Started July 9, 2022. Completed August 29, 2022.  Diamond DA62 for twin engines and G1000NXi.  All VFR w/GPS and AP.. All manual landings. Flight Planning LittleNav Map for the most part.

Visited 32 countries, Landed and departed from 68 airports.  I fly low and slow just for the scenery, so I avoided long routes over water, Greenland and Iceland being the exception.

All Northern Hemisphere.  As far north as Greenland and as far south as Cambodia.  Usually flew 2500 to 3500 feet, but adjusted for terrain.

Decapitated 50 or 60 airport workers. (They're always in front of your parked plane and won't move)  Also clipped a few airport vehicles that were cruising down the taxi and runways.

Had one AI plane land under me when I was about 800 feet on my final approach. Funniest thing that happened was I was about to take off on a grass strip, out in the middle of nowhere, and there was the guy

with his pushback machine right in front of me.  Nothing for miles around but there he was.  No buildings, trees or anything.  Just him and his machine.

Great trip for the learning experience both of this world and flight sim.  Would encourage it, if you haven't tried.

Roy

Just now, Roy Warren said:

Decapitated 50 or 60 airport workers. (They're always in front of your parked plane and won't move)  Also clipped a few airport vehicles that were cruising down the taxi and runways.

Oh, I lol'ed hard. 

I'd like to have this time on my hands to be able to do this, must have been fun! Favorite spot on this trip?

Congrats Roy! Beautiful aircraft selection too as I have been in the real DA62! I'm sure many here would like to see the itinerary basics of your world route. 

1 hour ago, Drumcode said:

 

I'd like to have this time on my hands to be able to do this, must have been fun! Favorite spot on this trip?

My favorite spot would be western Canada, Alberta and Saskatchewan.  British Columbia too, but to many mountains for my flying.   Beautiful country.

The worst part of the trip was from Japan to Alaska.  The Kuril Islands, then up through the Aleutians.  Not much scenery to see here except mountains and water.

Roy

Congratulations on your RTW accomplishment. A feather in your cap.😎

Congratulations. A RTW trip is no small undertaking - I am in the middle of one myself.

I am looking at a round the world myself, probably using the C414 due to the speed and range. 

I am interested in any stories or suggestions as I haven't decided on the route yet.

Amazing that we can even contemplate this in a flight sim.

Another trip I am looking at is to visit every state in the US, maybe using the C172 improvement mod, which I am liking a lot, and range isn't so much of a problem for it on that trip.

i like flying coastlines, doing africa now. different aircraft.

Congratulations Roy.

Quite a trip👍

56 minutes ago, wim123 said:

i like flying coastlines, doing africa now. different aircraft.

I like that idea.  I've been wondering what I want to do next.  May try South America.  Also thought about flying rivers.  I did the Missouri in FSX, of course the scenery was not near as good.

I always said, "when I retire I want to see the country".  Now I can with MSFS2020.

Roy

5 hours ago, Drumcode said:

Oh, I lol'ed hard. 

I'd like to have this time on my hands to be able to do this, must have been fun! Favorite spot on this trip?

Me too, I wasn’t expecting that hah.

Congrats on the trip Roy, something I’ve thought about doing.  I tried starting a cross Canada trip once but only made it as far west as Quebec before I got distracted by summer’s arrival.  I’ll have to try again sometime.

6 hours ago, Roy Warren said:

Started July 9, 2022. Completed August 29, 2022.  Diamond DA62 for twin engines and G1000NXi.  All VFR w/GPS and AP.. All manual landings. Flight Planning LittleNav Map for the most part.

That's movin out.  It took me a year to finish my last RTW.  But, I'm not retired so I can only fly every so often.

So let us know your routing, and also did you encounter any notable weather on the way? 

On my last RTW, I know I've said this before but I had a gale at Nuuk, Greenland..really nasty, I couldn't fly that day.  Very low visibility at Vagar in the Faeroe Islands, also same in India and Provideniya (Russia) and St. Lawrence Island (Alaska).  I agree with you about going up thru Russia and over to Alaska -- I was very, very glad to touch down in Alaska.  It took forever to hop along the Sea of Okhotsk -- I didn't go up the Kuriles / Kamchatka as you said you did.  There is a whole lot of trees, mountains, and sea and very little human habitation in those areas.

The routing I took was the same route taken by a pair of Indian Air Force officers who went RTW in a light-sport aircraft (a Flight Design CTSW) a few years ago.   https://indianairforce.nic.in/expeditions/

5 hours ago, Roy Warren said:

The worst part of the trip was from Japan to Alaska.  The Kuril Islands, then up through the Aleutians.  Not much scenery to see here except mountains and water.

On my ongoing trip I've chosen to head to Nome, cross the Bering Strait then fly over land to eventually follow the Amur river down to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. Currently in Valdez, AK. I started in Jakarta.  

EDIT: Some of the worst weather I've had so far has been in British Columbia and Alaska, with visibility down to a mile, low cloud bases, gusts, icing conditions. Very challenging conditions. 

Edited August 29, 20223 yr by Cpt_Piett

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

On my ongoing trip I've chosen to head to Nome, cross the Bering Strait then fly over land to eventually follow the Amur river down to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. Currently in Valdez, AK. I started in Jakarta.  

EDIT: Some of the worst weather I've had so far has been in British Columbia and Alaska, with visibility down to a mile, low cloud bases, gusts, icing conditions. Very challenging conditions. 

Looks like you're going East to West.  Mine was the opposite.  Since I was doing it to see the scenery I used the preset for clear skies.  On just about every flight I would check the live weather just to see what it was doing, and if I couldn't see the ground, I only did it for a short time. 

I was afraid to go up the route you are taking and crossing the Bearing Straight. There is not much in the way of civilization in western Russia.  I was afraid I couldn't find airports. I had already had that grass strip in those Russian islands.  Good luck on finding your way through.

I didn't realize how big Alaska is.  And I just followed the coastline all the way through.  Had to dodge those mountains.

Roy

2 minutes ago, Roy Warren said:

Looks like you're going East to West.  Mine was the opposite.  Since I was doing it to see the scenery I used the preset for clear skies.  On just about every flight I would check the live weather just to see what it was doing, and if I couldn't see the ground, I only did it for a short time. 

I was afraid to go up the route you are taking and crossing the Bearing Straight. There is not much in the way of civilization in western Russia.  I was afraid I couldn't find airports. I had already had that grass strip in those Russian islands.  Good luck on finding your way through.

I didn't realize how big Alaska is.  And I just followed the coastline all the way through.  Had to dodge those mountains.

Roy

I had a look and I should be ok doing the overland route down to Khabarovsk. 

In BC I made some flights even more challenging by flying without GPS and not using any external software with moving map or using the sim VFR map. I did get completely lost a few times, as I flew off course, got confused by the magnetic variation (it's around 19 degrees at those latitudes), suffered with poor visibility to ground due to clouds as well as the lack of VOR and NDB stations. It was a fun challenge though and eventually I was able to find my way to the destination... without "cheating" 🙂

And I was surprised by how HUGE Canada is! The stretch from CYVM Qikiqtarjuaq on the East coast to Toronto seemed to take forever. I must have spent more time flying over Quebec than flying over all of Europe...