Hello PMDG developers and captains!Nothing special here...Nevertheless, I just want to share the most beautiful sight I've ever seen in the FS9 with you......aurora!! I was doing a long-haul cargo flight from RCTP(Taiwan) to PANC, during the last three hours of the total eight-hour flight, I saw this most bizarre but amazing sight (it moved like a piece of swaying silk) in my flight simulator for the first time!!I wonder if I could ever see the real one in my life~ :( Tom

Hello PMDG developers and captains!Nothing special here...Nevertheless, I just want to share the most beautiful sight I've ever seen in the FS9 with you......aurora!! Tom

You are right... the PMDG MD-11 really is a beautiful sight :(

You are right... the PMDG MD-11 really is a beautiful sight :(

It's funny , I never ever ever ever ever see those.

Nice, is that a graphical glitch or actual auroa???Ps. I've seen that in real life, on Greenland :D

Its really in the sim. You will see this a lot if you fly northerly routes at the night.Sometimes it also appears during daylight, but it looks ugly then.

Its really in the sim. You will see this a lot if you fly northerly routes at the night.Sometimes it also appears during daylight, but it looks ugly then.

Hehe...this might be the sim limitation, to make aurora rather unusual~ :( I'm curious to see how it had been improved in FSX~

I'm curious to see how it had been improved in FSX

Meteors also:

Meteors also:

Thank you~So far I'm definitely not lucky enough to spot a Meteor...

The only meteor I saw was back in FS2002. I was flying in Brazil, heading south in the DF 737. It just happened to appear in the upper quarter window otherwise I would have never seen it. Not seen one since!!!!Best regards,Robin.

I had the fortune of a transatlantic flight back in the 90s after a rather large solar storm. We had the Aurora show for at least 3 hours, green arches, reds, blues, bands of colour dancing around us... one of the most beautiful natural events I have ever had the luck to see to date.Andrew

Here's a link to view the real aurora maps.We, as hamradio amateurs, use it quite often.http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/

heyyy i saw one of those too in FS2004 i forgot on which flight but i had the simulation rate at 4x and it was awesome how it moved althought at first i wasnt sure if it were a cirrus cloud but then i saw the bright colors and thought to my self "no way it cant" because i never thought that FS2004 had these auroras soo indeed it is a beautiful sight! nice PICs :(

Very nice, come to think of it I have not seen them in FSX yet. I should try some night flights more often. Thanks.

Meteors also:

So you have to be at 16X to really see a meteor? That ridiculous. Why bother putting the effect in the sim? No wonder I've never seen one in FS. :(

I had the fortune of a transatlantic flight back in the 90s after a rather large solar storm. We had the Aurora show for at least 3 hours, green arches, reds, blues, bands of colour dancing around us... one of the most beautiful natural events I have ever had the luck to see to date.Andrew

I saw the Aurora here in the UK back in 2001. Lit up the entire sky for about 3 hours after a coronal mass ejection flew by the planet.Best regards,Robin.