Bush Trips, or The adventures of an unwitting beta tester

***PRB*** · January 3rd, 2021, 06:07

This sim is starting to test my patience... Yesterday I decided to try out the bush trips. I picked the California/Nevada trip. It wasn't clear to me if it expected me to fly the entire route without stopping, or if I could land at the airport waypoints and continue later. So I flew the first leg and landed at Inyokern. Sim said I completed leg 1. So far so good. It was a lot of fun. Today I started the sim, went to the bush trips, and it said "continue" and had leg 2 selected. Perfect. Clicked on "continue" and the sim started to load then went CTD. Tried it again. CTD. Launched the sim a third time and tried to start a normal flight. Sim said "Your packages are out of date. To continue you must return to the sign on page. Do you wish to continue?" Something like that. I selected "yes". The sim went pack to the old old startup sequence, and wanted me to "Press any key to continue". Didn't they fix that in one of the updates? And the stupid music was back. Pressing the "any key" had no effect. Killed the application with the Task Manager. Rebooted the computer. Launch the sim. It went straight to the Accessibility Settings page (WTF?) Clicked "Next". Went to the content manager. It said my Carenado Mooney had an update. Installed it. Started a flight. Savage Cub. Many settings had been changed. All the "assistance" settings were back on, telling me how to use the rudder, and how to look around, etc. Reset all those back to where I had them (off). Everything seems to work now, even the log book! That hasn't worked for months. Go figure. I haven't returned to the bush trip yet. I don't dare...

***Tom Clayton*** · January 3rd, 2021, 11:27

I think there are some known bugs with the bush flights, but I haven't really dug into them. Try the official forum - some of the staff there have an inside line with the dev's.

**Mach3DS** · January 3rd, 2021, 12:30

Forget their stuff...just look up REAL bush trips from bush pilots and fly those yourself. Much easier and less headache. Just google backcountry flying.

Here's a good article to get you started.

On landing and shutdown, just jot down your fuel state if you want to start precisely where you left off.

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/art...hat-where-how/

***PRB*** · January 3rd, 2021, 14:26

Originally Posted by Tom Clayton

I think there are some known bugs with the bush flights ...

Yep, confirmed!

***PRB*** · January 3rd, 2021, 14:29

Originally Posted by 000rick000

Forget their stuff...just look up REAL bush trips from bush pilots and fly those yourself. Much easier and less headache. Just google backcountry flying.

Here's a good article to get you started.

On landing and shutdown, just jot down your fuel state if you want to start precisely where you left off.

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/art...hat-where-how/

Good advice!

I was just curious about how those bush flights worked. The way they have them set up is pretty good, and could be a lot of fun, when they work...

**mthrift** · January 9th, 2021, 03:01

Most of my flying in the sim is bush type flights. For me it's about getting away from it all and going wherever my interests take me. I have had success with the default bush trips, and I enjoy the additional map info and text commentary they provide. The system remembers where I left off if I complete a leg and then come back to it later.

I will say that I was very frustrated for a while with CTDs and bush trips, but read somewhere that they don't like you running LittleNavMap (LMN) in "connected" mode (through simconnect). Who knows, perhaps they see using LNM as a cheat and don't allow it. Now, even with LMN running but NOT connected to MSFS, bush trips work fine for me and I'm still able to use the "static" map for flying reference.

Regards,
Michael