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Last batch for today. Out of a rather fine freeware Palm Springs (XP11 but ok) en route for KONT, the XP version of their recent and very splendid MSFS product. Actually the XP version is the original and is supposedly XP11, but again, works fine here. All over the very fine TrueEarth SoCal, along what has always been one of my favourite routes in any sim. This first set takes a look around KPSP and then heads off towards KONT, but the arrival will follow in a later set. We start waiting to go on the runway, but than have a look round the airport And this is freeware (on the .org forums) And away. I've been to Palm Springs, but not the airport. One year we gave ourselves a treat and had a few days in San Diego, then drove to Tucson stopping for one night each in Palm Springs and 29 Palms. That was one fine trip. Just to prove I do go inside sometimes! Just up ahead there used to be a couple of life sized dinosaurs at some kind of attraction, but I guess they've gone now (but I have some great shots of them from P3D) I really do think the True Earth stuff was the absolute pinnacle of Orbx's scenery business, which pretty much made it the best anywhere before MSFS came along. Shame that version of the company apparently no longer exists. And as we approach San Berdoo (as I believe the locals might call it?) that's where we stop this segment of the trip
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Yet more XP stuff. Out of KCLE, which is a free offering from a payware company (TWD) and comes with its own ortho tile. And I think that's what's being shown here but I need to double check (the instructions are a bit unclear, to me at least). Either way, whatever is showing up here, whether it's TWD's tile or SImHeaven and VSim's ortho, it's looking pretty fine. Messed around with a bit of pushback and taxiing this time. but that's all a bit boring so let's get out of here! turning east now Spotted this strip as I was flying over, can't remember what it's called, but thought I'd turn round and see about putting down there which actually went ok but as it was a bit of a last minute decision I came in too fast and well overran the runway (and a couple of fields). Wonder if the 319 has a tundra tyres option.
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I re-posted some pix as a reply recently in another topic, to show some lunacy/fun I had in MSFS originally. I commented at the time that I wondered if the much vaunted flight model in XP would even let me do such things or just bounce me out of the sky due to some arcane rule of aerodynamics or somesuch. So I thought I'd recreate the event in XP12. And hey - it seems Austin loves a loony too! (or at least is prepared to tolerate one). So here we go, out from Heathrow in the Tollis A319, one of my faves for XP, and off east over the Smoke. Over Hyde Park Chas and Cam's bijou city pad Swinging round to follow the river now Post Office Tower (as I still think of it) in the background, along with Centre Point. All good memories but I haven't been near any of that stuff for probably 35 years now Piccadilly Circus below. Notice the plug for Orbx, which is fair enough as it's their splendid True Earth that makes XP12 work for me Easing in to position For some reason, I can hear John McEnroe's voice in my head at this point "If you look out of the left hand window . . " 'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go. . . Mmmm, that was ok. Wonder if we've got enough sick bags to try that inverted . . ." Wonder if they do a floats version of this And away! Hey! I'm a sherious simmer, me As ever, no pixels were harmed in the making of this episode. The management does not recommend trying this without the aid of immensly impressive serious flight simming experience and skills. Or a large glass or three of Bushmills. Whichever comes more naturally. Life is short, Any sim is meant to be fun. Enjoy it all!
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Continuing my re-acquaintance with XP-12, I wanted to see what TE Florida would look like in XP-12. Pretty stunning, is the answer. I've always thought this might well be Orbx's best bit of scenery, loved it in XP11, can't actually remember if I had it for P3D - I may have stopped using P3D by then. So, symlinked it in to XP-12, along with all the rest of my Orbx XP stuff, and headed out from KEYW (Orbx). Still not set up properly for the various controls etc (which shows how much I'm enjoying XP - don't want to spend the time messing around with key bindings - just want to get in the air and go) but I'll maybe do that this weekend. It's beginning to inhibit my moving around enough that I'm not getting some of the shots I want. Still, I may have recorded this flight, and if that took I'll go back and explore more at ground level later. So we've got XP-12's lighting, Orbx's colouring for the scenery, and all without stutters and pauses. Smooth as a baby's b*m (probably word not allowed, gawdelpus). All 4k, best viewed large. Enjoy! Out of KEYW, and off to follow the highway back to the mainland I have always found this to be one of the major disappointments in MSFS. I had really high hopes at first but the colours in MSFS are not that good and more to the point, the water levels and water masks are all over the place. The road keeps vanishing under the water, and of course there is the usual problem with all the bridges. (Not getting into a which sim is best thing here, there are whole CONTINENTS done better in MSFS still and I still love it for that). But I really do think the TrueEarth version of Florida, and particularly the Keys, is magnificent Oh, and I realise that the A319 is not really meant for "low and slow" work, but here in my world . . . skipped ahead a bit here, now heading over Miami. Thought about putting down here but decided to carry on a little bit further to KFLL Swinging out to turn in to KFLL Too busy trying to get it down in one piece without bouncing (that's one side effect of flying it like a Cub or similar) to get any pix of the landing, but if the replay works I'll grab some then. But this is where I ended parked up. -
just the default Palm Springs, Used to be a favourite in the old P3D days with all the Orbx stuff, so I thought I'd see what it looked like in XP12. Possibly inapprpriate weather to start with, no idea if it ever gets like this around there but hey . . Weather clearing now I am getting spoiled by the lighting and atmospherics in XP12. If I could port these aspects to the MSFS world I really would have the absolutely perfect sim. I think I shall start experimenting with filters and the like in MSFS, as I'm finding it a bit bright and harsh now I've gotten back into XP12.
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I'm beginning to feel distinctly unfaithful at the moment. I'm really having a ball playing with XP12 right now. I symlinked to a couple more bits and pieces from my XP11 scenery, and took my new 319 out for a circuit around KSEA. Got my Traffic Global working, so lots of activity around (although nothing particularly grabbed in these shots), and I'm actually enjoying the 319 immensely - even if I haven't even got my controllers re-mapped yet. I'm used to ignoring all those switches and gauges but at the moment I can't even set the flaps! (see, you really don't need to be a pilot to enjoy simming) So, out from KSEA, off to Mt Pointy, and back in and down at Boeing Field (is that what it's called?) Great fun! I really can't believe how good these two sims are today. And for my purposes and tastes, XP12 with TrueEarth and MSFS when the PG is being served up unmelted are pretty much equals. As Mr Perry might say - "could it BE any better?"
