That was the site of my first go-around! Which had actually been the planned site of my first landing, but I screwed it up beyond salvage.
I was with my instructor doing a straight-in approach from the south. Tower told us to report on two-mile final. I had the mic in my hand to do that, when a Mooney reported he was turning final. I looked for the traffic and he was close enough to read the numbers on his tail. We did some S turns on the final put some space between us.
Interesting airport. I think every narrow-body jet Boeing ever made took off from there (but not for long), but not many land.
Not that I flew a lot, but I don’t remember ever doing a go-around, except for practice when my instructor wanted me to.
I’m so happy that a few people have gotten hooked on this game thanks to my little ol’ SDMB thread! I’ve managed to make my insomnia useful this early AM… I finally got my last Uncommon craft (an Airbus helicopter) up to Gold in Australia, and I visited Tel Aviv and managed to snag a ton of cool shit: an IAI Heron, a 1/1 Gulfstream jet, a couple USAF Stratotankers, and a C-17 or two. I’m now closing in on 1000 cards/aircraft (998) and 2000 airports (1987).
Anyone planning to visit Oshkosh IRL this month for the show? I would love to, but I didn’t start seriously thinking about it in time and now I can’t get my wife enough help with the dogs to make her not kill me for taking off to Wisconsin for a few days. Maybe next year 
That’s so cool! I’m hoping I’ll get to take a discovery flight this fall, probably out of PWK here in Chicagoland. Idk how interested I am in learning to fly on my own, but I’m highly curious about sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna or Piper and getting to take the controls even briefly.
Have you ever been to Oshkosh? I have not, and keep threatening to go, but never think of it in time.
My impression is that by 2 months before the show, so about 1-1/2 months ago, the nearest hotel, motel, or campground with a vacancy is somewhere near Chicago. IOW it’s time now to make reservations for the July 2027 show.
Same for the SUN 'n FUN Aerospace Expo - Lakeland, FL that goes off every April in central Florida. Make reservations now.
I told one of my granddaughters about it a couple days ago; she’s an aeronautical engineering student at Embry Riddle and I thought she might get a kick out of it, since at school she’s surrounded by airplanes.
She zoomed to level 10.
I think I saw that near Vegas. I don’t know why I didn’t grab it 
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I’ve been camped out in Dubai for the week. I’m determined to get Emirates’ entire A380 collection, but they have so many that I don’t think I will get them all. Opened up lots of new airlines/airports though and just snagged an IL-62. Commercial Russian birds are getting pretty scarce these days.
Oshkosh is on my retirement bucket list. Unfortunately I’m not retired yet!
Also interestingly, I just snagged an Iran Air Tour A310 en-route from Mashad to Dubai. Almost as if there weren’t a war going on…
Damned few A310s still in operation. They only built 255 of them. This article List of Airbus A310 operators - Wikipedia, which was last updated almost 2 years ago, suggests there are 36. Of which 20 are government or private.
Of the 12 in airline or air cargo service, 6 are Iranian, and 3 each from Türkiye and Afghanistan. So Dubai is probably a great place to hang out to catch them all. Eventually.
I’d say it’s a decent bet that total number is smaller today. It certainly isn’t bigger.
London Heathrow has become a “must grab” for me at the beginning of each week. I think I captured more new planes and helicopters there over the last 24 hours than I did the entire rest of the world all last week.
I’ve been trying to do different cities every week, to get the rare planes that are local to that area. This week I was trying to go north to get the 10-airports-north-of-the-arctic-circle trophy. I need two more provinces and two more states to get those trophies. Next week I plan on trying to get airports in Mexico and central America, or north Africa (or both). I’m sure I’ll get back to London at some point.
Does anybody fly to West Virginia, ever?
LHR: it’s been very solid for me, at pretty much any time I’m active (I am eastern US). But also SEA is great for me even to midnight my time.
Paris and, not a slightly lesser extent, Frankfurt have been good. Auckland and Perth were good for regional stuff, and even then I have to be at the very right time.
Singapore and Amsterdam have been near worthless for me, at least at my level. Very little traffic when I check, and even then it’s stuff I already have.
I had 2 states left for the All American trophy: NM and VT. I got impatient and used Catch Anywhere on nearby flights, which was a big expense on the ledger sheet but I had them to spare.
I don’t want to spend a Catch Anywhere, but I Pittsburgh Airport, and the radar from there extends far enough to encompass Morgantown and Wheeling within West Virginia. So all I have to do is wait for a plane landing at either of those airports, spend some coins to travel to Pittsburgh, catch the plane, and get the trophy.
Nobody is flying there. I left the phone on my desk with the game running, and no planes are landing there. It’s the last state I have left; I finally got North Dakota by catching a flight from Minneapolis to Fargo.
There is another airport I’d like to get for sentimental reasons, Fleming Field near St. Paul. I don’t think it’s included in the game, though. Kind of a shame, it has an interesting history.
In a word, No.
When flying over WV there is a sorta WV-shaped hole in the vast array of airport and VOR symbols that cover our nav display when you zoom out to, say 200 mile radius view.
Yes, yes, there are one or two symbols in there ruining the WV-shaped black hole. But not many. At night it looks the same way out the window. There’s just a big black area w a few lights.
It’s not quite as stark as this, but it’s going that way.
I don’t remember having a ton of trouble getting all 50 States, and I managed to snag a flight to Pyongyang to complete Asia, but Ukraine has so far proven elusive in Europe, and I have just a couple countries or territories left in Oceania.