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If, if I get FSX for X-Mas, where do you think the best place is to check out FSX for the first time? I was thinking of Long Beach, CA, or somewhere in Alaska?


Mees

If not the default flight, try you own home airport. If not that try a smaller, regional airport for better frame rates

LIRF

Work your way through the missions, you'll have a ball.

Merry Christmas.

I read the manual, and was advised that the "Rock of Gibraltar" was good (Gibraltar AB, GIB, LXGB) and so took off there. FInally MS has added it, as it has been absent in the past. It looks great!
Merry Christmas!  ;)

Durham Tees Valley Airport

Fly in a prop, 20 minutes before dusk, WITH loads of clouds, from Jackson hole (KJAC), to a lake in the south west. You will NOT be disappointed.

Here are screenshots:
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1165127143

Yea, for sure...
try KJAC. Its awsome  :o

Merry X-Mas Christmas!!!

Fly in a prop, 20 minutes before dusk, WITH loads of clouds, from Jackson hole (KJAC), to a lake in the south west. You will NOT be disappointed.

Here are screenshots:
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1165127143

...Wawaweewa!!!



Guess I'll try that.

Guess I'll try that.

Sure, but only if you get FSX

the st. maarten landing- carribean landing- is still pretty awesome. i have heard that it's the closest that you can get to a commercial jet taking off. i used to live in the carribean and when the big air france airbus- or the 747's- would line up, they would run their engines and you can see the jetwash hit the water behind the plane. i drove my car through the road to caravan serai when the air transat 747 was running it's jets and my car was leaning like it was in strong wind.  but that aside, the FSX did miss out, much like it predecessor, in the Saba (Netherlands-Antilles) landing. Saba is the big (only 5 square miles, but big because it looks like a tooth!) island off of St. Maarten and is home of the shortest commercial runway in the world. You would think that it would have been added, but, having lived on Saba, the terrain looks nothing like it, and neither does the runway. When you visit Saba, you can purchase a shirt that says "I survived the landing on Saba" It really is an intense landing with no room for error.

For a Flight Sim, they really should have added it because it is a very challenging approach.

A lot of pilots fly in the Carribean to earn their hours. I flew with a number of pilots whom eventually gained employment with American carriers. But, notwithstanding, it's an incredible area of the world to be a small time pilot in.

Work your way through the missions, you'll have a ball.

Merry Christmas.

yeah missions are way KEWL!! COOL!!

If, if I get FSX for X-Mas

Mees

Well that all depends if you have been good this year, as you may well know santa is always watching!!

i think jfk is the best one to start at