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

Soya · 26 Aug 2011 at 11:12

Quick Sales Tip

Aerosoft been having weekly weekend sales, this week, all their German airport are at 20% off, not a bad discount as some of those airports are very nice, if you fly in that area ofcourse.

shadow_boxer · 27 Aug 2011 at 19:10

RichBowman said:
Lovely looking Nimrod - who makes that model?

Cheers,

Rich

This one is by Simshed. I believe it's freeware too.

Has a very high quality VC and animations. Comes in various liveries too.

Dashik · 1 Sep 2011 at 01:31

Ok well an update for those interested

I'm now flying from SBNT Augusto Severo (Brazil) to SOCA Rochambeau (French Guiana) having flown in several legs down the west coast of North and South America and I'm making my way back up now. Pictures to follow

RichBowman · 1 Sep 2011 at 09:39

Ahhh - good to hear you're on track. Awaiting photos...

I've made it to Singapore Changi from Bangkok in a B-1B Lancer (Virtavia). ILS failed to engage so made a manual landing - should do that more often! Was quietly pleased with myself :-)

Will try and put some in flight shots up - what's the best method for this? I've registered a Dropbox account as I understand you can link pictures into forum posts...

Cheers,

Rich

muttclugg · 1 Sep 2011 at 11:41

Dashik said:
Ok well an update for those interested

I'm now flying from SBNT Augusto Severo (Brazil) to SOCA Rochambeau (French Guiana) having flown in several legs down the west coast of North and South America and I'm making my way back up now. Pictures to follow

I think im going to do one of these around the world trips. Sounds like fun! Dont forgrt those screenies.

shadow_boxer · 1 Sep 2011 at 13:29

Dashik said:
Ok well an update for those interested

I'm now flying from SBNT Augusto Severo (Brazil) to SOCA Rochambeau (French Guiana) having flown in several legs down the west coast of North and South America and I'm making my way back up now. Pictures to follow

Great to hear. Be sure to stop off at SVMI (Caracas), lovely approach along the coast. Did this one recently from (KMCO) Orlando.

RichBowman said:
...Will try and put some in flight shots up - what's the best method for this? I've registered a Dropbox account as I understand you can link pictures into forum posts...

Dropbox should work fine. I tend to use picasa.

shadow_boxer · 1 Sep 2011 at 13:35

muttclugg said:
I think im going to do one of these around the world trips. Sounds like fun! Dont forgrt those screenies.

Been tempted too. But having just got back into fsx (I blame a long boring bank holiday weekend) :rolleyes:

...I'm really getting back into my FS Passengers X career mode.

RichBowman · 1 Sep 2011 at 14:54

P.S. Cheers for the hint re: the Nimrod. The Tutor is a lovely little plane too.

Thanks,

Rich

RichBowman · 1 Sep 2011 at 21:31

Some shots from the flight I mentioned above:

shadow_boxer · 1 Sep 2011 at 22:22

Nice shots. Love the B1...I've only got the poor alphasim model which is quite dated now unfortunately.

shadow_boxer · 1 Sep 2011 at 22:29

A few of the Grand Canyon in Flight1's BN Islander.

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A few random ones too. Enjoy.

Soya · 3 Sep 2011 at 11:17

A very nice selection of shots there shadow, well done. Some 'odd' approaches mind you

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Here is my latest batch showing off the latest aircraft from Captain Sim, the nostalgic 737-100.

(unedited apart from resized & JPG'ed)

shadow_boxer · 3 Sep 2011 at 23:13

Lovely shots as aways Soya.

Fantastic looking aircraft that retro 737-100! Noticed it's only 10 euros but it says "exterior model" ? :confused:

Presumably there is not 3D VC, what about a basic 2D panel?

A few more shots from my FsPX career mode. (CLS DC-10-10 & -30 models).

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Finally my favourite shot.

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Dashik · 4 Sep 2011 at 01:18

Ok so I arived back at EGPH Edinburgh this afternoon having completed my around the world trip.

I'll now sort the batch of pictures and post the best. I'll also post my route. I took neither the shortest or fasted route but generally went places that interested me. I did try to head mainly east though. If I fly around Africa, across the top of Russia and Canada at some point then I will have flown around all the major landmasses.

As an aside I'm currently flying the Level D 767 EGKK to LCLK having completed my around the world flight in the 737-800. All I'm going to say is I hate to admit it but the 767 is looking at being retired..... I've enjoyed the Level D 767 but to be honest after spending all the time in the new PMDG 737 you soon realise the shortcomings of the other models. Systems not modeled as deeply and the VC is lacking in comparison. Its a shame but Level D need to either update it or release a new model. Then again the same can be said for 99% of PMDG's competion if your a serious Big Iron simmer now.....

I foresee a LOT of time in the 737....

