How do you guys keep the game interesting?

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...How do you give yourself objectives to keep pushing for? ...

I download the different manuals (FCOM, etc.) from the Internet from the aircraft that interest me and then deal intensively with this aircraft.

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I don’t really plan to play any other sims for awhile because my computer isn’t great, and I love having aerofly on the go on my switch. This game is so fun and realistic, but it doesnt have working radios, multiplayer, or any missions, so how do you guys keep the game interesting? How do you give yourself objectives to keep pushing for? So far I’ve been learning the learjet inside and out meanwhile I’m doing cross country flights to see places I want to visit in the future.

Here some of the ideas that I put in motion for myself:

• Creating Airline Tours or different realworld flights in and out of several airports that the airline operates.
• Learning and Training on new aircraft by following procedures as learned in manuals, JustPlanes videos or other real-world sources.
• Mixing short-, medium- and longhaul flights and jumping from continent to continent.
• Finding new real world flights that will be introduced later this year, and flying them once to get the feel of how that flight would look like.
  (eg. KEWR-LEPA in the Summer months with a United B789)
• Combining Cargo and Passenger flights to different kind of airports.

Since I used to fly back in the days with FS9 a lot, I still have tons of memories from many airports, be it for the approach, (eg. to VHHX or LPMA) the online experiences with other simmers (eg. to GCLP or VTBS) or simply the bad but adventurous weather/visibility. (eg. LEBB or LSZH)

Flying some aircraft category you really love, in my case gliders in ASF4.

• Get into a new aircraft once in a while and really try to get the details right.
• Try out good-old VOR / NDB procedures like holding, intercepting or really complicated approaches without the help of GPS. Really trying to master these requires a supringsing amount of sessions.
• Imagine a long-range trip in a small aircraft which requires multiple stops. (My favourite trip was in an Pitts S-2 from Hamburg, Germany to Mariehamn, Åland - without GPS or any other kind of navigational equipment.)
• I also had a mission generator for approach lessons and HEMS missions. The HEMS generator was quite thrilling.

To make matters more interesting I fly with current weather, date and time.

HEMS = Helicopter Emergency Medical Services

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What is HEMS

In a nutshell, HEMS is a helicopter performincing emergency medical services.

Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) | SKYbrary Aviation Safety

The mission generator took a map of possible emergency locations, hospitals and helicopter landing pds, and created a bunch of missions with real weather. It also place some emergency vehicles at the emergency site, so you had to spot this from the helicopter.

Here is the old project:

aerofly-patterns/docs/hems.md at main · fboes/aerofly-patterns

✈️ Create random custom missions for Aerofly FS 4. - fboes/aerofly-patterns

github.com

But actually I am building a new tool which integrates the Wettergerät, Missionsgerät and Landegerät into one single package (with less complicated workflows), with an additional "build your own" mission generator.

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• Get into a new aircraft once in a while and really try to get the details right.
• Try out good-old VOR / NDB procedures like holding, intercepting or really complicated approaches without the help of GPS. Really trying to master these requires a supringsing amount of sessions.
• Imagine a long-range trip in a small aircraft which requires multiple stops. (My favourite trip was in an Pitts S-2 from Hamburg, Germany to Mariehamn, Åland - without GPS or any other kind of navigational equipment.)
• I also had a mission generator for approach lessons and HEMS missions. The HEMS generator was quite thrilling.

To make matters more interesting I fly with current weather, date and time.

Recently I did the stunning VOR approach into Puerto Natales in Patagonia from Santiago. The procedure isn’t in aerofly, but if you find the chart it will give you everything you need. Raw data flying + stunning scenery = Perfection.