by gryshnak » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:24 pm
I think the actual location is actually less important than the nature of the tour. Flying around France is much like flying around many other European countries. Unless there are some dramatic landscape features, why and how are more important than where - spending 30+ minutes on AP over flat terrain holds little appeal to me, no matter where in the world it is.
I'd rather follow a course, for instance: take off from a given runway, fly around (and below) a particular pylon on a mountain top, do a touch and go on a small grass airstrip at the foot of the mountain, then land at a given destination.
Just for fun, do it with real time weather or make it so everyone has to fly biplanes that week, or carry at least 12 passengers, or fly a plane from a particular decade, or designed by a French company, or something like that.
Just IMHO, of course, but that's what I'd look for in a tour.
Gryshnak