August 25, 20214 yr The new ORBX Alaska mesh and the Captain Sim 707, which I have ported over to MSFS. As you will see, the 707 has a few shortcomings. One of the most striking ones is that the undercarriage doesn’t show, but she sits at the right height on the tarmac and she rolls and moves fine. Also engines and flaps all work as they should. Then she has no instruments. She never had in MSFS, which is in my case not a big problem, as I have all necessary flight information on a second monitor. With SU5 we know that you have a CTD, as soon as you switch to VC view, when you use an FSX plane. Well…. not anymore, as I have found out by accident. I know that you can make it work again with MCX, but in my case this isn’t possible, as for some reason my MCX doesn’t save anything anymore, after I have made changes to a plane. I found out that if you fly in windowed mode, which I usually do, you have to move your mouse to the top of your screen, before you switch to VC mode. Then everything works just as before the update. But as soon as you move your mouse down over the screen again, you have a CTD (only in VC mode, in external mode, you can move the mouse around freely and everything is fine). Why do I go through all this trouble? Because I’m mad, didn’t you know? Ok, I just love flying older birds and I don’t know, whether we will ever see a 707 or 727 in MSFS. So, on occasion I love taking them up to the air. No worries, I never smoke while flying. I just drink 🙂 Finally Juneau comes into sight Thanks for viewing. Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
August 25, 20214 yr Great set of shots, man what do i love the 707, i like this "retro" planes so mutch - hopefully at some time a good one is coming to MSFS ! cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
August 25, 20214 yr Author 4 hours ago, Alaska738 said: Nice shots of the Alaska! They're good Marlboro red? I smoke Rothmans Red. 🙂 Many thanks. I don't know about the Marlboros. The last cigarette I smoked was when I was fifteen. It was my first and last one. Later in life I started smoking pipes and for the last 20 years I have succumbed to smoking cigars 😊 3 hours ago, pmplayer said: Great set of shots, man what do i love the 707, i like this "retro" planes so mutch - hopefully at some time a good one is coming to MSFS ! cheers 😉 Thanks a lot, yeah planes like the 707, DC-8, VC10 etc are pure magic. 2 hours ago, Phantom88 said: ***Amazing Series*** I'm glad you like them, Patrick Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
August 25, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, bernd1151 said: Many thanks. I don't know about the Marlboros. The last cigarette I smoked was when I was fifteen. It was my first and last one. Later in life I started smoking pipes and for the last 20 years I have succumbed to smoking cigars 😊 Thanks a lot, yeah planes like the 707, DC-8, VC10 etc are pure magic. I'm glad you like them, Patrick Enjoying a good cuban cigar with a wishky is the best! 🙂
August 27, 20214 yr Wouldn't mind having that mesh for XP. Back in the day, I jump seated (ATC program) on a Western B720 on that route. At that time the LDA approach was much less sophisticated and the Captain remarked ' landing runway 8 was a lot like landing on a carrier. Interesting note, both Captain and first officer had the surname Kellog - called themselves twins and said they were looking for a flight engineer named Kellog.
August 28, 20214 yr Nice shots! Glad you managed to get the old bird back in the air! Thanks for posting.👍 Also brings a whole new meaning to "flying by the seat of your pants" when you have no undercarriage and no gauges! SpoilerSystem specs: MFG Crosswind pedals| ACE B747 yoke |Honeycomb Bravo throttleNow built: P3Dv5.3HF2: Intel i5-12600K @4.8Ghz | MSI Z690-A PRO | Asus Dual RTX 4070 Super OC 12Gb| 32Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200Mhz |Samsung 980Evo Pro PCIe 500Gb | WD Black SN850 PCIe 2Tb | WD SA510 4Tb |beQuiet 802 Tower Case|Corsair RM850 PSU | Acer Predator X34P 3440x1440pMark AldridgeMSFS2024 SU5 & P3D v5.3 HF2
August 30, 20214 yr Beautiful stuff, Bernd. And who needs undercarriage when you've got a built-in hoverboard? Great to see that airplane again. I still have FSX on my system and keep meaning to go back and set it up a bit better just for some of these birds. I've got a lot of old aircraft I'd love to see again, and I figure that FSX, rather than P3D, might be the place to maintain them, as P3D feels too much like a nearly-sim now, but for me FSX is so dissimilar to MSFS that I can treat it as a different sort of entity. With FSX, I know I'm in a sim and can't even begin to pretend I'm looking at the real world. Well, on my system at least - I have seen some folks posting FSX, and even FS9, shots that look pretty impressive, so maybe . . . Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
September 4, 20214 yr On 8/25/2021 at 7:53 AM, bernd1151 said: Why do I go through all this trouble? Because I’m mad, didn’t you know? Ok, I just love flying older birds and I don’t know, whether we will ever see a 707 or 727 in MSFS. So, on occasion I love taking them up to the air. I'm with you, Bernd...🙂.... Great set with this Canada (Air Force) livery...(I'd recently flown or/and run into this Canadian Forces livery...myself...)...
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