My current obsession: SkyCards! Anyone else play?

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I had caught an Antonov AN-12 just a few days ago, but I figured my best bet was to snoop around Russia during the daylight hours with a “Catch Anywhere” handy, and I was able to snag an AN-148 there this morning.

I could have been patient, but you never know with these things!

C-17 Globemaster on the ground here at Alliance

Fifi in flight during one of her visits

Sikorsky S-58 operating like a crane during construction

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WB-57 is up again. It’s at 62,000 feet and descending; who knows how high it got.

No luck finding anything over 550 knots.

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AH-64 Apache near Dulles.

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Several rares around Anchorage. Just need one more DHC Beaver to get from bronze to silver in this one sitting.

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Got it! Just before I had to return home.

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If anyone is trying to complete today’s missions, I caught a Singapore-to-Tokyo flight just now by visiting the airport at Manila.

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There’s an Iberian Air A350-900 (tail number EC-NDR) going from Madrid to Buenos Aires which will be within radar range of Tenerife shortly if you’re still looking for the other half of that.

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Do they always select from a small group pf cities for those missions? I haven’t even been playing for a month and I’ve already been to Singapore, Tokyo, and Madrid.

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B-25 Mitchell “Pacific Princess” - appeared in Catch-22 and 1941 - cruising around Victorville, CA today. Rarity of 9.81!

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Today is Doha and Delhi again, but it looks like there’s a good chance to catch one over Dubai.

Only need 7 more for the Scarce Master trophy.

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Thanks to advice in this thread I have been doing a bit more traveling. A couple of days ago I hit CAN/Goanzhou where I picked up many new fleets and a fair number of cities (mostly in China), but also unintentionally completed that airport’s tasks, so I have a few more days of traveling there for free.

I researched what were the busiest airports in the world in terms of international flights, and IST/Istanbul was way up there. Today I visited at noon EDT and indeed it was a cornucopia of exotic destinations and new fleets. I missed completing its six tasks by just one aircraft.

In both of these cities I rarely added a new aircraft, maybe a half dozen across both, but worth it for the new airports.

I’m up to 515 airports and 223 fleets. Aircraft models stable at around 400.

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Hey, I traveled to CAN this week too! Currently at the top of the weekly leaderboard there :flexed_biceps:t3:

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Awesome! I picked up a gazillion China cities, of course (40 total for me).

As far as aircraft, I followed the tip to visit southern England (LHR) on a weekend and added perhaps two dozen new models, so that worked out great.

For someone who has already the most common US aircraft, any other recommendations on airports to visit to acquire new models?

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Phoenix is a pretty good choice in the States. Miami, DFW, O’Hare, and SeaTac all come to mind. Colorado Springs could get you some good military aircraft.

Did anyone notice that they adjusted the rarity? The 737-800 used to be worth 1130 XP and is now worth 1140, the A350-900 and A330-300 were both adjusted slightly, and the Ultra craft got a big shakeup… what used to be my rarest craft is now my 19th-rarest!

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Soon Oshkosh (OSH) will be a great place to get all sorts of unusual aircraft.

Brian

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Based on your comment I checked, and yes: my former rarest at 13.51 Lark Commander is now my eighth at 10.78. My new rarest is P-47 at 12.47.

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Oh my gosh, Oshkosh during the air show is AWESOME!

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Curious of the value of the Ford Trimotor – wikipedia says 8 are airworthy, but the EAA one flies quite a bit. There must be a bunch that only fly during Airventure

Brian

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SkyCards lists 2, with a rarity of 11.56. I’ve only caught the one that flew over Oshkosh last summer.

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A T-6 Texan has been near Dulles today. Nella, I think.