I just saw this way cool repaint of the Erick Cantu Embraer 120 which you can find here.
I just saw this way cool repaint of the Erick Cantu Embraer 120 which you can find here.
I didn't really have any high hopes on this scenery and in fact the first sign of low frame rates, which in fact turned out just to be some of the massive textures loading made me jump to the conclusion that this scenery wasn't any good. However I made myself take a harder look at it and found it to be absolutely wonderful.
textures it works great and what an attention to detail Bob Whitney has! The cars that belong to the other pilots, the aircrafts in the hangars, the textures all is an amazing piece of work.
Veneaviones has been mentioned here in this blog before but now it's an older model they made of the Cessna Citation II business jet. A very nice model.
Just discovered and installed something really cool for my flightsim a bunch of AI aircraft, neetly packages in self-extracting files that fills my sim with military AI's.
With the new REX and all the names of the new texture sets available for FS9 and FSX it is easy to forget that there are some nice freeware sets out there.
Tropical sim just released their fs9 and fsx version of São Paulo Intl. From the screenshots it looks stunning but at the hefty cost of 21,42 euro.
Africa is unfortunately a very underdeveloped continent in flightsimming which meant I didn't fly enough on this continent. But that is about to change. After taking an 8h flight down to Nairobi I plan on flying around this beautiful continent some more and to my aid I have a nice scenery, very nice actually of this airport. The Jomo Kenyatta Intl scenery was made by Nuhaid Abdulkhaleq and is definitely wort the short download time. Excellent frame rates and a pleasure on the eyes I highly recommend you to download this scenery and explore the continent somewhat more in the near future.
José Ignacio and Garcia Arboleda has made this scenery for FS9 which is payware but oh so nice if you'd like to fly into Bogotas Eldorado Intl.
Bennett Memorial Field in Glen Falls New York by Ed 'Geener' Cox is a very nice smaller scenery filled with details that makes this scenery very enjoyable.
Of course I have flown the PMDG MD11 and it is a truly wonderful aircraft, the only problem is of course that it is way to expensive for me to recommend.
y Alain Capt which you can find by using the link at the top of this post, it is a very nice panel.
If you ever thought the default lights in FS9 looked extremely unrealistic and basically boring you are not alone. I never really thought about it as I have always been aware that it isn't that realistic, it is a game, all be it that we strive for realism it does have its limitations.
t developed 3D lights redux has probably though about it more than I did and they created the package you will find in the pictures and the link above. The effect is remarkable and works brilliantly. The only thing is that it is a bit tricky to add the lights to the aircrafts that aren't default. But it is worth the trouble.
If you are looking for a couple of smaller fields to go do some vfr flying around I recommend these three airfields by Roger Wensley. It is of the One Hundred Miles House, Kenmore Village Field and Indian Creek up in Canada (British Colombia and Ontario).
Talkeetna village is some 75 miles away from Anchorage but has two airports, the larger PATK and the smaller one modeled in this scenery by Roger Wensley, AK44.
After waking up early, preparing the route and flightplan, the fuel calculations, starting fs9, inputting all the data into the fmc, connecting to vatsim with squawkbox and putting all the information into that I headed out of Amsterdam/Schipol airport in the iFDG MD11 in Martinair's colors bound for Bogota Eldorado airport. Definitely a long haul.
the MD11, somewhat modified to include the ISG software. A panel that I really like, the only thing is the viewpoint which I might modify if I ever get around to it. But for now a couple of taps on shift+return works too.
I use the PMDG checklist for its MD11 even though I don't use the model itself. The good thing about having a girlfriend that does scrap booking as a hobby is that sometimes I get to borrow her stuff and create cool looking checklists.
The route of the day across the Atlantic. It is almost 5000 nm long and I plan it will take me about 11 hours to complete. I found it on vataware but inputted it in FSBuild and then modified the fuel and weights section.
Just as I was planning on writing a entry about the lack of new aircraft for flightsim whis one turns up (ok I know a Cirrus was also released this week but I looked more at this). Simcheck has released a Airbus A300B4-200 for FSX that from the screenshots looks really good and man I got a sudden urge to cross over to that platform.
Gernot Zander has released a new fs9 version of London's City airport. A nice light scenery, light on the frame rates and over all a nice version.
I only have one small beef to grind with the Simflyer scenery for Frankfurt and that is the frame rates at night which are horrible to say the least. During the day they are pretty ok on my system. I guess they tried to get it to run smooth as the scenery disappears soon after flying from it, i.e. the buildings visual range is set kind of short. The problem is that up close though they are all visible and therefore puts a strain on my poor computers processor.
So I tried repainting a bit again. I did it a couple of years ago but didn't like it very much but yesterday I tried repainting Jet City Aircraft's MD87 into the new City Airline livery and it turned out quite nice. I can definately recommend reading up a bit in the avsim forum for repainting.
William Morgan has produced this scenery fro West Palm Beach airport in Florida. The scenery is very nice, it has a lot of buildings consisting of among other things a nice terminal. It works really nice, the frame rates wasn't affected at all on my system. It is actually claimed to be a frame rate friendly version in the readme file. It makes me wonder if there is a non-frame rate friendly version around and how that might look on my system. If you know of that version please drop me a line in the comments section of this post.
This is Carlos Iñaki O. Sievert's first fs9 aircraft model but it is a very nice one. For some reason the ultralight scene in fs9 has been way underdeveloped. I guess the reason for that might be that there are few that wants to fly these slow aircrafts around.
Andreas Jennerwein has created this scenery of Koenigsdorf airport that mostly holds gliders but also some GA aircraft. It is a nice little scenery package for fs9 and it works nicely.
Angle of attack has released their free lesson series for us flightsimmers, explaining the principles behind basic flight. I don't know exactly what all the lessons will contain but the first ones were very nice and explained the basics in an easy to understand way.
Vatsim has redesigned and updated its website. This is a well needed update as the old one looked its age. They also promises new features to the site over the next couple of weeks and I await these ones with a high level of anticipation.
Mutlu Cetýnkaya has produced this nice little scenery for Antalya Gazipasa airport. The interesting thing about this scenery is the large mountains in in close proximity to the airport which means that safety is a real concern, especially for missed approaches from the seaside. The scenery itself is nice, nothing spectacular but a significant improvement over the default one.
I saw this scenery in the new files section at flightsim and I got interested in it from the screenshots. I downloaded it and gave a a try.
