December 13, 201114 yr Hi all,I asked this question a few months back when we were all discussing random stuff prior to the NGX's release :)I though I'd mention what I've actually been using with my NGX and see if you folk have any good ideas for more adventures.So...I've just discovered the NL2000 freeware scenery for Holland. It works great on my rig, autogen off. It gives you full photoscenery coverage of the whole country. I've combined that with the payware aerosoft germany vfr photoscenery and the horizon vfr photoscenery of the uk to give me a suitably big area of real- world europe to fly my ngx in. Ive added in the fs genesis nextmap terrain meshes for europe - not sure if they make much of a difference.To round out the european world i've just added four of the uk2000 airports (gatwick, liverpool, bristol and newcastle). The three smaller ones seem very frame rate friendly - i am finding london and big airports like EHAM cause me to drop below 30fps so i'm pretty happy flying in and out of the mid-sized airports until my next computer upgrade - hoping intel release a quantum computer sometime soon!The nl2000 comes with freeware airports which im currently installing. I'm interested in adding one of the german airports packs from aerosoft.So that's europe. I'm flying where i'm flying not because its necessarily my first choice, but because they seem to be the countries with the best scenery on that continent.Outside europe: for australia, installed the large and mid-sized orbx airports and did a few flights p the east coast, anywhere between launceston (tasmania orbx freeware) and cairns. Not spendng nearly as much time in this continent at the moment.Us: i've been playing around with the simsavvy free samples like california klax to ksan - havent made the plunge yet but love the concept of a continent wide scenery. i like flying dawn and dusk so i think i'd miss the night textures. Have installed the full state megascenery for calfornia, utah and arizona and been doing some short to medium hops around there. So that's pretty much my ngx adventures for the last few weeks. I've just been reinstalling after a hard drive crash so it's been interesting to reinstall fsx with the ngx purely in mind e.g. I haven't installed any ga or military aircraft or the orbx ga fields.I must say I don't enjoying cruising over imaginary scenery anymore so as you can tell i'm flying almost exclusively in the areas of the world that have phtoscenery coverage large enough to comfortably fit a 737 800 in. Add in weather, traffic and some frame-rate friendly airports and it's pretty sweet.OK...that's what i've discovered so far. Where are you flying and why? Oz Sim Rig: MSI RTX3090 Suprim, an old, partly-melted Intel 9900K @ 5GHz+, Honeycomb Alpha, Thrustmaster TPR Rudder, Warthog HOTAS, Reverb G2, Prosim 737 cockpit. Currently flying: MSFS: PMDG 737-700, Fenix A320, Leonardo MD-82, MIlviz C310, Flysimware C414AW, DC Concorde, Carenado C337. Prepar3d v5: PMDG 737/747/777. "There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
December 13, 201114 yr Hi Rob,I've flown the 737-700 Westjet (flts 2652 and 2653) from Toronto (CYYZ) to Princess Juliana Int'l (TNCM) and back a couple of times. Scenery is BluePrint Simulations for CYYZ and Fly Tampa for TNCM.For flight plans I looked them up on FlightAware David R. Madge
December 13, 201114 yr Author Yes, i've been looking up flightplans on flightaware is morning, filtering to looki at where 737s are currently flying. One thing i note is that there's masses in the us. And when i fly as a passenger in australia, it's usually on an NG (well, actually its usually on a beech baron, but for scheduled commercial it's usally the NG).But there's not a lot of NG's on the map for europe. I'm enjoying flying in your part of the world - uk in particular - because of the high quality real scenery available along with good mid-sized airports that in oz would be full of NG's. The NGX is great for short routes. I'd ideally like to fly routes that the NG flies in real life, but from my morning's research on flightaware, easyjet and thomsonfly I'm not finding a lot of good short hops in the European areas I mentioned. Oz Sim Rig: MSI RTX3090 Suprim, an old, partly-melted Intel 9900K @ 5GHz+, Honeycomb Alpha, Thrustmaster TPR Rudder, Warthog HOTAS, Reverb G2, Prosim 737 cockpit. Currently flying: MSFS: PMDG 737-700, Fenix A320, Leonardo MD-82, MIlviz C310, Flysimware C414AW, DC Concorde, Carenado C337. Prepar3d v5: PMDG 737/747/777. "There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
December 13, 201114 yr Ryanair has a fleet of 800s and fly all over Europe, check out their Route MapIf you can't find flight plans on FlightAware then try Flight Plan Datatbase or VatAware David R. Madge
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December 13, 201114 yr I like flying scheduled routes in real time so because I'm on GMT I tend to fly over the US in the evenings and Europe over the weekend. I also tend to start at airports I have purchased (UK2000 EGKK, FlyTampa KTPA, Eiresim LEAL, Aerosoft EGLL, EDDF & LOWI) and terminate at other payware airports or the detailed airports provided with FSX (LINK).I use Flightaware to find a flight and copy the airline, aircraft, schedule & route.I'm not too interested in photo scenery as I hardly look at the ground at FL390 but I did buy GEX/UTX for both Europe and USA which is a vast improvement over default scenery and very good value.My last few flights have been SAS EDDF - ENGM then ENGM - EGLL (both the same session) and Delta KTPA - KMSP last night.I'm practicing my ATC phraseology and will join a VA and do some online flying soon. I always manage to put the plane on the right runway now without upsetting RC so I hope my flying skills are passable now :) FS2024 • PMDG 738, 77F • FSL A321 • A2A Comanche, Aerostar • BS Baron, Bonanza, Caravan Pro • JF Tomahawk • TAOG H500C BeyondATC • GSX Pro • ChasePlane & Flow Pro • TDS GTNXi • FSUIPC • AutoFPS • RealTurb 9800X3D B650E • ROG OC RTX 5090 • 64GB DDR5-6000 • VKB Gladiator, STECS, T-Rudder • Tobii 5 • ISP 1 Gbps
December 14, 201114 yr Author I agree that flying real routes in real time is cool. I downloaded two ipad apps yesterday - flightboard and flighttrack - that integrate well. You can get an up to date flightboard from any airport in the world and then with flight track you can check aircraft type (ie is it an ng?) and position. Im going to start comparing ut2/supertraffic board which i use with fsx to the rw flightbboards.My other project yesterdy was to start building some photoscenery for the areas i want to fly over. I started with the area i live in - the semi-desert northwest of western australua. 70% of the qantas flights i take back to civilisation (perth, about 1800k away) are on the 737 800. Oz Sim Rig: MSI RTX3090 Suprim, an old, partly-melted Intel 9900K @ 5GHz+, Honeycomb Alpha, Thrustmaster TPR Rudder, Warthog HOTAS, Reverb G2, Prosim 737 cockpit. Currently flying: MSFS: PMDG 737-700, Fenix A320, Leonardo MD-82, MIlviz C310, Flysimware C414AW, DC Concorde, Carenado C337. Prepar3d v5: PMDG 737/747/777. "There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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