Showing the PNW demo to a friend in multiplayer :)
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:15 amHi all,
This weekend I have been busy helping a friend reinstall his FSX on his new computer. The guy's a video maker, so he was asking me advises for configuring/tweaking FSX, as well as finding the best-looking sceneries. Among the various recommendations I made, there was the installation of the freeware OrbX PNW demo which covers the full Olympic peninsula West of Seattle, and including the famous freeware airport KHQM Bowerman.
To help him discover the area (and verify that everything was working correctly), we decided to make a small multiplayer flight with slow planes. I would be using the default Cessna 172 (yes, I absolutely love it, and it has one of the best-looking virtual cockpits around) and he would be using the freeware Cessna 152 from JustFlight (very cool plane too). Departure was at Bowerman, destination was Sekiu 11S, so that we would cross a good part of the area covered by the demo
Everything in those screenshot is 100% freeware:
- Defaut Cessna 172
- JustFlight Cessna 152
- OrbX PNW demo version 2.0, including KHQM Bowerman
- HDE sky colors converted to FSX
- HD water waves by Gizmo on FSWC website
- Water tweaked with FSWC
Shortly after takeoff, he joined the formation and got in my 4 o'clock. We did a small half-circle around the airport so that he could enjoy the beauty of the scenery, and then we headed full north toward Sekiu, which is on the northern coast of the peninsula.
http://www.simviation.com/phpupload/uploads/1318353277.jpg
While we were flying over the hills, contemplating the not-so-distant mountains, we exchanged our leader/wingman roles to practise our formation flying.
We finally reached the northern coast and made a turn left to find Sekiu. I was so busy showing the place to my friend that I didn't think about taking screenshots during the approach
This weekend I have been busy helping a friend reinstall his FSX on his new computer. The guy's a video maker, so he was asking me advises for configuring/tweaking FSX, as well as finding the best-looking sceneries. Among the various recommendations I made, there was the installation of the freeware OrbX PNW demo which covers the full Olympic peninsula West of Seattle, and including the famous freeware airport KHQM Bowerman.
To help him discover the area (and verify that everything was working correctly), we decided to make a small multiplayer flight with slow planes. I would be using the default Cessna 172 (yes, I absolutely love it, and it has one of the best-looking virtual cockpits around) and he would be using the freeware Cessna 152 from JustFlight (very cool plane too). Departure was at Bowerman, destination was Sekiu 11S, so that we would cross a good part of the area covered by the demo
Everything in those screenshot is 100% freeware:
- Defaut Cessna 172
- JustFlight Cessna 152
- OrbX PNW demo version 2.0, including KHQM Bowerman
- HDE sky colors converted to FSX
- HD water waves by Gizmo on FSWC website
- Water tweaked with FSWC
Shortly after takeoff, he joined the formation and got in my 4 o'clock. We did a small half-circle around the airport so that he could enjoy the beauty of the scenery, and then we headed full north toward Sekiu, which is on the northern coast of the peninsula.
http://www.simviation.com/phpupload/uploads/1318353277.jpg
While we were flying over the hills, contemplating the not-so-distant mountains, we exchanged our leader/wingman roles to practise our formation flying.
We finally reached the northern coast and made a turn left to find Sekiu. I was so busy showing the place to my friend that I didn't think about taking screenshots during the approach
Theres a certain 'softness' about the aircraft that i think makes it look slightly 'unearthly' but the balance is good, especially on the ground shots. Nicely done 
