A "Classic" for Flying Trucker

[CHUCK79]

This is the oldest whirly bird I have for now.

The Alouette III
Very stable, but trim is sensitive.













Thanks for looking!

[Delta Tango Nine Two]

excellent photos (french vfr alouette?), I think my PC would melt if it had msfs... although some said that it manages resources better than fsx.
One question... can the simulator be used "offline"?... and how much does it weigh in GB to have the complete "world" in msfs?

[CHUCK79]

excellent photos (french vfr alouette?), I think my PC would melt if it had msfs... although some said that it manages resources better than fsx.
One question... can the simulator be used "offline"?... and how much does it weigh in GB to have the complete "world" in msfs?

Yeah, the Alouette III by Taog's Hangar for MSFS

I was running it on an i7 7700/GTX1070 and a disk drive before I upgraded. I think that's about as low as you can go and still enjoy it, honestly.

It can be ran offline after initial install.

My MSFS folder (with all World Updates and 3rd party Add-ons) is 432GB

[Dave T]

Great shots, love to see a few shots of helicopters.

[Flying Trucker]

Wonderful set Chuck


I remember seeing a few of those during my career.

Hope you can come by some older piston pounding rotary aircraft during your travels as you always post a great set on rotary wing aircraft.

Cheers

Doug

[Daube]

Beautiful shots !!
I haven't bought that copter yet, but it's on the "to-buy" list already. I might have to buy the Mi-17 at first, though

[Daube]

excellent photos (french vfr alouette?), I think my PC would melt if it had msfs... although some said that it manages resources better than fsx.
One question... can the simulator be used "offline"?... and how much does it weigh in GB to have the complete "world" in msfs?

Can you remind us what computer hardware you have right now ?

MSFS does indeed use the hardware ressources much better than FSX. As an example, I do get better performance/quality ratio in MSFS than I ever got in P3D or FSX. My computer is an i7 8700k coupled with an old GTX 1070ti running with Windows 10 64 bits.

You can use it offline after installation, but then you lose the beautiful ground photorealistic textures, replaced by ugly generic textures. There's a "buffer" system in the sim though, but it works only when you have visited a zone once. And it's likely that you'll have to delete that buffer after each sim update. In the end, it depends on your internet connection. You do NOT need a very fast fiber-style connection at all, though. My brother still has an old ADSL connection with a maximum speed of 25 Mb/sec, and it is sufficient. The only problem comes for the initial installation (around 100 GB), optional content (World Updates, enhancements for specific zones of the globe), as all the mandatory updates. But he just let them run during daytime, while he is out at work.

[CHUCK79]

Thanks, guys!

[Delta Tango Nine Two]

excellent photos (french vfr alouette?), I think my PC would melt if it had msfs... although some said that it manages resources better than fsx.
One question... can the simulator be used "offline"?... and how much does it weigh in GB to have the complete "world" in msfs?

Can you remind us what computer hardware you have right now ?

MSFS does indeed use the hardware ressources much better than FSX. As an example, I do get better performance/quality ratio in MSFS than I ever got in P3D or FSX. My computer is an i7 8700k coupled with an old GTX 1070ti running with Windows 10 64 bits.

You can use it offline after installation, but then you lose the beautiful ground photorealistic textures, replaced by ugly generic textures. There's a "buffer" system in the sim though, but it works only when you have visited a zone once. And it's likely that you'll have to delete that buffer after each sim update. In the end, it depends on your internet connection. You do NOT need a very fast fiber-style connection at all, though. My brother still has an old ADSL connection with a maximum speed of 25 Mb/sec, and it is sufficient. The only problem comes for the initial installation (around 100 GB), optional content (World Updates, enhancements for specific zones of the globe), as all the mandatory updates. But he just let them run during daytime, while he is out at work.

Thanks for worrying about me... but... my pc is a toaster...
-intel core I5 3570 3.4GHZ (3.8 with turbo boost default)
-asus p8h77-v
-10gb ram dd3 kingston
-western digital hdd 1 tb (mechanical disk)
-graphics: those provided by the microprocessor: Intel HD Graphics 2500 (a potato)

originally my pc was built in 2013... to support 2-4gb video cards... but even if it did... it would be a bit outdated... plus i can't switch to ddr4-5 ram anymore, my motherboard won't allow it...
as the microprocessor does all the work, i usually watch out for temperature problems.
but mainly the problem is that financially i am not even close to being able to make an upgrade for my pc....
i mean... my fsx-se with all the freewares mods and addons... it runs 30-40 gbs... even though i have 1tb, a lot of it is full... i couldn't handle more than 400gb of data... just to make it look pretty. in FSX i try to focus on flying... not looking at the terrain.

[Daube]

Ah yes, I understand.
Indeed the change to newer sims won't be possible for the moment, because you would need more RAM as well as a dedicated graphic card. Keeping with FSX makes sense.