Brett's not going to like this one

[macca22au]

In the email based FSInsider Newsletter there is a link to a neat little insertion into the AppData file (all the directions are clearly given) which allows a key combination to bring up airport names in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft.

They float a couple of thousand feet above the airport.

Now where I live in Melbourne Australia I don't need them, but when I fly in new places like the USA, or tonight in China, I don't use them for navigation but for information - general knowledge of the world.

I just love FSX and its seemingly infinite twists.

On another topic I did a full flight from Brisbane YBBN to a coupled approach into Hong Kong VHHH.  With ASX weather, and using the Save facility I was able to enjoy the trip over several days.  (And a bit of 4x over the seas).  The default scenery of HK is pretty darn good, and with ASX weather the heavy haze of Asia was replicated in frightening reality - I'm glad I am not an Olympic athlete.   I did the flight in a Wilco A330 in Qantas livery and with MyTrafficX to give some credible company in the sky.

Let me say again, it is one heck of a sim.

[Brett_Henderson]

LOL

[NickN]

they are just a bit ahead of their time.. its a 'future shock' thing

In a number of years they will figure out how to put billboards and signs up there.. like "The Jetsons"


You will fly the "Skyways" and instead of using instruments, you just follow the signs

LOL!!

[macca22au]

Hey why not through the flight sim rectanles that float in the sky for flight training and missions.  You'd never get lost then. Mind you the Airbus and Boeing electronics are close to being just that - particularly when HUDs become common installations.

[Brett_Henderson]

[quote]Hey why not through the flight sim rectanles that float in the sky for flight training and missions.