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Hey guys,thinking about giving the ol round the world trip a try! But im looking for threads with some screenies or other threads that ppl have posted with there rtw flights.. found a few but still looking to see what other plans there are.. any advice? any good links to other ppls journeys? well thanks in advance.. hope to try it out soon,laterz

starting a world tour. so figured id share it with you.. im starting it now.. just give me a lil bit and ill post up the first screenies etc, enjoy :)but first i figured id show you some great freeware scenery that covers washington,oregon,california,nevada and part of utah.. its former payware:)its made by fs genesis just search it im sure youll find it..

=== Executive Summary: I flew the PMDG 737NGX around the world over several months and it was a great learning experience. === Following completion of tutorial #1, and in an effort to better learn the airplane, I embarked on a round-the-world tour back in October. Life seems to limit my sim time so I take it when I can get it. My brown Labrador died last year and my wife doesn't understand, so I share my story in this forum. The trip started and ended at Bristol, UK (EGGD) with the following legs: Bristol (EGGD) - Bayonne (LFBZ) Bayonne (LFBZ) - Zurich (LSZH) Zurich (LSZH) - Innsbruck (LOWI) Innsbruck (LOWI) - Milan (LIML) Milan (LIML) - Rome (LIRC) Rome (LIRC) - Athens (LGAV) Athens (LGAV) - Cairo (HECA) Cairo (HECA) - Mumbai (VABB) Mumbai (VABB) - Bangkok (VTBS) missed to VTBD Bangkok (VTBD) - Phnom Phen (VDPP) Phnom Phen (VDPP) - Saigon (VVTS) Saigon (VVTS) - Manila (RPLL) Manila (RPLL) - Guam (PGUM) Guam (PGUM) - Honolulu (PHNL) (lots of time to study FMC operation during the barely legal overnight flight) Honolulu (PHNL) - Los Angeles (KLAX) Los Angeles (KLAX) - Raleigh (KRDU) Raleigh (KRDU) - Boston (KBOS) Boston (KBOS)- Bristol (EGGD) Route planning was done with the help of vataware.com and simroutes.com. I usually selected the top route for the leg. With the exception of Zurich, Innsbruck, Milan, Athens, and the missed approach into VTBS (more on that later), I selected the route based on destinations I have travelled to either personally or on business. The first leg started in the morning, cold and dark, and each subsequent flight was gate to gate with short turns. KBOS to EGGD ended with a complete shutdown. The exceptions to the visited places rule were due to my grandmother used to ski and chase men in Zurich, Innsbruck has cool mountains and good approaches and is a common topic in this forum, Milan is in Italy, and I had a hankering for olives which took me to Athens while I was in the region. The missed approach at VTBS was because FSX does not have VTBS in its default database. This approach was in instrument conditions. On failing to receive ILS, I was forced to go missed over to VTBD (the old Bangkok International). VTBS did not exist when I visited that region as a youngster and I didn't recognize that as I planned the flight to Bangkok and basically selected the wrong airport. It was VTBD where I had been. I turned on random failures somewhere between Mumbai and Bangkok with a random rate of one failure every five hours. I had some pretty benign failures along the way (loss of RA on one side, Loss of a DME, low HYD fluid). There was a more exciting failure during PHNL to KLAX (right hand door seal problem about 2/3 of the way to KLAX that never progressed to a pressurization issue). The failure that required some digging in the QRH (to no avail) was a DC Bus 1 Fail on the last leg back to Bristol about the time they were serving the croissants, non-fat yoghurt, and OJ/Coffee/Tea (1.5 hours out). I was able to troubleshoot all the advisory lights and fly accordingly, but was unable to figure out how to make things return to some level of normal. I couldn't find anything that specifically addressed DC Bus 1 failure. More study is in order. ASE and (following its release) AS2012 real world weather was used throughout. Time of day was maintained from the original flight (park at gate, save flight, start next leg from the same file/time of day as previously saved). Flight was done in 1x time. If not sitting at it, I was within shouting range of the computer at all times while the simulation was running (lavatory simulation, printing appropriate plates, checking WX, etc.). I used Radar Contact along much of the trip and actually finally figured out how to pick up where I left off if I saved mid-leg (be sure to point the appropriate part of RC at your FSX flight plans folder so .RCD files get saved in the right place). Now if I can figure out how to get a pop-up IFR clearance...but that's off topic and I believe not in the current version of RC. I may start flying online soon instead of just observing. I experienced no problems with the PMDG 737NGX addon during this tour. I completed this world tour last week and have since hopped over to EHAM to start tutorial #2.