Idaho Fire Lookouts

[xxd09 69]

Terrific new piece of scenery for bush fliers from Orbx

Many testing landings for STOL pilots at fire lookout points-might force me back into my helicopter!

Great fun!

xxd09

[dbw1 452]

5 hours ago, xxd09 said:

Terrific new piece of scenery for bush fliers from Orbx

Many testing landings for STOL pilots at fire lookout points-might force me back into my helicopter!

Great fun!

xxd09

When I was still flying helicopters in the RW back in the late 1980s i used to service fire towers in Alberta. This was with an AStar (AS350B). The tower people looked to have a real nice job to spend the summer fire season. Also, a great job if you were just tired on life, people and general BS. The job appeared to attract people from a wide spectrum of life. Some interesting and some less so. I look forward to coming across this scenery add-on.

[khague3 47]

In case anyone is interested in this add-on...
https://forum.orbxdirect.com/topic/221246-ida-idaho-fire-lookouts-now-available-for-microsoft-flight-simulator/

[mfahey 50]

16 hours ago, dbw1 said:

When I was still flying helicopters in the RW back in the late 1980s i used to service fire towers in Alberta. This was with an AStar (AS350B). The tower people looked to have a real nice job to spend the summer fire season. Also, a great job if you were just tired on life, people and general BS. The job appeared to attract people from a wide spectrum of life. Some interesting and some less so. I look forward to coming across this scenery add-on.

This is the best! I'm typing from a remote jungle home in Indonesia which I live in half of the year (in 2 month stretches) which serves as a circuit breaker from western hyper BS. I like being able to transition between both worlds - perhaps I could have just taken a job living at a fire tower!

Edited May 15 by mfahey
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[regis9 4,044]

Could be a good companion for the OV10 in the firefighting livery.

[CapnCrunch 90]

If anyone has picked this up already, just curious if you can choose these from the start menu with a helicopter. Is it a cold and dark start or is the engine running (preferred). And do the locations show up on Little Navmap.

Thanks for any info...

[JetCat 132]

Oh fire lookouts only accessible by plane - my dream life!! Look at these screenshots and imagine living in that nature paradise. Thank you very much for telling us about this interesting addon. OrbX is always best for sceneries.

 

Edited May 20 by JetCat

[xxd09 69]

As I only possess the Standard edition of MSFS 2020 the Zlin Shock Ultra is not available to me

However the Smaug STOL aircraft (freeware at Flightsim.to) is an acceptable substitute and enables landings at these difficult and challenging airstrips

xxd09