Says it all.....  Trust the balance will tip in the other direction soon.

I did a 8hr , 14 state cross county flight yesterday in the Caravan. I am definitely doing more flying. 😛🤪

Have to fit in flying around the baseball schedule

I was hoping a new version of Flight Simulator since 2006 would help the Dodgers. They haven't won a World Series since 1988. The graphics were mediocre back in those days... ☹️

 

 

15 minutes ago, AmeliaCat said:

I did a 8hr , 14 state cross county flight yesterday in the Caravan. I am definitely doing more flying. 😛🤪

Where did you fly?  At what altitude?  And with what weather conditions?  Those are not trap questions.  Honest.  Very interested.  I logged 4 MFS hours over the past three days as my MLB baseball season ended when my team was eliminated.  Same for my St Louis Blues hockey team last month.  I plan to finish out the NASCAR season by flying to those races, offset only by an IndyCar race on the west coast.  So I am in a lull in terms of predetermined flight schedule. 

I do not skip geographically.  If my last flight was to Oakland, my next flight is out of Oakland.  I fly as if I were still flying in real life in real time with an aircraft I cannot just "teleport".  And I fly with live weather to match what I would be experiencing.

With the available time I am flying MFS VFR and essentially taking in the incredible detail that is available.  With the current state of the avionics, even with mods, I find myself flying my purposeful flights in earlier simulators, with more complete nav datasets, with much more sophisticated and reliable avionics and weather. 

I am however interested in where you are flying and what you are experiencing.  Auto racing for the year will end soon.  Hockey will not pick back up soon.  And college basketball appears to be off for at least a couple of months.

Edited October 14, 20205 yr by fppilot

WELL  ,  I have embarked on a lower 48 states cross country , with the stipulation that I make atleast one landing or touch n go in every state.  I started at the CA AZ border and have worked my way east and north.

Yesterdays leg started in DC , KADC , and I went north to maine and then back southwest ending in ohio... The northeast has alot of little states and its easy to find airports or grass strips to make my landings. One flight from NH to VT was on 13.4 miles.

I am flying between 5000 and 10000 ft  .  I like to stay low to see the scenery . ( I did a Miami to Seattle flight in and airbus at cruise altitude and it was so boring )

SO later today when I start flying again Ill do OH to MI , IN ,KY , TENN. and then see how much more flying I want to do. 

I'd really like to do all fifty states and I think ill eventually fly up to AK but Hawaii poses a conundrum as it is about a 10 hour flight from KLAX in a caravan and twice the max range.

I may just cheat and refuel in flight with the assumption that I have removed all teh rear seating and luggage and installed fuel bladders... But thst still wont do anythign to alleviate the boredom of looking at a badly rendered ocean for 10 or so hours.

  I use LittleNavMap to help my plot my flights it really helps and its free.  Meow.

OH yah I set my weather to clear and adjust for daytime hours... I enjoy seeing the scenery and doing live weather and nighttime to me seems pointless as I cant see anything .

 

1 minute ago, AmeliaCat said:

I'd really like to do all fifty states

Honorable goal!  May follow you.  Have you landed in each state so far?  You could chronicle that here in the screenshots forum with a daily post and screen shots.  I have done that in the past with winter trips into the Caribbean's, also posting some images of the life on the ground.

In real life I have set my foot in 48 of the 50 states, lacking only North Dakota and Hawaii.  I have lived in 10 of them so would be interested in where in those states you landed.  I appreciate your mindset and circuit!  Enjoy! 

I'm flying around the world, one leg per weekend, following the path of the 1924 around the world flight.  Live weather, all realism options on, 'all players' MP mode if anyone wants to fly alongside.  The next leg will be Sitka, AK to Seward AK (well, the nearest airport to Seward, since the airport there isn't in the sim).  So far I've done an ILS approach all the way to minimums in terrible weather, and flown through an icing layer inadvertently.  The weather I've been experiencing actually has lined up very well with real world METARs and the webcams at the different Alaska airports, with the exception of the lightning that recently appeared. 

