Balkans Bush Trip (Ep.1) Rijeka to Otocac - Microsoft Flight Simulator 

15:35 "Can't see a thing, but it looks great..." - Story of my life, man.

Love these little activities they've included. Really hope they add more scenarios/missions like they had in FSX

This one was great, it was hilarious listening to your Croatian pronunciations, theyre pretty hard. Just a quick tip, for the next leg of this trip, in Croatian C is pronounced TS, and C with a little thong on top Č is pronounced like CH. So Gacka River is Gatska and Otočac is Otochats.

How to adjust the heading bug precisely when using the Honeycomb Yoke: To adjust the heading bug by 10’s, use the mouse wheeel. To adjust it by 1’s, use the right mouse button.

You know, if I'm flying as a passenger and I hear the pilot say: "hmm, I'm concerned about those hills, I'm not sure how high to fly", I'll probably be looking for a parachute. J/K, great video as always!

Pressing V pulls up your VFR chart they intend for you to use with the bush trips. No GPS position but has your routing on it.

Liking this video just for town name pronunciations .. had my dose of laughs. 😉😁 Cheers from Balkans. 🍻

You're gonna love the Nevada one, no GPS, no instruments, just your eyes and the Navlog

Well, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who found the written directions ambiguous.

Hey Squirrel, these are supposed to be full VFR trips, without GPS. The first one (Arizona-Yosemity) doesn't give any information (you're flying the Savage Cub). I'm really not sure why they provided a 172 with the entire route pre-programmed into the GPS for the Balkans one. Right now you're spending 80% of your time watching your nav instruments instead of looking outside for the VFR cues (and the best views you'll get on these trips). Would have made more sense if they gave you the 152 for this one. For the best experience/enjoyment I advise deleting the route from the Garmin, and not look at the GPS map. These challenges are a lot of fun if you try to fly them from the notes + the non-GPS map from the top bar. Feel free to play them however you like though.

I have done only this first leg of the balkans trip, and haven't started the patagonia trip. But I did the entire sierra nevada trip, and I highly recommend starting with that one for anyone watching who's interested. No GPS or autopilot, so you really get a feel for what the game is probably going for (I wouldn't even say "realistic VFR flying" - honestly the most enjoyable way to do it is flying with an exterior camera), and the savage cub is an extremely friendly plane for that. Of course it would be fun to see Squirrel or anyone else with real world VFR experience tackle these using real world charts and the like, but I found the trip to be just a very relaxing way to take in the scenery from an exterior view. Also a note of caution to Squirrel or anyone else just starting these, at least when I did it there was no obvious way to refuel. I had to bind a key for "repair and refuel" or somesuch to use in the middle of the trip. The game seems to save the state of your aircraft between legs (including if you quit mid-leg; it'll resume midair until you then manually restart the leg) so it doesn't ever refill the tanks, and at least so far it doesn't seem as if ground services function on the bush trips as they do elsewhere, which I assume isn't quite intended. That said these trips seem to be a wonderful concept and I can't wait to see if they add more, or if third party creators are able to add them with similar fidelity.

I enjoyed this. Makes me eager to visit Croatia even more.

Quote; “can’t see a thing but it looks great”. 🤣. Love your work BTW

I didn't expect to see Squirrel visit my hometown in any sim, so this video was quite a pleasant surprise.

I really enjoyed that @Squirrel. II didnt reakise how hard it would beto spot landings while bush flying, you nailed, more legs on the bush flying please!

I really like this, it's a pretty neat little like "quest" do do in the simulator. i wonder how many of these there are and if they plan to keep adding more in the future.

This is like we're looking over your shoulder in the plane ☺

I don't care for dead reckoning in this GPS era so I've been watching these videos while I do the flights. Thanks!

You should try going over Greece, but this time not from something like Athens to Lemnos, but go from Crete to Peloponnese, to Central Greece, to North Greece and so on. You will see gorgeous landscapes, vast mountains, coastlines, islands, and just incredible diversity of land. Because if you look at the map of Greece it has a incredibly complex geography and topography and 80% mountains. 20% of all of Europe's ultra peak mountains lies in Greece. Ultra peak mountains are mountains that rise more than 1500 meters above it's lowest surrounding area

That was awesome. Keep them coming. Thanks for the videos!!!

That snow effect at 25:40 -ish was so realistic! I could almost feel the cold. Really impressive.

Started this morning... this was fun and breathtaking! Thanks again for your awesome tutorials. I really learned the basic of sim flying!! I hope you continu the series! Cheers!

It was good to see I'm not the only one sometimes befuddled by the textual descriptions. These are even more fun when no GPS is available (i.e. in the Savage Cub), and also more enjoyable lower down. I like staying around 700-1000 above the ground. Great view from there.

