Statistics:
Flights = 2258
Planes used = 7
Airports used = 743
Take Off = 2186
Landing = 3102
Hours = 2330.9
Night = 853.0
IFR = 326.6
Multi = 2311.9
Avg Flight Time = 1.03 hours (61 min)

What gives you this data?

 

FSXLOGBOOK in AVSIM Library at http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=119627

I tend to stick to Northern England, Norway, Sweden, Iceland etc. Sometimes I may fly to China or western Canada when doing long haul. 

 

The main reason I stick to the north is because he viewpoint shift bug in the VC doesn't occur as much in the north as it does in the south (around Spain). Its my personal preference, I don't like having to re-correct my viewpoint every-time I turn on the axis. Not only that but - the scenery is beautiful up north! 

I used to go all over... wherever there was a nice shiny new scenery released, I'd fly into and out of that place for weeks. Not so much any more. I got tired of the ceaseless tweaking and fiddling that is so often inherent in this hobby, so I deleted my entire install with all 50 planes and 500 scenery areas to do a reinstall and go back to basics. Now I've upgraded the general stuff like textures, mesh, intalled Ultimate Terrain and a whole lot of AI... but few to no addon airports. I'll be adding that depending on where I fly, not where it is available...

 

So, after having done that, I'm exploring. I'm doing the default "Vin Fiz" flights and meandering my way through the American Midwest. I haven't decided what I'll do next, but I'm feeling some touring in Europe...

We all sim for different reasons, and in most cases those reasons drive where and how we fly.

 

I fly GA in NA, primarily the US and a bit in Canada.  Why?  I am a pilot holding a US airman's certificate (though not currently actively flying) and I sim as much to train as anything - though I certainly enjoy doing it - so I want to fly the places I can fly, have flown or might fly - and here are the big kickers - according to the rules I actually have to fly under and using the charts and procedures that are in effect where I'm training.  For the same reasons, I fly more in the US than I do in Canada, where procedures and charts are different.  But I have flown there some, and could in the future, so I do a bit of it.

 

IRL, if I were to fly GA elsewhere (and I'd love to) I would have to spend time doing it with an instructor first, and would probably never get beyond doing that unless I were to move to that location.  So it's interesting and appealing, but not something I'm likely to spend much time with.  With so much territory and with the kinds of planes I fly, I have far more places to fly than I do time to fly them.

 

It's not a matter of being provincial.  It's a matter of simming for a different purpose than what another simmer might be doing.

 

Scott

We all sim for different reasons, and in most cases those reasons drive where and how we fly.

 

I fly GA in NA, primarily the US and a bit in Canada.  Why?  I am a pilot holding a US airman's certificate (though not currently actively flying) and I sim as much to train as anything - though I certainly enjoy doing it - so I want to fly the places I can fly, have flown or might fly - and here are the big kickers - according to the rules I actually have to fly under and using the charts and procedures that are in effect where I'm training.  For the same reasons, I fly more in the US than I do in Canada, where procedures and charts are different.  But I have flown there some, and could in the future, so I do a bit of it.

 

IRL, if I were to fly GA elsewhere (and I'd love to) I would have to spend time doing it with an instructor first, and would probably never get beyond doing that unless I were to move to that location.  So it's interesting and appealing, but not something I'm likely to spend much time with.  With so much territory and with the kinds of planes I fly, I have far more places to fly than I do time to fly them.

 

It's not a matter of being provincial.  It's a matter of simming for a different purpose than what another simmer might be doing.

 

Scott

I would imagine then, that FS9 would be more of your cup of tea.  Reason....top notch (no tweak) performance on any system today, great custom cockpit landscape, and fluid movement down to the numbers.  I think you're more about real-life performance than rubber necking (which is of course superior to FS9, etc)  Just my thoughts....

I tend to spend the majority of my time flying West of the Mississippi, and doing the bushpilot thing in BC and Alaska. I usually fly out of Centennial (KAPA) and pick a direction; Cheyenne, ABQ, Grand Forks... all of it in GA.

 

The only time I fly outside the CONUS is during the DC-3 World Rally, which takes you all over the World; that's enough for me.

 

I also look at YT vids to get ideas for location, but I also look at them to get ideas about airplanes. Lately I've been fooling around with "Shakey Jake", the FS 9 Cessna 195 by Joe Binka. There's a guy who posted his flight from KVNY to Oshkosh flying a 195, so I've been recreating his hops.

 

Wherever and whatever you fly... it's all about the journey.

 

I fly all over the place.

 

(And I'm American too, go figure, but still I like to sit my obese, celebrity obsessed butt down in front of a big bag of Fast Food, and a picture of George Bush and fly all over the world!)

Q400,  you seem like a pretty cool guy in general, but you have made about 1,453,576 generalizations about Americans lately,  like most Europeans do (see what I did there?) 

 

I'm currently doing my world tour, where I'm trying to go everywhere, but even before that I love flying anywhere "bushy"  so Alaska, PNG, Africa, the Outback etc...

 

A lot of simmers like to fly where they know, nothing wrong with that.  One compelling reason to fly the US is the availability of free Charts, and Nav info,  but even then, I don't fly here very often except Alaska, but Alaska is just as far away from where I live as Europe is...

 

I think one of the best features of fsx is flying the whole world.

Fly most times Iowa, Minnesota, South and Dakota like using basic vfr charts and navigation by photoreal. Fly, all over USA and Canada 90% of time.

I fly Virgin Australia and Quantas at night. So I fly a ton of the Aussie routes as its typically day. I have Orbx Australia so it's fun to fly somewhere and read about it on Wikipedia. I need a new YSSY desperately!

 

I also like to fly American Airlines routes during the day. This means I see three continents regularly and they look good with the addons that I have.

 

I used to fly in Europe//asia but its really hard to get free route planning and weather in those areas.

 

I'm still not done wearing the NGX out yet! And I'm an American!

I tend to fly in different areas depending on what I'm flying.  With GA, I usually stick to western Canada, which is home base for me.  It's nice to have Orbx for part of it, but I probably spend just as much time slightly outside of it.

 

However, I also rather enjoy military / carrier flying as well, and then I fly all over the world. ^_^

 

 

I would imagine then, that FS9 would be more of your cup of tea. Reason....top notch (no tweak) performance on any system today, great custom cockpit landscape, and fluid movement down to the numbers. I think you're more about real-life performance than rubber necking (which is of course superior to FS9, etc) Just my thoughts....

 

Hey Mitch,

 

No, I'm quite happy with FSX.  I've long since gotten it stable, don't constantly tweak and happily fly my tail off.  And I'm actually pretty addicted to having the most accurate scenery I can, as I enjoy flying VFR pilotage as much as I do IFR these days, and for that it's best if the ground reflects what's on the sectional as much as possible.  Heck, even when flying IRL, I love to look around from my high perch and enjoy the view.  As I said, even though I take a real world-training sort of approach to things, I still like lookin' around and enjoying myself.

 

Scott

I fly where I develop FSX scenery, which at the moment is Vancouver Island, BC Gulf Islands and the BC Sunshine Coast area.

I live in Jersey, yeah, New Jersey, So, if I can fly out of it, even in a sim..

Thats where I am headed!!!! Lol!!!

 

If I lived in Alaska, or the PNW, I would fly local all the time!

 

B.

I like obscure corners of the world, especially now that. There is ftx global, I like seeing countries that ill never see in my lifetime, of course I'll fly anywhere, in anything that it takes to get there.