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Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:43 pm
by krigl
I've been trying to get to grips with 'realistic' VFR flight in the Aerobat - but I found it strange to ignore the more modern navigation aids when just concentrating on piloting properly - so have gone back in time to the early days of aviation, and a Czech classic monoplane - the 1923 Avia BH.5.


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Here we are at Medlanky, Brno, where I did some touch and gos.

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The plane has quite a faithfull exterior model and I like the sound that goes with it.

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Touching and going... it comes with a great, simple manual too.

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The flight model seems to me to be a bit off though. It's supposed to have a ceiling of 6600ft but I got it to land at Lukla no problem.  :-?

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After an hour or so of doing circuits we set off on a short flight to Breclav near the border with Austria. My home town of Brno looks much better in FS9 than FSX. It does help to have a few add-ons of course.  The compass is a pop-up.

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The title 'Barefoot' is because that's what 'bosa' means in Czech.
Flight to Breclav continues in second thread...

Cheers

Krigl

Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:01 pm
by Bob70
Nice looking set Roger. I haven't been over to the Czech area for awhile. Pretty area to fly in. Maybe I'll go fly around your home town of Brno. Do you have a link to that scenery in this set? Like that first shot.

:) Bob

Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:12 pm
by krigl
Nice looking set Roger. I haven't been over to the Czech area for awhile. Pretty area to fly in. Maybe I'll go fly around your home town of Brno. Do you have a link to that scenery in this set? Like that first shot.

:) Bob


Here's the Medlanky scenery, there's plenty of other stuff on that site including mesh, planes and repaints for the Czech Republic.  :)

I expect you've already got Jesenicko, right? If not, don't miss it. ;)
It's quite a nice flight up to the top of the Jesenicko region from Medlanky via Sumperk to Mikulovice.

http://www.flightsim.cz/fsitem.php?act= ... or=3&od=30

Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:17 pm
by todayshorse
Nice, nice! In the second shot there apears to be a sim man with no trousers on!!! :o

Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:36 pm
by Bob70
Nice looking set Roger. I haven't been over to the Czech area for awhile. Pretty area to fly in. Maybe I'll go fly around your home town of Brno. Do you have a link to that scenery in this set? Like that first shot.

:) Bob


Here's the Medlanky scenery, there's plenty of other stuff on that site including mesh, planes and repaints for the Czech Republic.

Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:16 pm
by jankees
Excellent shots, great scenery too from the look of things.
Great choice of aircraft too, Bravo!

Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:06 pm
by The3lf
o sweet shots, i am in love! :o

Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:15 pm
by a1
Lovely to see Vintage. ;)

Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:45 pm
by OBROVSKY
Hello,

really nice sreenshots.

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Re: Barefoot over Brno

PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:14 pm
by krigl
Hi there Obrovsky, thanks a lot for the links, the site, pics, downloads are great - bookmarked! I don't seem to have any autogen within Brno so that's the first thing I'll be downloading....

Yes, the site owner can link to my shots if he likes.  :)

I sometimes go in the Medlanky bar for coffee with my children... but I doubt if the aviation/scenery guys would find me particularly interesting.  ;D

The historic aircraft site is also good, I think I've seen the Jungmann/Aero before but it was silver/white then. The blue and red looks much better - would be a great repaint for the Bucker Jungmann freeware that's out!

I've been reading about the BH.5's flight in L+K and Flying Review, it was almost as much an achievement as the original flight it seems! I'd do it myself in FS but I have too many other 'projects' underway. The recent L200 Morava flight to the North Pole and back was another crazy stunt which deserves recognition!

I love all this freeware for Brno... only thing I miss is the Cathedral - such an important part of the skyline and nobody's made it. The new airport building would be nice too...and just imagine a CIAF scenery!! perhaps one day!!  :)

For now I'll enjoy what I have from those talented Czech scenery guys.

Cheers

Krigl