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Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:12 am
by Mr Shanks
A few shots from a late afternoon hop in the Tongass wilderness. Enjoying the default FSX Maule Orion, with skis here seeing as how its winter.

On a frozen lake/Fjord, with lumps of the nearby Glacier trapped in the ice for the winter....
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Heading out after take off. Slowly, but surely, building altitude...
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Suns setting fast, best stop sight seeing and head for home....
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Back safely and all switched off. Couple of beers and a huge moose steak should finish the day off just fine :) ....
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Thanks for looking.

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:29 am
by gtirob01
#2 looks great! postcard like.

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:31 am
by Eyebrows101
wow, fantastic set! good job!

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:58 am
by patchz
[color=#000000]All are nice, but #2,

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:52 am
by Flying Trucker
Very nice... ;)

Shot #3 is very good.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:32 pm
by olderndirt
You're making a very strong statement for FSX, especially since my new FS9 made absolutely no difference.  How's it been around large airports of with lots of clouds?

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:00 pm
by Mr Shanks
Thanks for the comments  :)

olderndirt, my frame rates take a drop over big cities. Its worst at the airports. I have increased some of my settings since my other posts, mostly increasing the traffic amounts. Still have not made any of the tweaks yet either. Comming out of LAX with the 'building storms' setting I see about 20-25 fps, thats flying through the (hde) clouds in an airbus.

I stick to the small, light aircraft for FSX and it works a treat for me (locked at 45fps, minor drops to about 40fps). I will say though, when you do get a fps drop, it is alot smoother than the same event in FS2004.

All the best.

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:05 pm
by olderndirt
olderndirt, my frame rates take a drop over big cities. Its worst at the airports. I have increased some of my settings since my other posts, mostly increasing the traffic amounts. Still have not made any of the tweaks yet either. Comming out of LAX with the 'building storms' setting I see about 20-25 fps, thats flying through the (hde) clouds in an airbus.

I stick to the small, light aircraft for FSX and it works a treat for me (locked at 45fps, minor drops to about 40fps). I will say though, when you do get a fps drop, it is alot smoother than the same event in FS2004.

All the best.
I think I can live with it - hope, so - order's been made.

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:25 pm
by Mr Shanks
Well I hope FSX works out fine for you, installing the acceleration disc made such a difference to mine.

Any way, best of luck with it !!!!!!!

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:37 am
by olderndirt
Well I hope FSX works out fine for you
Did yours come with SP1 built in or did you have to download?

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:56 pm
by Mr Shanks
Well I hope FSX works out fine for you
Did yours come with SP1 built in or did you have to download?

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:26 pm
by BrandonF
What airport did you start your flight at?

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:25 am
by Mr Shanks
What airport did you start your flight at?



Hi,

I started out at....

PAPG, Johnson Petersburg, N56*48' W132*57' and made a short (not so short in the Maule!) hop over to the Patterson Glacier which is North West of Petersburg. You can just see the airfield lights in the bottom left of shot 3. The scenery is FSAddon's Tongass Fjords payware. Quite pricey, but worth every penny. 80,000 km2 of this kind of scenery to explore

Re: Late afternoon hop.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:27 am
by BrandonF
Thanks!