Definitely more please !! Really enjoy being the backseat passenger on these trips.

so cool being on holiday with my parents in Senj many years ago. Now I flew over it. Brings back good memories

FYI, the headings and minutes are as the crows flies between the waypoints, whereas the directions in the nav logs are meant to be followed visually.

Great video, mate! Would definitely like to see more bush flying in the future.

I loved this. I'd say just relax about official procedures and just enjoy the view.

Great video Squirrel keep em coming. I mostly enjoy the narration, it’s like I’m there sitting with you. Amazing job.. appreciate your efforts. I’m enjoying the new sim also.

Thanks for the vids mate.....Always love to see your vids & you do show in detail on all all vids....Hope to see you continue on the bush trips thank you so much.....Romeo

Great. Really enjoyed that. I had done it previously and some of the mistakes I made you nearly did. Love it

Just wanted to say, I've been enjoying your channel since just before official release! I'm just waiting on my custom system to arrive so I can download FS...I'm salivating at the bush missions and remote flying in general! Keep them coming!

Great, can’t wait to watch the rest of the legs

Definitely Thumbs Up on this Leg . . Curious of the Unknown Bush Flight!! Great Video!

Cool mate, can’t wait for the next leg

Huge thanks for this video and all the tips, can't wait to try this myself.

Love it! Looking forward to the next trip.

Yea matey. Do them all if you wish! I'm on the Patagonia Bush trip in a Cub so no easy Garmin steer for me 😜 Love this Sim, waited years for something this good. Once patched up it will be the very best.

You did a great job. The challenge was much harder than it had to be due to lack of a decent VFR chart. You made a comment about what appeared to be a man-made canal not being straight. The reason that they are designed to meander is to reduce the velocity of the water flow. This lessens bank erosion and makes a better wildlife habitat. Near where I live, there is a creek that was "straightened out" in the 70's. Now the local government is spending a small fortune to put it back the way it was. :)

Loved this! Please do continue!

I was into it! I was totally ready to watch the second leg and the 12 or whatever after that.

Really good congrats. I was following on Google maps and you were pretty spot on most of the way. love to see more.

Love your stuff, Squirrel. I always pick up tips and tricks from your videos. You're a great instructor; been watching since the DayZ mod days.

That was really fun to watch.. more of this please.

Definitely enjoyed that!

These flight sim videos provide me the same hype as squirrel's *ETS2* and *'My Summer Car'* videos. Keep it up Mr. Squirrel 😄👍

Glad to finally see someone doing the bush trips!

That was interesting. Cant wait to see you takle the rest of them :)

You remind me if TheRunningManZ so chilled and relaxed! A pleasure to listen and watch

12:30 I've been down that valley IRL. Krk island has a beautiful, varied landscape.

Amazing. Can't wait to give this a go.

As a croatian I had a good laugh with those pronunciations. Keep it coming!

Very good video. Greetings from Croatia. :-)

Enjoyed it very much, please continue this!

Fun one. Hope you continue. I have found the Arizona-Yosemite one very challenging, too challenging for me so far.

Beautiful Croatia! Great quest!

the island you flew over at the start is Krk, which is better known to players of Operation Flashpoint (and/or users of ArmA 3's Cup terrain addon) as Everon.

Super cool idea of them to implement this!

Fun to watch. I want more!!

really like this style of flight!

And this is what this sim excels at right now. VFR.

I'm currently on leg 8 of that bush trip and, from what I gathered, the gps does get you to the destination airport, but it sometimes skips some of the visual cues the game gives you and does a more direct route.

That was fun to watch.

loved this video you make it look so easy I would be a bag of nerves looking for stuff. I will try this now you have taught me the basics of flying and auto pilot :)

Love the Bush trips! I hope Navigraph adds VFR sectionals to MSFS. Would be awesome to bring that up on Navigraph Charts.

Awesome video! Just a note, you can use the VFR Map, but just don't click on the button to "Get me back on track" within the VFR mini map to earn achievements. The mini map shows all roads, so following them is easy this way. Great series to have btw.

You did a heck of a lot better at following the instructions on that first leg than I did. It took me 3 or 4 legs to get the hang of it lol.

pretty cool, i’m gonna have to start one of those sets

Nice Landing!

Croatia is lovely, would certainly recommend visiting. I expect next legs of the trip will also guide you through Montenegro around Boka Kotorska, that's also an amazing place. Might do this trip myself, I was planning to do some flying in this part of Croatia anyway (Hvar, Pelješac, Korčula, Biokovo).

That was really fun. thanks :)

Interesting and realistic. Fun but also would be very educational to do

Otocac Airport? That's a field!!!!! LOL!!!! I haven't tried these yet but definitely plan to soon. No reference to go by? That has to be an understatement!

