Places to fly

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FGFS has some of the most accurate and realistic terrain of any PC simulator. Here are some intersting places where you can do virtual sight seeing.

If you are starting with "fgrun" the FlightGear launcher, you can enter the airport id and select the runway on the appropriate screen in the startup wizard.

If you are starting from the command line you can use the options: "--airport=ABCD" and "--runway=12L" options.

If you know if any other interesting places or routes to fly, please let me know and I can add them to this list. p.s. charts are generated using flightgear data only.

Southern Tip of Chile

right after take off
Some part of the scenery

Gary Carvell: Here is a suggestion for the FlightGear Places to Fly page. I don't have any particular routes, just fly around and enjoy the gorgeous scenery.
These three airports are in the same region of the very southern tip of Argentina. This area is a scenic wonderland - a maze of islands, mountains, and ocean channels. Hours of entertainment.
SCGZ - Puerto Williams Guardiamarina Zanartu Airport, Chile Located on the north coast of Isla Navarino facing the Beagle Channel. At 55 deg S. longitude, Puerto Williams is considered the southernmost town in the world.
SAWH - Ushuaia Islas Malvinas Airport SAWO - Ushuaia Est Aeronaval Airport Ushuaia, on the south coast of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, on the the Beagle Channel.

Airports and coordinates

Approaching Ushumaia Malvinas Argentinas
Latitude: -54.931072 Longitude: -67.626261

Suggested aircraft

Just left the scgz airport

I personally like to fly this area in the Catalina, it's a great sightseeing plane with the advantage that you can take off and land just about anywhere.

flightgear launching

fgfs --airport=SCGZ --aircraft=Catalina

Round Valley Airport

right after take off
Valley

Covalis, CA. The airport is at the West edge of a 7 mile across valley.
The predominant wind is a cross wind. Take-offs to the west (if they use the full runway length) often have to fly between 2 small hills and over another valley while gaining altitude. Most pilots take off to the west.
It is a paved runway and quite long. It was designated as an emergency recovery field during the Cold War and was used twice that I know of by military aircraft that could not take off again from the field.

Airports and coordinates

Latitude: 39.790156 Longitude: -123.266403

Suggested aircraft

I have tried this trip using a p38, quite powerful airplane

flightgear launching

fgfs --airport=O09 --runway=28 --aircraft=p38