Lake Ontario

More photogrammetry on this tour featuring the new eastern US city of Buffalo.  The tour will explore the scenery of several Great Lake cities located in the vicinity of Lake Ontario.  We depart from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (CYTZ) and do a circuit around downtown Toronto, the follow lake shore passing Mississauga before our first landing at Skydive Swoop (CYAA).  The route continues east past the extensive industrial sectors of Hamilton Ontario and along the lakeshore to St Catherines before crossing Welland Canal and the Niagara River for landing at Niagara Falls Intl (KIAG).   The route backtracks across the Niagara River where we take in views of the Rainbow Bridge, the American Falls, and the Horseshoe Falls.  Following the Niagara River we complete a clockwise circuit around downtown Buffalo before crossing the Peace Bridge to Old Fort Erie, then 10 miles on to Hamburg Inc (4G2).  Turning back towards Buffalo we fly over Lackawanna before landing at Buffalo Niagara Intl (KBUF).  The route heads east with a landing at Genesee County (KCVQ) then on to Greater Rochester Intl (KROC).  The route proceeds southeast towards the Finger Lakes with a landing at Canandiagua (KIUA).  The longest leg (46nm) in the tour takes us across Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake before a landing at Ithaca Tompkins Rgnl (KITH).  The last leg takes us northeastward to Syracuse Hancock Intl (KSYR).

Flightplan: HERE

Aircraft

• Something with good visibility. I plan to fly the Cessna Caravan in FedEx livery.  If you choose to fly the Caravan, I can recommend MGouge Enhancement Mod

Optional Payware Scenery

•        SamScene3D Toronto City Times - Orbx (orbxdirect.com)
•        Jeppeson2001 Niagara Falls City Pack & Heliport for MSFS – iniBuilds Store
•        Buffalo Niagara (KBUF) for MSFS
•        KSYR Syracuse Hancock Intl. MSFS by Verticalsim | Contrail Shop

Recommend Departure time of 2:00 PM

Particulars:

•        Date and time: Saturday July 27, 18:00 UTC
•        Where: AVSIM RTWR Teamspeak - Casual Flights Channel
•        Teamspeak Server Address: ts.teamavsim.com
•        MFS Multiplayer: US Eastcoast Server

If you want to help others enjoy the multiplayer experience, don't forget to enter your aircraft details on the multiplayer spreadsheet (linked here). Your courtesy will save others a lot of time and effort. Thanks!

 

 

KBUF by IniBuilds is available and of course CYTZ by FSimStudios.

Thanks for the reminder about KBUF.  I just got it.    I took a look at CYTZ from FSimStudios.  Asobo updated Billy Bishop with the Canada World Update and it is pretty good - probably not as nice as the FSimStudios version.   I did not feel like I need a better version so I am passing on it for now. 

 

Just tried the tried the Jeppeson 2001 Niagara Falls City Pack.  It is pretty good.  The Falls are much better than the default rendition.  It is also on sale in the Marketplace for $8.49 till the end of the month.

Edited July 24, 20241 yr by jt_williams
Additional scenery comments

Thanks, Jeff. This looks great.

For pilots who are cheapskates, here are some freeware options. These are not as good as the payware, but they are free.

Niagara Falls Enhancement Pack. romandesign
Niagara District [CYSN]. MazerMart
Niagara Falls Animation. OmniC
Buffalo Niagara [KBUF]. prairiejet
Ithaca Tomkins [KITH]. Automater
Rochester Frederick Douglass [KROC]. csv1996

Thanks Mike.  I'm off to get Ithica and Rochester.