A Most Scenic Flight

[rootbeer]

I don't know if it has ever obtained that there has been a thread about scenic FS flights, but I'd like to offer one I just took. Try KPGA to KCNY. It's a gas at 38-meters res. Do it at 8,000 feet in th e summer, during the day.

I ordered the hi-res North America package from FSGenesis today for FS10. I can't wait to see this route in 9-meter resolution.

I went to Office Depot last night and bought a big USA map, measuring 50" by 32". It shows all the national parks and hundreds of towns and cities. This is where the above flight had its genesis. I have driven up Route 191 through Arches National Park and the area around Moab, UT several times. It's awesome.

To use the map, I stuck a pin through a 60-inch measuring tape and stuck the pin at N58, my home base. I can plan any flight and measure the distance with relative accuracy. One inch is about 66 miles on this map. I think that at just ten bucks or so, it is a good investment for planning how far I can go on a tank of gas. The map and tape measure answers the question:  "How far is it from A to B?" Low-level simming to some, but I think it's kind of cool...