I'm most of the way through this excellent bush trip and thought it deserved a short review.

I like the MSFS bush trips.  A chance to see something new and often with some challenging strips to negotiate.  This one has fewer of the latter (so far at least) and the legs between landings are long - up to an hour each.  It pays to recall that the sim will remember where you are if you quit part through a leg.

This trip covers the famous John O Groats to Lands End trip - but unusually it takes us by the east coast.

The route is comprehensive and rarely takes a shortcut across the water.  I've flown most of it by hand or by heading, handing off to nav when the scenery bewitched me.

And gorgeous the scenery is.  I am totally spoiled for my other sims.  The water masks in particular - and this is a coastal route - are amazingly organic, varied and occasionally just eye popping.  I suspect the UK update has improved it, too - there are some lovely crisp detailed models of Lindisfarne and Bamburgh castles.

The writing is intelligent and interesting and I learned a lot about my own country.  Who knew you could visit the only West-facing harbour on the East coast?  I spotted one mistake (a missing POI) in the 1st or 2nd leg but otherwise not even a typo.  It's a very, very professional job.

So good, in fact, that I've made the whole trip with no time compression.  Save for a short stretch in East Anglia.  Sorry, Norfolk folk, but it's a bit flat for this Yorkshireman 😉

In short: go grab it for something different, entertaining, interesting and educational.  And free, of course.  Available here:

John O'Groats to Land's End (East Coast) • Microsoft Flight Simulator

Edited March 5, 20215 yr by Paul_Yorks
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7 minutes ago, Paul_Yorks said:

there are some lovely crisp detailed models of Lindisfarne and Bamburgh castles.

I live close to there and did not realise they were in the sim. I did notice however that they have modelled Sage on the way in to EGNT 

Edited March 5, 20215 yr by Ianrivaldosmith

18 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I live close to there and did not realise they were in the sim. I did notice however that they have modelled Sage on the way in to EGNT 

Here you go:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/keANiowo7Ci3rPU9A

Edited March 5, 20215 yr by Paul_Yorks

Amazing - this is what I was missing with the UK update! Thanks for sharing.

Great...I'll check it out.  Any others you recommend?

This looks fun, I look forward to taking a tourist flight in the UK, how does it work, flight plans?

2 hours ago, Paul_Yorks said:

Here you go:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/keANiowo7Ci3rPU9A

Nice, but they’ve missed the Cliffs haha 

Picture looks real; amazing!

If this is as great as the West Coast trip from Land's End to John O'Groats (available on the same site) -- and I suspect it is -- then it must be terrific!

1 hour ago, precog said:

Great...I'll check it out.  Any others you recommend?

Yes - same site, this one:  UK Bush Trip 4. North and West Coast of Scotland. • Microsoft Flight Simulator  - excellent, with some of the most spectacular views in the UK.  Also shorter legs, and some tricky landings, including one that had me end up in a Loch... 🙂  If you're happy missing England, this is worth trying first perhaps.

1 hour ago, Ixoye said:

This looks fun, I look forward to taking a tourist flight in the UK, how does it work, flight plans?

Go to activities/bush flights, once you've popped the thing in your Community folder.  Then just follow the instructions.  There is, for this one, a complete flight plan with every one of 200 or so POIs specified all the way around the coast.  But most of the direction/timing instructions, together with the descriptions, would let you fly it without GPS help, I reckon.  I enjoy that "pathfinder" aspect of some of the BTs.

21 minutes ago, cobalt said:

If this is as great as the West Coast trip from Land's End to John O'Groats (available on the same site) -- and I suspect it is -- then it must be terrific!

It is by the same bloke, as far as I can see.  I intend to do that next - since it'll take in some amazing parts of Wales/the Lake District/Highlands etc.  I chose the East Coast route only because I'd just finished the Scottish tour I've linked above, so I fancied a change.

This trip will be perfect for my premiere tour with the JF Arrow 👍

1 hour ago, Ixoye said:

This looks fun, I look forward to taking a tourist flight in the UK, how does it work, flight plans?

They do a good job with the dunes, though, I reckon!

And for cliffs the same trip just took me past these:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/Zw86WwMzPEbntW418

 

6 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

This trip will be perfect for my premiere tour with the JF Arrow 👍

Be aware that you can't simply choose an aircraft - but there are ways to tweak the files to change that.  Otherwise you're stuck with the BT's settings for plane, time, weather etc.

Edit: also: sounds an amazing choice!

Edited March 5, 20215 yr by Paul_Yorks

1 minute ago, Paul_Yorks said:

Be aware that you can't simply choose an aircraft - but there are ways to tweak the files to change that.  Otherwise you're stuck with the BT's settings for plane, time, weather etc.

Tweaking it is then.

7 hours ago, Paul_Yorks said:

This trip covers the famous John O Groats to Lands End trip - but unusually it takes us by the east coast.

The route is comprehensive and rarely takes a shortcut across the water.  I've flown most of it by hand or by heading, handing off to nav when the scenery bewitched me.

And gorgeous the scenery is.  I am totally spoiled for my other sims.  The water masks in particular - and this is a coastal route - are amazingly organic, varied and occasionally just eye popping.  I suspect the UK update has improved it, too - there are some lovely crisp detailed models of Lindisfarne and Bamburgh castles.

The writing is intelligent and interesting and I learned a lot about my own country. 

Just finished the first leg and you're so right! Brilliantly planned and written with so many nuggets of great trivia...