Do many of you guys fly out of your home airport? I would love to see some of you at mine

I fly out of a small regional airport in Columbus Indiana KBAK. We are nationally recognized as a fine general aviation airport with nice amenities. About 40 nautical miles to the North is Indianapolis International KIND, And a little bit farther to the South is Cincinnati and northern Kentucky International KCVG.

I would love to see some of you guys there and I would also love to see some posts of your local airports as I would like to give a lot of regional airports to try.

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There is a small airport / airfield about 15 minutes from my house. I like to go there and watch the planes coming in and departing. Luckily Aerosoft has an add on for it. It’s really accurate.

The video is a little old since I just started making videos after FSX again :sweat_smile:

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My home airport has 8 runways and >30M passengers, so they don’t let me just hop on the runway when I want to go sight seeing :laughing:

I usually fly in and out of there on something very big.

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Yes I have all of the airports in my area as add-ons and like to use them. Sadly YPAD on Xbox does cause memory problems so I don’t fly there as often as I’d like.

Australia is a great country to fly around with a lot of varied scenery which looks spectacular from the air. As a large and spread out country air travel is of course very important, with a good range of short and medium haul internal flights and long haul international. Even the longest non stop flights worldwide IRL.

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Same here! I love flying from my local small airports. I leave in Paris, France, but also fly (in real) as much as possible from San Diego. So, I have several choices and even rebuild them as freeware for MSFS/PC and the community.

From San Diego, where several regional exist and my flying club resides (Plus One Flyers) : Montgomery Field (KMYF), Gillespie (KSEE) or Ramona (KRNM)

Montgomery Field (KMYF)

Gillespie (KSEE)

Ramona (KRNM)

In Paris, France my flying club is based on two airfields in the south-west of Paris:

Toussus-Le-Noble (LFPN)

Saint-Cyr-L’Ecole (LFPZ)

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I kind of have difficulty deciding which one is my home airport based on how far it is away and where I trained out of to get my pilot certificates and ratings. So I consider both as my home airport :slight_smile:

For me KSNA, John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA is the closest airport to me as I live only 10 minutes away from it by just taking the streets and not highways. You can actually see my house in the picture that is provided there lol. I usually do most of my flights out of here 90% of the time.

From where I trained was out of was KLGB, Long Beach Airport, CA.

Really hard for me to choose love both these airports. If I did have to choose one, I would prefer KLGB as it is more GA friendly and it being a Class D airspace makes it easier to fly in and out of there. KSNA is a Class C airspace and is more focused on commercial aircraft rather than GA.

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I will take off from KBAK next time I fly, probably on Sunday. My home airport is KTLH, Tallahassee. Stealthy Duck makes a nice Tallahassee add-on.

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Anyone fly out of (or into) KMTN Martin State Airport, Maryland ?

KMTN1

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Hi Mark, I sim out of my local uncontrolled airport KLNA in Lantana Florida, most mornings at 9AM Eastern time (Unless I get an invite to meet someone somewhere else :sunglasses:)

(I got my private pilot license there in 1997 and often park when returning from a flight where the flight school’s rentals always needed to be parked.)

The planes I fly most are the canard pusher #indiafoxtecho LongEZ, the Cabri G2 helicopter, and the ICON A5 pusher seaplane, although I have fired up the Diamond DV20, and the Cessna 150 (which I got my PPL in).

I am always looking for folks to fly with, and I do voice comms and stream my flights on Discord as LongEzDreamer#6022. The Discord streaming allows me to “take passengers” or “be a passenger” in someone elses flight! DM me here or on Discord and we’ll arrange a time “I can meet you at KBAK” and fly together. (It will be a little nicer to visit Indiana that way than one of my business trips to Evansville back in 2010, when I woke up to below zero temps and had to scrape my car’s windshield.)

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My MSFS gamertag is Hoboflier, I fly with a couple of buddies but am always looking for folks to fly with.

I will definitely try your home airport as I’m always looking for new places to fly epecially smaller airports.

When I get my PC turned on and a little bit I will look for your Discord.

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I used to fly out of CYYJ Victoria BC, but there are terrain glitches all around that look like they will never be fixed. I never go there now. You can find me at Whidbey Island, Seattle or Vancouver now.

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What do you guys think about EHMZ, my local airfield, really curious :innocent:

I will give that a flight later.

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Which server do you connect with?

Usually USA West

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Mine is RPVI (Iloilo International Airport) in the Philippines. I live about 11km away from it.

It has a single runway and no taxiway so theres the back-taxi action when youre on the big planes.

Its primary traffic is from Airbus A320ceo/neo from Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines. Theres is a small GA outfit that has C172s. Come visit in MSFS :grinning:

Sorry not MSFS shots I’m on my phone.

A video:

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Great little airfield, fly there regularly from EHBK with the C172 or the C182T

I fly out of KFCM, Flying Cloud MN. It’s where I took my Demo flight and where I plan on going to school.

I fly around my area (Ottawa) a lot. It’s nice that my city is ‘photogramerized’ quite well.

My ‘home’ airport is Rockliffe (CYRO) , a little strip by the river.

I also have Macdonald/Cartier Int’l (CYOW)and Gatineau (CYND)airports.

Sometimes I like to fly out of 7S3 (Stark’s Twin Oaks), a small airfield in the edge of the burbs/country outside Portland, Oregon that’s popular with local GA fliers and home to the local EAA chapter. The default sim version has the hangars much too tall, which is a source of mirth for the locals. :smiley:

There’s a customized version on fightsim dot to, but I had some compatibility problems with the hangars which not everyone can reproduce. Ah, MSFS. :wink:

Real vs default scenery:

3rd-party freeware:

https://flightsim.to/file/6929/7s3-stark-s-twin-oaks-hillsboro-or

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