I’m in London in the UK. I may be a little different from many here in that I tend not to do sightseeing flights. Not that I don’t enjoy the scenery, but I’m more interested in operations and procedures unless I’m flying with friends, in which case generally they pick the destination and I just go along. I’ve been to many of the significant scenery areas in the sim on that basis.
Otherwise I will tend to pick a route based on my own interest in the origin and destination airports, or replicating a real-world route; that could be anywhere in the world, but usually only where I have 3rd party airports or the default airport is hand-crafted. Right now that’s mostly in Europe, but I want to expand my collection to the other continents.
I am very partial to routes in and out of London City, because that’s my local airport and my favourite to fly from in the real world. The steep approach (especially to 09) is spectacular.
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I live in CYGK. I use that as my home base in MSFS (Using SimAddons’ amazing CYGK add-on). In summer, I do a lot of small GA plane flying around eastern Ontario, but will jump into the TBM, HJet, Vision Jet or now Longitude and make longer flights all around eastern Canada and neighbouring states.
And like many aging Canadians, I take my flying to Florida during the winter where I don’t have to worry about my plane freezing up and falling out of the sky. I base myself out of KOPF, but also fly out of KORL a lot. I’ll run routes around various airports in Florida to the Keys and Bahamas, and even occasionally flying out to the neighbouring states.
I also enjoy flying in the SoCal area during these winter months, basing myself at KMYF in San Diego when I spend time in California.
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Flying in an area that I know well invariably leads to disappointment in my experience.
Live on the SE coast of the UK but I mainly fly VFR in Europe and sometimes in PNG
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Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say.
I like flying over London, Cambridge, New York, San Francisco. But my home town isn’t much to speak of. What with the giant trees, no apparent hill, the Cathedral looking nothing like it does in real life, its not so nice to look at.
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I live in Edmonton, AB so CYEG is my home base. Yes I do short flights to CYYC but it’s a straight line and not much interesting along the way, lol
So I usually fly to the west coast and back and forth from Vancouver/Vancouver Island down to various location in California and lots of places in between.
I lived in Seattle for some time so the Orcas Islands are a fun place to explore for me as well.
I also spend a lot of time on the east coast , with JFK my main hub. Love flying NY area and down the east coast. Lots to see here too.
Another favourite is the UK, there are plenty of add ons that really add to the experience. It’s also a lot of fun flying historical WWII era birds in this area.
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Thanks for sharing! Some great ideas for new routes 
What brought you to Edmonton from Seattle? Love the winter time? 
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Ha ha it was the other way round. I married a cute American girl and moved there first. But work took me back to Edmonton.
I love the Orcas islands, was even married there.
Have you ever taken the passenger ferry from Victoria to Seattle? It’s a great little trip. Highly recommend it
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Nice!
I lived there 30 years, now I’m in KAIK
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I haven’t, maybe one day! Thanks for sharing
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I live in Denmark. The country is flat as a pancake, but we have more than 8000 km of coast line and plenty small islands to explore. Just a few weeks ago I downloaded all sceneries for Denmark from flightsim.to and took the C182RG on a great trip. There are so many nice little airfields. Highly recommended.
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Just looked KAIK up in Navigraph, right next door to Augusta National! 
Have you flown over the property IRL?
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Thanks for sharing, these routes sound excellent! Any chance you can share them?
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Sounds like fun! I do tend to avoid the flatter areas but maybe I need to fly lower and slower to get more out of it? I suppose following the coast lines and looking for lakes adds some entertainment value as well hey?
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Very cool, I found the layout of the Orlando Intl runways interesting the one time landed there, does the wind pretty much always go north/south for the most part? Seems most airports have at least 1 runway going somewhat perpendicular to the others?
I really enjoyed the Italy bush trip actually, well I think it was a mountain range out that way that touches the neighboring countries too, can’t remember the name of it now.
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Most of the time the winds are southerly except when a front comes through, usually in the fall or winter, then they are northerly. I live about 8-9 miles north of planes approaching runway 18L. They’re at about 2000 ft at that point. Southwest and most overseas flights will use runway 17/36 L or R and Spirit, Frontier will use 18/36 L or R. About 12 miles north of MCO (which stands for McCoy btw which was I believe a navy airfield) is Orlando executive KORL which is a general aviation airport. Then north of that is Orlando Sanford KSFB which main runways are 9 and 27. So who knows why they choose the direction of runways. It’s more than just wind, a lot of it has to do with noise too.
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Yes, I need to error check them by flying them first.
i’ll post a Dropbox link soon
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My home base is KPDX. I have what I call my test loop - KPDX to KAST then KAST to KPDX. I use two different ‘standard’ IFR flight plans. I do this loop with any new ‘plane’ I acquire. The flight time can range from 30 min to 2plus hours depending on the type of plane. Both airports are complex enough to do just about any test I need to do.
Once I pick a plane I’d like to go more in-depth I do what I call my round-the-world flight in real time and real weather. The path I take can be in any direction ie latitude or longitudinally, east to west, west to east, north to south or south to north. At this moment I have landed in or on 176 different airports.
At this time I’m flying from PANC (anchorage,ak) south thru Canada then across t northern USA then down the east coast of the USA then the west coast of South America in the basic C172 glass cockpit to learn and become proficient in IFR procedures. This should produce just about any and all types of weather and airports. I predict about 70 to 100 hours of flying time.
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My Home Airport is VABB which translates to Mumbai,India.but i chose to fly out of VIDP, especially with new aircraft,it has multiple runways so great to test out ils approaches at various runways with new aircraft without adding much complexity.Plus given the amout of smog there is around VIDP,one has to quickly learn the ILS system in any aircraft. Also given its proximity flying to many small strips in the himalayas is quick to test out new aircraft and their performance and maneuvering with himalyan peaks besides you.
I have flown so much between VABB and VOBL in real life(almost every week for work(not a pilot irl)) that i have started to hate both of these airports now,flying at VABB in the sim reminds me of that.
Mostly these days i am flying over the hump routes,from ww2 that and parts of mayanmar,china etc.
I mostly fly cargo or in the case of atr regional services to smaller himalayan mountain towns or to islands in india/nepal/bangladesh,tibet/southen china/myanmar region etc. Its fun to fly challenging airstrips with payload/fuel penalties with no refuling options at the airport. I strictly fly VOR/NDB. Its fun trying to fin your way with mountains,clouds all around incase you loose your bearing.
Also there is this lack of msfs players around me,i haven’t really seen anyone on the multiplayer in my region 
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In MSFS a while ago I flew an A5 out of Orlando over the Theme Parks and landed on one of the Lakes within the Disney Magic Kingdom.
It was an interesting take off from the Lake
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