So, having flown up from KDOV, I arrive ready to shake up the town. A (very high) rooftop flight over Manhattan, up the Hudson a little way, climb and turn round and then back down over the city and into JFK. Not sure if it's a function of this aircraft or the sim itself but you get a really impressive sonic boom with this beast, if you're inconsiderate enough to shoot over the city at 800 kts IAS as I did on the way back down.

So, arriving from the south -

keeping it reasonable, speed-wise if not altitudinally, on the journey north. Nice scenery from DD.

I've also got the various RK Bridger NY bridges packages, which really finish the area off nicely. Can't remember if that's the default or addon Brooklyn Bridge

Looking for a giant ape, but then maybe I'm fulfilling that function on this trip. Been up to the observation tower there IRL, and got a couple of nice books on the building. A splendid place.

Off over Central Park. These HDR converted pix tend to lose fidelity in the sky/water backgrounds, so they look a bit washed out, but at this point they're as good as I'm going to get without messing around with Photoshop (and life's too short for that)

Heading off up the Hudson. Planning to turn back somewhere around Nyack (another place I've visited IRL, and one I really enjoyed. Lovely little community with at least three good secondhand bookshops - a sure sign of civilisation)

OK, so I've climbed and turned and now I'm caning it back down with the afterburners on. Naughty, naughty boy.

Didn't manage to capture the boom moment, but it was somewhere around here

Swinging round towards KJFK

Bled off speed and then turned round to come back down

Looking for somewhere to hide

That might work

Sssch! I've been here all day

Fun here, ain't it?

 

Edited July 29, 20223 yr by andy1252
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Fun trip, enhanced by your narration.

John

Very nice set of shots! 🙂 

Nice set buddy !

cheers 😉

Thanks for keeping the sky’s safe over the Big Apple Andy . 😉

Done like a Pro tour guide, Andy....🙂...lovely series of pictures here...with remarkable details...!!

20 hours ago, John F said:

Fun trip, enhanced by your narration.

John

Absolutely !!

You have way too much fun, Andy 😄😄

On 7/29/2022 at 5:09 PM, John F said:

Fun trip, enhanced by your narration.

John

On 7/29/2022 at 5:22 PM, Alaska738 said:

Very nice set of shots! 🙂 

On 7/29/2022 at 6:28 PM, pmplayer said:

Nice set buddy !

cheers 😉

23 hours ago, johnbow72 said:

Thanks for keeping the sky’s safe over the Big Apple Andy . 😉

12 hours ago, P_7878 said:

Done like a Pro tour guide, Andy....🙂...lovely series of pictures here...with remarkable details...!!

7 hours ago, bernd1151 said:

Absolutely !!

You have way too much fun, Andy 😄😄

Thanks everybody. I really enjoy this sort of thing in this sim. It just looks so realistic (if you could say such a thing of a flight like this)

I did just try out a flight this afternoon with the PMDG 737, but it looks like I'm going to have to get serious to even get the thing started. I'll give it a couple of hours maybe, but if that don't do it it'll be relegated to just screenies of it on the stand at various airports. I bought it (the -700) because I loved the look of it and particularly the BBJ, but I have no intention of going back to school just to play in the sim on my PC. From what I've read so far I can save a startup state once I've got it going so if I can get it all powered up and then do that it'll be fine. Otherwise, I'll be looking for a rusty repaint for it and have to park it somewhere.

Be nice to be able to use it though. Probably not in scenarios like this one, even I'm not that insensitive, but it won't be any sort of real world emulation flight, that's for sure. Imagine having one of those as your own private transport. Mind you, beauty of the sim is that of course I can have anything as my own private transport. In FSX/P3D I had my own B58 and XB70 - how neat is that!

And here in MSFS I can go sightseeing in a MiG 29, SU-57, Eurofighter as well as the F-22. Not to mention a Spitfire, Mustang or Corsair. And many others, not even including all the ones that I did convert from FSX/P3D ok. This is sure one hull of a way for a ex-Airfix glue sniffer to waste his retirement. Magic!

42 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

just to play

Thought about this afterwards, and didn't want anyone to think I was getting in to the Sim/Game thing. I did think afterwards that maybe the term for me was an "entertainment", but actually it's more than that. I realised when I was trying to think of the right term to use that I do take it quite seriously, but in the sense of it being a quite serious geographic exploration utility. That really is the essence of it for me. I can explore a really quite realistic looking world now in a way that shows me what bits of it, that I'd never otherwise see, actually look like. And an aircraft is pretty much the best way to do that anyway, so there's the added benefits for Airfix boy. Even when I do a high speed rave like this flight in the F-22 I'll record it while doing the actual flight, and then take a leisurely tour on the replay, stopping wherever I see something interesting and often popping out in the drone for a look around. But this is why I've no interest in all that cockpit malarkey, and you can't see much from 40,000 feet so I rarely go up there. Even if I do get comfortable in the 737 I'll still be hedge-hopping in it.

20 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

Thought about this afterwards, and didn't want anyone to think I was getting in to the Sim/Game thing. I did think afterwards that maybe the term for me was an "entertainment", but actually it's more than that. I realised when I was trying to think of the right term to use that I do take it quite seriously, but in the sense of it being a quite serious geographic exploration utility. That really is the essence of it for me. I can explore a really quite realistic looking world now in a way that shows me what bits of it, that I'd never otherwise see, actually look like. And an aircraft is pretty much the best way to do that anyway, so there's the added benefits for Airfix boy. Even when I do a high speed rave like this flight in the F-22 I'll record it while doing the actual flight, and then take a leisurely tour on the replay, stopping wherever I see something interesting and often popping out in the drone for a look around. But this is why I've no interest in all that cockpit malarkey, and you can't see much from 40,000 feet so I rarely go up there. Even if I do get comfortable in the 737 I'll still be hedge-hopping in it.

Low and slow in MSFS is the way to go IMHO .