Aircraft
One of the most widely flown light aircraft in the world, the Cessna 172 Skyhawk is well suited to slow, scenic flight-simulation routes.
The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear. It first flew in the mid-1950s and has since become the most-produced aircraft in history, with well over 40,000 built. For decades it has been the standard training aircraft at flying schools around the world.
Its high wing gives an unobstructed view of the ground below, and its modest cruise speed of around 120 knots means the scenery passes slowly — ideal qualities for a scenic flight. That is why the Skyhawk appears on several Virtual World Airways routes, from the Beskid mountains in Poland to Tuscany and the Rhine.
Scenic Flights
This flight takes the Cessna 172 Skyhawk low over the Beskid mountain range and the village of Brenna in southern Poland, one of the country's best-known destinations for hiking and winter sports.
Scenic Flights
A quieter kind of flight — climbing a Cessna 172 Skyhawk above a layer of cloud near Düsseldorf, Germany, where the scenery becomes more about sky and light than ground detail.
Scenic Flights
A scenic flight over Grosseto, in Italy's Tuscany region, flown in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk departing and returning to Grosseto Airport, in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
