The sights Billy Connolly showed us on his 1994 BBC series World Tour of Scotland, albeit from his Range Rover and the occasional ferry (although he is showing flying into Lerwick on Shetland). The route is just over 800 nautical miles long, but over 200 of that is the direct flight from Shetland to Arbroath. While you will be rewarded with a couple of the town’s smokies (smoked haddock) upon arrival, you might want to take a faster plane specifically for this leg.
I did take the liberty of reordering the sights in a city, to save you doubling back on yourself several times, but the route around the country in the series is largely as below. Also, to make the route valid for use as a .pln file for the sim, I’ve set departure and arrival airports. I've included the flight plan in both MSFS (.pln) and Little Navmap (.lnmpln) formats. The safe altitude for the entire route is 4,000 feet. I kept it at 2,000 ft between Arran and the Firth of Forth.
Recommended (and free) scenery for individual landmarks; city scenery tends to be at least a gigabyte, so I haven’t linked those:
- Glasgow landmarks
- Riverside Museum and tall ship, Glasgow
- Barrowlands and Barras market
- Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Necropolis and Tennent’s Brewery
As a soundtrack, the music from the series.
Episode 1
- Connolly arrives by ferry to Brodick on the Isle of Arran
- Glasgow:
- Dover Street, his birthplace
- Glasgow Cross
- Necropolis
- Provand’s Lordship (oldest standing building in Glasgow)
- King’s Theatre
- Stewartville Street, Partick, where he lived with his father and his “mad aunties”
Auchengillan scout camp (now an outdoor centre)
Loch Lomond
Episode 2
- Bannockburn
- Stirling
- Forth Bridge, Forth Road Bridge and South Queensferry
- Kirkcaldy
- Forfar
- Scone Palace
Episode 3
- Blair Atholl
- Drumochter (where he skited stones on the frozen loch)
- Inverness
- Culloden Moor
Episode 4
- Ulbster, Caithness
- Wick, Caithness
- Ring of Brodgar (where he did the first of his now-famous naked dances)
- Kirkwall
- Scapa Flow (where a German Navy fleet was scuttled during the First World War)
- Lerwick, Shetland
Episode 5
- Arbroath
- Dundee
- Scottish Borders (Kelso and Roxburgh)
Episode 6
Edinburgh:
- St Giles’ Cathedral
- Mary King’s Close
- Edinburgh Castle
- Usher Hall
I flew this tonight and it was great fun
3 years ago
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