WAS REALLY GOOD - next please

I love bush trips. The directions are always fun to try and follow if you dont know the area. To really get the most out of it and do it the way a bush trip usually is, dont look at or care about map markers and dont follow a line. Just look outside and find the visual description of the places and things and use the stopwatch. A map is ok but bush trips are a special kind of VFR where its basically all by looking out the window. EDIT: also the descriptions arent great because they rely on place names. Use a map on your tablet or something to find those if you need it but it really is fun to navigate by directions like "follow the path until a large bridge and then turn north along the cliff side for 4min until you see a town to your east." Real one by people that know the area are much more descriptive of the landscape and what you see with very little name usage.

Good job finding that air run way I spotted it same time you did hard to see

I cannot wait til I get home and give this a try.... I can see the 3'rd or 4th sortie being very interesting due to beer....

I enjoy doing these then coming here to see how you did it.

I am from Split, Croatia. very good video

Just flew this, Ive probably only got about 10 hours experience 8). I did rely heavily on the autopilot for navigation on this leg, matching it with the navlog so I could understand what it was all trying to say. I think the hardest part was once I spotted the airfield, I turned, and lost it completely. Hahahah, had to climb out again and cross over the waypoint marker to pick it up again visually.

I'd happily put up with changing in 10° increments if I had a honeycomb. Those look so nice.

Loved it. Next !

HI there, Love your channel, keep up the excellent work. There is a VFR map , just choose it from the menu in the center top. As for the heading bug, you can change it in single increments, by clicking the bug instead of scrolling for increments of 10 deg.

A "High North of Canada" Bush Tour would be a great addition. Flying in and out of small hamlets and villages or weather stations north of the 60th parallel. Just a suggestion. 😉

I finished the one in the Zlin yesterday, amazing views. Without GPS. Took me about 11 Hours.

Yeah, please continue! I really like it! I'm watching all your MSFS videos, because as of now I'm not buying the sim for myself, my pc specs would allow for low settings only. And for me that's just not worth it, because at the moment the graphics is all this sim is about...

I wish you'd continue these bush trips.

👍😉😉A new video and I love my summer car

Currently using a honeycomb yoke as well, and I've found that in the 172, the heading bug adjusts at 10 degrees for scroll wheel and if you want accurate change you need to left mouse click on the left or right portion of the knob. I much prefer this system over the janky "aim for base" to adjust larger portions over smaller, always ends up with me zooming instead of adjusting the dial.

I am on leg 5 of a different bush trip for my youtube playthrough. Before you take off on each trip, I recommend you read each leg of it so you can follow along easier. Also, the v key vfr map does work. Don't try to follow the line as drawn on the map, it isn't accurate. But it is better than nothing.

I love your videos and tutorials. And your English. :) While you are using TrackIR or OpenTrack you can lean out of the window in your plane for better spotting the landmarks.

the only bush trip worth to go, and the only one i finished

I did the American bush trip over the Sierra Nevada and totally over flew the airstrips a few times before I realized it was broken into small legs lol.

Do do do do doo, Im lovin’ it Please more🙂

Absolutely loved it. I hope you post the next leg going to Zemunik. Also, do you know if it will be possible for players/mod teams to make their own bush trips like this and post them for others to download? I think it would be a great way to explore the world in VFR.

Even with a honeycomb yoke you can mouse click heading bug in 1 degree increment...love your croatian...

Just done this leg, landet perfectly, hit parking break - sim brakes in 1001 pieces - ok, lets do it again! Thanks for flying these, helps the newcomers a lot (although, AP flies it on its own, if you let it) edit: it let me continue with leg 2 of the trip, so the crash was not that bad edit: and again after 2nd leg, crash to desktop without hitting parking brake this time, just came to a standstill, crash - bit annoying

lower left on the screen is the route line for the trip and shows your planes gps on the tiny map!!

Hi Squirrel! Love the channel! I just finished this entire Bush Trip a few days ago. If you're planning to do the whole 7+ hour 16-leg trip, I found a small "bug" in the leg 13, Kopaida Dimitra Airport. It's the final grass runway you land on. On the last Point Of Interest entry for the Airport (11, I believe) The picture of the airfield isn't correct. The strip is actually one "block" further "south" from the perspective of the Point Of Interest picture. I've already submitted a bug report for this so maybe it will be in next week's patch. Until it's fixed, go to Bing Maps, search for "Skydive Athens, Kopaida Airfield, Athens, Greece," and you will see the airfield in relation to the incorrect picture in the sim. It will be rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Hope this helps you and your viewers. Happy flying!

If you continue doing those bush trips, be aware, that the aircraft burns fuel obviously and it is not refuelled at each leg. At one point you have to refuel manually by assigning a key on your keyboard to the setting „repair and refuel“. Just a tip, because I ran out of fuel 😂