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I had a email-shot from Earth Simulations yesterday.

Their Isle Of Man scenery looks fantastic.

Here are just some of the many great features:

12 GB of Scenery goodness!!
Glorious 30cm per pixel Photographic Scenery.
Seasonal Textures and Night Lighting.
Intricately detailed 1.2 m post hand edited enhanced terrain, looks especially impressive at coastal cliffs.
Full accurate coverage of New Improved Earth Simulations Advanced Autogen.
Full coverage of ES’s unique environmental Soundscapes.
Realistically scaled, and hugely varied Trees and buildings modeled in local character.
Thousands of unique objects ensure ES scenery is NEVER boring and repetitive.
Many animations for you to find including Animals/ Bird life/ Marine life, Working machinery, Road Traffic, Shipping and Boat traffic, Special effects…and more…making the Isle of Man the closest thing yet to a living world in Flight Simulation.
Extreme detailed EGNS Ronaldsway Airport, including:
Detailed ground polys and markings.
All buildings modeled accurately and using ES shadow lighting techniques.
3D signs and lighting for terminal area, taxi ways and runways working windsock etc…
Lots of small detail, realistic grass, airport clutter, animations.
Jurby and Andreas Airfields modeled, also Mount Rule grass strip and eleven real world helicopter pads to find or start flight from.
Tons and tons of bespoke modelling make the Isle of Man towns instantly recognizable.
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Looks great mate. :)

I managed to get my pc set up again last night, all be it on a pasting table lol (should have my new furniture back end of this week).

I managed to get a very short flight in from Leeds/Bradford to Humberside Airport in the Baron (I really like flying this plane). One problem I had was ATC told me to land at runway 3, however I could not see a runway number 3 on the aerodrome chart, am I blind or just missing something?

http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/eadb...s/AD/AIRAC/EG_AD_2_EGNJ_2-1_en_2013-08-22.pdf
 
Well done on the setup and are you referring to the in-built ATC?

With the earth's magnetic variation, runway numbers will change.

Was was once RW 03 at Humberside, is now 02. The charts will be more up to date than FSX. Buying and/or installing recent third party scenery will correct this.

Have a read here for London City:
http://www.londoncityairport.com/aboutandcorporate/readpressrelease/1168
 
!bluetonic! said:
Well done on the setup and are you referring to the in-built ATC?

With the earth's magnetic variation, runway numbers will change.

Was was once RW 03 at Humberside, is now 02. The charts will be more up to date than FSX. Buying and/or installing recent third party scenery will correct this.

Have a read here for London City:
http://www.londoncityairport.com/aboutandcorporate/readpressrelease/1168
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Yeah the built in ATC, not sure I would have a clue what to say to real ATC like on VATSIM yet :confused:

I really didnt even realise that is how they numbered the runways, so if my thinking is correct I can use the runway number to work out my approach to the airport?
 
Yes. Runways are placed with favourable winds for the area.

At Bristol you have RW 27 and RW 09.

270 degrees and 090 degrees. Thankfully runways are straight, so if you know one number, you will know the other.

If you're flying Visual Flight Rules or VFR in the Baron, you would look on an CAA chart and you would see little yellow dots. These are Visual Reference Points and you and ATC would use these to allow you into their 'controlled zone' for the airfield. Once here, you'd know about the racetrack pattern, upwind, crosswind, downwind, base and final.

You'd tune into ATIS which reports which runway is in use, air pressure, weather conditions etc.

Once again, for Bristol, with you e.g east of the airfield, they'd say:-

You are cleared to entered the controlled zone at Bath Racecourse VRP. Not above altitude 2500 feet. Report the airfield in sight.

When visible, you report the airfield.

They'd then say join and report final. Essentially meaning you can line yourself up visually with the runway and fly straight in.
 
!bluetonic! said:
Yes. Runways are placed with favourable winds for the area.

At Bristol you have RW 27 and RW 09.

270 degrees and 090 degrees. Thankfully runways are straight, so if you know one number, you will know the other.

If you're flying Visual Flight Rules or VFR in the Baron, you would look on an CAA chart and you would see little yellow dots. These are Visual Reference Points and you and ATC would use these to allow you into their 'controlled zone' for the airfield. Once here, you'd know about the racetrack pattern, upwind, crosswind, downwind, base and final.

You'd tune into ATIS which reports which runway is in use, air pressure, weather conditions etc.

Once again, for Bristol, with you e.g east of the airfield, they'd say:-

You are cleared to entered the controlled zone at Bath Racecourse VRP. Not above altitude 2500 feet. Report the airfield in sight.