In preparation for doing that, I did test flights on every piston single aircraft in the sim that claimed >~500nm of range, and measured fuel consumption and cruise speed at 8,000 ft, 12,000 ft, and 55/75/100% power.  I like the area around KMHV for the test flights, since I worked at a company on the flight line there for a few years.  I think I spent over 12h on the test flights alone, before I settled on the Bonanza (originally with the G36 Improved mod, now with Robert's excellent Turbo mode) for flying around the world.

I was 1/2 way through the Nevada bush trip before it stopped registering leg completion, using Skyvector VFR charts and the stopwatch to navigate was interesting.  I also finally got FSE access with week and was able to try that out and do some flights in the C208.

I'll be at 100 hours soon.

Yah I land or touch n go in every state I fly through. Including todays flight I have 24 more states to do.

 

 

38 minutes ago, AmeliaCat said:

Yah I land or touch n go in every state I fly through. Including todays flight I have 24 more states to do.

 

 

I cordially invite you to stop at ksbn, or the airport I use kekm while in Indiana.  Kekm is easier for me to get in and out of in the sim, but has a control tower.  

19 minutes ago, FrankR409 said:

I cordially invite you to stop at ksbn, or the airport I use kekm while in Indiana.  Kekm is easier for me to get in and out of in the sim, but has a control tower.  

Be very careful there.  Honestly.  Reported in the Indianapolis Star yesterday is that there is a significant Covid-19 surge in Elkhart county.

Wife and I are both IU Hoosiers.  She is originally from Lake county.  I hailed since my college days from the Castleton area, back when it was farm fields.  We used to spend summer vacations at Dewart lake, near North Webster just north of Warsaw.

Edited October 14, 20205 yr by fppilot

15 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Be very careful there.  Honestly.  Reported in the Indianapolis Star yesterday is that there is a significant Covid-19 surge in Elkhart county.

Wife and I are both IU Hoosiers.  She is originally from Lake county.  I hailed since my college days from the Castleton area, back when it was farm fields.  We used to spend summer vacations at Dewart lake, near North Webster just north of Warsaw.

Oh it’s a mess right now.. I was also born and raised in Lake County.  Crown Point, In.

OK just a touch n go then,,, maybe  if its handy to my route. lol

What was nice in FSX is that you could save a flight in the middle of it but keep right on flying without exiting the flight. You could fly from A to B (save flight in middle of flight at location B) and keep flying on to C. And then days later you could start at B by choosing the B.flt when you booted up FSX.

This could help flying a sports team schedule. I used to fly a Premier League schedule during football.

Or in the middle of a bush flight if you got lost, you save right there without exiting the flight while continuing to look for navigation clues. I have not found a way to do this in MSFS. You can restart a leg, or restart in the air (or on the ground) where you last exited, but that's about your only choices in MSFS.

 

Edited October 15, 20205 yr by Fielder

2 hours ago, fppilot said:

In real life I have set my foot in 48 of the 50 states, lacking only North Dakota and Hawaii.  I have lived in 10 of them so would be interested in where in those states you landed.  I appreciate your mindset and circuit!  Enjoy! 

FP -- one interesting set of flights I have started, is visiting the high points in all 50 states.  In other words, Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, and on from there.  Taum Sauk Mountain in MO, etc.  

The tricky thing is, I'll fly to the nearest airport, then, typically -- take a helicopter up to the summit.  Naturally, if I'm taking a helicopter I would not presently be doing this with MSFS.  I guess with MSFS, I'd use something slow and good for sightseeing like the Piper Cub or Cessna 152.  So far I've only seen a few "high points" but it's interesting.  Many summits are wooded, so I can't really land there, but I'll turn off crash detection and land there anyway.

Good on you for being a Blues fan!  After they won the cup last year, I'm good -- they don't have to win anything else.  I just wanted them to win it ONCE.  It was a great thing to see.