Around the world in an F-18 First Leg Manchester to Rome

[Dave71K]

I've done a few round the world trips but never in a single seater so I decided to take the Superbug out for a spin.

First leg My home city Manchester to Rome

Departing Manchester.


Climbing towards the sun rise.


Going to super cruise ( I know the F-18 doesn't normally cruise super sonic but I had fuel to spare )


Over the Alps


Arriving in Rome


Touch down at Fiumicino airport. (I hit the bit limit so this one is sadly low quality.)



Next stop Cairo!

Thanks for looking

[Fishbed7701]

Nice shots! I've always wanted to do an around the world flight, but I never figured out which aircraft to use.

[Club508]

Gotta love the F/A-18!  Round' the world baby!
wonderful shots!  Man, I can't belive they're not edited!  what time of day, weather and scenery did you use?

[jetprop]

thats not supercruise;supercruise is mach 1 or greater WITOUTH afterburner.

great shots anyways. 8-)

[Dave71K]

Thanks for the comments everyone!

[Club508]

[quote]@Club508 I'm using the VRS Superbug, REX maxed out for the general scenery, Manchester Airport by UK2000 (Free version) for the first shot and all my sliders and max. I pause turn everything up then take the shot. No way I could run the sim at that detail I only have a i3.

They are slightly edited, I just press the Auto-level button on Paint.net before I re-size them I do it to most my pics except the contest entries. It makes them a bit nicer to look at.
The point of the shots is totally the round the world trip so hopefully they fall under the 'Your flight simulator experience' category.