Flight Gear starts out with San Francisco are scenery, which covers a fair amount of scenery and is sufficient for cross country flights and navigation via VOR.
Looking at cross country flights on flight tracking sites shows that typically or many piston engine aircraft fly at between 2000 and 4000 ft. The usually proceed in a straight line to their destination or sometimes fly a large circuit. Tracy Municipal KTCY is one of the outermost airports and that can be used, flying "of scenery" can occur if you fly too far. Downloading scenery for FG1 is a current problem that is being looked at.
Use the following planning tools for your flight.
https://flightplandatabase.com/planner
An example flight:
- Climb at 1,000 fpm for 6 minutes to 6,000 ft
- Fly at 6,000 ft for cruise
- Start descent 15 minutes before landing at -250 fpm
- Increase descent rate to -400 fpm during last ten minutes of flight
For example, select the airport Moffet Field (KNUQ) and KLVK (Livermore) entering values in the flight planning site the following information is displayed:
Magnetic Heading: 18 degrees
Distance : 19.9 (Nautical Miles)
Ground Speed: 110
ETE (Estimated time on route) : 11.0 minutes