"FlyingAxx" wrote:

Nice plan Marcel,

Thanks, Axel!

I'm sure you know, that you can't make the poles and the equator route
is boring because there is too much water. I'm not keen to count
fishes - even if there are flying g.

Well....I flew over the North Pole once in an F-14 at FL500. Using FS2k.
I couldn't get a decent reading on any of my instruments, but I flew over it
and past it, just to turn back and land at Anchorage.
When I tried it in the Baron (using FS2k2) I was in real trouble.
I don't see why it should be impossible to fly North-South at an even higher
altitude in something even faster.
When I get some time, maybe even this weekend, I'll try a hop in my trusty
Blackbird at FL700. And I'll do it in FS9 on my laptop.
I want to see the results.....and I'll tell you all about it. Maybe I'll
make some
screenshots of the instruments.
The key is to fly manually. When you let the AP fly, you will most certainly
crash and burn!

I do agree on the equator flight being boring, but when you're facing a
challenge
you should go all the way. And that's where, again, the Blackbird comes in.
I figure that whole trip will cost me 6-7 hours.


It's not too easy to plan a really interesting flight just staying
close to a great circle. The best chance to have as much land as
possible is starting somewhere in Europe towards Auckland.

My trip isn't even a real circle, but I had to compensate.
Our planet looks really funky when you're planning a flight like this.
Originally I was going to go from Madagascar to India, but then I realized
I would upset Aussie John and Kiwi Don if I didn't check out Australia and
New Zealand on that trip. And since I could use French-Polynesia to get to
South America from there, I went that way.

Next time I'll do Alaska, Northern Europe, Russia, Asia, Hawaii, Western US,
Canada and back to Alaska. But just once I'd like to go to every country in
the
sim world in one, single trip!

Marcel