I like both. Working out a detailed flight plan is interesting and part of
the fun.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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When you fly VFR for pleasure, do you prefer to limit your flying to the
area
around your home base, where you know the geography and airspaces and
navigation points, or do you prefer to fly to many different places that
you've never seen before?

It seems like it would be a trade-off between seeing the same things again
and
again but being able to plan a flight easily (since you'd know almost
everything by heart after a while), and seeing completely new things at
the
expense of having to work out a detailed flight plan and following it so
that
you don't get lost. A cross between adventure and convenient comfort.

A constraint unique to the real world is the need to physically get the
plane
from airport to airport. If it's 200 nm to your destination, you'll need
to
fly 200 nm back at some point. Fortunately that is not an issue in
simulation, although the serious simmer forces himself to start at the
same
airport at which he landed during the previous flight.

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