Bruce66

I KNOW I am years behind but I finally bought Pacific Fjords and took some of my old planes for a look around. Here is some of what I captured: Enjoy!

Cheers! Yup, it may look cramped but nothing is out of reach! And once I am in the sim I don't even notice it is a small space.

So, I have finally moved out of the living room into a dedicated cockpit (cupboard!) and I also finally have a dedicated flight sim computer (previously I had a partition on the family computer which was also the entertainment system). The tour of the cockpit is very short and then I take you for my first proper flight. The flight is in the A2A Spitfire around my local area in southern England. Enjoy!

Still learning with Radar Contact but I am having fun trying! A slow and methodical flight using IFR and Radar Contact (at least they are not taking away my virtual pilot's license anymore!). Enjoy!

I have been wanting to visit the Lake District for years in the real world and still have not managed to get there so I took my A2A Harvard up for a little sightseeing in the area! I hope you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed the flight!

That is what I love about Accu Sim! The often unexpected consequences of my bad habit of not going through my checklists! (When will I learn?!)

Had some fun mucking about with the Spitfire! Flying from Abbotsford to Kamloops with ORBX PNW: Hope you enjoy! (More Bruce - less Rachmaniniov!)

Ha Ha!! Not enough Bruce - I like that! There was plenty of sweat lost in this flight! The flight wasnt planned and I didn't really have a video in mind though I recorded anyway. But I was so nervous coming down through that cloud that I didn't have time to say much. The Rachmaninov came to me as I was skimming the waves looking for Alert Bay so I thought - Give a video a go! and it seemed to fit somehow. Thanks for watching and commenting! And, yes, that paint looks good don't it. My freind Redspade is painting them up for a multiplayer flight we are planning - hopefully not in a peasouper!!

Enjoy the flight to The Isle of the Dead

Here is my latest video based out of Lydd Airport in the UK flying the A2A Spitfire: Hope you enjoy!

Took the Cub on a simulated fishing trip in northern Manitoba. You better bring some bug spray! Enjoy!

A short fun flight through the Glen Canyon: I hope you enjoy!

Not likely to become a regular experience - more a once in a lifetime kind of flight! Hope you enjoy!

Since opinions and experiences seem to be what you are looking for, the more the merrier! Myself, my computer is not the hot. I have tried a few photoreal sceneries for some places I know and some places I dont know. The Gand Canyon and San Francisco are places I have been to enough to recognise places and Hawaii I have never visited. So at first I was blown away by the photoreal sceneries for all three (I have tried others that were dismal so I wont speak any more of them) but as time went on that impression faded. With the Grand Canyon the images are taken at a particular time of day so as I flew along at different times and seasons the appearance did not change to reflect that - destroyed the immersion. With San Fransisco the auto gen - well, lack of - was the immersion killer. Hawaii (by Flight Sim Jewels) I still use as it is fantastic with very good airports to go with it - but it does hit my frame rates very hard. To compare all of the above to UTX/GEX for the USA I would have to choose the UTX product in general for a few reasons: - easier on the frame rates - one product covers the whole area for all the above mentioned locations - UTX Vector gives very accurate road/rail/river detail for VFR flight as does photoreal so no detriment there. Down sides for UTX/GEX are the costs (and they never go on sale so far as far as I have noticed), and if you know an area really well you will see the buildings are often generic and/or incorrect - for example a small apartment block instead of a barn on a farm next to town. Also if you fly with all the sliders pushed to the right you will start to see a lot of the same objects repeated a lot - like the blue water towers in the praries. The autogen can be compensated for with fiddling but that is a faf... In conclusion it is as others have said, a matter of choice. Try the free stuff first (and I really do recommend Flight Sim Jewels for a look) and see how you feel. Hope this helps a little. PS: If you are flying Bush Pilot stuff you may want to take a look for Turbulent Designs tree upgrade TerraFlora. I picked it up cheap in the sales a Xmas and it made a big difference as now I can turn the auto gen for trees all the way to maximum and bush flying is much better with trees, in my opinion!

Gotta say I don't miss the winters now I am in the balmy UK! Thursday the 11th that would be? I don't know if I will record it but maybe I'll get the old Beaver out for a flight in that blizzard to see how she likes it! (The beauty of historic weather in Active Sky!)