from a couple of trial flights around Heathrow. First in the Duchess, out of Southend, up and across London into EGLL, and second out of EGLL in the cub and off towards Reading. All pretty much out of the box, no tweaking or even proper setting up (still haven't mapped my controls again - shows how much I use the aircraft's systems!).

Scenery around Southend is from an older XP11 package, not sure where the boundary with TE is. London itself in the XP/TE package is not as good as MSFS for me (even with the what I feel is the awful London PG at the moment), but it's the light and atmospherics I'm finding addictive. Plus, oddly, I actually enjoy the flying a bit more - maybe it's the lack of stutters and pauses.

Visually, I shall start playing with re-shade/Gshade in MSFS and see if I can get any sort of approximation of the XP hazing/distance effect. Beginning to think that's one of the major things that is appealing to me here. Wish I had a magic wand and could just somehow merge the two systems and keep the best of both. Hey, maybe if I set up my own company to do that - Laminobosoft? How's that sound?

These pix are a bit darker than I'm seeing on my actual system. Feels like the XP screenshot mechanism takes them a bit darker than the X-Box Game Bar capture that I use for MSFS

All I need now is a million squillion quid graphics card :) 
 

Fantastic shots, Andy !!

2 hours ago, andy1252 said:

Laminobosoft

You made my day, Andy 😄😄

Btw I just googled that word, not registered yet. Maybe as a start you should go ahead and register it for yourself 🙂

Super shots Andy! 😉 

I think you've got a good thing going for yourself here. Keep tinkering and you may arrive at perfection...although it looks like you're already pretty darn close.

Your XP12 is looking good...

Darryl

On 6/2/2023 at 12:07 PM, Jude Bradley said:

All I need now is a million squillion quid graphics card 🙂
 

I bought my 3090ti about six months before the 4090s came out. Thought it was the bee's knees at the time, and it's still more than adequate AFAIC. And of course you can pick them up a lot cheaper now from all those folk who rushed out to replace them. I looked on eBay and could see some for about a third of what I paid for mine (sound of resigned gnashing of teeth)

On 6/2/2023 at 2:13 PM, bernd1151 said:

Fantastic shots, Andy !!

Cheers Bernd! And as President and CEO of Laminobosoft I'd like to thank you for your interest in our products.

21 hours ago, Alaska738 said:

Super shots Andy! 😉 

Cheers Will, having fun with this!

21 hours ago, John F said:

I think you've got a good thing going for yourself here. Keep tinkering and you may arrive at perfection...although it looks like you're already pretty darn close.

Thanks John. It is certainly good to have this available for those moments when the frustrations of MSFS feel like they outweigh the delights (and there seem to have been a lot of those lately, for me). And it really doesn't feel like any kind of "second best" thing either - not where the TrueEarth is available.

17 hours ago, SP2472 said:

Your XP12 is looking good...

Thanks Darryl - I'm well happy with it.

Nice shots.