FSADDON - VFR GUIDE - GREEK ISLANDS

Ever wonder where to go flying? What to go see? Do you want some guidance? Exactly.. and you are not alone. And NOT without a solution anymore either.....

The VFR Guides is a new add-on series from the pen of Jaap van Hees, already famous for his freeware Emma Tours.
VFR Guides are made to help you enjoy flying in Microsoft's Flight Simulator. NOT by giving you the umpteenth nice airfield scenery, or another livery to add to the gazillion you have already on your hard disk. No, the VFR Guides provide you with a 'story line', maps, weather situations, beginpoints for your flights and a wealth of information regarding the area you are flying to and over.

Jaap's Guides will have you fly low and slow, a simple road map on your knees (not included!) and using your eyes to find landmarks as navigation points.

This time around Jaap will take you on an exciting tour over the Mediterranean, covering many of the famous Greek Islands we all know from the travel agency brochures! Experience the anxiety of not seeing the next island through the haze, hoping your fuel not go out before you find it. Enjoy the wonderful sights of the myriad of islands, white beaches and ancient buildings!

There are roughly – VERY roughly – two kinds of flight simulator pilots: the ones that love airlines, airliners and major airports and everything associated to flying those planes and simulating those operations. And the ones who like to fly the Cessna’s, Beechcraft’s and other (default or add-on) smaller aircraft, usually in a more leisurely fashion.
Of course there are many other aircraft available and many other ‘niche’ groups too, but these are the two major ‘streams’.

Now, in general, the ‘heavy flyers’ are usually not so much interested in the landscape, the scenery below, and are more concerned with the weather, the radio navigation, the ILS systems on the larger airports and often the airports themselves. And they usually fly from inside the airplane (as a real pilot would, yes, yes) and do not use the ‘spot view’ too often. Nothing wrong with this, that’s what a real airline pilot would do too, of course.

The GA flyers however are very often, and increasingly so, people who not only like to fly an aircraft for the joy of mastering the technology and techniques, but also tend to have a keen eye for the surrounding landscape. This is not a ‘simulator thing’ only either. Most real world GA pilots are sports or leisure flyers and have exactly the same urge to see the world from a different vantage point…. and enjoy it. Especially mountains, hills and water bodies are what make landscapes really worth while. There is nothing that beats the sight of a mountain towering high ABOVE your aircraft while flying through valleys and canyons, over endless glaciers and mountain passes. The sun and the weather make the same mountain look different in a thousand ways and flying in that environment is a constant challenge to the pilot. Real AND simulated.

THIS GUIDE is made for the latter group of simulator flyers, people who like to fly low-and-slow and enjoy the environment around and below them, and sometimes even above them. And as for aviation regulations? Well, contrary to the real world, the pleasure of flying this trip takes precedence over these regulations.