What kind of flying does everyone like?

1st Official Post

    What kind of flying do you like best 14

    1. Stunts (8) 57%
    2. Long pre planned flights (11) 79%
    3. Long random flights (5) 36%
    4. Noodling about (4) 29%
    5. Crashing aimlessly into buildings to see what happens (0) 0%
    6. Getting as high as you can (3) 21%
    7. Flying as low as you can for a while (7) 50%
    8. Autopilot scenics (4) 29%

    Please choose the style of flying that you like best on aerolfly! If I have not listed your favourite, then comment it below.
    PLEASE LIMIT YOURSELF TO UP TO 3 CHOICES!

    I absolutely love "boundary flying" as illustrated in these two YouTube videos:

    http://youtu.be/65HXRxlG8wo
    http://youtu.be/reFM0AlC0Rw

    So discovering interesting graphics quirks in AFS is one of my favorite pastimes. I also like to test out all the places it is possible to land, such as the middle of a river, lake, or on top of the long horizontal buildings next to the Zurich airport. Finally, I like flying and landing in foggy conditions:

    http://youtu.be/RaYxRgDwbXQ
    http://youtu.be/9B0KR8wCnLs
    http://youtu.be/0jqEeM9pi3s

    Best,

    Adak47

    Regarding low flying, in FS the engines die outside the Swiss border so a non cheat VOR approach (using the top display distance and rough direction) into Geneva 05 was impossible so I tried the circling approach from runway 23. The detail around Geneva airport is not great so that proceedure was fun, with the visibility turned well down of course.

    • Official Post

    Hi,

    "Long pre planned flights" Do you mean long haul flights? or just long planned?

    I enjoy several "kinds of flying" in simulators:

    a) Touch and go training with all kinds of aircraft at difficult airports:

    Airports like like Innsbruck, London City or in the aerofly FS Alpnach RWY 19 left AND right circuit, right being the most difficult one, especially in a jet.

    I) Take off, do a teardrop to one side, do a touch and go, teardrop to the other side touch and go again and so on. When I do a teardrop to the left for example I turn off course to the left by about 40-60°, then swing it around to the right and usually am perfectly established on a short final.
    II) Take off, do a circuit touch and go, repeat. Sometimes I make the circuits very very tight to get as many landings per minute as possible.

    Its a very good training for the piloting skills, managing speed and height and also establishing the approach in as little space as possible in as little time as given, forcing myself to a fast stabilization of the final approach. And then of course touching down very precisely... could do that all day.

    b) Do a complete flight from A to B and sometimes also back.

    Usually I tend to fly about one hour flights with an airliner from cold and dark to cold and dark in simulators. I use online tools to get a real world flight plan: http://www.edi-gla.co.uk/fpl/index.php
    Then I copy the flight plan to a desktop tool to get a company route for the aircraft or I enter it manually in the aircrafts computers.
    Start up the aircraft, taxi, take off, usually fast forward the boring stuff, establish the approach, manual landing, taxi, shut down.
    Sometimes I use ATC, sometimes I don't.

    That's a great way to learn procedures and the aircrafts systems... learning by doing.

    Cheerio,
    Jan

    Regards,

    Jan

    Quote from Jet-Pack

    I enjoy several "kinds of flying" in simulators:

    a) Touch and go training with all kinds of aircraft at difficult airports

    b) Do a complete flight from A to B and sometimes also back.

    Usually I tend to fly about one hour flights with an airliner from cold and dark to cold and dark in simulators. I use online tools to get a real world flight plan: http://www.edi-gla.co.uk/fpl/index.php
    Then I copy the flight plan to a desktop tool to get a company route for the aircraft or I enter it manually in the aircrafts computers.
    Start up the aircraft, taxi, take off, usually fast forward the boring stuff, establish the approach, manual landing, taxi, shut down.
    Sometimes I use ATC, sometimes I don't.

    OMG, Jan. That is some serious flying! I mean cranking up a flight in a heavy and using a real world flight plan (great circle, no doubt) to complete the trip is serious sim-ing. I suppose it does help to have the advanced avionics and autopilot of a heavy to do some of the flying, but still… Very impressive. Other than goofing around (rare for me) I almost never fly a heavy. I am afraid I prefer WWII style aviation: that is, navigating mostly by pilotage and dead-reckoning using primitive instruments.

    I often practice teardrop and quick-circle landing patterns, and agree completely on the value of that for learning to stabilize the aircraft quickly on final, and for mastering slow-flight skills generally. I sometimes take-off and immediately enter a 360 climbing and then descending turn (at the 180 point) keeping the circle rounded all the way to touch down. I find that a challenge. The great thing about a sim is that you can fly patterns that would never be permitted in the real world, except perhaps in an emergency.

    A multiplayer fly-in would be a great way to practice these kinds of landings with fellow pilots, and to learn techniques from others.

    Cheers,

    Adak47