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Thanks - that's a truly excellent tool!(I tried registering but gave up after many failures. Nor can I reach the administrator.)-- Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks both, much appreciate the fast responses.esg: I'd like to try that myself. Did you first simply go to the Virgin site to get flight numbers and then feed them into Flight Aware please?-- Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Could someone point me to the flight path Virgin Atlantic uses from London Heathrow to LAX please?I did actually plot a small section of it when my son flew out last September. But there's a huge gap of about 6 hours from near Leeds in the north of England:12:51 53.64 -1.85 314° West 459 528 29,000 climbing FlightAware Europeto this point18:57 58.03 -92.63 215° SW 480 552 34,000 climbing Winnipeg Centerto the west of the Hudson Bay.(I can't immediately recall the source of that data.)-- Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks Jim. Yep, I too will use Google and ignore the local AVSIM search from now on. It's just got my curiosity aroused, as most searches I tried did work, just not that one!--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

So, I take it that it the Search tool is indeed not to be relied upon!--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks Tom, but I'd tried that too. What am I doing wrong here? In either the basic or the advanced tool, I tried the following keywords:AmbitiousAmbitious requestAmbitious request!request"Ambitious request""Ambitious request!"None of them gave me the thread, http://forum.avsim.net/topic/300827-ambitious-request/ --Terry, East Grinstead, UK

How reliable is the Search tool here please? It failed to find this thread that I'd started, despite various correct target words.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/300827-ambitious-request/--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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Three months ago back in this thread http://forum.avsim.net/topic/287396-ot-easyjet-landing-at-malaga I had some great help. Bruce (brucets) excelled by making me a terrific sim of a holiday flight from Gatwick to Malaga. I've since incorporated extracts from that in my DVD of the holiday (which also featured a certain Icelandic volcano that stranded us in Spain for an extra 5 days). Here's a 2 minute extract from that DVD.But despite superbly detailed instructions from Al (Chock) I'm afraid I've still not mastered all the elements involved. I'd love to be able to do what Bruce did for myself, but so far it's out of my reach. So I'm back with a Big Ask!My son (with my two small grandsons) left the UK on Thursday 30th to start a new career in San Diego. I saw them off on the Virgin Atlantic 11:50 flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles. I've been assembling 'source material' for a short family DVD of this 'Farewell'. Apart from the obvious digicam photos and movie clips, I'll include monitored flight reports from various web sites, downloaded images of the Airbus 340-600, etc. But I'd especially like to include a brief sim of at least the take-off and landing, with perhaps a few shots over the USA too. So if you're still around Bruce, or any other expert who relishes the challenge, I'd be very, very grateful!BTW, is there no formal standard for flight numbering? Inconsistent methods seem to be used by carriers, airports, web sites, etc. I reckon I encountered VS7, VS007, VS 007, VIR 007, VIR007, V7 and more for this flight! I've no idea of the plane registration, although I'm trying to track that down.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

My son is shortly moving to San Diego to take up a new job. Does your photoreal coverage include that area please?--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Superb, thanks a bunch. I'm going to find a way to include a short extract in my DVD - although we never actually made that return flight! In our hotel in the village of Zuheros we learned of the volcanish ash crisis on the day before our scheduled return due from Malaga to Gatwick on 17th April. And on Sunday our travel agent told us our flight had been re-scheduled for 23rd April - although it remained highly unceratin whether even that would happen if the volcano didn't cease spewing ash. To summarise a long and painful tale, we organised our own return by a complex and expensive route. Starting on 20th April, it took 30 hours door-to-door and included taxi to Grandada, Ryannair (a first for me) from Granada to Girona, taxi to Perpignan railway station, overnight on the floor there, TGV to Paris following morning, long wait (mainly spent wandering around DisneyLand Village), Eurostar to Ebbsfleet, and finally taxi to home. So maybe that section will be "How we should have got home." :( The best I can do so far is this (with the right wingtip roughly over your camera position for the photo above):(I have Horizon Simulation's VFR Photographic Scenery Generation X for England.) Al has generously created a detailed tutorial for me, which I'll follow as soon as I get time. Gets you ready for those log fires inside, doesn't it? :( --Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Wow! That's just terrific, Al, thank you so much. I'll set aside time soon and step through it methodically. It goes straight into my 'Keep forever' folder! :( --Terry, East Grinstead, UK

