I've recently purchased the Flight 1 BN-2 Islander and have completed a few flights around the UK and a Carribean flight but I want to start doing flights/routes that the plane would fly in real life. I really like flying around the UK so I only use the BA or Shetland livery really but I am struggling to think of realistic flights to complete. I have tried searching for BA flights with this aircraft but cannot find any. I have also recently purchased Orbx ENG and am looking at the UK2000 airport 3 for 2 sale so I can get some good scenery/airports for this plane that I love to fly. Any suggestions welcome and appreciated! Thanks!

TNCM-TFFJ-SABA-TNCM is great with the Winair scheme!

Thanks Wendall! I actually flew the SABA-TNCM route in the Winair out of complete luck as it was the only route I could find that they flew online, it was a great flight, especially with the FlyTampa St Maarten airport! Do you know of any routes that BA fly (or used to fly as I'm not sure if they are still in service with BA?) with the Islander?

Having recently bought the BN2 Islander, I've also been looking at routes for it....

 

In Scotland Loganair fly the BN2 Islander between Kirkwall and the Orkney Islands, eg Stronsay, North Ronaldsay, Westray, Papa Westray, Sandy and Eday. You can get details here:

http://info.flightmapper.net/airline/LOG

 

The only scenery I am aware of is the GEN-X photographic scenery Vol5 covering Orkney and the Shetlands.

 

I dont think BA operate any Islanders under their own livery, in Scotland, Loganair are the francise operators for FlyBE and BA.

Now...my question is what scenery do you guys use. I've been thinking of getting the BN-2 for ages but the default scenery, to me, is awful.

 

Gregg

Bit of a cheat but why not Aurigny Air flying in and out of the Channel Islands? They use the Trislander but I bet you could get an Islander livery for the plane you have....

 

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/G-RBCI.jpg/800px-G-RBCI.jpg

Use airliners.net photo search. You´ll get a lot of ideas where to fly it. I use it a lot in down under.

What about Aer Arann and their routes to and from the Arann Islands off the west coast of Ireland - I think George Keogh has done some scenery for them available here on Avsim.

 

Ian

I've been thinking of getting the BN-2 for ages but the default scenery, to me, is awful.

 

Thanks for all the ideas, it's given me some new routes to try so will hopefully keep me busy for a while! If you want to do UK flights I cannot recommend Orbx ENG enough, it looks a lot better than the Ground Environment scenery, not quite as accurate as the VFR stuff but it has a lot of 3D objects (which the VFR doesn't and forced me to swap) and it seems to be a lot easier on fps than both of them. For £30 it's impossible to do better in my opinion.

 

If you're thinking of getting the BN-2 and some scenery an added bonus is that it's relatively slow (Vne 177kts) you shouldn't notice the scenery loading or lagging behind so it looks great everywhere.

 

Thanks for all your help fellow simmers, if you think of any more routes feel free to let me know

 

Just to add, if you didn't want to do UK flights I'm sure the Orbx packages for AU would be great and work just as well. Would be good to do flights over the reef too as there are a couple of AU reef tour liveries included in the BN-2 package. I'm tempted to get the Ground Environment Tropics Atlantic & Pacific but I wasn't convinced with the screenshots to fork out the money, anyone else tried this scenery? If so what did you think? That + Rex water would look good

Sadly Winair no longer uses BN-2's. But Saint Barth commuter has a few of them still.

 

Aerisoft has a great airpirt forBarra Scotland where you land on a beach.

FijiAir (now Air Pacific?) in the late 70's flew Islanders all around the Fiji Islands. Thier principle base was Nasouri, just south of Suva. I installed a remote seismic montoring system on the island of Gau in 1978 and flew right seat in an Islander to get there and back. Dirt strip, fun landing, and once every two days schedule.

For some reading about spectacular flying in an Islander, check out "So you want to be a ferry pilot". An extremely good aviation book (the type of books I usually find extremely boring, apart from those with pretty pictures in them).

 

http://www.amazon.com/So-You-Want-Ferry-Pilot/dp/1412010667/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354575675&sr=8-1&keywords=so+you+want+to+be+a+ferry+pilot

Get Earth Simulations' Scilly Isles scenery and do the flights from Lands End to St Mary's. Real world BN2 route. There is a Skybus livery available somewhere too.

Good topic, I love the BN-2. I have to echo that FlyTampa's TNCM-TFFJ-SABA is perfect for this bird, currently I use the St Barths Commuter livery to crash my way around that scenery. You can find that livery here if you're interested: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/1232-flight-1alphasim-bn-2-islander-stbarth-commuter-f-ogxb-hq-repaint-fsx/

 

Another would be also FlyTampa's Grenadines, but anyways, to the UK:

 

As for in the UK, like mentioned Barra from Aerosoft is fantastic, and it comes with two other sceneries, you can find that here: http://www.aerosoft.com/cgi-local/us/iboshop.cgi?showd,6312336430,D10057

 

For UK2000 sceneries:

- Glasgow for the Loganair trips, including to Barra

- Edinburgh for more Loganair trips, serving the northern isles of Scotland, including to Wick, which connects to the shortest commercial route in the world, Westray to Papa Westray, a 2 minute BN-2 flight!

- Bristol Airport is small, but Aurigny flies TriIslanders out of there to Guernsey

 

Lastly....I have to quote this...

 

Get Earth Simulations' Scilly Isles scenery and do the flights from Lands End to St Mary's. Real world BN2 route. There is a Skybus livery available somewhere too.

 

Apparently I've been living under a rock. Just wanted to say thanks for posting this, I have never heard of them before! Their sceneries look great, and from what I've seen from Mutley's Hangar and Avsim are held in really high regard....will have to put them on the list for sure!

 

To the OP, hope this helps!

I flew Glasgow > Barra the other day, in the BN-2.... nice, especially with Opus weather.

 

Also the Shetland and Orkney Island hopping flights are a lot of fun.