First, a little background. When I was a lad I lived within a few miles of several operational RAF & Fleet Air Arm bases, including RNAS Ford (HMS Peregrine) & RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus). These are some of the naval aircraft I was lucky enough to see on an almost daily basis back in the "Good ol' Days".
Doug (Flying Trucker) mentioned using the Picasa software to process his shots. It's installed on my PC but I hadn't run it for a long time so I fired it up to check it out. To my surprise I found it very useful for resizing images for posting here on the forum. All shots were taken on my laptop in FSX Gold + Acceleration using the V key. I positioned the aircraft in the sim using pan & zoom before taking the shots so no editing was necessary except for adding the drop shadow. Once it's set up the images are automatically resized to 1024 pixel width & the watermark added using the Export feature in Picasa. They're saved in JPEG format at around 100 Kb or less which is ideal for this forum. No other processing was necessary.
The scenery is FSX default & all aircraft are Freeware, some being FSX Native while others are FS9 port-overs.
Fairey Gannet.
Short Seamew.
Hawker Sea Hawk.
Hawker Hunter. Used for training by the Royal Navy but never operated from carriers.
DH Sea Hornet.
DH Sea Vampire. The Vampire was the first jet aircraft to be landed on an aircraft carrier.
DH Sea Venom.
DH Sea Vixen.
Supermarine Attacker. The first jet fighter to enter service with the Fleet Air Arm.
Supermarine Scimitar.
McDonnell Phantom.
Blackburn Buccaneer.
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