March 24, 201313 yr Greetings AvSim readers. I plan to add anew flight's images to this thread each Sunday. For no other purpose than to share the fun and beauty of flying FSX, not that it's a surprise or anything new to any of you of course. I do hope you'll enjoy these... Here's today's inaugural Sunday Morning FSX flight... A short hop over the bumpy bits of southern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory; from McCarthy to Burwash. Flying the Carenado CT182T, and enjoying the latest offering from Orbx: Southern Alaska. Here's my Sunday Morning FSX flight... A short hop over the bumpy bits of southern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory; from McCarthy to Burwash. Flying the Carenado CT182T. Flight plan download: .zip file download link (725 bytes). Flight path as flown: Click the thumb-nail image for the full-screen 1920x1080 .png image file. All images taken via Fraps, and un-edited except for re-sizing and saving as .jpg thumb-nails. I started this flight with Opus weather turned on, but it was raining/snowing heavily at McCarthy so I switched Opus to "fair weather"... what a treat! About two-thirds through the flight I switched the weather back to real/dynamic to see if it had improved any... it had, so I stuck with the real weather for the remainder of the flight... "Sandy"
March 26, 201313 yr Author what FSX scenery are you using for lakes that turn into ice? Aharon I am not sure what you mean... The Southern Alaska scenery has many glaciers modeled. I don't have any add-ons specifically tuned for ice textures. I do make use of the following add-ons: Orbx scenery; Opus weather; REX Essential for weather textures; Shade for atmospheric tweaking. "Sandy"
March 26, 201313 yr I shiver every time I look at your shots. Can't wait for some spring images. Dennis Trawick Screen Shot Forum Rules
March 31, 201313 yr Author I thought those images were rather chilly as well, so this week I decided to go to the opposite hemisphere and check out New Zealand's North Island in autumn. Turns out it was rather cloudy, but certainly more green and warm. This morning's flight plan: Palmerston North to Hastings via Dannevirke. (.zip file containing a single .pln FSX flight plan file.) This is a short VFR flight, easily completed in less than an hour. Some images of the flight (click on the thumbnails below to open the full-sized 1920x1080 .png format screenshots in a new window/tab): The flight wasn't really anything very special, just a nice jaunt on Easter morning. "Sandy"
April 7, 201313 yr Author Grrr... Had this post all done but then the forum's weirdness today struck and now I've got to re-submit the whole dang thing... ((sigh)) Today's morning flight: Hoonah seaplane base in Alaska (Orbx so. Alaska scenery) to Sitka seaplane base, via Goulding Lake and Suloia Lake (for some impromptu virtual fishing.) The fishing waypoints and final waypoint are part of the Tongass Fjords scenery area that is sandwiched between the Orbx scenery areas of Southern Alaska and Pacific Fjords. The fit between the different scenery areas is seamless and completely transparent. Flight plan, in FSX .pln format, zipped up: Download Link | .zip file @ ~750 bytes Images (click on a thumb-nail to open the full sized .png format image in a new tab/window) : On shore, via amphibious wheels. Note the height of the fishing trawler... a bit higher than the bridge it just went under, without damage. "Sandy"
April 14, 201313 yr Author I do hope I'm not boring anyone with these weekly updates, but frankly I'm having fun with it. This morning's flight was a compilation of bad ideas... but it all ended up well enough. I wanted to fly over some Orbx scenery areas that haven't been getting a lot of attention lately, so I chose a small airstrip in Wyoming as the starting point: WY06, Luckinbill airstrip. I didn't realize how small this bugger was until I made the choice of flying Carenado's CR22 GTS and loaded in at Luckinbill. I'm pretty sure the end of the runway was about twelve feet in front of my nose gear. At least it seemed that way... But the CR22 has plenty of power, and being lightly loaded with only myself, full fuel and 50 pounds of stuff' in the boot the aircraft took off without issue. For those who might be planning on flying this, I'd suggest something a bit more bush capable than the CR22. At least for the beginning and first waypoint. Be sure to set your fuel mix for a high alt take off. Luckinbill is wayyy up in the mountains (6600 feet if I'm reading the sectional correctly.) Stop #1 turned out to be an exercise in touch-and-goes for me... It's listed in PlanG as MT10 : McKay Ranch, Roscoe, Mt. I made three approaches and three times could not slow down enough to land on this postage stamp in the CR22. I may try a few more practice runs there another time, just for short-field experience in a slippery aircraft. After that debacle I was happy enough to fly on and see what Orbx has done ... and yep, they managed to capture a farmer having a bit of fun by arranging his crop cutting (in spring?) into a big circle with an 'arrow' in it. Quite cool The weather turned nasty on me then, and while I like flying real weather most of the time, I turned on Opus' 'fair weather' for a better visual experience. Besides, I nearly ran into a mountain which would have spoiled the whole flight. Here's the FSX flight plan, zipped up and ready to use: ->Download Link<- And now, the images: My meandering path as shown in PlanG: ... Grrr... now my usual method of posting images isn't working correctly. Every time I enter the usual code, the forum software changes it to something else. So for now, no flight images. Note to admins... Umm... Why the change? Somebody is messing with normal BBCode usage on this forum, it's been made quite frustrating to work with now. "Sandy"
April 14, 201313 yr Author Trying this again... Yaaay! It works (but I see the forum still automatically changed my posted code... ) The flight itself: Image 4 to the right, below is the McKay Ranch airstrip, waypoint #1. Nice and tiny... Once out of the mountains, the scenery flattens out to rolling prairie, with some deep cutouts made by rivers. Crop Circle! Well, not the UFO kind, but rather a playful farmer. Taxiing after touchdown at White Sulphur Springs, then parked with all my safety gear out. "Sandy"
April 21, 201313 yr Author Thank you, Owen. Grrr... AvSim, why do you change up your image posting code every week?? :( "Sandy"
April 21, 201313 yr Author (discovered the "BBCode mode" button, that makes things much easier!) ~~~ Here's a selection of images from today's flight. In Wales today, with real weather (via OpusFSX) all the way through. A pleasant flight in Dave Garwood's free-ware Auster Autocrat (available here: http://www.cbfsim.co.uk/cbfs_lib/thumbnails.php?album=3.) Slow, but serene and quite calming. Which is good, since this flight transits restricted military airspace... Ooops!Here's the flight path:And here's the flight plan download (zipped up, FSX IFR .pln file) : Click to download .zip fileFlight images: Shortly after take-off from Shawbury AB, enjoying the pleasant flying conditions. Near the first waypoint, discovered football stadium (soccer for the Americans.) And what a handsome bloke flying the aircraft. Just a pleasant, comfortable flight... Approaching Caernarfon ... And having landed and slowed to a stop before the tire marks on the runway were left behind. "Sandy"
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