Hi,I always fly from where I last landed. I also fly the same airplane, the PMDG 737NG. To me it is real life, to take off from where I last landed. I really love to do this and have done so for years.Anyway it is part of the love we all have for this great hobby :-)Bob

Haha- It makes me happy there or others out there :) Some even more nuts than me.I usually don't use the situation time- just the place. So I'll start in the same parking spot, but use Active Sky, and use the system time. So I do much of my flying at night if I'm on the east coast (naturally I tend to hang around where I live- since I can fly over my house in CT with Megascenery- I love that).I flew the PMDG from it's delivery location at Boeing field- back through Vegas, Chicago, up to Toronto (I lived there for a few months) and then back to KBDL. That's the last time I flew the west coast other than a few "cheat" helicopters flights around Vegas (since I when to Vegas for my first time last year- I'm obsessed with it). I flew the A320 PIC down to St. Maarten last summer, since that is a fun trip- down the east coast and through the carribean. I have a full around the world flight planned- something like 18,000 miles. But I have yet to get to Keflavik since it will require a few LONG flights even to get that far, and time is factor since I never use time acceleration.I can't believe some of you don't even land! I couldn't fathom that- I would have to seek medical attention :)

Definitely only that way, though I do sometimes change planes. I fly my PMD737 around the world regularly, and when I arrive at the bigger airports I tend to switch to the Cessna 310 to explore, then back into the 737 for the next long leg. (somewhere in my mind I guess I fold the 310 up and take it with me LOL)I also have a home base thats been heavily customized at the north end of KLCK, has my hangars, jetways etc.. for all my aircraft setup, each having its own special place (PMDG737, ATR72, Beech1900, Cessna 310 and a new spot waiting for the CS Hercules).Any testing I do I do from my home base, any new aircraft gets flown in my home area and then gets its spot in my virtual subdivision :)Sad for sure, but hey its my escape :)Jonathan O'Connor

Since I have a severe case of acrophobia I do not fly my airplanes at all...I drive and/or float them from one airport to another.

Oh yeah! - absolutely cannot abide anything else. Case in point over the simyears I've always enjoyed 'visiting' Alaska. I just landed in anchorage this evening after having had fs9 for nearly a year! - and was pleasantly surprised that PANC is a non-default airport (had no recollection of that being the case). For me, this 'slow' progress helps keep it fresh, especially since I fly big iron almost exclusively. I have yet to visit Sydney and Hong Kong - maybe someday or even next sim - we'll see...regards,Mark

Usually I'm one of these "pick a nice location and off we go" simmer, but currently I'm on a roundtrip through Europe, strictly taking-off where I landed, starting at Frankfurt then heading north up to the polar regions of Norway, westbound to Iceland, down across Scotland & England, then to Portugal and along the mediterranean cost to Corsica before turning north again, looking for some dangerous approaches in the Alps and then finally back to Frankfurt. It's a wholly different experience and quite a distance to keep me busy during christmas holidays ;-)Why? Well, since the release of Level-D 767 is close, there's no longer a reason to keep FS2002 on my harddisk.Unfortunately, my good old Dreamfleet 737-400 (the first "realistic" addon I bought back then) won't survive that. So I decided to give her one final trip to the most interesting locations across Europe, something like a farewell-tour... Isn't that geeky? :-lolbtw, excellent thread here. Some interesting ideas to try.Cheers,Holger.

<<< I do not fly my airplanes at all...I drive and/or float them from one airport to another.>>>Bwaaahaaa! Im gonna try that! I shall taxi the PMDG 737 up a mountain road in Alaska!

Have been doing it like that since 1989

I bet your virtual aircraft insurance company loves you. ;)And hey, they do call it a "crash landing" so you can count those for landings. Maybe you can start flying a medivac/rescue chopper from the site of the crash to the nearest hospital. :-lol----------------------------------------------------------------John S. MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private 130+ hrs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

More often then not I usually end up landing where I started from. With my limited time I end up doing a few go rounds and mess around with the plane a bit. If I have more time I will try for a short hop to another place. I have done very few long distant flights.

Sometimes I set off from where I last landed, but my tendency is to think of two cities then go to www.skyguide.net/search and check which airlines fly between them. Then I try and replicate the real flight with the correct airline, equipment and departure time. Although I do notice my on-time performance is much better than the real flights! Oh, and I rarely fly sectors of more than two hours - time is money (as it were)...Rob

I always fly from where I landed, Currently doing a round the world tour with 3 Planes:PMDG 737 Trips of roughly 500 nmAeroworx B200 300 nmSiai Marchetti SF260 120 nmThat keeps me busy...But I"ve done weird things:I did my last Flight on FS2002 from KEYW to KMIA as I always done for every FS release since FS95.... I always try to start from KMIA in the next sim.My first AC Add on for FS9 was the PMDG 737 600, I flew all the way from KMIA to KSEA on the default 172 just to **Pick up** my New AC. I stayed there for a couple of weeks doing the ground training and flying a few circuits... When I felt I was ready I took it to a trip to Italy just to Pick up my new Siai Marchetti, and did the same to SOuth Africa to get my B2000. Now as part of my tour I am heading slowly with those 3 AC to Tolouse, France to get my ATR and then around the world back to the US and get the 727...

I just pick random take-off and destination airports, but usually here in the Denver area where I'm familiar.You know what would fix this? As I replied to another thread yesterday, if anyone's heard of the old 1995/ flight sim "SubLogic ATP", this had fixed routines that one had to fly in strict order using pre-defined planes (all that wsa available were a B732, B762, B744 and A320, and all were old DOS-style (a la FS4) models- and all of the 40 or so routines were only in the US between 20 "primary" airports).Becuase each routine was always predefined in weather, landing minimums, approach used (it even had ATC), everyone who flew the routines would be flying the exact same flight under the exact same conditions, and could compare marks based on your skills.Maybe something like this on a more global scale would work. If anyone's like me, I lack the creativity to go to new places often. Having a list of pre-defined flights might be cool. I once starrted flying those same ATP flights in FS9, but never finished all the routines.ATP was years ahead of it's time, and although very sparse in scenery and aircraft graphics is still way ahead of FS9 in the routines it had- if you like airliners that is.Bruce.

More often than not I don't land on a runway, so it's quite awkward to take off from +exactly+ where I landed. The sim usually decides my landing should be termed a crash for some reason and we go back to square one and try againhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/101938.jpg

haha- yeah, I've done that a few times. Generally the FAA won't let you take off from there anyway, even if the plane was airworthy so that's not really cheating. The people who's backyard you just dug up might not like that either.I always liked the way Flight Unlimited II started you at the FBO of the airport you last landed at. That was a cool feature.If somebody were to build an FS "FBO" addon like that, what could it be used for? I've been dying to do an FS add-on for a while- I wrote a speech rec. app but never released it since there are more out there. Personally, I'd love to see Active Weather combined with a full VoxAtc/Radar Contact type of addon. So you would just pick the airport you're flying to, and it would build the flight, print out your dispatch, file your flight plan and put you in the cockpit.