Hi all,

 

Well, I owned every MegaSceneryEarth state from Maine down to Delaware with the exception of Connecticut and the PC Aviator guys emailed me offering it for just £7 of my shiny pounds, so I caved in and bought it ....... seemed a shame to have the whole N.E coast, apart from Connecticut. :smile:

 

I want to do a low and slow tour from Maine down to Delware, landing at one airport in each state.  So:-

 

Maine

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

Rhode Island

Connecticut

New York

New Jersey

Delaware

 

.........I could look at Google Maps for random places, but I was wondering if anyone could suggest one interesting airfield for each of these states, preferable on or near the coast?

 

Thanks in advance!

Let start with Maine. Hancock County-Bar Harbor is a nice destination near the Atlantic. A lot of private jet and prop planes flight there every week-end to visit Bar Harbor National park..

What will you be flying? I ask that because there is a great scenery for Block Island, Rhode Island, over at Sim Outhouse. It is by Falcon409 and is superbly done for this small island airport. The runway is only 2502' so if you are flying a 172 or similar aircraft, you will be all set.

What will you be flying? I ask that because there is a great scenery for Block Island, Rhode Island, over at Sim Outhouse. It is by Falcon409 and is superbly done for this small island airport. The runway is only 2502' so if you are flying a 172 or similar aircraft, you will be all set.

When I used to live in RI we would go out and sit on the adjacent soccer fields and watch the traffic. Only place in the US I've ever seen Bn-2 Islanders, and just a great quaint little airport.

 

Thanks for mentioning that scenery!

In MA, there's Bill Womack's Plum Island Airport near Newburyport at the mouth of the Merrimack River...definitely for small GA only, but a lovely destination (especially with Bill's scenery).

I will be watching this thread for responses, would be cool to fly down some of the major population corridors in the US. I live in CO and have travelled to many states, but never been north of NY.

 

Thanks, Bruce.

Plum Island was the first thing that came to my mind as well! But you definitely need something small for that field.

Let start with Maine. Hancock County-Bar Harbor is a nice destination near the Atlantic. A lot of private jet and prop planes flight there every week-end to visit Bar Harbor National park..

Its Acadia national park and its really nice there in real life. Haven't flown there in FSX yet though.  

If you use the freeware Plan-G flight planner, you could zoom in to any area around the world. It will show you all the airfields and airports installed into your version of FS...fs9, fsx and x-plane all catered for.

 

Just had a look at the NE USA down to NY...too many to count

 

http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/

Well, my daughter reads books and I like to read what she reads so I was reading this book that was set in Portland Maine.  I don't know anything about the area so I flew in there.  Pretty interesting place...you get the lay of the coast for the book.  While I was up there I remembered Sunday River...a ski resort over by Conneticut and thought it'd be interesting to fly over it so I flew over to Berlin Connecticut...interesting VOR approach.  Then down to Bedford Mass...right near Harvard and Cambridge.  From there down to Martha's Vineyard.  All in all, nice sightseeing.

 

Gregg

Thanks for all the suggestions so far guys! .......... however I may have misled you into what I was after ;

 

I'm not so much after add-on suggestions (but I do have Plum Island and Block Island and they are great!).... it was more suggestions for real life airports on this 'route' that I was looking for;  eg... like Pierre (@kama2004) has suggested, with Bar Harbour, Maine.   :smile:

 

All airport suggestions will get a '+1' up rating! :lol:

 

thanks!

 

PS.... I'm flying the tour in the Carenado PA46-350P and the RealAir Duke B60 v2. :smile:

KLCI in New Hampshire, nice small airport in scenic lakes region,white mountains nearby

Its Acadia national park and its really nice there in real life. Haven't flown there in FSX yet though.

You're right, memory lapse. I flew there last summer in RW from Quebec through Bangor for custom. Free shuttle from the airport to downtown Bar Harbor...

 

 

(but I do have Plum Island and Block Island and they are great!)

 

Can you provide me with a link to the Plum Island Scenery? Did a search and couldn't find it.

 

Also consider KORH. An interesting approach to 29 as the airport is 1007' ASL. If you are not careful, a hill side comes up very abruptly and requires attention.

 

Thanks

KLCI in New Hampshire, nice small airport in scenic lakes region,white mountains nearby

+1. 

I would suggest for NJ:

 

KACY! Atlantic City Airport. (A very busy regional airport)

 

Near the tip of NJ.

 

KACY has a nice ILS intercept for runway 31 that includes a view of

the Atlantic City out of your left window. Brigatine Wildlife area and marshes should be on your right.

 

ILS RW31

http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1311/00669ILD31.PDF

 

Also, KACY will serve as a good jumping off point for heading to Delaware as you

pass over Cape May heading over the bay. (Just like the birds do during fall migration!). Unfortunately Cape May lighthouse is not modeled in native FSX, but if your scenery models it, that would be awesome!!

 

B.