
If your landing spot starts moving down, you are too high, and should cut another 100 rpm if it starts moving up, you are too low, and should add another 100 rpm. Now, pick your landing spot (a bit down the runway) and try to hold it in the same spot on your windshield. You can start by practicing a bit with a good setup:įgfs -offset-distance=1.5 -altitude=500 -vc=70Īs soon as FlightGear starts, cut the power to 1500 rpm and drop two notches of flap. If you cannot see the runway in the default 172, you must be flying too high or too slowly. Fly up the coast, overfly the Golden Gate Bridge, continue around the top of the peninsula past downtown SF, then fly on to KSFO for a landing. Start at Half Moon Bay, Runway 30, with 32km visibility Takeoff in the C172 and climb to 1000 feet, then continue north over the water, near the shoreline. 8.2 Brisbane International Airport to Sydney International Airport.5.6 Salzburg to Zell am See via Hallstatt.3.2 Copacabana to San Rafael over Lake Titicaca.2.15 Prince George to Calgary Springbank.2.14 Virginia Eastern Shore, Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel Sightseeing.

#Flightgear planes archive#
It can serve as an archive for suggested flights from future newsletters or can give a flight if creativity is low that month. This page includes the flights described on the main website and the suggested flights from the newsletters. charts are generated using FlightGear data only.

If you are starting with FGRun - the FlightGear launcher - you can enter the airport id and select the runway on the appropriate screen in the startup wizard. Here are some interesting places where you can do virtual sight seeing. FlightGear has accurate and realistic terrain.
