Even when flying bush trips by timing and finding landmarks visually there are several issues that are detrimental to the experience.
- I still quit to menu after every leg. Contrary to all release notes, bush trip legs still don’t count properly against your flight hours. The only way to “fix” that is by flying each leg individually.
1.1. This is of course annoying as hell, you have to reposition windows, etc.
1.2. G1000 flight plan gets messed up very easily when starting any leg others than the first. You have to use Direct-To functionality so that it points to the proper one
1.2. VR windows get messed up all the time - Many bugs in the text descriptions and waypoints overall. From the roundabout 30 bush trips that are available at the moment, maybe one or two are without issues. Some waypoints are wrongly labelled, some have bad headings, text are wrong etc. Several bush trips duplicate waypoints from other bush trips, sometimes waypoints have an off-by-one issue. The list goes on…
- Fueling. This has been changed countless times and is still not acceptable. It would be ideal if you’d had the option to manually refuel.
- Weather. It’s always fixed. While I get that this makes it easier to recreate a certain mood or time of day it’s often really dull default weather, i.e. no weather at all.
- No ATC or any radio chatter. It feels sterile.
- Always the same planes. This got a little better with recently released bush trips but not too long ago it’s been always either 172, XCub or G36.
I still tend to do all the bush trips as I am a completionist, mostly the keep 100% in the menu. The one bush trip that I really loved was the California bush trip that has an achievement. The choice of route, plane and weather was just perfect. It had legs of 30 to 45 minutes in length, not those 10 minute jumps that you see in other trips. The Patagonia bush trip comes second, it’s been beautiful as well.