NZFF

I'd like to know what you do in your flight simulator

Fly jets on 4 hour ifr flights or fly small cessnas in a small circles?

Give me your opinions

I fly a beech 1900d between wellington-woodbourne heeps of takeoffs and landings
and sometimes a 737-800 between akl-wellington

jetscream wrote:

QUOTE (jetscream @ Dec 29 2008, 10:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I fly a beech 1900d between wellington-woodbourne heeps of takeoffs and landings
and sometimes a 737-800 between akl-wellington

i like aircraft with easy auto pilot

beech 1900d or dash 8-300 from whangarei to auckland

Mostly helicopter flights normally hopping around between NZMB NZHN NZRO NZAP down to welly sometimes and wanaka X flights ,plus we do alot of formation flights online with Ian and the guys that are always fun ,,heavys are random flights for me and are no way as long as they use to be ...

I still fly Cargo Pilot alot in NZ and Aussie.

Fly mainly prop aircraft, but still enjoy the hops over to Oz or islands in a 737 or Bombadeir.

Love the new Twotter and have already clocked over 15 hours in the last week.

Enjoy short strips for a challenge. Enjoy a bit Rotary time, but not in the last few months.

Cheers and happy flying

I take "classic-lover" tourists all around New Zealand. My company is called Oldtime Air
I fly : Howard500, DC-3, Spartan 7W Executive, and our RNZAF DH Devon. To have a nice and relaxed atmosphere, I listen to the smooth jazz of the 50's on the fly.
Oh, I almost forgot. The whole thing would be a bit boring for me without FSPASSENGERS.

Heavy Metal Airline Pilot

It varies from month to month, but it's pretty much always a 'tour' around the place (eg i'll fly from PM to WN then save it then next time i fire up i load the saved flight as the default with my real weather file added in). The only thing that changes is what I fly in. It's either a heli of some sort (in which case I'll do some exploring around the region for a few days once I base myself at a particular airport before heading off to somewhere different) or it's some kind of niche aircraft. In all likelihood, the Flight1 ATR, BAC 111 or BAC Jet Provost.

I've found the 'tour' a good way to get around. Only point of contention is when you crash on approach or finals (crash as in pc or pilot error). You can't pretend you completed the leg and start the next flight at your destination, since you didn't make it, but it feels wrong starting the same sector again the next night.

At the moment I'm learning the avionics for an F/A-18E Superhornet on FS9 so far I've mastered the ramp start and A/A and dropping bombs in CCIP and CCRP. I've also been doing carrier OPs with the HMNZS Waikato Carrier which is cool aside the fact the spawn point is below the deck and requires slew to get to the CAT. I'm also still sussing out the FBW on this beast with both high Alpha and Pirouette and hopefully later today I'll do some inflight refuelling using another Hornet as tanker with the buddy refuelling config. As far as TACAN and Coms I haven't tried that out yet I'm still a noob with FS9.

Try and make a living.

Since discovering FSEconomy several months ago, my flights now have purpose. I (or at least the Bank) own a Piper J3 Cub which I use to move single pax and small freight lots (up to 150kg) around New Zealand.

I'm quite new to simming (about 12 months) and have found I enjoy re-enacting historic flights. I'm currently re-flying New Zealand's Cliff Tait's epic 1969 round-the-world flight in his Airtourer 115 from Hamilton. He flew it during my PPL training days and I followed the journey with great interest. (His actual plane is on display at MOTAT.) At the moment, I'm on the long leg from Guam to Iwo Jima. I'll fly/navigate for an hour or two, then save progress and read up on his next stage. I use "real-weather". There were interesting thunderstorms between Honiara and Tokua (originally Rabaul) the other night. I have also tried to use 1960's navigation technology but because Cliff relied quite a lot on his ability to "read the waves" for changes in wind directions that's not usually practical - FSX is not up to that standard (yet!) This means there is a lot of allowances made to the historical accuracy of the flight but that's OK.
I'm keeping a screenshot record of course but much of the Pacific, although very accurately portrayed, is pretty generic so pics of airfields have tended to have a sameness about them. I have allowed myself the luxury of detouring at times. My chief flying instructor was a WWII Corsair pilot once based on Green Island in the Solomons so I took time out to have a look at "his" area - it is now registered as Nissan but it is there in FSX and it appears to be accurately placed. I'm going to send him a copy of that screen shot but I don't expect he'll be very impressed.
I try to keep to Cliff's flight times too - his book "Flight of the Kiwi" is quite detailed in that respect.
As an experience I find this type of simming very challenging but also surprisingly rewarding.
I have some other historic routes lined up next including some of the Pacific Tourist flights from the glorious Flyingboat days of the 1950s and the fateful one-way flight to Erebus itself. The last great air race from England to NZ (1953?) could be interesting (plenty of planes to choose from) perhaps even Jean Batten's historic flight to Mangere from England if I can find a Percival Gull to fly and some accurate flight records.
Phil

I hate it when I have to think about this Nearly always end up thinking about how much time I'm wasting on the sim when I could be out doing something else.

