Whats your favorite flight plan?

I find myself flying back and forth from Seattle (KSEA) to Portland (KPDX)
alot of the time, reason being is because when flying the commercial jets
its seems to be the perfect distance and has interesting approaches. A side
benefit is that you cant usually get some good weather like rain when using
"real weather" mode. I usually fly this route with either my PMDG737 or my
Vickers VC10 (i just love the VC10 for some reason).

I like the flights that allow for a nice 33-36k climb a little max cruise
then a swift decent to land, about 45minutes max. I flew the 747 from San
Fran to Hawaii a few times (real time) and thats enough to drive you F***IN
nutz!

So whats your favorite?

Being European Based (UK) i like the old Europe hoping. A series of legs
going from Heathrow to either south ways to France, Italy Spain or France
Holland always heading south but choosing different countries and airports
to go via. There is the north route from Heathrow to maybe Ireland, Scotland
Norway and either easy towards Asia or south east direction via borders of
Russia. I also like doing old WW2 routes in the DC-3 just to recriut a bit
of history since i like the whole WW2 thing. Like flights to India and such
like.

more importantly, thanks for sharing your favorite and the proposition it
supposes: short flights are better than lengthy ones. as a realworld pilot
we used to distinguish from flying 'hours' and 'good hours' . it goes
without saying most pilots want to log that latter. the latter being as
you've described: take-offs and landings with minimal cruise time -- as you
so eloquently described. what this means to me is
fly-the-type-suitable-to-the-route. having said that, no route is complete
until the return flight has been made. as you've noted, even using FS9's
canned ATC with realworld weather (every 15 minutes), every trip is
different. i get the impression you are a simpilot who enjoys what he's
doing -- so am i.
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I like flying from KPWT Bremerton National to CYYJ Victoria Int'l in the DF
Piper Archer II.

I use Bremerton as my home base and fly to the many smaller airports on
either side of the Juan DeFuca Straits and surrounding Seattle area. KCLM,
KFHR, KPAE, KBFI, KTIW, KOLM plus many others.

The Great Pacific Northwest has the best flying and sailing in the world,
IMO.

Using real world weather I can usually count on sun, rain, fog, snow,
high/low clouds, socked in airports, all in the same flight. Plenty of
traffic and an occassional bird strike. Gotta remember to stay out of the
migratory bird fly aways. ;-)

Now what could be better than this? Nothing!

Dashi


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based in NZ - doing Wellington to New Plymouth to Taupo to Auckland - esp
with the 40m mesh i have for the country as well as draped orthophotos for
ground scenery across most of it.

Fav aircraft would be the King Air 350

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My favourite routes are Sydney-Melbourne, (rtn) Sydney-Brisbane (rtn) and
the american west coast's Oakland-LAX or SanFransisco-LAX. I often fly the
C172 out VFR around the Sydney basin out of Bankstown YSBK. Most of my stuff
is done on Vatsim/real weather. Alot of rewarding experiences to be had

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:13:04 -0800, RickD without thinking wrote:


Cross-country literally. Started with the Tokyo to Hong Kong cargo flight
decided to plan all flights to countries and cities of interest flying
westward mostly. So far, Hong Kong-Vietnam, Vietnam-Thailand, Thailand-Indira
Gandhi, India, India to Moscow, Moscow-Belin, Berlin-Zurich, Zurich-Milan,
Milan-Rome, Rome-Pisa, Pisa-Athens. Starting southward Athens-Istanbul.

> So whats your favorite?


Denver International, CO to Grand Junction, CO - some great scenery, and
tricky approaches with all the mountains, including the off-centre ILS at
Grand Junction.

About 40 mins in a jet, slightly more in a prop - flying at the moment in
the "Great Lakes" Beechcraft 1900 for real authenticity - flight around 70
minutes.

D.

Noi wrote:

athens-constantinople is northwards (NE actually) not southwards

Being in portland myself, I like PDX->SEA, for almost the same reasons.
If there were a good available Dash8-Q400 I would use that, but instead
I tend to use the King Air 350, generally around 16,000 feet to FL220,
though I prefer the lower altitude to stay among the cascade mountains.
It is very close to the right distance - you have almost no dead time
while you're waiting for something to happen, either you are climbing
out of PDX or descending to SEA or looking at mountains along the way
for a short time. The only disadvantage is that (real weather of course)
I almost always have a headwind of around 15-25 kts when enroute to SEA.

KPDX->Spokane is better for a bit longer of a flight or if you want to
occasionally land in snow when using real weather, and fits the Lear a
bit more than the Kingair. I also fly out of KHIO (Hillsboro) - which is
only minutes from my house and is effectivly PDX.

I also like Oslo, Norway->Sogendal which has interesting terrain to fly
over and very interesting terrain to land in. Kingair 350 is a good
aircraft for that route as well.

Barcelona, Spain to Lugano or Geneva Switzerland is a good regional jet
flight, a bit long in the kingair, but the terrain on descent to
switzerland is very nice.

It's fun to do "circle routes" from PDX to Tokyo in the kingair:
PDX->Vancouver->Juneau->Anchorage->Bolsheretsk->Sapporo->Tokyo - the
Anchorage->Bolsheretsk, Russia (UHPB) flight is quite long - 1783 nm,
which is at extreme range for the KA350 - fly at FL310 @ 60% torque and
hope for a tailwind the whole way. Flight time should be just over 6
hours. If you're picking up a headwind you can divert to PAGM (Gambell,
Alaska) before you start the long overwater part of the trip. PAGM->UHPB
is a more comfortable 1201 nm and 4 hour flight in cruise mode.





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