1 hour ago, Beardyman said:

737, not Concorde ? 😉

Sadly not. That would mean reverting to P3Dv3 and the 4Gb VAS limit. And after enjoying the v4 scenery in UHD having to switch to 1920*1080 results in a degraded virtual cockpit.

It would be far quicker of course. Average speed of 1000kts instead of 400. I shall have to wait for FS Labs to make a decision about which sim they’ll develop a 64-bit Concorde for.

Has no one spotted the anomaly? Leg 64 departed before leg 63. 😁

6 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Back in December I decided to fly around the world in the PMDG737-800 in P3D v4.5. I used Radar Contact v4 for every leg

Very nice, did you do it with Orbx Global and live weather ? also what time did you use, for example if you landed at 8pm did you restart at 8pm.

3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

 

Having a project definitely works for me rather than the random flights between mainly European airports. Yes, it’s nice to see 3rd party airports but familiarity does breed boredom rather than contempt.

From the sun barely rising above the horizon in Iceland in December to the glare of the Saudi desert in temps of 40°C+ in June there were plenty of contrasts. Mt Fuji looking wonderful to the green surroundings of the Nile in Egypt and the interesting descent into Santiago once over the Andes were memorable.

Planning was with PFPX and all flights were in daylight using historical weather in Active Sky with ASCA. FTX Global plus Ultimate Terrain X for Europe, North America and the Caribbean.

I carried 100 pax for the tour. I suppose on reflection I could have planned it better at the outset but deciding what the next destination would be was part of the fun.

I used Aivlasoft’s EFB for logging the flight details and added each leg onto Google Earth Pro before exporting the KML file into Google Maps the result of which you see above.

Give it a go. It’s a lot of fun.

Thanks, for that Ray. No more incentive required because I have more or less the add-ons you have listed. You chose the time too. and you make such a good point about the boredom factor, that I was beginning to question my sanity,specially in some aircraft like Aerosoft's A330 so-called 'Professional' (what a misnomer!)that drive one nuts.

1 hour ago, Beardyman said:

737, not Concorde ? 

Slow and steady I think Ray wanted his 100 pax to see things at leisure🤣

FSLabs need to build a 64bit version of Concorde so that you can promote it on a second world tour, Ray!!

2 hours ago, FPStewy said:

Very nice, did you do it with Orbx Global and live weather ? also what time did you use, for example if you landed at 8pm did you restart at 8pm.

Global, yes. Plus Pilot’s FS Global so I had enhanced elevation for the entire world. I think there was just one airport that was in a chasm compared to the surrounding terrain but otherwise okay.

I used the historic time/date option in Active Sky so I could depart at civilised times for each flight. I didn’t fly each day as my pax wanted to see a bit of the country I landed in.

2 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

FSLabs need to build a 64bit version of Concorde so that you can promote it on a second world tour, Ray!!

She doesn't need promoting!  Kids know what Concorde is and they weren't born when she was retired!  It would be interesting @Ray Proudfoot to do the same route in Concorde and compare the times...

6 minutes ago, trumpetfrazz1 said:

She doesn't need promoting!  Kids know what Concorde is and they weren't born when she was retired!  It would be interesting @Ray Proudfoot to do the same route in Concorde and compare the times...

For the reasons I gave earlier I couldn’t face doing it with P3D v3. Too many compromises not least the lack of AIG Ai, compromised screen resolution and with so many legs over populated areas being limited to Mach 0.95.

I’d love to fly Concorde in a world tour but it would be a very different one to this with maybe only a third the number of legs. I have to hope we’ll have a 64-bit Concorde before I get much older.

Every year, I do a world tour visiting the capital city of every country in the world. Of course, not all countries have an airport so I have to skip those.

I check for any scenery updates and download those. I try to study things about each country along the way. 

Last year, I started a project to visit every airport in the world. I managed to fly to about 700 in South East Asia/Pacific region (noting anything interesting about them) before the announcement of MFS, at which point I decided to stop and restart when it is released. I've quit my job in order to put more time into MFS usage. Some things are more important than work :-)

It will take many years to visit every airport, especially since there are a lot more in MFS. All my flights are in real-time.

Congratulations Ray. Something I've thought about doing often. With your need for speed I'm surprised you didn't take the Lear 25 though.

Ted

Ya missed out on the best one..... New Zealand 😄

Awesome journey though 😎

8 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Has no one spotted the anomaly? Leg 64 departed before leg 63. 😁

Amazing what we can do in the sim.  Tell me the backstory...

8 hours ago, Ted Striker said:

Congratulations Ray. Something I've thought about doing often. With your need for speed I'm surprised you didn't take the Lear 25 though.

Ted

The Lear can only take 6 pax so the virtual tickets would have been very expensive. 😁 Lear Mach 0.82, 737 Mach 0.79. Not much in it really.

5 hours ago, Matthew Kane said:

Ya missed out on the best one..... New Zealand 😄

Awesome journey though 😎

It was considered but the flight from New Caledonia was longer than I wanted. The scenery would have been better than the Australian outback!

@Shug, I can't work out how much of that is true and how much is tongue-in-cheek.

4 hours ago, Mace said:

Amazing what we can do in the sim.  Tell me the backstory...

Simple. I wasn't flying in real time. Usually the previous day in the sim and simply forgot the date and time of my previous flight.

59 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

 

@Shug, I can't work out how much of that is true and how much is tongue-in-cheek.

None of it is tongue-in-cheek and is all true, Ray. Kudos to you for your flights. I encourage all simmers to undertake such expeditions. Personally, I find flight sim a great way to enhance my general knowledge. There's always much to learn. For instance, in my notes from this year's flights I found that the name of the capital of Kazakhstan had been changed, and that there is a spectacular gorge that runs through Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Many airports in the Pacific region have just been plonked in the ocean and are not attached to any land. These are at atolls mostly. Examples are NGTU in Kiribati, WITU in Papua New Guinea or AGGQ in the Solomon Islands. I hope that these will be corrected in MFS.

I originally estimated that it would take about 7 years to fly to every airport in P3D. Now with even more airports in MFS, will need to stick a few more years on to that! Nevertheless, plenty of entertainment and education to be had over the next decade.