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Truly excellent capture. Everything about it works perfectly.

Looking nice and crisp there Darryl, in all senses.

Great set Ryan! And wouldn't it be nice to have one of those for real eh? I might be prepared to consider actual real life air travel again if I could do it this way!

That should be pretty excellent fun Todd. Don't know what you're coming from but that setup should crackle along sending out sparks (and I mean that in a good, hot-rod, sort of way!) MSFS and all it's wonders on a good modern PC is just pure delight.

Absolutely wonderful post, P-7878! As I've mentioned in some of my own posts, I'm not big on either mountains or islands, but this post has inspired me to go explore there, and for me that's the real mark of a great set of pix. I can't remember if this is one of those places Superspud has given a makeover to, but I'll check that out too. And while I mention that, if you enjoyed the Channel Islands try the Scilly Isles next - that does have a nice vibe as well. And I really love that livery on the TBM! Gotta go grab that - it really suits that plane. Excellent!

Lovely set of shots, Darryl! In fact - "such a fine sight to see"

Cheers John! That's the joy of the sim, you can wander for hours and it's still easy on the old knees! Terry (Lord Farringdon) posted a fairly comprehensive analysis in here - https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/644205-captainsim-c130/page/3/#comments and as you'll see, it depends what you're looking for. I like it a lot, but it really is way overpriced for what it is (as you'd expect from CS) and it is not terribly realistic out of the box. You can rig the sound set, but the Transall does have way more of the sort of features you would have hoped for in the Herc. But it is a Hercules! And it does look good. And I'm a very shallow sort of guy as far as my simming goes - looks are everything! Cheers PMP!

Hi pmplayer, and I just looked at your sig. Are you really running 3 x 4k screens off an 8g 2080? I'm surprised that amount of vram can cope at all with all those pixels. I haven't done the math, it just seems way small for that. I'm running a single 4k on a 3090 with 24gb and I have had a few occasions where I've been using up around 21-22gb of that. Not here at KLGA but on various other occasions.

So now we'll set off from KLGA in our nice new Hercules. Oh what fun I'm having <grin> There she is, waiting patiently Starting up Moving out and away! Weather clearing as we move off north up the Hudson And on the western side of the river, just below the nose, is Nyack. A fine place to visit, and probably to live, too, with a really attractive arty enclave of shops and such down towards the river. I remember several very good secondhand-book shops there, where I picked up quite a few little gems on my two or three visits. I seem to remember that maybe the Prudential has (had?) a big data centre outside town? So there you go. Quite possibly more than you ever wanted to know about KLGA and my book-buying habits. Hope you enjoyed the trip.

Second set of my tour around MK Studios' KLGA. Just been out to Citi Field, and now heading back across the water to the airport Back to the terminal we left at the end of the first set Manhattan in the distance Back inside the terminal complex now and we'll work our way round to finish at the Tower One of the upper level lounges access to that upper level lounge And although you probably won't see it without a monster screen, in the distance awaits our Herc, and that's where we'll be in the next and final post in this set

Got this to replace my original FeelThere version. This version is quite magnificent, for my tastes. Beautifully modelled and nicely detailed, it really does create the vibe of a newly built/refurbished set of buildings. You can almost smell the paint drying. And the surrounding setting is quite splendid as well. I have a very full set of addons for the whole NYC-Long Island area (airports, bridges, DD's city, and other bits and pieces) and this is a very welcome addition to that environment. With the whole lot enabled and a heli or similar it all makes for a very realistic tour. Given my taste for ground level details, I spent several hours just droning around this airport taking snaps, and then took a brief flight out from it in the C-130 Hercules. I shall post two sets of sightseeing pix, and the third will have the flight out pix. Weather set to a bit murky, to add atmosphere, and all pix 4k and best viewed full screen as usual. Oh, and AIG Traffic in use to add a bit of life. Enjoy or ignore, according to taste! The approach to departures What I love about a well modelled airport is that it can capture the mundanity of air travel. Or at least that's how I see it. I'm sure if you don't fly / haven't flown much, then airports and flying are still wonderfully exciting things, but I burnt out my own excitement centres after nearly a couple of decades of business (but cattle class) travel. So my memories of it all are a mixture of wonder and wondering when the hull we're going to finally get to take off. And the airports themselves hold that same sort of mixed memory. Fond memories of some places and occasions countered by the memories of (not) sleeping on a bench overnight due to being snowed in at Glasgow, or sitting in a lounge for almost 13 hours at Copenhagen waiting for my flight home, for example. Which is why I bother taking shots like this - and this - This airport is populated, and with reasonable looking pixel people, which is nice. Never used KLGA myself, so no idea how busy it gets, but I suspect busier than shown here, although perhaps this is because it's relatively newly re-opened? Normally, I would say this all looks a bit new and shiny, but I guess in this case, that's pretty accurate and rather well done I like the setting here as well. Don't know enough about the topography here to know if this is considered part of the East River or Long Island Sound, but we will explore it a little bit shortly getting a bit busier in here now If you look closely (and same with lots of the pixel folk in this airport) it would appear that a lightning fast phone snatcher is at work at KLGA! Looking out from the end of this terminal And now, via the magic of pixel power, out in to that view and off to explore the waterside a little For me, the idea of just sitting in the front of your big tube and concentrating on landing the thing here seems an enormous waste of time. There's this whole fascinating world down here that is much more interesting than all those buttons and dials. But each to his/her own. I'm just very grateful that I can do this now. Been a long time coming, but now it's here - wow! Citi Field - what I believe was previously, or, I guess, simply occupies the same site as, Shea Stadium ("yeah, yeah, yeah!") We'll stop this first part here. Next part will head back across the river to explore the airport some more, and then we'll actually take a flight out from there in part three.

@P_7878, @qqwertz, found my FSX stuff, so will have a look at the manual ("heaven forfend!" as Horace Rumpole would say), and already got the sound working. Hi Andreas, and thanks. Yes, I am 4k (and HDR). Went 4k with a 40" Philips monitor around ten years ago, very nice monitor indeed. Finally died on me a couple of years back so got myself another Philips as I had been well impressed with the first one. This one is a 55" beast and full HDR. Sitting just maybe 3 feet away from it the immersion is incredible. Don't fancy VR - never actually tried it but don't really even like wearing headphones so can't see VR working for me, plus I wear glasses and I imagine that would complicate matters. Now, a surround setup with three 70 inch 8k HDR monitors - that would be something to aim for! Probably have to wait for the nVidia 9090tix-gti to run that though (and a bigger house)

Cheers Todd! Thanks John! I really enjoy getting down to ground level and poking around. This is the first sim where that's been a serious option, and it's how I spend most of my sim time. I doubt I spend more than maybe 5% of my time actually flying in any session. Sometimes I might force myself to stay in the cockpit for maybe 30 - 40 minutes while I record a flight, but then I'll probably spend many hours over the course of a couple of days exploring the environment via the replay. Cheers PMP! Truth be told, I'm not sure I've ever even tried to land here. Start parked and look around, maybe take off, maybe not. From the air, I don't find mountains interesting so I tend not to hang around them much. Partly because even MSFS seems to have trouble with vertical faces. Maybe 2024 will improve that aspect. Cheers P_7878! This is pretty good for a built in airport - I think MS/Asobo do good stuff with their hand crafted stuff. Cheers Andreas, and my system defaults to sunny skies but I like a bit of gloom on occasion!

Hi Andreas, that sounds like the opening to a Country and Western song! Sorry to hear that, and hope Amazon can sort you out!

Wonderful shots Ryan, and a very nice paint job. Yet another of my favourite planes, and Florida rarely looks anything less than spectacular.