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10 years 8 months ago #12203 by stevieb56
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woundered if anybody could tell me there favourate airports to fly into and best scenery arriveing there thanks

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10 years 8 months ago #12204 by jer029
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Hey Steve,

Get the Orbx scenery around Alaska and then do Yoland's US Postal Flights listed under his Special Ops area. I found myself visiting many remote airstrips with great scenery including animations. I posted one in my album with a couple of campers drinking beer and reading paper - both animations.

That's some of my favorite bush flying, but the Orbx scenery is a must!

John Rogers
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10 years 8 months ago #12205 by stevieb56
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hi thanks cant afford to buy anything at the moment unemployed but will have look at alaska thanks what aircraft did you fly in alaska jer thanks

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10 years 8 months ago #12206 by jer029
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I think I had been using the Cessna 208 Caravan, but it made some shorter runways really difficult. If I get back to those flights again I would use the DeHavilland DHC2 Beaver.

There is a free download for the Caravan in our Fleet Section, but the Beaver is a payware from Aerosoft. Looking at our Bush planes section in the Fleet Section I would probably recommend starting with the Maule M-7.

Note that some of those flights are water landings so you will want a plane that has a float model.

Too bad you can't add scenery from Orbx. Personally, I think the scenery adds so much to the experience I think I'd buy that first over any payware aircraft - especially for bush flying like this that has you low enough to see things.

Anyway, the Beaver pretty much floats to the ground at 60 kts. I'm not sure how the M-7 handles, but they're both tail-draggers so that brings its own challenges with handling on the ground - and seeing where you're going. I still can park the Beaver on its nose when I brake too hard :-( . Fortunately I've never had a crash I can't walk away from :-) .

John Rogers
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