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I think Nik sums things up nicely, and is equally qualified as anyone flying FSX to comment. I never flew this type of tour in 9, so can't really add more. As I have said in other FSX posts, I find the overall experience in X to be superior than 9, the water and the weather (I find the weather to be smoother and less taxing on the computer, especially in dense cloud) in particular. The autogen is better, and more of it which makes things look great if you can mange it. The landclass lets it down, its absolutely crap, but the better mesh is an improvement and balances that. SP1 wont...

if my files screwed up your flight sim sorry :/ worked fine with me

Just wondering if he's got retractable undercarriage - otherwise that bicycle stand at the back might cause some grief on landing! :rolleyes: Yep, he does have retracts... The pics show "gear up", gear down is for normal road use, i.e. the wings fold away, the wheelstand goes up...

That POSKY 737 looks good

West Malling is very close to where I grew up (Rochester). Sadly, the airfield was closed in 1965, and is now a housting estate (a criminal act IMHO). That's not just criminal... that's blasphemy! Nice shots though, Naki.

If I have to ROFL much more, I'll never get vertical again! Just for that I condemn you to the "Queen" seat Charl. Set yourself on the ground in her start position and then play the others as traffic. See if you can stay there ;) I often pick up old recorded flights and try to refly in other positions - more fun than finding the peanut in a barrel of monkeys. Looking forward to see a full video of any sequence.

Got to say those tie-downs look pretty ineffective - you certainly wouldn't leave it in Wellington like that! (I've actually seen a Cessna 152 take off with two concrete filled tyres still tied to the wings...) Despite that, the DF Baron is still one of my favourite planes. If only there were an FSX version (and RXP for FSX too) :plane:

See its good that we can have a good ol' dig at each others chosen aircraft preference in FS lol. Helis still rule though hahaha. SQ350

exactly right

wow looks good Ian, glad to see being streched across the banner paid of for you! :lol: Those are very flat islands arn't they, wouldn't want riseing sea levels if you lived there would you. Certainly is very detailed coast lines, if they are long enough to be called "coast lines". :P

I have yet to see the movie. Cant wait though :)

Great work Jenks- will be good to have a flyable repaint of yours on my sim instead of the dozens of beautiful, yet AI traffic schemes I already have :P

I use photoshop to do it, not perfect, but you just make a very wide canvas and chuck 'em all on it. :P Alex

Nice pics trolly. That's one of my favourite route. Never fail to amaze me how breathtaking it is from up there and of course there's always that landing at Wellington to look forward too.

:unsure: Nervously eyes Monthly Screenshot Topic - what've we unleashed here?? :unsure:

Nice screenies, I would have come down and waved you off if I had known u were in town :P

Great screenies mate, did you purchase the RBE topo addon? nah i got a load of stuff from avsim; landclass, mesh and roads. It's much better than before and i like the textures over the ones in the UK or Europe.

Woo you guys are certainly fueled up! And you're right - that definitely looks like somebody's pet...something, out there in the desert. :ph43r:

Super idea trolly, I'll definitely try that :) Oh and James, I found a loss of about 4fps when I changed from low 1x to full.

Cheers Trolly. Yeah some of the FSX stuff was ugly today - I doubt the wetlands by turangi look like that - anyone got any photos or FS9 shots? Also on finals you'll notice the ugly ground textures of the taupo city. I think it's because of some tweaking, I'm gonna load up FSX soon and see if I can get it better.