The thing I love about the little "Bug Smashers" is the ability to have loads of fun popping from one grass/dirt airstrip to the next, at low altitudes and just admiring the surrounding scenery slowly unfolding around me...
...something which is not possible in large, complex, shiny, jet-propelled, passenger Cigar Tubes...
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which is why you never catch me any where near a large, complex, shiny.....etc...etc...
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The largest/fastest plane I ever fly in FS 2004 is my trusty Beech Baron 58 when I really want to cover some distance reasonably fast...
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...otherwise its either one of Mr. Cessna's little babies, or my selection of affordable Microlights and Flexwings...
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Paul...G-BPLF...low and slow is the way to go... 8-)...!
So true. I love being able to hop into an aircraft, flip a few switches, set mixture/propellor controlls, fire it up, taxi out to the runway while watching out for the occasional bugsmasher doing pattern circuits, and taking off to fly wherever I want
So much more relaxing that going through a long, complicated startup checklist, and than navigating through busy airports and busy airspaces, ect
Not that I don't occasionally fly an IFR flightplan with a small business jet, but I usually avoid large commercial airliners
If I do want to fly something big, I'll fly a B-17/24, DC-3/4/6, B-247, ect. Being able to complete an IFR cross country flight in one of those is so much more challenging and rewarding than an aircraft with a glass cockpit, GPS, and a fancy autopilot that will fly and navigate the aircraft for you
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