Hi everyone,

so I am really excited about the upcoming sim. So excited that I already planned the Around the World trip which I'm gonna do first 😄 Looks like it will be in the TBM 930!

Here is my plan: https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1xvhVK43bHf1UlwQa_S2i6ka_xtV9Pbc5

Would you guys have any suggestions? Maybe I missed some interesting places 🙂. I'll be starting from my hometown Brno, Czech Republic and going east.

Looking forward to any reactions!

How long will that take? Looks interesting but I don't have that kind of patience. I can't stay focused for a trip that long. Even if I was just a passenger 🙂 But have fun!

Just now, in2tech said:

How long will that take? Looks interesting but I don't have that kind of patience. I can't stay focused for a trip that long. Even if I was just a passenger 🙂 But have fun!

I have no idea yet 😄 

7 minutes ago, in2tech said:

How long will that take? 

A heck of a long time - just think of all those places you'll have to quarantine yourself for 2 weeks before taking off again! Well it is a sim afterall.😉

Shame there’s no SR-71 included. I’d happily blast my way though it in one weekend 😎😂

SCIP → SCEL might be a bit tricky in the TBM! 😬

14 minutes ago, viz said:

SCIP → SCEL might be a bit tricky in the TBM! 😬

Haha nice catch! I know about this one but didn't find an alternative 😞 Gonna have to bring "extra fuel cannisters" I guess 😄  

4 hours ago, Thomasso said:

Would you guys have any suggestions? Maybe I missed some interesting places 🙂

I'd be flying from Bali to Darwin (not Port Headland), then south to Uluru (aka "Ayres Rock"), then north east to Cairns, then down the east coast of Australia (Great Barrier Reef), stopping at the Gold Coast, then onto Sydney, before heading east to NZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin,_Northern_Territory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney

Edited July 16, 20205 yr by MatthewS

I have started several round the world trips but only completed one.  It was a group exercise sponsored by Aerosoft based on Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.  It started in London with mandatory stops in Suez (Cairo), Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York and back to London.  I made many more stops.  I did most of the trip in the Carenado Cessna 172 with a G1000 and syntheitic vision..  Except it did not have the range to do a Pacific crossing.  (And I was trying to go from Hokkaido to Kamchatka!)  So I switched to the Cessna 182 (with the G1000 and Synthetic Vision.)

The adventure was sponsored by Aerosoft and is described at https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/clubs/3-around-the-world-in-eighty-days/&do=overview  Most of the participants kept diaries, which should give you some ideas for a round the world adventure.  Those diaries are at that Aerosoft site.

A couple of thoughts:

Default airports in Prepar3d are boring.  You are lucky if there are any buildings at all.  Maybe is will be improved in MSFS 2020, but I would not hold my breath.  It looks like Microsoft will be including 40 airports which are more finished.  But I would not expect ORBX quality.  Unless you enjoy going from landing strip to landing strip with no buildings, you might want to cull the number of places you will be stopping.

That being said, most of the stops between Europe and Hong Kong ARE gravel landing strips with no lights, no ILS signals and no buildings.  The same is true for just about everything between Japan and the lower 48 states.  Under these circumstances, synthetic vision is a Godsend.

There are vast parts of the world in Flight Simulator which are very devoid of much; to see.  Arabia comes immediately to mind, but the same can be said for much of Asia.  

You have a gigantic Pacific crossing.  Most planes cannot make it.  In fact, most planes can't go from Hawaii to San Francisco.  Anything big enough to make it, probably will not do well at places like Courcheval.  (Don't even think of landing a 747 at Courcheval!)  Most flight simulators do not make provisions for extra fuel tanks or bladders.  You need to spend time trying to figure out the Pacific crossing and how much you want to cheat.

The trip was my most memorable experience in flight simulations.  The best parts were those which were off the beaten track, where I went where I have never been before.  Some highlights for me were"

1.  Flying by Mount St. Michel in Normandy.

2.  Landing in Bern Switzerland at night.

3.  Fiying between the Alps from Bern to Verona.

4.  Flying over and landing in Macedonia.

5.  Flying though the Gulf of Aquaba.

6.  A side journey between Kwait and Dubai, over Iran and between two ridges near the coast

7.Flying the "Hump" between India and China.

8.  Island hopping the Aleutian Chain.

9.  Alaska.

10.  New York to Burlington, VT to Quebec City.

11.  Landing at  Iqaluit

12.  Crossing the Greenland icecap from Nuuk to Kulusuk

 

There are Youtube the world trips.  (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS01LBtxRdw&list=PLKdBO8TXUFBgtlP5bbVDs-8YMX5TWREr1&index=1  You might get sime ideas from these.

I'm 100% biased as it's my home state (and I'll be touring it first with the sim), but a quick detour into southern Utah wouldn't add much to your trip and there's some amazing places (Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument, Monument Valley (on the AZ-UT border), etc. 

Not sure what they'll look like in the sim, but definitely some amazing, scenic places in real life!

Either way, I think the route you have looks like a blast.

This is so awesome!! I'm planning a trip across the U.S and back to my hometown! It would be awesome to try around the world, though. You should try to make it into Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the United States (KJAC is the ICAO). It's absolutely stunning to fly into, and just a beautiful area with the Grand Teton mountains! Makes for a challenging approach in an airliner, but with the high mountains it will be a challenge regardless of aircraft!

9 hours ago, Thomasso said:

Hi everyone,

so I am really excited about the upcoming sim. So excited that I already planned the Around the World trip which I'm gonna do first 😄 Looks like it will be in the TBM 930!

Here is my plan: https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1xvhVK43bHf1UlwQa_S2i6ka_xtV9Pbc5

Would you guys have any suggestions? Maybe I missed some interesting places 🙂. I'll be starting from my hometown Brno, Czech Republic and going east.

Looking forward to any reactions!

That is great! I have never done something like that, but now that we have satellite image from around the world, why the hell not.

I will probably just make some changes to include more premium airports (need to get some value out of that 120 Euros, right).

7 hours ago, viz said:

SCIP → SCEL might be a bit tricky in the TBM!

 

7 hours ago, Thomasso said:

Haha nice catch! I know about this one but didn't find an alternative 😞 Gonna have to bring "extra fuel cannisters" I guess 😄

It might be easier to fly up through Japan and across the Aleutian Islands.  This is how I typically do the Pacific crossing.

Hook

Excellent idea to rekindle the embers of this topic. I bring my share of two long legs of a world tour that I've already reconstructed

Asia to Europe along the Silk Road  

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 !

 Europe to Africa (with the 1st TransAfrica flight of van Ryneveld and Brand)

 England to Southern Italy  and crossing the Med (by night !) then Derna (Lybia) - Sollum  - Cairo (Egypt) -  Abu Simbel  (approximation of the the city of Kurusku north of Wadi Halfa where they crashed) - Khartoum (Sudan) - Nimule (South Sudan) - Kisumu (Kenya) - Mbala (aka Abercorn - Zambia) - Ndola -  Kabwe (aka Broken Hill) - Livingstone  (Victoria Falls !) - Balawayo (Zimbabwe) -  Cape Town.

What aircraft ? It needs to fly visual below 10K feet to see the terrain. A Cub might be nice but a little slow ?  A Caravan ?

 

Did it in a DA-42 some time ago. Some of the legs had me glancing nervously at the fuel gauges but on the whole it was straightforward.

Bear in mind my trip wasn't a circumnavigation as I didn't cross the equator.