Christmas Trek 2025 ideas?

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Hi, raised this on discord as well: Discovered the first cookies and stuff in the super market last weekend, so it’s about time to think about the Mudspike Christmas Trek 2025!

I fixed my fs2024 the other week, so I’m about ready to get airborne for this year. Question is where to? If I may suggest a destination: Livingstone with the Victoria Falls in Zambia, southern hemisphere. A trek to the blistering heat of Africa’s summer. The Falls have a nice scenery for FS2020, but I’m not sure it is possible to move it to fs2024?

Cheers,
TeTeT

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Official 11th Annual Mudspike Christmas Flight 2025 - Discussion and AAR Thread
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I was also going to suggest a destination in Africa, noting that Cape Town has already been done… but that was before my time.

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Was thinking about this years Christmas flight as well lately :grinning:

Afrika sounds good.

I was also checking Lapland in Finland as Santas home (as they claim; Rovaniemi airport, EFRO) but that is not too far from last year’s destination) or Sydney as a nice Summer-feel Christmas destination :grinning: But that might not be enough of a challenge for our Australian and New Zealander fellows…

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I was thinking of nature preserves in Uganda, Kenya, or Tanzania myself.

I may look at which areas have detailed sceneries in both XP and FS (I’ll be flying in XP, as I still have all the African orthos I created a few years ago installed).

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How about the Okavango Delta in Botswana? There is a good payware scenery for the area by SWS for anyone interested.

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There’s also this for Xplane:

https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/64125-okavango-delta/

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I like the Africa idea. We could go to Madagascar and find a lemur king. Or maybe Nambia.

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I could always head West from my ‘local’ airport and go via Perth, South America and puddle jump across the Pacific :wink:

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Now we’re talking. Let’s party:

dance party dancing GIF

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Lets go find the lost city of zinj in the congo
Hungry Tim Curry GIF

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It seems that the Sim Works Studios Okavango Delta scenery is no longer functional which is unfortunate. Evidently it was broken badly by a sim update several months ago.

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Just a quick summary of what has surfaced so far: Ideas for Christmas Trek 2025, in alphabetical order:

Madagascar

Okavango Delta in Botswana - no longer working

Sydney, Australia
Victoria Falls / Livingstone, Zambia or Zimbabwe

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Victoria Falls would be good…

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I downloaded it for FS2024 and did a short night flight there in a Cub, looks ok to me.

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Where did you download it from?

Edit - never mind, you were referring to Vic Falls.

BTW, the Vic Falls scenery is on sale for the next 5 days at just $7. Well worth picking up even if we don’t end up going there for the trek.

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If we are going to sydney why not a little further south and go to NZRC south in New Zealand?

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How about putting up a vote for this year’s Christmas flight destinations?

I am usually awfully slow :grimacing: so the sooner I get going the better :grinning:

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Same.

Kids really put a damper on having hobbies.

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Sounds great, who’s capable to set one up?

Unrelated to the destination we pick, any recommendations for a classic airliner for use on this years Trek in FS2024? I flew the Condor last year in FS2020 and liked it. I just saw a documentary on the Super Constellation which flew out of Basel years ago, but the only version I see is for FS2020.

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I think they just released the DC-4 in, perhaps, a semi-functional state. I was considering the FSS B-727 myself.

I’ve heard the AH B-707 can be made functional with a couple of mods.

A-300? If you can do with corporate, the Lear is quite a nice plane to fly and very steamy.