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VR - Top Flights and Experiences So far

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I'm definitely enjoying the immersion factor and have loved trying new things simply because its VR. Here are some of my top flights:

NZQN - Queenstown Airport to NZMF - Milford Sound in the G36 Turbo Bo'. Flightsim.to has a great freeware scenery add-on. Beautiful climbout over the ridge that quickly rises to 7k feet and then a hard drop and circle the field as you come down or enter from the sound side. 

YOW - Ottawa...today. Robin in a snow storm with visibility and ceiling about 0/0. I just wanted to see what I could do in the VFR flyer in the ice. I was about at 3k feet when a jolt shifted the plane and I literally jolted out of my seat it felt so real. I also was trying to make ground contact and took my eye off the attitude indicator while icing up. Big mistake, and ended upside down. I recovered and landed safely, but good to know, don't do that in real life.

SFO - Cirrus downtown tour of San Francisco and over the Golden Gate Bridge. The SR22 is a gentle flyer and makes this aerial flight over downtown by the Ferry Building across the Marina and into the Presidio a joy before turning back in and landing at 28L. The field looks great and if I felt like a longhaul flight from the north the approach over the Golden Gate Bridge would be breathtaking in an airliiner. I mostly stick to GA though these days. 

KAVX Catalina Island to KSAN San Diego. TBM with WT 3000 and payware KSAN in the marketplace. Having lived in San Diego, I know the coastline well, but alas, was not a real world pilot while living there so have never made the flight myself. The TBM is great because once at cruise, its nice to "standup" and either go to the back or even hang out on the wing and take in the sights. A nice 30-40 min flight and Catalina doesn't disappoint either. Although I really enjoy the approach into San Diego over Balboa park and next to the city (had an office in Little Italy and would watch the planes come in all day long), the reverse flight would be enjoyable too.

I've also had a couple of duds. Toronto to cleveland (wanted to see the snow transition) in a King Air. The Reverb G2 was having challenges at the beginning of the flight with audio clicking and lagging headset (happens from time to time) but once that was reset I had a giant terrain bug in the middle of Lake Erie, and finally a CTD on approach into cleveland. The King Air looks great, but is just an awful avionics suite that is more for show than any actual functionality.

While cruising the Grand Canyon is "cool" it felt a little off doing it in a Baron. I also did a flight from Austin to Fredericksburg in a Mooney, and while that flight had some great cloud layers to zip in and out of and the Mooney is great and at least gives the "feeling" of engine management, Frederickburg default scenery is very underwhelming (no hangar hotel which is iconic in the state)

What are some of your top VR flights so far? 

 

 

Just spent an hour buzzing some of the recommended airports and was particularly impressed with a very fluid and real-feeling descent into Rio (in the TBM which I never much liked but now in VR am totally in love with), an obligatory take off from Lukla and a cruise around Sydney Harbour.  Finally a desperately lucky landing in St Barts.

But whilst all these were spectacular, the best moment was probably following a river valley just out of Telluride - deep down, not far above the water, occasionally brushing treetops, banking left, right, left, right - an almost Zen experience that had me lost for I don't know how long and disappointed when it ended.  It would have been ok in 2d; in VR it was a total brain melter.

Paul Skol

I have a long (long) list of Places and POIs to visit "only in VR" since I started on day #1 in Pancake Mode, barely touched that list as just general flying in VR is so much better and immersive. Anyway these are my highlights so far:

Meteor Crater - USA:
This was a lovely flight taking it all in, a place I'd love too but probably never will visit in real life so to "see" it in VR was great. Slightly annoyed by a Texture/geometry bug on the side wall but that didn't ruin the experience.

Matterhorn - Switzerland:
Flying up the Valley to Zermatt in VR is in its own right fantastic, using the community made Mod which from a distance looked fantastic and brought back childhood memories of being there. Unfortunately getting closer rendered the Mod useless when coming up the Valley as it didn't blend with the surrounding terrain at all so immersion quickly broke when I could see "underneath" the glorious Mountain... Needless to say climbing higher and looking down it was great.

JFK - NYC:
I don't "do" Airliners (yet) but I just had to see what it was like in the Cockpit in VR, I chose JFK and a flight over NYC to check on FPS and it was surprisingly good. Not only that but I had inadvertently picked a time just after Sunset, so upon levelling out at just 2000ft the view of the sky behind NYC as I approached was breathtaking, plus being in a Jumbo Cockpit made it seem all so real.

Pico Neo3 Link VR - Windows 11 64bit, Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite Mobo, i7-10700KF CPU, Gigabyte RX 9070 XT OC 16gb (AMD GPU), 32gig Corsair 3600mhz RAM, SSD x2 + M.2 SSD 1tb x1

Saitek X45 HOTAS - Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals - Logitech Flight Yoke - Homemade 3 Button & 8-directional Joystick Box, SNES Controller (used as a Button Box - Additional USB Numpad (used as a Button Box)

 

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