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Hi Erik,
On Tue, 24 May 2005 00:11:15 +0200, you wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a route to fly with nice terrain and so
> on..please not to long
If you enjoy short hops, the San Juan islands in Washington state, USA
can be nice. Many of the islands have small airstrips (some paved,
some grass and/or dirt). This type of island hopping is perfect for
*unplanned* VFR flying (quasi-Quilling, as it were), as you can just
fly over an island, spot an airstrip, then decide to land. I enjoy
this type of thing because I love practicing my landings!
I also really enjoy flying along the coast and into the mountains
along the west coast of B.C. (Canada), continuing up along the
southeast/southcentral Alaska coast. The Fjords on the western coast
of New Zealand's south island are also very nice to fly over. The
mountains in Europe are also nice to fly over. Island hopping in
Hawaii can be fun as well.
I'm not very inspired by flying over crowded cities or hundreds of
miles of flat cornfields and such, so I'm always looking for
interesting mountains and islands to fly around. The "best of the
best" for me are areas where mountains meet the sea, and there are
plenty of interesting fjords and river valleys to explore.
> I have FS2004, and it runs with full settings...almost..... but no
> addons...
No add-ons?! Eek! You really must do something about this serious
oversight!
Even if you don't want to use payware add-ons, there
are many good freeware add-ons available; as long as disk space isn't
terribly limited.
If you're interested in flying over western Washington, B.C. and
Alaska, do visit the avsim.com file library and search for "Holger
Sandmann" (no quotes necessary). Holger created the beautiful
payware "Misty Fjords" scenery, but he has also created many nice
freeware sceneries, which, like Misty Fjords, are a combination of
enhanced terrain mesh and hand painted scenery elements that correct
many problems with the default mesh and coastlines, rivers, lakes,
etc.
FSGenesis also offers some freeware terrain mesh (limited sections of
payware products, etc.).
There are many other bits of freeware mesh and scenery for all parts
of the world. If you tell us which areas you're most interested in,
I'm sure someone will be able to mention their favorite add-ons for
those areas.
I could go on and on, but I've got some errands to run, so I really
have to get out of here...now!
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Melissa
PGP Public Keys: http://www.freewebs.com/kuviahunnihautik/
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