Midway...
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:27 pmJeez, I dont know what to say to open this post! Its been a while since Ive taken screenshots so be easy, Im rusty. Sorry that the weather sucks, but you cant do anything about real weather!
I did this quick flight from Detroit to Midway in the forgotton Embraer 170. I saw a real 170 this weekend, in these colors, and I must say it is quite a good looking plane!
The plane is by Dreamwings, availiable at dreamwingsdesign.com, I use (not seen in these shots) a panel by Ken Mitchell (availiable here) and a sound set from somewhere that I dont remember (maybe from the dreamwings website?)
Cruising, lots of overcast foreshadowing the low visibility at MDW
MDW is awesome. Ive never been outside the airport, but I transfered at it twice this weekend. It must be cool to drive by it...
I like this shot almost as much as I liked the landing! Dead center, not numbers but its where your supposed to touchdown (the touchdown markers)
Exiting the runway. MDW has short runways. You exit at the end of the runway, both in real life and in the sim. If you remember, a while back a Southwest 737 overran the runway, crashing through the fence and onto the road, killing a child that was in a car. Unfortunate accident but when you fly into MDW (both sim and real life) you realize how amazing it is that there havent been more accidents there!
Finally at the gate. I saw an Embraer 170 takeoff from HOU as we pulled into the airport to leave and then saw another (maybe the same!) one pull into a gate across from ours at MDW. FlyTampa's scenery is amazingly real, if I was at the gate on the other side of the terminal it would be just like the way I saw this bird
Thats it, comments welcome!
I did this quick flight from Detroit to Midway in the forgotton Embraer 170. I saw a real 170 this weekend, in these colors, and I must say it is quite a good looking plane!
The plane is by Dreamwings, availiable at dreamwingsdesign.com, I use (not seen in these shots) a panel by Ken Mitchell (availiable here) and a sound set from somewhere that I dont remember (maybe from the dreamwings website?)
Cruising, lots of overcast foreshadowing the low visibility at MDW
MDW is awesome. Ive never been outside the airport, but I transfered at it twice this weekend. It must be cool to drive by it...
I like this shot almost as much as I liked the landing! Dead center, not numbers but its where your supposed to touchdown (the touchdown markers)
Exiting the runway. MDW has short runways. You exit at the end of the runway, both in real life and in the sim. If you remember, a while back a Southwest 737 overran the runway, crashing through the fence and onto the road, killing a child that was in a car. Unfortunate accident but when you fly into MDW (both sim and real life) you realize how amazing it is that there havent been more accidents there!
Finally at the gate. I saw an Embraer 170 takeoff from HOU as we pulled into the airport to leave and then saw another (maybe the same!) one pull into a gate across from ours at MDW. FlyTampa's scenery is amazingly real, if I was at the gate on the other side of the terminal it would be just like the way I saw this bird
Thats it, comments welcome!
. Actually, it was supposed to be from a car driving by...
