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: :sweat_smile:](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/images/emoji/twitter/sweat_smile.png?v=12)
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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: :laughing:](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/images/emoji/twitter/laughing.png?v=12)
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: :slight_smile:](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
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](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/uploads/default/original/4X/f/1/9/f194a04f1552a5b5421a26f0a5152fe47d5db705.jpeg)
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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
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(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: :innocent:](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/images/emoji/twitter/innocent.png?v=12)
I will give that a flight later.
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Which server do you connect with?
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: :grinning:](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/images/emoji/twitter/grinning.png?v=12)
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: :smiley:](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=12)
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: :wink:](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=12)
Real vs default scenery:
3rd-party freeware:
https://flightsim.to/file/6929/7s3-stark-s-twin-oaks-hillsboro-or
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