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Just curious to hear what you guys like doing. I'm flying around the Pacific Northwest, serving routes out of Portland, and Boeing Field (KBFI). I'm flying back and forth between Seattle and Portland a lot, with trips from San Francisco to Seattle on occaison. I'm yet to cross the Pacific, into Hawaii, I haven't yet found the perfect time range to do so.

Also, what do you guys do for arrivals? Do you do an ILS, Vectors Visual, or are your flying VFR? I normally fly ILS approaches...

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© 2011 Peter J. Carlson, All Rights Reserved
"O! for a horse with wings!" -William Shakespeare

Well as we speak I'm flying from MIA to LAX. Mostly vfr if the weather will allow. I'm flying mostly the American hub routes. So next flight is lax to ord. Then ord to JFK, JFK to dfw. I may add stl I. There at some point.

Cruising at fl260 vfr is a bit unreal but I don't think back then they had class a. But correct me if I'm wrong. But I'm really just doing it all for from. It'd be nice if they came out with a radial regional so I could fly the short hops. These long slow hauls take a while. I'm figuring around 5.5 hours west bound maybe more. But right now the winds aloft favor me for a change

Patterns. And then more patterns.

Mostly flying around the Northeast....Buffalo, Utica, Kennedy, Laguardia, Republic (my home airport), Bradley, Boston etc.

Mostly IFR with a little goofing around mixed in

For fighters like the Spit and P47 its Orbx PNW and its associated addon airports....Cushman, Concrete, Orcas etc....

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Greetings from Pennsylvania, USA. [KAVP]

I have flown the B377 (pre-COTS) around the world as well as making hops from KOAK to PHNL and a north atlantic crossing
some months ago. For testing I usually just fly a 1 1/2 to 3 hour hop where ever I want to do the testing.

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Paul


i5-2500K @4.3Ghz OC - GA-P67A-UD7-B3 - 8GB Corsair 1600mHz

Around the world. San Francisco to Boston, then St Maartin, Bermuda, Lisbon, Cairo, Calcutta, Hong Kong Kai Tai, Tahiti, Hawaii, and back to San Francisco.
Leaving Lisbon today for Cairo. This is my 5th round the world in the Strat, but first time in Cots.Flying in the livery of the Pan Am Clipper Invincible.

So far I have done Canberra to Sydney, Canberra to Melbourne, Melbourne to Auckland, Auckland to Wellington and finally Wellington to Christchurch. Some of these have been recorded as career mode on, some with career mode off.
The winter weather down here has put some pretty interesting clouds and winds up. I use Orbx and OZ scenery for Aussie, Rex clouds and Robin Corn's scenery for Auckland and wellington. I have managed one ace landing with applause, the rest have been an initial bounce. My last flight into wellington, I found my descent from 25000 feet took too long and I was forced to push the nose down so that the speed built up close to 300 knots - this resulted in a little bumpiness and Ohhss and aarhs.
Having a great time though

Same here! Currently have little time to go any further than around the airfield in a circle a couple of times. A few times I've even just run the engines & toyed with the systems on the ground, without even moving an inch. It's still quite fun though!

I did manage Canberra to Melbourne once (the weather has been 'interesting' lately as rayh said above!) plus a couple of shorter flights, but mostly I've been working on approaches and handling down low. I had just started working hard at landing the pre-COTS 377 when COTS was announced, but this one handles somewhat differently (and better).

I've done 4 trips in career. First was a short one from Santa Barbara to LAX. Next was Oakland to Lax, then Oakland to Hawaii. Then Hawaii to Wake Island. I really need to work on my landings and descent. All landings so far have been visual with no nav aids. I'm having a great time although I still have a lot to learn.

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Jim

My time for using it is a little (read: very) limited at the moment as I cannot sit in front of the PC for hours on end, but I am in the process of trying to do something that I have intended to since the B377 was released...

I wanted to take it to South Africa, as that was one of the last bastions on the British Empire (which crumbled very quickly during the Stratocruiser's time frame) and it's the type of long haul sector that the aircraft was designed to fly. However there's no way in blazes I could do that. So what about stopping off in every country that I passed over en-route? That turned into stopping in the Capital City of every country that I flew over on a straight line from London to South Africa, but then I had to decide which of the three "capitals" of South Africa to go to. I chose Cape Town, as it is the furthest South of the three.

So if I'm flying from Capital to Capital to Cape Town, where better to start than Cardiff? Need to get as many "C"s into "Capitals from Cardiff to Capetown" as I can.

Unfortunately, I've never got very far, because I had barely started before my back decided it was going to throw me onto the scrap heap and keep me there, so the aircraft is stuck in... Algiers, I think, at the moment.

Anyway. This is the route I'm still looking at. If anyone has any corrections or comments to make (such as that I got a capital city wrong or chose the wrong airport at the capital city) then please let me know.

01) EGFF-EGLL
02) EGLL-LFPG
03) LFPG-LEMD
04) LEMD-DAAG
05) DAAG-DRRN <- next leg
06) DRRN-DNAA
07) DNAA-FKYS
08) FKYS-FOOL
09) FOOL-FCBB
10) FCBB-FNCA
11) FNCA-FZAA
12) FZAA-FNLU
13) FNLU-FYWH
14) FYWH-FACT

If I ever finish this one, I might have to do Aberdeen to Zanzibar, via as many letters of the alphabet as I can find within range...

Ian P.

Currently overnighting in Wake Island and refueling enroute to Hong Kong from Honolulu; doing an around-the-world flight. I'll have to stop in Taiwan for fuel again before I head to Hong Kong, I won't have the fuel for a 45-min reserve if I go nonstop. After Hong Kong, either Singapore or Bangkok, then to Kathmandu, Bombay, Dubai, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Rome, Amsterdam, Reykjavík, Washington D.C, and ending up back in San Francisco

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© 2011 Peter J. Carlson, All Rights Reserved
"O! for a horse with wings!" -William Shakespeare

Its very interesting that you say this Ian, as I myself fancy doing a South African journey from the Union to the U.K. and back - either just pre or post-war. I am a South African, born in Cape-Town, so I have always been interested in making such a journey. The journey would be made under the auspices of transporting the Right Hon. Jan Smuts (Old Boer, and P.M. Twice!!) to the U.K. to "Strengthen imperial ties with the honorable oversee-ers of our great Union in this time of great turmoil, and show the old country that the Union is able to forgive past disagreements." (If I I did the flight pre-war)/ "in the bonds of victory that recently showed the Union's willingness to forgive past disagreements." (If I did the flight post war). I have already selected the names of the pilots: Dirk Van der Merwe, and Johan Kruger . However, choosing a suitable aircraft has been very hard within the bounds of FSx, because even if you go for fictional aircraft, very few have the range and speed that I need to complete the flight, and even fewer are pre-war aircraft.. BTW - Any references here to the Boer war, or the average Johannes Van der Merwe Afrikaner's hatred of the British and other in-famous South African events are purely co-incidental.....

Craig - Proud South African, and even Prouder Capetonian!

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Cheers,
Craig Tatley

At the moment I'm working my way down from Newport, Oregon to Saint Maarten, with the intention to continue to the Amazon and then to the Andes. At the moment the Stratocruiser is sitting at the gate in Tallahasse, Florida. My previous stops were San Francisco, Las Vegas, Austin and New Orleans. I don't like to fly longer than 2-3 hours (it's a hobby and not a job, after all) and I also don't like to split up my flights or leave them unattended, so it will take a while.

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Happy Landings
- Patrick