Well... "X-Plane10 and MS FLIGHT, what else ?", if you don't mind - I do no longer even have it installed, but MS FLIGHT is another unforgetable experience in my long simmer life :-)

 

 

 

The Plausible World in X-Plane10 ( to use the excellent words of Tom_Knudsen@AVSIM X-Plane forum ) is really very plausible, and I'd dare saying - REALISTIC!

 

This morning I woke up and decided to make a flight from LPSC (Santa Cruz airfield, nearby the Atlantic Ocean in the coast of mainland Portugal) and LPPT.

 

On this day, in 1980, I made my first solo flight, at around 09:00 UTC, on a Blanik L-13 ( CS-PBY ). It was, just as with many of you who have had the chance to experience such a "moment of glory" :-) an unforgetable occasion...

 

I used RW weather, UTC time, and that really nice Robin DR-400 from XPFR.

 

Everything was wonderful - to me - about this short, uneventful flight:

 

- I finally managed to complete a full flight using X-Plane10 ATC to a good end, down to my arrival at the destination LPPT (Lisbon Airport);

 

- The scenery, the weather, the all immersive environment, from the lighting to the meteo effects were simple GREAT, thx to LR and to the latest RC1! And default everthing is being used here, less the excellent DR-400...

 

- the DR-400 itself, from XPFR, but no more "plagued" by that excessive "rool on torque" effect that is so common to most X-Plane prop aircraft - a BIG THANK YOU to Goran for having so helpfully driven me to the solution, not by simply saying - do this or that... - but rather by pointing me in the right direction and putting my neurons to work!

 

And, an even bigger THANK YOU to Austin, Ben and the whole LR team, and those tallented 3pds, commercial or not, add-on designers who help making X-Plane10 the most rewarding flightsim experience it is :-)

 

A couple of shots, not great stuff - I was never a good photographer :-/, not in RL nor in the virtual World...

 

 

 

 

I suspect you'll be tweaking all the flight models in X Plane 10's hangar very shortly.

:good:

 

You owe me a beer.

:drinks:

I suspect you'll be tweaking all the flight models in X Plane 10's hangar very shortly

 

I'm sorry to have to write it but, on this particular one - you're wrong!!!!

 

There is one not requiring such tweaking... I'm tired of telling you to try that LES dc-3 Goran :-)

I started with Plan-G which used google maps. That had too much detail and clutter for navigation (even though x-plane rendered most of it). Now I'm using skyvector.com for my VFR maps, and I have to say flying x-plane using these dedicated VFR maps is really fun. There's just enough features on the maps to make VFR navigation "uncluttered", and all the map features are rendered in X-Plane.

 

The ability to relate what you see in X-Plane to the maps you use is one thing that make flying fun! I could often struggle with that on previous sims - without the addons. Sure, the buildings all look the same but at least they are where you expect buildings to be, down to the villages!

I'm sorry to have to write it but, on this particular one - you're wrong!!!!

 

There is one not requiring such tweaking... I'm tired of telling you to try that LES dc-3 Goran :-)

 

Ah yes. I hear good things about that DC-3.

Sure, the buildings all look the same but at least they are where you expect buildings to be, down to the villages!

 

Exactly!!!