I know Alaska and the PNW is a popular area for bush flying, and others such as PNG. What about New Zealand?

Some NZ Videos ...

Note that the Milford videos pre-date the NZ Mesh which vastly improves the mountains when close up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 25, 20214 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

This pilot also includes the map for FS players...
He flies the Kodiak 100 in some of the worlds most epic scenery ...Papua New Guinea.

Also very nice flight videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/MissionarybushPilot

Edited August 25, 20214 yr by altenae

My old bush flying grounds of many years : Alaska, Montana, Idaho, BC, Papua New Guinea, Central Australia (out of Alice Springs, lot of small strips in the red desert).

My new ones : Peru, Bolivia, West Papua, East Africa

What about Hawaii or more tropical regions for bush flying?

24 minutes ago, captain420 said:

What about Hawaii or more tropical regions for bush flying?

A lot of dense tropical vegetation to skirt for sure , you might check out this link for Hawaii : https://aviation.hawaii.gov/airfields-airports/

49 minutes ago, captain420 said:

What about Hawaii or more tropical regions for bush flying?

Hawaii is wonderful to fly (I love archipelagoes !) but there not much bush flying to do there really.

I am not sure what you mean by tropical as some of the countries I listed in my post are tropical or equatorial. 

 If by tropical you mean lush green with a lot of trees 😉 Papua (both sides) and Peru (the Amazon side) are nice. I have still to do the Amazon basin from the Atlantic to the Andes to check the numerous strips that should exist along the rivers. 

I forgot to list Costa Rica. Nice bush flying in MFS. 

The crème de la crème so far for me ? Fly from the arid high plateaus  of the Andes to small airfields in the Amazon. Stunning contrasts.  

 

Areas I plan to "bush" are Africa, the Southwest deserts, South American Jungles... the whole world seems open to explore without having to pre-download or pre-purchase scenery to make it more realistic which sort of takes away the surprise of discovery

PNG really is a bush flyer's dream if you want tropical : https://ourairports.com/countries/PG/

 

And pair it with Orbx scenery if you are still using FSX or P3D .

Edited August 25, 20214 yr by johnbow72

By tropical I mean, more like beaches like Maldives, Fiji Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti etc.

Edited August 25, 20214 yr by captain420

In real life there are tons of little beachfront strips (and some jungle strips, too) in Panama, namely the north/northeast coast east of the canal.  They call it Guna Yala.

I don't know how many (or if any) are really modelled in MSFS though.  I have yet to go down there and see.  El Porvenir was one, so was Ustupu, and Puerto Obaldia.   Some of them in real life are literally part of the beach.  Others extend inland.

31 minutes ago, Mace said:

In real life there are tons of little beachfront strips (and some jungle strips, too) in Panama, namely the north/northeast coast east of the canal.  They call it Guna Yala.

I don't know how many (or if any) are really modelled in MSFS though.  I have yet to go down there and see.  El Porvenir was one, so was Ustupu, and Puerto Obaldia.   Some of them in real life are literally part of the beach.  Others extend inland.

Thanks for the hints

33 minutes ago, captain420 said:

By tropical I mean, more like beaches like Maldives, Fiji Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti etc.

Bush flying is about serving communities that are difficult to reach but by planes, in remote locations where the aviation infrastructure is minimal or non existent. Remote strips in the desert or in the jungle. A lake in the Alaskan forest or in high mountains. A forestry department strip in Idaho or Montana and so on and so forth. Your friend Garmie will help you to get there but it will not help you to get in and out. There is always a challenging approach and landing that you have to do. Take off is not always easy either.

The Pacific ? You are speaking of highly frequented air destinations, with well structured modern airports and facilities but there might be some interesting fields in MFS. I remember some tricky landings in Ofu Village and Fitiuta in the US Samoa for instance that were created in a wonderful P3D addon by Orbx or or in some strips the Marshall islands (Pacsim ?).

 

11 hours ago, johnbow72 said:

PNG really is a bush flyer's dream if you want tropical : https://ourairports.com/countries/PG/

 

And pair it with Orbx scenery if you are still using FSX or P3D .

PNG also has interesting Shortwave broadcasts. Actually in the International Broadcasting bands between the Medium waves and Shortwaves. Very entertaining. English in the very early morning hours listening from West Coast USA. It's the only way people way out there can hear any broadcasts of TV or radio, so it focuses on entertainment.

23 hours ago, captain420 said:

By tropical I mean, more like beaches like Maldives, Fiji Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti etc.

Unfortunately, some of these areas suffer in the Bing imagery department.     I did some flying around Guadalcanal as I was reading a book about the Solomons campaign, and it has some pretty bad areas with mis-matched imagery causing obvious seams and a few areas missing any aerial at all and showing only the default textures.  I'm sure some are better than that, though.

For me, one very under-appreciated area amongst bush fliers is the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Mexico, around Sinaloa.   You can definitely see why the area is big for drug-running, and there are a lot of fun and challenging strips to fly into.   I had a very enjoyable NeoFly campaign based out of this "airport":

 

Also, not sure if you already thought of it and include it under the "PNW" rubric, but the mountains of Idaho are a glorious playground for bush pilots.

 

Edited August 26, 20214 yr by kaosfere