Modular Mission Design
Each mission becomes 5 to 10 missions.
This is the original flight plan.
By the 3rd flight I am usually not even looking at the NAVLOG. The area is becoming mapped in my mind.
These are the type you can book at many airports around the world. Perhaps not in an F/A-18, but hey, that's the advantage of flying a fighter jet in a sim. You save several thousand dollars each flight!
Duration less than 10 minutes. Flew Merimbula to Eden and returned.
When I had more time available I flew longer
Joy Flights with aduration of 15-20 minutes. In this case down the coast from Merimbula to Green Cape and return.
Keeping with the same principle, a longer
Joy Flight, all the way to Gabo Island Lighthouse, one of the
POINTS OF INTEREST which has been manually modelled in the sim.
Waypoint 6 in the original flight plan was Mallacoota Airport YMCO. This is another fantastic area to fly in. To get there I did a
FERRY FLIGHT from Merimbula then parked the aircraft. I spent an afternoon there, landing, flying around the bay, having afternoon tea and lamingtons whilst enjoying the
WEATHER and
SHIP SPOTTING.
I also put on an impromptu
AIR SHOW over the local township, which scared me but entertained the locals. When I'd had enough for the day I checked the fuel and
ferried the aircraft back to Merimbula.