Sometimes FS makes you go wow....

[OBIO]

Yep, had to get up with the sun and toss some slop to this hungry Idaho Hog.

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I know the Alphasim A-10 is getting long in the tooth, or is that tusk when dealing with a Warthog, but I still love this plane. Had it down, way down, in the Grand Canyon last night...just a couple dozen feet up off the surface of the Colorado River. Stayed down in the canyon for a good 20 minutes before I dipped my left wing tip into the mighty Colorado and turned my Hog into a fish.

OBIO

[Richard Westcott]

I know the Alphasim A-10 is getting long in the tooth, or is that tusk when dealing with a Warthog, but I still love this plane.

The Aerosoft A10 was one of my first add-ons, it is still just as good as any military aircraft available today, well in my opinion anyway.

[nater]

some from today...

[Motormouse]

Yep. Just picked it up this weekend. After wading through the documentation, installation, set up, and finally discovering a little known secret about reseting the controls befor every flight (if engines are shut down) I fianlly got to take some flying lessons!

Sweet airplane!

Steve

it is when it works..I can run it on my laptop (vista) with its 'opengl' graphics etc etc no probs,
but it absolutely won't fly on my home rig with more ram,better (nvidia) graphics and windows xp..
I set the controls before every flight but still get the divergent yaw that becomes uncontrollable..and thats using same flightstick I use on laptop..so go figure?

ttfn

Pete

[Tim-HH]

The lovely Maam-Sim DC-3

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Greetings
Tim

[Felixthreeone]

Just out of curiosity, what dissappointed you about it?

Honestly, many things. I would prefer to not bash the product, so suffice it to say that my expectations were too high.

[Duckie]

it is when it works..I can run it on my laptop (vista) with its 'opengl' graphics etc etc no probs, but it absolutely won't fly on my home rig with more ram,better (nvidia) graphics and windows xp.. I set the controls before every flight but still get the divergent yaw that becomes uncontrollable..and thats using same flightstick I use on laptop..so go figure?

ttfn

Pete

Sorry to hear that. I had heard and read nothing but good things before I finally bought it and then only after I waited a long time after it's release. My only issue so far is the one I described above regarding having to reinitialize the flight control system on every start up. Took it up last night for a while and pushed it (and myself ) pertty hard and not one hic-up!

Well, I guess we've turned this into an attempted hi-jacking! What say we get back to what makes us go WOW! about FS9.

Sorry everyone.

The lovely Maam-Sim DC-3

Greetings
Tim

Agreed. And the sky in your pic looks great too! Nice shot.

Cheers

[Motormouse]

the plane of the moment....Attachment 18760

and a wow moment today..managed a whole flight in this without a failure or having to 'eject'
Cloud9's F-104
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ttfn

Pete

[Thunderbolt]

Yes nice Pic´s @ all

[Thunderbolt]

my wow for this time, is some paint work here and above.

[HorusJ]

Hey Thunderbolt,
That D-EASA is sweet! Great pics.

J

[Wing_Z]

Wow probably just because it's so different from where I usually play...
This is Thailand, found some wild clouds and sky near VTCC, a superb freeware gem I'll put into the appropriate thread.

[Thunderbolt]

Hey Thunderbolt,
That D-EASA is sweet! Great pics.

J

Thanks and some changes,then ready for upload.

[Wing_Z]

and bought Active Sky.
Not sure whose textures are whose, but you get some subtle variations that were definitely not there before.
So, a sentimental treatment of an old favourite...

[magoo]

....atmosphere...

[magoo]

...Atmosphere.....

[magoo]

.............ATMOSPHERE..........

[magoo]

One of the main reasons I've held off on FSX is because of the wealth of FS9 addons that have come our way over the years. Obviously I'm well behind the curve, and will probably never catch up. But I'm luvin' what I'm seeing on my computer screen, feel priveliged, and want for not (regarding the flightsim experience.)

A good example of too many downloads, too little time, is my reading in this thread about FS Recorder. (HuH?) Say.....I downloaded that when it first came out.....(Waitaminute.....LOOK....yeahhhhhh!!) It's there, sitting in my modules folder....ready to go for over a year!!

.....Hmmm.....let's try it....


....Mmmmm...dang...that's cool......!!

....Still lot's to install, explore, experience. This is just great. What's the rush getting on with the newest, latest, most trendy...? I think I'm just going to take my time and savour this.

Hmmm...maybe we can generate a flight of B-17 Fortresses over Boeing Field.....hmmmm....

[stuartcox]

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[Cthulhu]

Sunset courtesy of Pablo Diaz

[Wing_Z]

So what's this Wow?
This Wow is taxiing your nice Beriev in to Budapest Ferihegy, and finding some kickass AI you'd forgotten were in the sim!

[OBIO]

What plane is this? Where is it?

OBIO

[Wing_Z]

I was afraid I might be challenged on this one...it's Polish.
Edit: Plage & Laskiewicz Lublin RXIII
Edit2: ...and it sits in this hangar here:
http://www.simhangar.com/main1/index.php?page=fsalublin

and it's brilliant.
Someone might tweak the prop blur, maybe...

[empeck]

and bought Active Sky.
Not sure whose textures are whose, but you get some subtle variations that were definitely not there before.
So, a sentimental treatment of an old favourite...

Love this shot, awesome!

[Flyboy208]

Still absolutely in love with the freeware FS9 Rollus Dassault Mirage 2000-5 ...

Cheers! Mike