The title says it all, what I am currently working on is a mix of SkyBahamas, Cape Air, and Silver Airways inspired regional based routes in/around both Florida and the Bahamas.
Q: Why this region and not "XXX" region?
A: I live in Florida, and I have been to the Bahamas, its absolutely beautiful to fly/boat in and around, while there may not be much terrain to focus on (if you want that challenge try my KJAC/Jackson Hole routes), but the scenery for regional flying is undeniably some of the best in the world. As for default its still pretty, but there are TONS of quality freeware and payware options to greatly enhance the visual fidelity of this region, to which if this goes according to plan I will include my personal findings on both freeware and payware to help enhance the flying in these regions. There is 1 challenge that SOME airports will provide even for some of the larger/medium regional liners, not only are some of the runways short but some of the smaller airports do not even have instrument guidance, so be sure to check your landing weights/performances as well as forecast weather conditions which can be dramatic in the Caribbean.
I will talk with Kalo and Ozflyer more about my idea, but I want to deviate from the "circuit" idea for this "project" and move to a point to point system that I believe would have been somewhat more beneficial and realistic to real airline operations. However given the early history with MSF Airways and how we calculated the bonuses it is well understood why the routes were created in the fashion they were.
My current list of airports that will be included for this project.....
United States Airports
KPNS (Pensacola Florida)
KLTH (Tallahassee Florida)
KJAX (Jacksonville Florida)
KORD (Orlando Florida)
KTPA (Tampa Florida)
KFMY (Fort Meyers Florida) <- yes I did skip over my hometown airport of KSRQ
KFLL (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Florida) [Possible Hub]
KMIA (Miami Florida) [Possible Hub]
KEYW (Key West Florida)
Bahamas Islands Airports
MYNN (Nassau) [Possible Hub]
MYBS (South Bimini)
MYGF (Grand Bahama) <--- I can already see all the My girlfriend jokes coming in from this ICAO designation
MYAM (Marsh Harbor)
MYEM (Governors Harbor)
MYEF (Great Exuma)
MYCB (New Bight)
MYSM (San Salvador)
MYER (Rock Sound)
Q: Why this region and not "XXX" region?
A: I live in Florida, and I have been to the Bahamas, its absolutely beautiful to fly/boat in and around, while there may not be much terrain to focus on (if you want that challenge try my KJAC/Jackson Hole routes), but the scenery for regional flying is undeniably some of the best in the world. As for default its still pretty, but there are TONS of quality freeware and payware options to greatly enhance the visual fidelity of this region, to which if this goes according to plan I will include my personal findings on both freeware and payware to help enhance the flying in these regions. There is 1 challenge that SOME airports will provide even for some of the larger/medium regional liners, not only are some of the runways short but some of the smaller airports do not even have instrument guidance, so be sure to check your landing weights/performances as well as forecast weather conditions which can be dramatic in the Caribbean.
I will talk with Kalo and Ozflyer more about my idea, but I want to deviate from the "circuit" idea for this "project" and move to a point to point system that I believe would have been somewhat more beneficial and realistic to real airline operations. However given the early history with MSF Airways and how we calculated the bonuses it is well understood why the routes were created in the fashion they were.
My current list of airports that will be included for this project.....
United States Airports
KPNS (Pensacola Florida)
KLTH (Tallahassee Florida)
KJAX (Jacksonville Florida)
KORD (Orlando Florida)
KTPA (Tampa Florida)
KFMY (Fort Meyers Florida) <- yes I did skip over my hometown airport of KSRQ
KFLL (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Florida) [Possible Hub]
KMIA (Miami Florida) [Possible Hub]
KEYW (Key West Florida)
Bahamas Islands Airports
MYNN (Nassau) [Possible Hub]
MYBS (South Bimini)
MYGF (Grand Bahama) <--- I can already see all the My girlfriend jokes coming in from this ICAO designation
MYAM (Marsh Harbor)
MYEM (Governors Harbor)
MYEF (Great Exuma)
MYCB (New Bight)
MYSM (San Salvador)
MYER (Rock Sound)
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