Question What is your favourite virtual airport?

[garyw]

In FS2004, FSX, etc. This comes out of a conversation in the chatbox the other night.

I think mine is probably Glasglow as I can fire up FSX and do a quick one hour, EGLL - EGPF hop and there is some nice scenery when flying over Scotland.

So far, my most interesting landing was in Oslo. The airport was under cloud to 600ft so I was approaching blind then just before minimums the runway appeared. Very cool stuff and a nice airport layout.

 

[tl8]

RAAF Amberley

It is my closest RAAF base and home to the C-17, C-30 (A330) and the F/A-18Fs

Pretty much anything has landed there at some point.

It is as quite local so I know the area.

 

[Chub777]

Bellingham International (KBLI) in north-western USA. There are stunning views as you land from the south-west.

 

[mojoey]

Chino airport (can't remember the four letter thingy) in california...its home to many a failed flight... and some really cool canyon runs just southwest of it...

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Lately I've been flying from San Francisco Intl. (KSFO?), not for any particular reasons, although their is another airport close by (whose name escapes me at the moment), which is good for short (As in literally a few minutes) flights.

 

[insanity]

I enjoy KSEA a lot. First I grew up right by it, but there are a host of reasons it's enjoyable.

The approach to runways 16 (l,c,r) take you from Everett over downtown Seattle (say hi to the space needle and Boeing field) and a nice view of the Puget Sound and Mt. Rainier. There are also a lot of good options for quick flights (one of my personal favorites is to KPDX using the St. Helens arrival where you zoom right by Mt. St. Helens).

I also quite like Edinburgh and flying across Scotland. I love seeing the countryside where I spent some of the best months of my life.

 

[Mojave]

Jacksonville International Airport (KJAX)

I live close to it, so I use it.

My other favorite is McCarran International in Las Vegas, NV.

 

[Grover]

FSX, landing in what can only be described as a pond in a cliff. you approach to fast, you hit the back wall of the cliff. you approach too slow, and you stall into the lower cliff. then you turn around and take off WITH the wind in a grumman goose. very seat-of-your-pants flying

or perhaps it was a VA trip in cessnas only across some very icy runways. stopping a caravan on a mountain strip covered in snow? very tricky

or perhaps its the 500ft runway in northern seattle, you literally have to approach from BELOW the treeline, swerving round them, or else your too high by about 5*

 

[garyscott]

I like to go from Elmendorf AFB in Alaska, i normally get screenshots of my repaints in the areas around the Chugach mountains, southern Alaska. Although i do take a few elsewhere! But i love the mountain flying, normally with downloaded realtime weather.
http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=gary+j.+scott&categoryId=

 

[Cras]

KTPA (using FlyTampa's payware scenery). It is awesome.

I always have fun flying into Edwards AFB.

St. Baarts is always fun (Again, recommend FlyTampa's), and is about a stiff of a challenge as one will find.

Toncontin, if you have access to the charts, is a very nice challenge as well, up there in the mountains.

KLXV is fun to fly into. Way up in the rockies, like to fly there from KDEN in a turbo prop.

 

[Yoda]

Princess Julliana Airport in St.Maarten is the best !
The approach right off the beach is awesome and trying to land a 747 from the mountain side is pretty challenging due to the need for quick altitude loss landing on a short runway with the ocean at the other end.

 

[Pipcard]

What about virtual spaceport? Wideawake International, of course!

 

[Napalm42]

I never really used add-on scenery, but I gotta say KSEA. It was the default airport for 2004 I believe, and that's where I learned how to fly. Also the scenery about the area is very nice for high altitude or chopper flights (or my crazy flights where I skim the ground in a fast fighter.)

 

[Hielor]

KPAE, since I'm very familiar with it IRL, having learned to fly there.

Bellingham International (KBLI) in north-western USA. There are stunning views as you land from the south-west.

Flown into there IRL, the stunning views are even better in person