Post by George de Tuncq on Aug 13, 2012 20:32:30 GMT -5
I don't think that I have exhausted ways to find places to land but here is a short guide.
There is no index and most airports are not shown. If you zoom in by clicking on the next to top mark on the zoom scale all the little places will show as you drag the map around but you lose touch with where you are. It may be necessary to zoom out to get oriented.
Click on one of the airport/strip dots and a window opens. You can choose to start in the air or on the ground. I generally prefer in the air to look over the area.
You don't have to fly from place to place if you don't want to spend the time. Find the next airport on the map and click and do the same as before.
The silly stylized map isn't much use. If your machine will do it open both Flight and Google Earth. Minimize the Flight window using Alt-Tab and then get oriented in Google. Then minimize Google, bring up Flight and drag your plane icon to where you want to be.
Comparing the Flight towns, airports and military bases it looks to me like Flight came up with a way to convert Google Earth into scenery. Let's give MS a hand on that.
The Alaska scenery comes with a Cub with no cockpit. To me it is no problem because there is the HUD with all the flight data you need for day VFR. It is fun to watch the Cub leap into the air from outside, beats the cockpit experience of take off, I think. On landing it also makes it easier to miss those trees strategically placed close to the end of the runway.
If anyone has learned something that should be added to this please let all of us know.
And finally, may MS keep their servers going until we all run out of places to fly in Alaska.
There is no index and most airports are not shown. If you zoom in by clicking on the next to top mark on the zoom scale all the little places will show as you drag the map around but you lose touch with where you are. It may be necessary to zoom out to get oriented.
Click on one of the airport/strip dots and a window opens. You can choose to start in the air or on the ground. I generally prefer in the air to look over the area.
You don't have to fly from place to place if you don't want to spend the time. Find the next airport on the map and click and do the same as before.
The silly stylized map isn't much use. If your machine will do it open both Flight and Google Earth. Minimize the Flight window using Alt-Tab and then get oriented in Google. Then minimize Google, bring up Flight and drag your plane icon to where you want to be.
Comparing the Flight towns, airports and military bases it looks to me like Flight came up with a way to convert Google Earth into scenery. Let's give MS a hand on that.
The Alaska scenery comes with a Cub with no cockpit. To me it is no problem because there is the HUD with all the flight data you need for day VFR. It is fun to watch the Cub leap into the air from outside, beats the cockpit experience of take off, I think. On landing it also makes it easier to miss those trees strategically placed close to the end of the runway.
If anyone has learned something that should be added to this please let all of us know.
And finally, may MS keep their servers going until we all run out of places to fly in Alaska.