Anyway, I pretty much do FSpassenger flights anywhere in the world, huge amount of fantastic freeware scenery out there when you really dig through (I'll have to post some in the Great sceneries outside NZ) thread when I get around to it. But on FSX....well, that's just the sim for me to mess around on, you know, air races, flying fighter jets etc.

Interesting stuff Phil ..did you know that Cliff Tait wrote an article at Flightsim.com on his adventures ..see here..

What aircraft are you using? Theres a nice Airtourer coming for FS9 and FSX ..see here

I do get mail every now again , from the Nelson region , and his name is Cliff Tait - could it be conincidents , another epic flight was the double crossing of the Tasman in a Fletcher back in Sep 1978 finishing at Wigram for the 50 th of Charles Kingsford Smiths first crossing from Richmond airport Australia .

I spend most of my time planning each leg for my world tour but i don't spend all my time with it.

I enjoy flying Beavers around Canada, found a great mesh for British Columbia, some of the valleys and lakes are awesome if you are into Mountain flying.

I fly Cargo Pilot. I am based in Whangarei, have a Caravan flying mail, chickens, general freight to Kerikeri, Coromandel, Raglan. I hate it when i damage the goods! "What da ya mean the chickens are damaged, they were like that when i put them on board, they are freight not passengers!!"

Lately i have been flying in Tasmania as i downloaded the free Orbx Tasmania Scenery which really shows off the true potential for fsx! Tazzy is a good size for your smaller planes, and it has some good topography to dead reckon around for a cruisy vfr afternoon flight.

Now if only Cod:WOW, GTA4, Far Cry 2, 1946 and Crysis didn't get in the way, i would do more!

I fly Maules, Beavers and 175's around Alaska (Glacier Bay), with FS Passengers. Also do alot of bush flying around Fiordland and the West Coast. Some really fantastic valleys to explore down that way with a low and slow VFR flight.

I am mostly a GA/Bush pilot but i do love flying domestic ANZ routes in my Vistaliners 737 (cheers Dan ), or in my ATR or Q300. I have set up my FS Passengers company called Kiwi Hopper. Routes include NZ to Oz, NZ to the Islands etc.

But yeah, mostly just Bush flying in NZ and Alaska.

Cheers, SB

I fly the Erickson S64E AirCrane & Sikorsky Seaking USCG around the entire Glacier Bay area.

Naki wrote:

QUOTE (Naki @ Jan 28 2009, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Interesting stuff Phil ..did you know that Cliff Tait wrote an article at Flightsim.com on his adventures ..see here..

What aircraft are you using? Theres a nice Airtourer coming for FS9 and FSX ..see here

Thanks Paul for the Cliff Tait article- it looks fascinating - I dislike reading long articles on-screen so will make hard copies and read them in comfort of my armchair later.
I selected the Mooney Bravo to fly this adventure. It's faster through the boring parts (cheating a bit I know) but on "Realism Settings: Hard" seems reasonably challenging. However, I prefer not to use the FD and the AP buttons - that's really cheating and are a nightmare after recovering a saved flight. I sometimes use the GPS but only to check my navigation on very long legs (currently 700 nM).
Thanks too for the tip re. the pending Airtourer.

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 28 2009, 11:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I do get mail every now again , from the Nelson region , and his name is Cliff Tait - could it be conincidents , another epic flight was the double crossing of the Tasman in a Fletcher back in Sep 1978 finishing at Wigram for the 50 th of Charles Kingsford Smiths first crossing from Richmond airport Australia .

I don't know where Cliff lives now but it might be worthwhile asking your contact if he is the Cliff Tait.

I'll do a little research and then maybe add the '78 Fletcher flight to my list (I do recall it but don't know any details - I can see this list can get quite long very quickly) - thanks Ian.
Phil

I am sure he lives here in Tauranga.