Scenic flights in MSFS

[ErichB 3,638]

Okavango Delta

Edited November 18, 2019 by ErichB

[Sartanius 399]

40 minutes ago, greggerm said:

...yikes. Just a bit of windy landing practice. 🙂

Ya think!  Flew the Piper Cub a lot at that time and was probably doing about 25-30 kts ground speed over the threshold.  Surreal.  But that was all I knew for many years, so to me it was completely normal.

[sightseer 895]

For me its the familiarity issue as well.  I've seen a fair amount of the US from ground level and Id really like to fly over an accurate representation of some of those same areas.

I'm one of those who regularly remembers the past by viewing google maps.  Its amazing to see how much some things have changed (and sad to see when many of your old homes are now completely gone)(but time marches on)

anyway...scenic to me include areas all along the Appalachians and I want to see the Badlands and I will definitely take off from KRAP and head west passed the four guys on a hill and then on to Devils Tower and Gillette and Cody (whichever comes first - cant remember) and then I'll decide from there.

Edited November 18, 2019 by sightseer

[Dominique_K 10,133]

11 minutes ago, dmiannay said:

Ya think!  Flew the Piper Cub a lot at that time and was probably doing about 25-30 kts ground speed over the threshold.  Surreal.  But that was all I knew for many years, so to me it was completely normal.

well at least,the Cub was not flying backward which would have been really annoying. 

[Dominique_K 10,133]

 I suspect that flying fron Sharm El Sheikh in the Straits of Tiran to Jerusalem through Eilat shoud be really stunning.  

[katsa 13]

I made a rough initial plan for my Europe Tour (+ some North Africa). I'd like to see Kirkufell (Island), Suez, Pyramids and Nile (Egypt), somewhere around Israel, Cliffs of Moher (Irland), Courchevel (France), Lake Bled (Slovenia), Port Isaac (The shooting location of Doc Martin TV series, UK), Hallstatt (Vienna), Gibraltar, Paris, Amalfi Coast near Napples (Italy), Fjords in Norway, Lisbon, Amsterdam ... My route is now over 20000km so it's gonna take a few weeks I am afraid...

Any suggestions for must see places in Europe are welcome.

[RALF9636 1,921]

Great thread! Keep it coming!

 

I really hope flying in MSFS will be like that. It would be a dream coming true. Just go anywhere in the world and enjoy the scenery from above as it really looks. Without having to think about if you have a proper addon scenery for that part of the world. 

While being quite confident that it will work out like that regarding the scenic flights themselves, we also have to takeoff and land somewhere, and I am still a little skeptic in that regard. We really need to see the default airports.

 

[Superdelphinus 718]

I’ve got two plans sort of in my head (both of which will probably only last for the first one or two legs). 1 is to fly from Carlisle to Manchester vfr in a small, slow plane. Then from Manchester to heathrow in something a bit faster (ideally an sr22, but I don’t know if there are/ will be any decent versions of those?). Then London to Boston in the 747. Then I will fly over all of the nfl stadiums somehow. 
 

2nd one is similar but all of the f1 tracks around Europe, current and old. 

[RALF9636 1,921]

From Lake Hood, Anchorage, to a beach at Lake Clark or Katmai NP and look if bears are included in MSFS.

[Mace 1,902]

Here's one for your notes.

Central American volcano tour -- start at MROC, head northwest past Arenal volcano (a very nice cone), head north to Lake Nicaragua, with the Solentiname Islands (artist colony) and north to the two volcanic cones sticking oddly out of the water.  Then head northwest toward Managua and more volcanoes, including two low-altitude ones that you might miss.  Then over Lake Managua, you should find (if the mesh is any good) Momotombito, which is a small little cone sticking out of the lake, and then it's daddy, Momotombo, a big volcano on the northwest side of the lake.

You can then proceed up the chain of volcanoes to the Golfo de Fonseca (pretty panoramic at low level) and into El Salvador and even Guatemala if you want.  Land at MGGT.  Observe the big volcano near MGGT.

[Dominique_K 10,133]

Stunning is in the eye of the beholder.  Let me propose something unusual (maybe a little nerd), almost magical though as some of the city names are legendary. One long, very long flight I've always dreamt to do in the sim would be something like :

From China : Xi'an > Langzhou>Zhange> Duanhuang> Kashgar ( by the North or the South of the desert)>

To Uzbekistan : Samarkand>Bukhara>

To Iran : Meshhed> Teheran>Ekbatana>

To Irak : Bagdad>

To Syria  : Palmyra> Antioch>

To Turkey  : Istanbul>

To Greece  : Athens>

To Italy  :   Venice !

Of course Venice, the end of the Silk road. I hope that Asobo will not disappoint us and we will be able cross these forgotten territories ! Stunning, you bet , most of the way at least !

What aircraft ? For speed, the closest of a Bactrian camel is the Cub . Maybe something faster like the TBM ? 

 

Edited November 18, 2019 by domkle

[Mucker 93]

This thread is cruel, like asking a kid to make Xmas list in July. 😜

[David Mills 4,743]

Because there are animals modeled in the new sim (birds, giraffes, etc.), I need to avoid flying where a tarantula might crawl into the cockpit if I make an emergency landing. I'm terrified of those things. And I'm NOT buying any third-party tarantula add-ons. However, I'm not so afraid of snakes. So I might buy a Snakes-On-A-Plane add-on and happily fly over snake-infested areas of the world.

 

Edited November 18, 2019 by David Mills

[RoboRay 126]

48 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

From Lake Hood, Anchorage, to a beach at Lake Clark or Katmai NP and look if bears are included in MSFS.

Lake Clark Pass and Merrill Pass are a couple of my favorite routes.

[Noooch 1,084]

@Mace I would include Tegucigalpa Toncontin amazing circling approach near the end of your tour, and the last flight from Toncontin to Guatemala city RW02 to see the volcanos on approach!