December 14, 20241 yr I love airliners, but I cant fly from/to majors hubs without AIG. So while waiting for a proper AI traffic, I enjoy low n' slow and that's where MSFS really shines. Ground tesselation, 3d trees, ground effect & behaviour, I would not go back to MSFS 2020 for anything. Being attracted by Alaska but having 3 children, I don't have much time to fly : I had to cut back on planning. I asked ChatGPT : "I want to explore the south of Alaska. I plan on doing short hops in a Draco X from Yakutat to Anchorage. Please suggest 8-10 legs, between 30 and 60nm each, knowing I dont want to miss Chenega, Kenai Fjords Ntional Park, Kachemak Bay State Park, Tustumena Lake. Prepare me a summary table of the stages, with the points of interest, suggestions for landing sites suitable for my STOL aircraft, the duration, fuel consumption and minimum cruising altitude taking into account the constraints of the terrain. " + "Please update this table with a suggestion for a natural landing site for each leg" It basically output me this : Quite impressive isnt it ? It allowed me to enjoy my first hop from Yakutat, exploring the coast of Wrangell–Saint-Élie National Park. I landed somewhere near the shore (60° 1' 7,50" N 141° 58' 39,80" W) to set up the camp for the night. Already impatient to start the engine in the cold morning for the next leg ! And you know what I miss right now for that kind of flight ? An update to GeoShot, which allowed to take geotagged MSFS2020 screenshots. I am now curious to see if I can spot bears, elks, etc. Never been so impatient to take off. I'll have to bed the kids earlier 😅 Edited December 14, 20241 yr by RockOla
December 14, 20241 yr Fine set ! 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.
December 14, 20241 yr Nice shots and interesting to hear about ChatGPT as a tool to create flightplans... Tried the Draco once but was not impressed by my skills to fly it...🙂 have to practice a bit. PC: Ryzen 7 3700x AM4, 16 GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB, Storage SSD 3TB, HDD 8TB, USB 8TB, 2 Screens, Win10-64 SIMs: FSX SE, P3d 3.4/4.5/6.1, Xplane 10/11/12, MSFS 2020/24, Aerofly FS 4
December 14, 20241 yr Those are some stunning shots! i7-13700KF, 32gb DDR4 3200, RTX 4080, Win 11, MSFS 2024
December 15, 20241 yr Wonderful exploratory pictures out of Alaska...And you've made diligent efforts to make it more enjoyable... Yes, Alaska is an endless adventure...parts of Alaska are still uninhabited and unfrequented by humans ...🙂...so ideal target for this type of (air) excursions... Hope you get to see some (Alaskan) bears and elks etc...🙂...on your visits...
December 18, 20241 yr Author Thanks for your kind comments On 12/15/2024 at 3:18 PM, P_7878 said: Hope you get to see some (Alaskan) bears and elks etc...🙂...on your visits... I have yet to see some wildlife spawning in Free flight mode...
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