I do about 99% GA, except when I want to challenge myself with the FMC, systems, and staying ahead of the PMDG 737 (especially challenging while doing so single-pilot, which isn’t a thing in real life).
These days, MSFS offers a nice middle ground through many of the smaller bizjets and turboprops. They’re still able to operate normally below the flight levels, often VFR, fast enough to take longer trips, slow enough to enjoy the scenery, still appropriate for short hops, often able to get into short fields, and many can either be steam gauge or include a lot of systems management (G1000, G3000, or even the GTN750) if that’s your thing.
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I used to fly exclusively GA the first two years in MSFS. After learning how to communicate with ATC however, I much prefer flying airliners in VATSIM. Regular GA flying is just not challenging enough anymore. Of course you can fly GA in VATSIM too, I sometimes fly fast GA planes like the King Air and the Vision jet, but generelly they are too slow.
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I had an amazing flight in the C152 out of Duxford, headed for London. Was VFR, but quite murky all around me. Started dripping as I took off. Shortest fligth out of the squall was north, so headed for Cambridge. Once I was out of the rain I looked behind and saw a massive raincloud with thick sheets of rain over the airfield I just left. It was blowing across the field toward the east, and it was huge. I skirted around it, headed east then south, staying ahead og the rain all the time. The flight was a little bumpy, but not too bad, until I came over London. Sun peeked out a little by now, and the turbulence over the city was intense in the little cork I was flying. The landing was… well, I was sweating by the time we were down.
Those 90 minutes were great, a really interesting flight, and flying experience. In an airliner I would have cleared that rain in seconds, and never seen it again.
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