I just created a VERY long tour for you guys with over 120 unique destinations! Shane's going to be really angry when he has to create this one! 

Don't expect this tour for quite a few weeks yet, but when it is up, you guys are going to be busy for quite a while.

For this one I basically browsed the FS map for a while, noted the types of terrain in the region, and picked airports that are in or near the interesting terrain.

I also made sure to cover some famous destinations as well, such as the Denali region of Alaska.

I tried to make a lot of the routes in Alaska challenging this time!
Quite a few of the airfields are either in the mountains, or you have to cross mountains to get to them. I did this without any regard to addon scenery, and based it purely on what the FS map was showing me. I didn't even test fly any routes so the level of challenge will be a surprise for all of us.
I think you guys are going to have a lot of fun with this one, especially when trying to get into some of these airfields that are tucked into the valleys, even in good weather. Of course, in this region, real world weather is almost a requirement! 

As far as actual implementation goes. I craft the route, give my route to Shane (airport names or ICAO codes in the proper order), and he enters it into the server's hoplist. With a little over 120 unique airports, he's going to be pretty busy, and I would not expect this trip to be up for a while.

Hopefully the New Zealand South Island one will be up within the next few days. That one was only a dozen or so unique destinations.


And I guess I'll tell you guys now.............

The route starts on the north coast of Alaska, up near the north pole, and gradually, after many stops and criss-crossing of Alaska and the aleutians,  goes down to Seattle, then up to Kelowna, Canada. It's basically a Pacific Northwest tour, with the focus being on Alaska. I would say that around 85% of the hops are in Alaska, with the remaining 15% in Canada and Washington state.

Glad you're enjoying it! The New Zealand South Island tour is pretty short due to the general lack of airfields on the island, but it's nice. Just counted it up, and there are 14 unique airfields for that one. (Unique first departure field, with 13 unique destinations.)

For the Pacific Northwest one, I gave Shane the route in terms of airfield names only, and unless he wants me to do it for him, he'll have to look up the airport codes for implementation into the server this time.
It's kind of an insurance policy to make sure that I don't have any extra scenery that I don't know about that may not be default and not in the game, and so he can verify the locations and route and isn't blindly typing the codes in. This ensures that we get a fully working, feasible route with no accidental hoplist entries referencing airfields thousands of miles away due to a typo.


Once again, do not expect the Pacific Northwest tour to be ready to go in the server for quite a while yet, due to the workload involved in implementing it. Creating the route before server implementation is only half the battle.

ShaneG wrote on Feb 28^th, 2010 at 7:49am:

260nm? That's nothing compared to that one pacific hop...I believe it was 1200nm? I did that in a small prop plane.

Sorry Paul, It was the only way to keep it connected, without having to redo the whole trip in reverse. 

Gave you plenty of time to cook supper I imagine.   

I went on fshost and typed ?hop=3 and now it says I'm the first to complete the hop list, and in 2009... lol

OMG that Auckland to Wellington (hop 19) was HORRIBLE!!!!! I was running FSPassengers and ended up having to just abort the flight and then use the map and slew to get close to the airport.  I have been sitting here for well over 3 hours and I was still nowhere close.


the reason why it was taking me so long was because I was attempting the leg in a Cessna 172.   As I said, I was running FSP, and currently I am still a C0.  I need 5 more MINUTES to make it to C1 lol!!

oh well, ill get em tomorrow.