Whenever I’m flying in the sim, I always find myself checking where the players around me are coming from or going to. Whether I’m at the gate, taxiing, cruising, or especially when I’m holding short of a runway waiting for a plane to land, I can’t help but get curious about their routes and what flights others are simulating.
I also love it when I see a plane landing after a long-haul flight, it’s such a cool moment knowing someone has been simulating that journey for hours, and has crossed halfway across the world!
It’s just something I always do, and it makes the sim feel more alive, it’s such a unique experience compared to the other sims I know.
Do y’all do this too, or is it just something random I’ve picked up? Would love to hear if others feel the same way!
Also get weirdly excited when I recognise a callsign. So if someone is doing a real-world flight with the correct callsign, I hear them on frequency, and I recognise that callsign and I look and they are actually doing that flight.
I do this all the time, and I share the exact same sentiments with you; I love seeing people arriving into an airport as I’m taking off from their long haul flights.
On a controller POV, I almost always check to see where someone is arriving from or departing to. It can help us to consider how long TO roll will be for tight dep gaps :)
Yes that would be me. Especially click on the higher grades and see enormous amounts of XP and landings… and of course to see where they’re coming from.
I also tend to check the ones with the hilarious callsigns. Two notable names to mention is ELPILOTO (how?!?) and PP-PPP (imagine papa x 5). Love seeing the creativity in these callsigns, I couldn’t have come up with it haha
I always do this when I have the plane on autopilot or have it waiting on the ground. I also tend to check their flying hours and no.of landings, it is impressive that many of them have thousands of hours of flight time and hundreds of landings.