April 21, 20197 yr Leaving Manaus, bound for Quito (the new one at 7910 feet elevation!). Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
April 22, 20197 yr Mark: Now that you've already perfected the landing with this aircraft..."Tri-holer landing: No bounce"...you're now well-set for this long voyage...🙂... Seriously, nice shots here...the banking LH MD-11 looks impressive... And, BTW, I see that you've been using FSOpen Clouds quite a bit...your 2nd shot (dense) cloud-coverage appears quite good...Have heard of FSOpen, but do not know much about it (or have ever used it)...
April 22, 20197 yr Author Thank you!. FSOpen Clouds is kind of a budget weather engine in that it uses stock FSX with some tweaks (like a fog fix so it isn't all or nothing) and injects real world METARS into the sim. I say budget because whilst the add-on gives free UK coverage, it costs £5 per year subscription to access the rest of the world's METARS. Occasionally the clouds disappear totally, then come back again, usually when I'm at cruise altitude with the big iron, but then again I can see where my LOD distance ends anyhow... The clouds might disappear but the upper winds stay (I use FSUIPC for wind smoothing). https://www.fsopen.co.uk/software/openclouds/ The author says it works well with REX textures, but to not use the REX weather at the same time. I don't know if there's any need for FSOpen Clouds with Active Sky etc. Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
April 22, 20197 yr Looks good Mark. Keep up the good work. Dan George (woodhick)Check out Greenbrier Aero Club, the VA for and about the GA pilot.
April 22, 20197 yr Great set of the MD-11! Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
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