HighFlyer Skies for FS2004
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:41 pm
Learning to design these skies has been and is most challenging for me. Have been staying after it though, starting from scratch several times, making progress lately.
Am not flying the heavies all that often though once in a while I like to get high. Virtually, that is. Oh, an occasional small sipping glass of precious spirits from the Isles of Skye and Islay but that's it. :-) As with the greatly over-saturated FS9 default sky textures as well as most, not all, of the many available addon textures, both freeware and payware, I've never been satisfied with the way the sim displays the atmosphere up at airliner flight levels. Hence, had decided to do something about that as well. In this, FSX/P3D does a better job of rendering. Here's what has been done here thus far for good ole' FS2004...
Speaking of the Isle of Skye, there she be down there. Flying the good ole' AFG Caravelle @ FL350 over Scotland.
One of the few other 'liners being flown here: Mr. Erick Cantu's Lockheed L-1011-100 Tristar, also captured from FL350. Said to be an only 95% completed plane. Will take Erick's 95% over 95% of other's 100%. Got a soft spot for the Tristar, as I got to fly on a Delta L-1011 during a night flight from LAX to KIND back in 1979. Was glued to a window throughout the early morning hours listening to the resonance of those 3 Rolls Royce RB.211-22B engines working together. Wonderful sounds.
At this point, my best guess is that these "HighFlyer Skies for FS2004" (2 sets of them together) will be uploaded to Simviation within the next 10 days or so.
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Am not flying the heavies all that often though once in a while I like to get high. Virtually, that is. Oh, an occasional small sipping glass of precious spirits from the Isles of Skye and Islay but that's it. :-) As with the greatly over-saturated FS9 default sky textures as well as most, not all, of the many available addon textures, both freeware and payware, I've never been satisfied with the way the sim displays the atmosphere up at airliner flight levels. Hence, had decided to do something about that as well. In this, FSX/P3D does a better job of rendering. Here's what has been done here thus far for good ole' FS2004...
Speaking of the Isle of Skye, there she be down there. Flying the good ole' AFG Caravelle @ FL350 over Scotland.
One of the few other 'liners being flown here: Mr. Erick Cantu's Lockheed L-1011-100 Tristar, also captured from FL350. Said to be an only 95% completed plane. Will take Erick's 95% over 95% of other's 100%. Got a soft spot for the Tristar, as I got to fly on a Delta L-1011 during a night flight from LAX to KIND back in 1979. Was glued to a window throughout the early morning hours listening to the resonance of those 3 Rolls Royce RB.211-22B engines working together. Wonderful sounds.
At this point, my best guess is that these "HighFlyer Skies for FS2004" (2 sets of them together) will be uploaded to Simviation within the next 10 days or so.
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