Airport Spotting

Visitng other airports on your flight gives you the opportunity to practice touch and go's. Sometimes I'll land at one of these airports to soak up the local colour and have a cuppa. Also, if the weather closes in or you have an in-flight emergency it's good to have alternate landings available.

Sydney's second largest airport, Bankstown YSBK, Custom scenery by Impulse Simulations.

Portoroz is just north of the border with Croatia and on the Gulf of Trieste.

Comparing the standard MSFS 2020 scenery with the enhanced scenery offered in this package. You can see the startling transformation. The airport is very frame-rate friendly, I noticed no discernable difference.

Parking your aircraft is like a sim within a sim. it represents a challenge, it's kind of a real time thing and the object being not to run the little guys over, getting as close to that center line as I can whilst I follow the instructions. We can all reverse park our cars I'm sure, but doing it in a jet is another thing and a great way to extend immersion further into the world of flight sims.

I took a walk around the beautifully sculpted airport by Mr. Miyazaki. What a great opportunity this sim gives us to inspect architectural marvels in this fashion! My one and only complaint was the snack food was a little bit "plastic" to the taste.

LJAJ Ajdovscina is home to a Pipistrel factory.

With most of the world's 42,000 airports being modelled in Microsoft Flight Simulator you can see the potential. But where to start? To help you out I have created flights out of and around many of the International Airports and also a good number of flights which either take off from or fly over Bush Strips.

Plane spotting from the ground. Click the buttons below for more.