Virgins in Orbit

[G.K.]

It's the year 2190 and The Virgin Solar Tours "Enterprise XII" has it's maiden voyage.

The passengers are currently enjoying a fly past of the now derelict International Space Station. The ISS being preserved as an International Heritage Site.......Next stop is Jupiters orbital sunset and then onto a fly through of Saturns Rings (the Cassini Run).




P.S. Slight cheat with this pic, I couldn't find a model of Virgin Galactic anywhere so I used the tail fin of the repainted default 747 8-) .....as some of you probably noticed...........Idea conceived several days ago.

[BlackAce]

How did you get the ISS?

[G.K.]

Sorry, I should of put the links in:

ISS
http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=iss

Custom FS Recorder camera used for camera position.
http://www.fs-recorder.net/downloads.php

[BlackAce]

Sweet Thanks! I guessed you had to slew right? And awesome shot!

[G.K.]

Yes, slew mode.

As soon as I saw februarys theme I thought "Virgin Galactic" would be ideal, there are no free models available though . This was the only way I could think of to get the Virgin Logo into orbit.

[REDCIAA]

Awesome shot! How do you get to space in FSX?

[BlackAce]

^^^^^^^ Read above

[G.K.]

Awesome shot! How do you get to space in FSX?

As Blackace indicated, use slew mode. Or Pause and use your map page to alter the altitude to max and then slew to adjust position.

Thanks for your comments Chaps, much appreciated

[Ziggy]

Well Gary, however you got there, I think the image is outstanding. From my perspective, it's well balanced, great colors and chuck full of imagination. Bravo my friend on a great screenshot............. Ziggy

[Adrian_Monk]

Nice shot! And I have found that for high-altitude screenshots it's better to use the map-altitude trick to get up there. In slew mode, your craft will still have a trail of the MS vapor-puffs.

[G.K.]

Nice shot! And I have found that for high-altitude screenshots it's better to use the map-altitude trick to get up there. In slew mode, your craft will still have a trail of the MS vapor-puffs.

That's what I found. Also I had strange white blobs a bit like snow flakes over the oceans, weird. I discovered that these were reflections of the stars so I had to turn off all water effects.

Thanks good folk for looking

[Fly2e]

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