iFly World Tour 2011

With the arrival of iFly I decided to do something I have always wanted to. The challenge of a real World Tour. Maybe not eactly a trip around the world, but via a few continents.

I want to share this challenge trip with you, fellow iFlyers. Time and life permitting, I am going to present short illustrated reports of particular legs.
It will take time as the number of planned legs is rather large.
The reports will be short and images will be rather small not to eat up too much of our common space which the Flight1 server is.

The number of legs is large due to the number of wonderful places and airports I would love to visit and present to you.
Moreover I need to fly in relatively short hops as my real life duties would not let me stay in the air for too long.
For the same reason I cannot promise I will report on a regular basis or I will actually finish all the tour. I will do my best though.

The choice of liveries was not easy at all. Finally I decided to fly with the orange Boeing Dreamliner livery.
It fits every part of the world equally plus it is my pay of respect to our marvellous artist Colin Lowe.

Although I enjoy the art of screenshooting, please do not expect image masterpieces in the reports.
The purpose this time is to fly realistically, which requires my full attention and reducing display quality a bit.

First let me brielfy introduce the challenge plans (which might change in time). The starting point is Munich Josef Strauss airport in southern Germany.
The route will go through 31 countries in Europe, Asia and America. Here is a simple map showing the routes:



The choice of destinations is strongly based on existing high quality addon airports, freeware and payware, which I do own or plan to buy now (in a few cases).
To be honest I do not enjoy flying into default or poorly made airports, so I never do it unless there is no choice. My airport collection has grown for years.

For all my flights I will use the following addons:
- iFly 737-800W (Dreamliner by Colin Lowe)
- FS2Crew (button edition)
- Active Camera
- FSRecorder 2.1
- Airport Enhancement Services (where applicable)
- Ultimate Terrain (Europe only)
- Ground Environment Pro
- FSGenesis mesh (plus hi-res freeware mesh packs)
- Real Environment Xtreme
- Pablo Diaz clouds (HDEv2)
- modified autogen buildings and trees (Treegen)
- custom AI traffic (WOAI plus own packages compiled with TTools)
- ActiveSky Evolution
- FSUIPC (latest and registered)

Flightplans are generated via vroute or made by myself in FSNavigator.

I hope you will enjoy accompanying me en route by having a look at the reports.
Thank you, iFly!

Sounds like fun !

nice shots! I was thinking about doing something similar when the FSX version comes out!

Thanks for your interest, gentlemen.

I hope to present the second leg later tonight.
It's going to be a flight from Bucharest to Sochi on the Black Sea coast.

Flogged Horse wrote: A quick question about HDE? Just confirming that you in fact meant to write v2.0?

Of course, my spelling mistake, sorry!
Correcting it now.

Wow Rafal: This is a really exiting undertaking! I'm looking forward to read the next reports!

NOW THAT IS A WORLD TOUR.

Man, keep up the good work. Preview professionally done!!!

WOW! I enjoyed your reports a lot, Rafal. Don't stop keep them coming :-).

good...so...we know were download scenery!!!

Hi, folks!

I've just come back from the mountains, a bit tired but happy and full of potential energy.
I hope to fly to Armenia tonight and, of course, share the joy of aviator's discovery with you.

John Goodwin wrote: As long as it is FREE SCENERY now problems there

John, I hope you don't mind giving info about the addon airports used in my iFly tour even if they are payware?

John Goodwin wrote: only 14 days to go

Wow, I'll be glad to finish the tour in no more than two months (sumps up to one flight a day).

This is beutifull Rafal! And as Steve said, it is things like this, that keep this hobby interesting - always new inputs, new places to go, and new way to go there! Thanks for your tribute to my hobby!

wonderful tour with the beautiful 738, hope to see more of your flight reports and happy landing captain!

Fantastic reportage and buautifull picture ..
Thanks for scenery list..

Have a good fly!!

Thank you, thank you, Gentlemen!
Your kind comments are really making me ashamed.

To show you how nice it feels I am ready to present you LEG 4 of the iFly World Tour.
Flight BOE004 from Yerevan, Armenia to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

As some of you may have noticed from the tour map, I was going to fly to Tehran, Iran.
But I decided to skip this leg due to a few reasons and fly directly to the Middle East pearl of Dubai.

 





































The Dubai airport scenery is the classic payware of FlyTampa, released 7 years ago but still nice!
I guess there will be a second version soon (they have been remaking their addons lately), but I couldn't wait with the tour.

The Burj Khalifa aka Burj Dubai skyscraper is a freeware addon by DSDG - get it from here: http://dsdg.webs.com/products.htm
EDIT: the DSDG website is not working for me at the moment, but keep trying.
EDIT2: Looks like you can also get it from the AVSIM library: http://library.avsim.net/sendfile.php?Location=AVSIM&Proto=ftp&DLID=139690

May I suggest this topic to be pinned?? So that we can follow it without losing it.. :)

Very cool what you're doing, I live in Brazil and I hope your trip when you arrive in sao paulo .... good luck on your adventure.

Once again thank you very much to all kind posters.

rotex wrote: Your world tour does not include anywhere in the African continent

That's true, as well as Australia and Oceania. There were two reasons:
- the tour is already very very long and multilegish
- the are few quality airport sceneries of these continents for FS9

And now let's see the report from LEG5.
Flight BOE005 from Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Karachi, Pakistan.









































The Karachi Jinnah scenery is AES supported.
It is a payware addon by MSK Productions available at Simmarket.

If you want my frank opinion, the quality is average. If you plan to fly there only once, then think twice.
I did get it for the reason of having no other airport in the area. New Delhi from Imaginesim is only in the making.

Rafel,

Rafal,

Thanks a lot for your comments, gentlemen!

John Goodwin wrote: One thing I would like to see, not now but at the end is a list of the scenery you used

Certainly, John. I am sure you have noticed I give detailed info on the used scenery addons at the end of each post.
If you mean a whole list at the very end of my trip then sure, why not. I will prepare something like that with pleasure.

JusJ wrote: Have you checked out the VOZ freeware package for FS9?

Of course, I used to be a great fan of VOZ. Australia is a place I've always been extremely fascinated by.
However, in today's standards, I would say the freeware FS9 VOZ airports are of a poor quality. Unlike the ground textures, which are excellent.
I still remember Arkitekt's masterpiece videos advertising this outstanding addon.
As for ORBX, it is FSX only of course, and I personally am not interested in using FSX.

lantirn wrote: The sand dunes watched by the jumpseat in your last leg, is default terrain or its an add on?

They are by default. Except for the fact that all ground textures have been enhanced by the excellent Ground Environment package.

Sorry for no LEG6 yet. Frankly I got stuck. It was going to be Paro, which is a great and challenging airport in the Himalayas.
And an excellent addon scenery by Thai Creations, available at Simmarket.
I was going to buy this addon. But life is life and it seems I have other more urgent expenses now.
So I am replanning this part of the tour. Most probably I will fly directly to Chiang Mai.
It is well over 4 hours and almost at the maximum range of a loaded 737-800 (1868 nm), so it will be a trip.
I'll do the flight tonight, tomorrow or on Sunday at the latest. So, see you guys in the next report...