Hi folks,

I just found this forum after having had a less than good experience on a so-called 'official' MS flight sim forum.

Anyway, my name's Beery.  Some of the combat flight sim fans may know me from my work producing unofficial patches for Red Baron 2/3D, while others may know me through my work on other games such as the Battleground series of military simulations, B-17 II, etc.

I just picked up FS2002 last week.  This is the first time I've picked up a MS Flight Simulator game since the early 1990s.  It's a great leap forward, and I'm hoping to get a lot out of the game, and maybe I'll end up helping to create some good unofficial add-ons for it.  Certainly there's plenty of airport add-ons, but I think there's a lack of scenery (famous buildings etc.) that could be addressed.

Hi Beery and welcome.

I've been attending this forum for only a couple of months or so, but I recently posted a message to the effect that it's the friendliest and most civilised FlightSim forum I've ever been to.

You'll get a nice rest from the flame wars and I'm sure you'll be a great addition to the wealth of knowledge here.

Now gimme a beer....

Yes, flame wars don't happen around here often. When a discussion shows signs of turning into an argument, the white coats show themselves and threaten with their key!

Welcome aboard!

Hey, I just took a quick look at your round the world flight.  I'm doing a similar flight (Northern hemisphere, from Boston, MA, West to East, using a Cessna 182), though not published on the web.  I too flew through Nuuk and Keflavik.  We might have passed each other .

Right now I'm on the homeward leg, and the most scary bit.  Not many airfields between Japan and Alaska, and I have to make sure the wind is with me if I want to make it.  After that it's plain sailing all the way home.

So far I've only had one accident.  I'd flown IFR to Nuuk (I think it was Nuuk - somewhere around there anyway - perhaps it was in Newfoundland), and as I was getting ready for the approach, the ATC folks kept me buggering around for so long that I ran out of fuel and had to make a forced landing in a field - I damaged the port wing on a tree.  I wish it was possible to declare fuel emergencies in this game.

Hmmm.  All I remember (and I thought I wrote it down but I can't find it) is that I was using ILS, and I was heading towards a coastal airport, and the tower kept buggering me about.  I was certain it was in Newfoundland, but I guess the memory plays tricks.  Maybe it was the flight following thingy that was messing me up.  Either way, I was on a decidedly sticky wicket, and I nearly ended up catching a packet with the old crate goose over stump in the briny, as Biggles might have said.

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That sounds familiar.

A week or so ago when I flew my B-17 from San Francisco to Pearl Harbour, I landed with barely 2% of fuel left! I didn't use any built in maps and no GPS. I also used Real-world Weather. It took almost 14 hours!