This a beautiful sim and the scenery is awesome. I would like to experience all parts of the world in the daytime. When its nighttime in Australia I try to scan the world and find a place to fly where its daytime. But sometimes I just end up at a big airport near a city.
I have no idea in the world where are the prettiest scenery and places to visit are. I’m basically looking for some airport codes around the world that would give me the above. I would happy if simmers in Europe, North America, Canada and Asia could suggest some good airport codes that are not near a big city and give some beautiful scenery to fly over.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Moved to #community:world-discovery
Well I can help with something in the US.
1L8 - 00UT - KBCE - 1L7 - KLOA - KHVE
If you generally follow Utah route numbers 9, 89, 12, and 24 on the map then that is pretty much a scenic route through the US state of Utah.
I’m always interested in suggestions outside the US too
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May I suggest my (free) flight planner, GTFP?
You can pick one of 253 ‘Wonders’ and it will give you a plan from the nearest airport, to the ‘wonder’, and back to the airport.
If you do not want to actually load the flight plan into MSFS, GTFP will give you the code of the airport, the lat/lon of the ‘wonder’, and distances and headings.
Furthermore, you can put in your own POI (e.g. ‘Great Pyramid of Giza’) and GTFP can provide a route to that from the nearest airport (and give you the AP code).
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I’d suggest any airport on the west coast of Norway. Enjoy!
The Alps have beautiful scenery.
Bolzano Airport has a great area.
Try a trip from Bolzano to Innsbruck LiPB - LOWI
Any RNAV approach 19L or 19R into KLAS. You get the entire Strip in front of you and pax get to see it when you land. I know it’s a city approach the but the views are still fantastic
KLGA has a really nice approach via the Hudson and Manhattan just zooms by. Again, City but still a fantastic route to fly if you’re paying attention
KASE or KTEX (Aspen and Telluride Colorado). Amazing canyon run approach. I’d say a bit easier than Innsbruck (LOWI) or Paro (VQPR) as far as approaches go. Both LOWI and VQPR also have amazing canyon run approaches
You can depart Cuzco Airport in Peru (SPZO) and head south and spot the Nazca Lines or head west and tour the Andes mountains. The Challenge will be staying aloft with the thin air!
Island Nations in the Carribbean, Micronesia, Polynesia or Melanesia (Tonga, Fiji, Papua New Guinea etc) make for good puddle jumps and bush flying. Start at St Maarten (TNCM) or St Barthélemy (TFFJ) and see how it feels
Last but not least, the Last Frontier: Alaska. Start at PANC, head north and look for Santa Claus
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. Its time to try them all out.. 
Was looking for a “cool airports to try” topic and this was the closest, so here I go… 
I was poking around new Oceana airports and if you want a challenging landing (do not take a DC-3 :-), check out PTNG, Sapwuahfik atoll. It’s a tiny 1200 foot airstrip in Micronesia and I thought Asobo had screwed things up as I was looking at it on approach, but the real runway actually was affected by erosion and they have to use boats to ferry passengers from the runway. What I thought was a messed up generic runway in the water is actually fully modeled and realistic.
Not posting a screenshot because it’s pretty cool to see how they did the runway, after you land on it. Check out the nearby beach for the boats.
The whole Atoll is modeled fairly nicely; kind of cool to see the various islands and the underwater portion. If you want to do a full flight rather than just an approach/landing, PTPN is about 90 miles away and they did a really nice job on that airport and some of the island details there.
(The real atoll)
Learning some really cool geography with this sim!
