I have not thought of anything I'm going to do beforehand. I expect myself to launch the game into the world map and just stare at it with blank eyes for 5 minutes and being completely overwhelmed by the number of options.

to visit every country, lookup the highlights in google and fly them.

going to take years haha

I am going to start down the south of the UK, work my way up to Scotland then across and do the Scandinavian countries. The UK and Scandinavia looks amazing in MSFS. Actually most of the world does.

I am going to use the Flight Design CTSL. The view out of that is incredible. Maybe some legs in the C152, my favorite in MSFS so far, but love the near helicopter visibility out of the CTSL.

Used to spend all of my time flying airliners in P3D. Time to slow down and smell the roses.

1 hour ago, Mace said:

I followed the route these guys took:

https://indianairforce.nic.in/content/round-globe-expedition

They used a microlight, pretty similar to an aircraft that will be in MSFS.  I started this before MSFS was even announced.

On the linked page you can see all of the legs they used.  I'm in Tracy, California, on my way to New Orleans Lakefront Airport, Louisiana, where I started oh so long ago.  The roughest part was landing at Vagar, or my side trip to Lukla.  Thank goodness for TAWS on the GNS430.  I stayed on Hainan for a long time, maybe 2 months, doing other things, but I have really moved out in the last 3 months trying to get through Siberia and Alaska before cold weather hit.  I succeeded.

I'd estimate about 2 weeks and I'll be done.  Just need to go thru Lake Havasu City, Page, Colorado Springs, and then a couple of stops on the way to New Orleans.

That looks an epic adventure. One for future reference I think 🙂

1. Took off from cywg, Winnipeg International 👍

2. Flew over my photogammetry city. 👌

3. Found my place. Outside of photogammetry so looks like a normal house as opposed to the old school house I live in 

4. Landed at the little Lyncrest grass air strip a couple of miles from home. 🛬😂

5. Just left Vancouver airport and following the trans Canada highway to Whistler. 🎿

 

Edited August 17, 20205 yr by OneOfMany

I had to stop FSX and X-Plane about 3 years ago due to graduate school and the crash of my then-pretty good PC. Just got done with school and looking forward to MSFS on a decent PC I just picked up. I am about half-way on the 'nerd' slider--I don't do VATSIM or new jets and ton's of add-ons, but am looking forward to 3rd party older heavy metal like the Constellation, DC-4, DC-6 and a 707 once in a while. I spent time in the Middle East when I was young. I love to build VOR/NDB flight plans of this area and semi-replicate some of the routes as flown in the late '40s and early '50s'. For me a good multiday trip would be Cairo-Amman-Beirut-Damascus-Kuwait-Bahrain-Muscat-Aden-Khartoum-Abu Simbel-and return to Cairo. This would be flown at low altitude as to honor the non-pressurized aircraft (plus I enjoy the desert and water scenery).

I haven't installed MSFS yet--will wait another week or so then give it a shot. I do not expect it to be bug-free experience and again miss the days of picking thru postings from some awesome folks helping with those workarounds. I am not looking for perfection. I realize Cairo and some of the other big cities may drag frame rates but will compromise as I need to. Not big on AI or Ultra settings at this time. I also know it will probably be a WHILE before a good 3rd party aircraft release has been ported and play-tested (such as a PMDG DC-6) so will spend the time relearning all key mapping, tweaking settings, reading up on what others have discovered, and beta-testing the routes with the stock King Air 350i. 

Edited August 17, 20205 yr by gordonicus
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