Dashik · 4 Sep 2011 at 01:43

Ok Here's the route I took. Plug the 4 digit ICAO into Google if you want to know the airport.

EGPH - LEPA - DTMB - LTBS - OMDB - VAGO - VYMD - VTBD - WIII - YPDN - YPPH - YPAD - YMML - NZQN - NZCH - NZAA- YSSY - YBBN - YBCS - AYPY - WABB - WBSB - RPLL - VHHH - RCTP - RKSI - RJTT - UHHH - UHMM - PADU - PANC - PAJN - CYVR - KSFO - MMLP - MPTO - SPIM - SCEL - SAWH - SAEZ - SBRJ - SBNT - SOCA - SVMG - TLPL - KMIA - CYYZ - CYYT - EGPH.

48 flights, all completed online via VATSIM with real world weather via ASX and REX in real time. I have a fair few addon airports and scenery's that I've bought over the years but too be fair you tend not to notice the scenery when its busy and your landing

I also have the flights logged with Thomson Virtual using there ACARS flight logging. Their were a few that had to be redone due to technical's, but each leg was completed prior to commencing the next.

All in all It was great fun, I learned a lot about the new PMDG 737 and her systems and can now start on gaining more competence in hand flying her. Then its time for the failures

I look forward to redoign it with the PMDG 777 when its released

Also if MS Flight lives up to expectations then I think I'll go again.

scrlk · 4 Sep 2011 at 10:38

Dashik said:
Ok Here's the route I took. Plug the 4 digit ICAO into Google if you want to know the airport.

EGPH - LEPA - DTMB - LTBS - OMDB - VAGO - VYMD - VTBD - WIII - YPDN - YPPH - YPAD - YMML - NZQN - NZCH - NZAA- YSSY - YBBN - YBCS - AYPY - WABB - WBSB - RPLL - VHHH - RCTP - RKSI - RJTT - UHHH - UHMM - PADU - PANC - PAJN - CYVR - KSFO - MMLP - MPTO - SPIM - SCEL - SAWH - SAEZ - SBRJ - SBNT - SOCA - SVMG - TLPL - KMIA - CYYZ - CYYT - EGPH.

48 flights, all completed online via VATSIM with real world weather via ASX and REX in real time. I have a fair few addon airports and scenery's that I've bought over the years but too be fair you tend not to notice the scenery when its busy and your landing I also have the flights logged with Thomson Virtual using there ACARS flight logging. Their were a few that had to be redone due to technical's, but each leg was completed prior to commencing the next.

All in all It was great fun, I learned a lot about the new PMDG 737 and her systems and can now start on gaining more competence in hand flying her. Then its time for the failures I look forward to redoign it with the PMDG 7&& when its released Also if MS Flight lives up to expectations then I think I'll go again.

If PMDG released Concorde instead of the 777... :eek:

Dashik · 4 Sep 2011 at 20:09

Which is unlikely. They stated on there forums that 'retro' aircraft were not very good sellers. Specifically the MD-80. They were both surprised and dissapointed. So looks like its current and new aircraft only for the foreseeable. The 777 will be stunning I bet. Best of all worlds then, 737 for short and medium haul routes. 777 for etops stuff and then the updated 747 for extra fun

Sorted!

The Dash 8 should be fun when they release it as well

PermaBanned · 4 Sep 2011 at 20:21

Anyone tried the latest version of Flightgear? 2.4.0 i think... i hear it's come on leaps and bounds since 1.9.

squerble · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:22

These screenshots make me die a little inside when I play FSX on my MacBook Pro with integrated Intel graphics

The thing I lust after the most is being able to crank the autogen and vehicle (land, sea & air) scenery up, and be able to use 'detailed clouds'. Simple clouds are rubbish!

shadow_boxer · 5 Sep 2011 at 14:32

karlbbb said:
These screenshots make me die a little inside when I play FSX on my MacBook Pro with integrated Intel graphics

The thing I lust after the most is being able to crank the autogen and vehicle (land, sea & air) scenery up, and be able to use 'detailed clouds'. Simple clouds are rubbish!

Yeah unfortunately the intel HD onboard gpu isn't going to cope at all. I never fly with everything at full settings, I dont think anyone does... :confused:

Traffic is a massive it, I tend to have it set to 39%, GA traffic to 0, road to 0 and water traffic to 30%.

Same with autogen, having it set to medium-high gives me a decent balance between performance and visuals.

The other major performance limiter for me is light bloom, very rarely have this on, unless I'm flying with photographic scenery it stays off.

As for simple clouds, this is where the intel HD will be the limiting factor unfortunately. Remember for most of the images here people are using REX 2.0 for weather (and water too).

One possibility is to have various settings for depending on what type of flight your doing. So for high altitude, autogen, traffic etc aren't really needed so perhaps you could increase cloud settings? vice versa for VFR perhaps.