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So let me, too, congratulate you and your team for this wonderful scenery. I never would have planned to fly to Jacksonville, but now I do. Regards, Harald

After it refused to load weather data for some days indeed, I can confirm that FSRealWX works again.

Great idea! Bringing the An-225 back to serial production? Well, nothing is impossible... even more as there are obviously serious attempts to do so... and the Antonov looks terrific in every livery (perhaps excepting new Lufthansa one, but that is another story).

Thanks P_7878 for commenting. I wished, too, that Africa was represented better in the sims, but I honestly don't believe that this will be come true. To many simmers concentrate on Europe and Northern America almost exclusively...

Thanks John and Patrick! Regarding the Luanda scenery, it's a freeware "Photoreal Luanda 2012" by Mateusz Stabryla/MK Studios. Unfortunately, I can't find it in the web anymore, neither via g+++++ search nor at the common file libraries; and it is not even listed in the FS2004 freeware scenery list. Site of Angolan Virtual Airliners Group is down. So I have no idea where to get this scenery nowadays...

Thanks John, Ed, Bernd, Michael and José for commenting! Same problem here; I neither get the Il-18 to work properly nor have I solved the problem of disappearing river beside my work-in-progress Ambrolauri airfield scenery in Georgia... ...old but still good!

Hi all, here are some shots of a journey from Tenerife to Luanda, capital of Angola, in three legs via Banjul/Gambia and Douala/Cameroun. Take-off at Tenerife-North (Los Rodeos): Above Mauretania: Turning in to Banjul Airport: The Presidential Fleet: The Gambian Air Force, consisting of one Su-25 (air superiority guaranteed...): Bamako: Bioko Island: Taxiing in Douala Up to the last leg to Luanda: I hope you enjoy these. Regards, Harald

How times change. Some years ago (some? 13!) I was passenger in a 737-200 (LAN Chile) and found nothing with it. At this time, a DC-6 was a classic plane to me, perhaps a Tu-134, too; but a 737? Now I see this great shots and think: wow, what a venerable old plane... And of course, your historic background text is in a class of its own... Thank you!

Welcome to Saxony!

Cool idea. Although that FH4 (never heard of that --> something to try!) looks very well, it has an evident limitation: Cars can't fly!

Thanks Bernd! I think I needed a change, at least for one winter season. To tell the truth: I downloaded the TDS version first and looked for a suitable panel. After trying some freeware panels, I stumbled upon a promotion by CS and thought I could try it. I then looked at both the models in terms of visuals and preferred the TDS model, particularly due to some more modern animations. I especially like the wing flex and the turning strobe light. So I tried a merge and it works to my satisfaction. I honestly did no comparison in terms of flight dynamics.

Interesting and informative thread. Has any of you Win10 users ever tried if FSHotSFX works under Win10? (FSHotSFX - that legendary application that brought realistic and type-individual sound to AI planes.) Stopped working under Win7, so I don't believe it's working again under Win10, but hope dies last... Thanks!

Thanks NWATech and Patrick for commenting! As written above, I have to get familiar with the 727 again after some years of flying other planes (it was once when the change from WinXP to Win7 made my Dreamfleet 727 unusable. Without these problems, I would have continued flying it...). Beside pressing the correct "switches and knobs", I have the impression that the TDS model flies a little more unstable than the DF model used to; hence my landings look a Little strange so far. Maybe I just remember incorrect. Furthermore, whatever I tested and edited so far, I don't get the flap vortices to work which used to make my DF 727 landing shots so attractive. But... one big advantage of the TDS model: I can chose between turning and flashing beacon lights!

P_7878, I have visited Stuttgart (though not the airport) and Friedrichshafen. The landscape at your shots does look like Germany or Middle Europe for sure. Regarding Friedrichshafen, it looks more like a coastal city. This may be caused by the fact that if you come to Lake Bodan from... let's say... northern Germany, you always have the Swiss and Austrian mountains in the background. At your shots, one rather looks to the opposite direction and this is when I say to myself, just coming from my holidays: "Sh..., still 600 km to go at the nerving Autobahn and tomorrow I'm at work again." Conclusion: Approach to EDFH from north with the mountains in the background, and the viewer will feel as if holidays begin.

Thanks P_7878 again. Africa correlates with new E. Mwandosya freeware.

Thanks Ed... I rested too long at the Tupolev. Still a lot to practice with the Boeing to renew my skills, and may it be which lights to toggle and untoggle. More screens to come the more I get routine with the 727 again! I guess it has something to do with this one:

Beside the fact that these are superb pictures of classic VFR flying, I like the livery, too; and surely it's better than the real new Lufthansa livery. By the way, which town is your destination in the four last pictures?

Thanks John and P_7878 for commenting! Unfortunately, not. I use the TDS model now, merged with Captain Sim's 2D panel (bought it some years ago just for this purpose). This still doesn't work perfect, but is useable and has some potential for improvement. Not that exotic: I flew from Berlin to Madrid via Cologne. Heading the Canaries and perhaps Africa... Regards, Harald

... with the B727:

Great collection over swiss scenery, as I also love Switzerland... venerable planes like the DC-3 or the Caravelle in some attractive but some curious liveries, too. Never thought that Swissair ever had worn a "golden gull" livery. And as Bernd said, the 747 scheme was complete new for me. Kind of harlekinesque... But I love the DC-3 livery which seems to be a variety of the neutrality scheme from WWII times.

Not at all, it was very welcome. I wouldn't have realized you post without it as I'm not so often in the fora these days anymore.

I enjoyed the video an the pictures as much as always. And.. what a great "attempt"!

What a pleasure to watch these planes. I'm sure that almost every simmer has as least one of them to declare as a part of his/her personal simming history...

In enjoyed the video as well as the pictures very much. I particularly got immediate desire to visit Novosibirsk once more - superb freeware. The only thing I didn't like was... the new LH livery. Good to see FRA full of AI planes with the old one!

What a great post again. Glad to see two GDR liveries! Beside flying the An-2 then and when in the sim, I had the opportunity twice to be a passenger in the real thing. The engine start sequence is a symphony of its own. And getting into the air is real flying, in the little cabin that shakes and rolls, instead of being in a metal tube that hardly gives you the feeling of actual flying anymore.