Flight Simulator Adventures

I spent a few hours flying around in my new Boeing F/A-18 Hornet in Flight Simulator X the other night and below are a few of the highlights. I started in Seattle and flew a course that weaved me around the terrain of Alaska on my way to Anchorage. The F/A-18 sucks gas like crazy so I had to make several stops to refuel. One of these stops was a little hair raising since my flight planning showed an airport in the area but I had to fly around longer than I wanted to in order to find it. At one point my fuel was so low that a message popped up asking me if I wanted to use the "auto-refuel" cheat since I was running out of gas. "Heck no!" That would totally take away the realism. So I finally found the airport only to discover that it was a tiny little dirt strip apparently put in place for bush pilots on fishing trips or something. So I trimmed the Hornet for very slow speed, applied full flaps and used my brilliant pilot skills to bring the plane down on a very short and icy runway without incident. It was so stressful that I even began to sweat! Man I love these flight simulators!