Catalina in a Goose

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Catalina in a Goose

Postby OldAirmail » Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:23 pm

KAVX Catalina Airport is now out, and it's beautiful. If you like rocky islands in the pacific, that is.

And I do. :D

This island is done better than most scenery. For one thing this scenery actually looks like Google satellite images.
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Now for my fly around

I'll start off with three screen view.
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And now switching to two screen shots
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Re: Catalina in a Goose

Postby Flying Trucker » Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:41 pm

Nicely done OldAirmail... <<q

Have not had the Grumman Goose out for a simulated flight in a long time...

Reminds me the smaller Grumman Gosling/Widgeon was not around this area the past summer. Kinda missed it, they had done a complete overhaul on it.
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Re: Catalina in a Goose

Postby OldAirmail » Sun Jan 22, 2017 8:02 pm

Thanks, Doug.

You made me think, here's a single monitor shot of Avalon. And that's Long Beach, Los Angeles in the distance, "26 miles across the sea" as in the song.

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For any of you REAL OLD fogies out there. Not like me. :oops:
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Re: Catalina in a Goose

Postby Dave T » Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:49 am

Nice shots your three monitor set up makes interesting screenshots.
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Re: Catalina in a Goose

Postby jankees » Fri Feb 03, 2017 2:41 am

excellent shots, but what you need is one of my Catalina Air repaints for the Goose:
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Re: Catalina in a Goose

Postby OldAirmail » Fri Feb 03, 2017 6:16 pm

YES, YES, tell me where! :clap: :clap: :clap:

That was exactly what I had been looking for before I started the flight with the new Catalina from Orbx.


jankees wrote:excellent shots, but what you need is one of my Catalina Air repaints for the Goose:
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Re: Catalina in a Goose

Postby OldAirmail » Fri Feb 03, 2017 7:24 pm

Dave T wrote:Nice shots your three monitor set up makes interesting screenshots.

Thanks, Dave. Somehow I missed your post, sorry.

The monitors are 23 inch Asus monitors, and they're frequently on sale.


The actual screen size on each monitor is 20 inches wide by 11.3 inches high. That give you a monitor view of 60 inches wide.

With the side monitors at a slight angle, the far left and far right edges measure 55 inches apart. Think of it as a poor mans curved monitor.


The bezels are narrow and I have the left & right monitor edges slightly behind the center monitor. This gives you a single thin bezel on each side. That puts the edges at slightly different focal lengths, but in a very short time you get used to that.

Strangely, that gives the flight sim more depth because you aren't trying to focus and read, but to watch the scenery in your periphery, so to speak.

Your mind sees that scenery (just to the left, and just to the right) as being farther away.

I think that if you had three monitors side by side (without a significant bezel) you would loose the illusion of depth. So a negative becomes a plus. :D



Where I'm flying is as important, if not more so, than the aircraft that I'm using. Three monitors give me a wider view of the "where".

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The left hand monitor is normally off, and excluded from the desktop if I'm not flying. In other words - Windows is told that it isn't there, ignore it.

I don't have a TV, but I do put my feet up and watch movies on that left hand monitor from time to time.

Everyone has a soft spot. To me, this is well worth the money.

Extravagant? Not all that much. I've spent about $300 TOTAL on these monitors. How many have a TV that cost's more?


For what it's worth

In 2012 I bought this Monoprice 105402 3-Way Adjustable Tilting Monitor Desk Mount Bracket. I use that to extend the monitor out for a better view when watching movies.

To date this arm has NEVER sagged or given me any problems.
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Re: Catalina in a Goose

Postby jankees » Sat Feb 04, 2017 1:48 am

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