using the FFS SAAB 340

KDTW-EHAM using the CLS A330-300

EHAM-OSDI using the POSKY 737-800

This is the route I always used to take when I was younger to go from Michigan, where out family would spend vacations, to Damascus where we lived. Very nostalgic route for me, and it give a good mix of short, medium, and long haul flying.

For a light plane flight it's Cut Bank Muni (KCTB) Montana, to Lake County Airport (KLXV), Colorado, or Albuquerque (KABQ) to Telluride Reg. (KTEX), Colorado for a shorter hop. Both flights are made in a Cessna 310R or 310Q. The scenery is spectacular both in real life and in FSX. For heavy routes (I'll forgo the ICAOs) I like using the B-757 for my San Diego Int'l to Los Angeles Int'l to Kansas City, Mo.(fuel stop) to Chicago Midway to Logan Int'l. I choose that particular route because I'll always run into some decent IMC along the way, and get some good "heavy duty" IFR practice in. The 310 routes are also my favorite real-world flights. The jet, well, that's just wishabee fun!

 

aputech

Anywhere with the fabulous NGX.

Many routes in socal area... while on Pilot Edge... in my Lancair Legacy :)

... while on Pilot Edge...

 

Sounds like one of those drinks full of caffeine and B-vitamins.