Northern Lights

[Wing_Z]

I had heard they were in FS9, but never experienced them.
I had blundered into the northern Atlantic, somewhere east of Greenland, shortly after sunset...

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/CHARL_photos/SOH/NorthernLights.jpg

The effect is quite unexpected, and transient.
Well done, MS!

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[Flyboy208]

Very cool Mate, yes the ACES team did a fine job of incorporating this occurance into FS9.

Need to fire up a proper Northern Lights flight meself! Mike :jump:

[Wing_Z]

It was just unexpected, and quite cool.
After I uploaded and linked the clip, I did notice that I may be the very last person in a queue of several hundred to have had the experience, and been driven to upload a video of it to Youtube.
There are some quite good ones, too! :redface:

[HorusJ]

The Lights took me by surprise too the first time I saw them,heading north-northwest out of Moscow some miles out at sunset.I couldn't take my eyes off it.

[Clarke123]

If you go to simviation.com and search Michael Webber you'll find improved more colourful FX

[Wing_Z]

Bit rich perhaps for my taste...

4455

Apparently you can hear the lights when they appear over a quiet and chilly landscape - they make a swishing sound!

[whitehawk_2009]

Looks like Rainbow Sherbet... mmmmmmm

WH

[MaddogK]

Scared the crap outta me the first time I saw it, thought my video card was failing. Now I'm used to it, will even install the new colorful fx file.

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Just did the Buffalo's Mackenzie River cargo run from Yellowknife to Norman Wells (FSMetar/Vatsim real weather, took off about one hour before sunset):

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/wildbillkelso_berlin/auroraborealis1.jpg

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/wildbillkelso_berlin/auroraborealis2.jpg

I think I installed some tweaked northern lights, but please don't ask me whose these are...

Cheers,
Markus.

[Ralf Roggeveen]

You should have landed. Joanna Lumley might have been down there...;)

[Wing_Z]

You should have landed. Joanna Lumley might have been down there...;)
I saw that programme just the other night!
Joanna fulfilling a childhood dream...sitting out there all night, waiting for the Lights.
I'd have landed my A380 on the frozen duckpond if I'd known.

[Z-claudius24]

Hi,

The most impressive is to see them in real world :)
I see some when I was in the New Foundfland and Labrador .. and also in Baffin Straight
Very impressive.

[CG_1976]

Hi,

The most impressive is to see them in real world :)
I see some when I was in the New Foundfland and Labrador .. and also in Baffin Straight
Very impressive.

Wait till you get up here in Yellowknife, there even more impressive and powerful:jump:. Had a excellent show live last night from my dock.

[Wild Bill Kelso]

... Had a excellent show live last night from my dock.
You mean these effects I experienced yesterday while hauling groceries up Mackenzie River were accurate?
Wow!
How does my FS know this real life occurance...? :d

[CG_1976]

The magnitude/beauty is just unexplainable. If you google images Yellowknife northern Lights, you'll see many pics in many variations of the lights/colors and patterns.

[Z-claudius24]

Hi,

Was somedays at Frobisher Bay ( Iqaluit ) but unfortunately these days nothing happened.

[Wing_Z]

Is it true you can hear a swishing sound when they arrive?