That's a happy coincidence! Yes, it works OK, although it will be a lot better when I learn how to fly it - or at least set it up nicely for some 'outside views'. I tried to locate my earlier screenshot over Gravetye Manor, but reckon that will take a bit more study. :( (Sorry about the size; I've now halved it.)I If you succeed, I'll replace that section of my extract.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks Bruce, that's a relief - I was totally at a loss! I'll install that tomorrow.Meanwhile I found and installed another Easyjet Airbus earlier today:Many thanks for your patient help on this.Best wishes,--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks anyway Bruce.Those folders were just my attempt to show you and Al as much as possible. I should have explained that Agent\binaries is simply the place I stored your original ZIP and its various contents. So the top 5 folders were to show you the detailed contents so that you could match with yours.I've shown the full path addresses in all cases to avoid ambiguity.Before arranginging them for my screenshots I started from scratch and think I followed your simple instructions. But something is still plainly wrong! :( The crucial folder, the one you've shown, I understand isC:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\iFDG A319-111 EZYOur contents are identical except that I included \effects, the uncompressed folder from effects.zip. Although I didn't think that was significant, I've now deleted it but it makes no difference.I'll get back on the case later and try again.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Bruce,I'm obviously still doing something wrong, as I still can't get that in my aircraft options.Here's what my folders look like:--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Al,Very pleased to report that I successfully installed the Boeing 737-800 Easyjet variation. Thanks again for the those detailed instructions.Bruce,However, when I then turned to the file you sent me ifdg_a319-111_ezy.zipit seems that I couldn't use Al's installation procedure. Can you step me through it please?The ReadMe instructions seem childishly simple:- Extract the folder contained in the zip archive into your FS Aircraft folder. The aircraft will be located under the manufacturer "iFDG Airbus".- Copy all files in the EFFECTS folder into your Flight Simulator EFFECTS folder.- Go Fly!But for a start I have no "iFDG Airbus" folder, just the "Airbus_A321" folder. So I made a new folderC:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\iFDG AirbusIt didn't seem to make sense to copy all the extracted files to that new folder, so I copied all except the file effects.zip.I copied across the effects contents as instructed.Yet no new aircraft shows up in FSX.I then thought maybe I could somehow forcibly use Al's method, but the fileC:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\iFDG Airbus\texture.EZYis quite different to the one for the 737, as it contains only BMP images.Any further help you or Al can give me would be greatly welcomed please. I'm sure it will prove to be embarrassingly simple once I've done it ! :( --Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks for the ZIP file by PM Bruce. I'm going to try installing it over the weekend using Chock's instructions.You'd probably had too many beers when you identified East Grinstead - it's at the end of the line! :( Maybe East Croydon?--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

What a star! Brilliant, thanks a lot Bruce.My challenge now is to avoid including all 4

That's extremely kind of you Bruce, but I'd feel bad about putting you to so much trouble.And anyway, I'd completely overlooked the fact that it was an Airbus (Saturday 10th April, 11:05, EZY8605). So that 737 download won't cut the mustard. Not that my limited family audience are likely to notice. I have several 319 JPGs, so I may settle for playing with those over some Gatwick shots in PaintShop Pro! :( --Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks Sfakman, much appreciated. I've downloaded that YouTube take-off and will see how a short extract from it looks in my video editor. If I use it as part of a 'collage' (so that it occupies only a portion of the screen) the quality should be OK.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Excellent, thanks a lot Al, I'll study that more carefully tonight and have a crack at it.Meanwhile, if anyone has any EasyJet landing they 'made earlier' (or saw online somewhere) I'd still like to know please, as I'd like to get this part of the DVD finished asap.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

This is a result of my ambitions being way ahead of my current FSX skill levels! :( I make DVDs of all our holidays. As well as the obvious photos and video clips these include various maps, Google Earth tours, etc. But I'd now like to start including a 5-10 second clip illustrating landing at the destination airport.Our last holiday was to Malaga, Spain, by EasyJet from London Gatwick. But even if I had an EasyJet plane in my list, the most advanced flying I've done so far is in a Cessna, and even in that I haven't yet made a successful landing in a large field, much less a runway. So, although it's a longshot, I'm hoping someone can point me to a video from which I can extract a section please.One day I hope to be able to do this myself. :( --------------------Edit:As a start, I thought I'd at least have a crack at playing with this myself. Even if I don't attempt a landing, I migght get some good still shots. So I found and downloaded a file fromhttp://flightsim.filefront.com/file/Boeing...101017#Downloadcalled b738eax.zipAfter unzipping, I get a folder called texture.EZY and the following files:54.jpg55.jpg56.jpgaircraft.txtreadmee.txtThe last says:"Textures for the original FsX Boeing 737-800.This file is a freeware not for commercial use.To instal just copy and paste the textures filein your aircraft file.Copy the aircraft txt in your aircraft cfg.Good flight.Francois.Contact:estellereitz@wanadoo.fr"But I'm not clear EXACTLY how to install this without messing up, so would appreciate some detailed help please.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

I also found this, which I reckon shows a flight route that would have been close enought to mine the day earlier. http://www.vataware.com/flight.cfm?id=5404532By pasting a couple of cropped screenshots from that page together I arrived at a reasonable looking map.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks both, understood.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK