I read the book. I flew the flight. Now I have flown the flight again. I tried to take better notes this time. I also took some screen captures. This panel lists the historical flights that are available and a few commercial style flights that utilize historic aircraft.
It also has a section where you can select flights which you have created and saved with the "Create a Flight" panel. For each flight, a background document is presented and a flight briefing.
More about that later. Selecting a flight puts you at a modern airport located where the flight originated. There is no flight plan in the MS FS sense so there is no navigation log nor any way to do fuel planning. So the first thing that you should do for each of three legs is to use the MS FS Flight Planner function to create a flight plan. To make it more realistic for me anyway , I selected a grass strip near where the the flight began.
The notes for the NY-P flight actually note that the airport is no longer there and that they use a close by modern airport. In fact Roosevelt Field is now a shopping mall. In laying out the flight plan, select the beginning and ending airports and use the Direct selection. This will plot a great circle course. Select points about an hour apart for convenience. This works pretty well except for the middle of the Atlantic.
Between Cape Breton Island and Ireland, there is nothing for about 14 hours. There are obviously some mountains to get over. The great circle route required at least feet of altitude and this at night. I had trouble getting the plane to go that high. Do not attempt the San Diego-St.
