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White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 7:19 am
by davidharris
hi everyone can any one tell me where the nearest airport to the white house is please. thanks

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 8:34 am
by RollerBall
washington dulles

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 9:22 am
by davidharris
i have taken off from washington dulles  but cannot find the white house can i have directions please. thanks

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:21 am
by dave3cu
Hi David,

Take off from Reagan, KDCA, r/w 1, and you'll fly directly over downtown D.C. and most of the government buildings and monuments.

The White House is just north of the Washington Monument.

Cheers,
Dave

P.S. Watch out for bogies on your 6 as this is a prohibited area.

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:30 pm
by JBaymore
Hi David,

And just from asking that question on a flight sim board..... you might be seeing some black vehicles with dark tinted windows parked near your house  ;).

best,

................john

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:37 pm
by Hagar
I didn't think the location of the White House was a secret. I have it plainly marked on a free tourist map I picked up in the hotel lobby when I visited Washington DC a few years ago. I suppose I'd better watch out for black vehicles myself after admitting that. :-X :P ;D

I seem to remember someone saying that they got the location wrong in FS9. Whether this was deliberate I can't say. ::)

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:43 pm
by Northwest 102
All you have to do is like one of the others said is, take off runway 1 from KDCA and really just head straight out.

MIKE

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:48 pm
by davidharris
thanks all i found the white house no problem but if you fly too close to it, it messes up your GPS

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 2:05 pm
by BFMF
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thanks all i found the white house no problem but if you fly too close to it, it messes up your GPS


Does messing up the GPS include the coordinates too?

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 2:19 pm
by BFMF
Just tested it out, and I didn't see anything wrong with the GPS ???

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:28 pm
by ReverseThrust
The white house is not wrongly positioned in FS9.  I know from personal experience- I've toured the whol darn city and they did a pretty good job, considereing that it is default M$ stuff.  
And when looking for the white house- its the white, short building, not the tanish-brown one next to it, since they look similar.  

Camp David (the president's private retreat, somewhere in maryland) is one of the places not in the FS world or whose coordinates are not known to the general public...

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 6:29 pm
by 737NGCapt
The white house is not wrongly positioned in FS9.  I know from personal experience- I've toured the whol darn city and they did a pretty good job, considereing that it is default M$ stuff.  
And when looking for the white house- its the white, short building, not the tanish-brown one next to it, since they look similar.  

Camp David (the president's private retreat, somewhere in maryland) is one of the places not in the FS world or whose coordinates are not known to the general public...



I thought that was in Texas. ;)  8)

Re: White house

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:09 pm
by xtremdav45
Camp David is the retreat for all presidents, and is in Maryland, while Dubya's ranch is in Crawford, Texas.