The 'Official' Screenshot & Tips thread 4 FSX enthusiasts & flight simmers.

!bluetonic! · 10 Jun 2013 at 20:41

Vuvuzela said:
Also did my first flying lesson today - Absolutely loved it. Some photos to follow soon....

Can't wait to hear about it.

uk_viper · 11 Jun 2013 at 12:23

Not been keeping fully up to date lately with my images, so I just mass uploaded them on my blog, what you think? http://gareth.akehurst.me/sorry-its-been-a-while/

!bluetonic! · 11 Jun 2013 at 14:03

Good range of piccies. I liked:-

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2013-5-20_21-33-28-596.jpg

uk_viper · 11 Jun 2013 at 15:28

Thanks!, plenty more will be added in due course!

uk_viper · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:35

Well that's just typical, just ran out of runway!

Came in a tad late

ghutchison14078 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:47

uk_viper said:
Well that's just typical, just ran out of runway!

Came in a tad late

You didn't run out of runway...THEY didn't build a long enough runway

Some pics of my Easyjet A320 approach and landing into Edinburgh

!bluetonic! · 12 Jun 2013 at 07:55

ghutchison14078 said:
Some pics of my Easyjet A320 approach and landing into Edinburgh
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Impressive!

I'll be online from 10.45pm this Friday on Mumble. It would have been earlier, but I'm off to see a badminton club.

For those that have nothing better to do, we can:-

a) Fly
b) Set you up on Vatsim
c) Go over improving FSX
d) Learning how to fly the 737NG, ATR72 or making better use of the default Cessna
e) Anything else.

Mumble connection details are in some previous post of mine.

stevie_vee · 12 Jun 2013 at 07:56

Some reverse thrust...Like it! Your scenery looks quite flat, are you using VFR?

ghutchison14078 · 12 Jun 2013 at 12:17

stevie_vee said:
Some reverse thrust...Like it! Your scenery looks quite flat, are you using VFR?

Yeah I use GenX VFR scenery for all my UK flying.

Looks great from IFR and VFR altitudes but does start to look very flat as you come down for landings. I usually have treescapes installed but I was fiddling with visual settings when I took these shots so my autogen trees are not visible.

I tried Orbx England, whilst it does look better at low landing altitudes because of all the autogen buildings I think it looks rubbish higher up, especially the colors...they look almost cartoonish to me?!?!

!bluetonic! · 12 Jun 2013 at 12:28

ghutchison14078 said:
..but does start to look very flat as you come down for landings.

To keep the scenery looking sharp at landing, you need to land left wheel first, wing tip centimetres from the floor.

Dappo · 12 Jun 2013 at 12:46

Some pictures of the Q400 taken from flights I've done over the last couple of days.

ghutchison14078 · 12 Jun 2013 at 12:57

^^^ cracking pics Dappo, I have the Q400 bought and installed but I've yet to start the flying and learning.

Are you using ENB in your shots??

Dappo · 12 Jun 2013 at 13:15

ghutchison14078 said:
^^^ cracking pics Dappo, I have the Q400 bought and installed but I've yet to start the flying and learning.

Are you using ENB in your shots??

Thank you!

Yes, I am using the Natural ENB from the REX forums. I have also noticed that some REX textures can look amazing while other ones don't look as good.

ghutchison14078 · 12 Jun 2013 at 13:19

Dappo said:
Thank you!

Yes, I am using the Natural ENB from the REX forums. I have also noticed that some REX textures can look amazing while other ones don't look as good.

I'll give that one a try...my experience of ENB so far is that it looks fantastic but causes frequent crashing on my system.

stevie_vee · 12 Jun 2013 at 16:21

I also use Natural ENB from REX. This file from REX also for grass textures....http://www.flightsimworld.com/forums/topic/153225-freebie-rex-preview-texture-grass-detail1bmp/

!bluetonic! · 13 Jun 2013 at 12:02

Airbus A350 flies tomorrow. Hopefully it will show on FlightRadar24.
Then we can hope FSL or Aerosoft make a virtual one.

http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/pressreleases/press-release-detail/detail/airbus-confirms-timing-for-a350-xwb-first-flight/

the A350 XWB has already won 613 firm orders from 33 customers worldwide.

Is this any of you guys?

ghutchison14078 · 13 Jun 2013 at 16:25

!bluetonic! said:
http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/pressreleases/press-release-detail/detail/airbus-confirms-timing-for-a350-xwb-first-flight/

Is this any of you guys?

Yeah, if had a spare $260 million in the bank.....

shadow_boxer · 13 Jun 2013 at 17:38

Dappo said:
Thank you!

Yes, I am using the Natural ENB from the REX forums. I have also noticed that some REX textures can look amazing while other ones don't look as good.

Beautiful shots there Dappo. Not had much time for fsx recently and I'll be having to do a full install on my new system too!

Must try the natural enb, the one I had installed previously was too overpowering and gave a slightly odd dark look to everything.

ghutchison14078 · 13 Jun 2013 at 18:21

Think I have finally cracked my dusk REX and ENB settings / palette at last

!bluetonic! · 14 Jun 2013 at 07:34

Great pics again!

This was a link posted on the FlightAware Newsletter of a video which I rather liked:

http://vimeo.com/67814853

And pictures of the the ever-imortal Kai-Tak which has been transformed into a Cruise Liner Harbour:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/11/travel/hong-kong-kai-tak-airport/index.html?hpt=hp_c4