When visible, you report the airfield.

They'd then say join and report final. Essentially meaning you can line yourself up visually with the runway and fly straight in.
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I see, I never get the ATC saying "your cleared to to enter controlled airspace" etc, is this supposed to happen in FSX or are you talking about real world stuff?

When i set my free flight route I usually just follow the GPS in a straight line to the airport. Then swing around to the appropriate airport and land ooops!!!!!

And here was me thinking I was getting the hang of things :eek:
 
!bluetonic! said:
The 'other' ATC stuff is on Vatsim. They use real 'virtually qualified' people as air traffic controllers.

I'm sure you are getting the hang of things.
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Ah ok.

I do feel like im learning something everyday, just so much to learn :D

Im going to have a play around with Plan G tonight and maybe make my flights a little more real rather than just fly in a straight line to airports and end up doing a u turn right over the main runway which im guessing is BAD lol
 
Erm wow,was not expecting this http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.co...opic/26711-the-new-vrsrex-screenshot-contest/

Also, just got the IOM DL but don't think I will have a chance till this weekend at the earliest to give it a fly over. Will try to bring some screen shots along if I get the time. Alas due to having some major curve balls thrown into my life this year, I simply have not had the time to spend as much as I would like on FSX or taking many new screen shot of the great array of software released this year, although with Xmas approaching, I hope time will become more free in my life to start enjoying flying and sharing with you folks a bit more.

On a side note, I am very happy to see this thread (which I certainly regards as a thread for all FSX simmers) is still breathing live thanks to the many other flight enthusiasts that add some wonderful comments/screen shots/helpful tips/software links/news etc over the past few years. Considering there is nothing really else out there, apart from maybe P3D, that comes close to a decent flight sim, I hope we will see many more years of enjoyable flying and fun.

My thanks and appreciation goes out to all who have contributed and still are contributing to this thread.

Happy flying.
 
to fix the wrong runway/magnetic variation issue:

http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids.html

download the 'updated magvar data' file and overwrite the fsx magdec.bgl (found in fsxroot\scenery\BASE\scenery) with the one in the download. I actually didn't realise they'd done a 2013 version so it should be even more accurate (I've been using the 2010 version!)

On a different topic, Helloooooo!!!!

edit: congrats soya!
 
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Soya, A big congratulations to you. I thought my shot was better.. :p, but credit where it's due.

I hope you're soldiering on and the switch to Railways hasn't affected you too much.

I'm pleased that a thread you started back in Aug 2010 continues to prosper. Just over 3 years down the line and we've seen the likes the Aerosoft Airbus, PMDG 777, ORBX Global be produced for a software that its creators have discontinued.

And we've done it once before on these forums, but if you all get a Vatsim account, we can organise an OCUK fly-in event somewhere.
 
Some great pictures in that thread, well done Soya!

I like the sound of a OCUK fly event, I will need a bit more practice first though :)

On another VATSIM note, is there a script of what to say to the ATC or are they pretty good with people that dont have a clue?
 
On another note, looking at the thread title is anyone adverse to discussing other sims in this thread? I mainly spend a lot of time with the DCS A-10, and theres no point using that thread as its used for mudslinging over company policy last time I checked

If the consensus is to keep it MFS i'll head over there and put up with it
 
cuffylad said:
I like the sound of a OCUK fly event, I will need a bit more practice first though :)

On another VATSIM note, is there a script of what to say to the ATC or are they pretty good with people that dont have a clue?
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I have got a script, but I will update it as it could do with it.. I'll post a link in a couple of weeks when it's done. :p

Boycey0211 said:
If the consensus is to keep it MFS i'll head over there and put up with it
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Someone asked something similar recently. I for one would like to keep this solely for FSX. If you're unhappy with the DCS thread content, contact a mod or start a new thread and try and keep it on-topic.
 
!bluetonic! said:
I have got a script, but I will update it as it could do with it.. I'll post a link in a couple of weeks when it's done. :p
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Cheers mate that would be great.

I found a few good tutorials that have help me out, mainly with my understanding of how air crafts work which can only help.

http://www.cixvfrclub.org.uk/training/TrainingManual/training_manual.php

I also did a few short VFR flights and planned my route with plan-g (even though it was still a straight line), I planned my approach to the airport for landing for each runway before I set off. This helped dramatically with my landings etc, before I just used the GPS and winged my approach, but actually planning everything before hand made things a whole lot easier :D
 
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