Any flights you're particularly proud of?
So, time for people to say their major flightsim achievements.. My current favourite is a flight I did with the DC-3 Takeoff from Luqa, climb to 8,000ft, went round Etna and back to land at Luqa The DC-3 has an interesting autopilot... it just maintains heading and pitch angle - you then use the throttles to keep the plane from climbing or descending.

Sounds cool Mark, I never really experimented that much with the DC-3 myself, the most I did was some VFR flying here and there, never used its autopilot. One flight simulator trip which I am quite proud of is an Air Malta B737 Relief flight. I based the flight on a real one, which was flown after the Tsunami disaster in December of 2004. Aircraft: Air Malta Boeing 737-300 (9H-ADI) Routing: Malta - Cairo - Dubai - Colombo - Dubai - Cairo - Malta. Call sign: KM 01A (going) and KM 02B (return) Total flight time: 20 hour 54 minutes Regards, Junior

re Any flights you're particularly proud of?
I havent had any major achievment (yet) but a flight which was very interesting from Malta to Torino on IVAO. They had around 150 inbound traffic and I had to stay on a holding pattern for quite some time. On final had to keep minimums as I was no 2 for landing. :roll:

Traffic on landings is a problem in flightsim, especially when you're No.2 after some Cessna. The program's AI simply doesn't make any allowance for performance differences in the separations and the Go-Around procedure on flightsim is an absolute pain. What I do is: 1. Slow down as much as possible 2. Zig-zag my approach to increase separation 3. Request cancel IFR, perform a circuit and request landing on VFR However, if mum's calling for dinner, to hell with the Cessna, gear up, flaps five degrees, open throttle and overfly the little bugger, then decelerate again and land before him. "World Travel 2318 you were not cleared to land. Please clear runway next taxiway" Gee, ATC goes mad when I do it!

Never tried IVAO ? Its a network where you can join other pilots, have live profesional atc and updated weather system....I always fly on the network and never offline. Its much more fun ! :D PS: and its free

Yeah tried once... didn't manage to connect! :( besides, you cannot have fun doing stpid things on ivao ;)

Hey everybody, Well, the most flight I am proud of since now is when I did a night IFR from Humbarg to John F Kennedy airport. Aircraft: A380 Airline: Emirates Call sign: (dep.) Emirates 380 (arr.) Emirates 381 I am planning a VFR flight with the microlight which begins from MLA to Fiumi & 2 stops in reggio & naples.

How about landing a Super VC-10 at London City airport? Yes I managed it, minimum fuel load, no payload, autobrake on max, and yes managed to come to a stop by the piano keys... taxying was different problem though! There ain't room to manouver such a big plane! "London tower, BOAC requesting pushback assistance..."