In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:

Anyway, back to the topic ... it's true that I can fly in the general
direction of a road instead of following it precisely, but I find that it's
easy to get so far away that it's hard to see the road any more. Some
Interstates will turn west for miles, and then turn east again, and so on.
They stay in one direction long enough to get away from you if you are trying
to keep an "average" heading, but if you turn you have to change altitude.
Climbing and descending 2000 feet every few minutes seems like a lot for a
small aircraft.

You fly towards the point where the road meets the horizon, or more
likely, since the horizon is over 80 miles away at 4500 AGL, fades
into the haze, which since you specified VFR, will be at least 3
miles away.

This is trivial to do in a real airplane.

If you can't do it in simulation, the simulation is the problem.


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Jim Pennino

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