Connor's Fsx Oe

[connor]

QUOTE (deeknow @ Mar 18 2012,10:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great stuff Connor as usual, lovely pics, and some interesting flying going on there, great that you researched the access coz wouldn't like to see your virtual ATP license revoked when you entered forbidden airspace
Thanks for the heads up on the Paphos (note to others, look for it spelt Pafos when hunting for scenery)...

Yeah, well, that's what I thought about airspace entering, I'd hate to virtually have to finish the trip in a C172!

And as for Paphos being spelled Pafos, caught me out big time. I downloaded it (spelled Paphos at Avsim), went to install it (Also spelled Paphos in the installer) and I went to use it and I couldn't locate the airport at all. So i checked the installation numerous times, did a re-install, still couldn't find it and then I realised it was spelled Pafos in the FSX airport directory. Should've just checked the ICAO straight away.

[Naki]

Nice shots....amazing to think most of it is freeware

[connor]

QUOTE (Naki @ Mar 19 2012,9:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice shots....amazing to think most of it is freeware

It's pretty cool, but your trip is sort of dictated by scenery availability. And a I have to be pretty picky about where I fly.

[deeknow]

For anyone thinking about some flying in this area, there's also some fabulous photo-real covering Israel, some nice routes too up and down the coast there for props etc, and the local sim community have some excellent freebie airports too for Israel and neighbouring Lebanon. I've been doing a few legs in that area lately. Will post some filenames tonight.

Would make for some great multi-play actually. I buzzed out from Damascus to Beirut last night (after reading Connors post) in the Skyhawk, was great fun blasting about in the high-country and valleys.

[connor]

Hi all,

I was planning to post the next set of screens and so forth when I got to Moscow, but I forgot. So there are quite a few screens this time!

I have flown from Istanbul, Turkey to London/Heathrow via the Eastern Bloc and Scandinavia. Here's the map (sorry, it's a bit rough!).



All in all the scenery was pretty good. I was quite selective though, and to be honest I didn't sample a huge amount of available scenery overall. The only downer was that I just saw this morning that a faily decent looking Kiev city photoreal has been released, but as it hadn't been released when I was in Kiev, I don't have any experience with it.

The aircraft were ok. Just the usual, CS and Project Airbus and Project opensky with a few Russians in there for airliners, and a couple of GA's. I'm seriously thinking of purchasing some more heavy metal though, as PA and Posky simply don't cut it.

Here are the many screens from the most recent leg:



Tim Conrad's freeware Antonov An-32 over the excellent freeware L'viv International Airport in Ukraine.



Another impressive scenery is Zaporozhye Airport, an airbase with a very Soviet feel to it. The TU-95 wasn't brilliant though.



A Russian Tu-152M takes off from Rostov-on-Don airport, near the Ukrainian border. The Project Tupolev TU-154 is amazing, the systems are incredibly detailed, but also in Russian, and most of the time are not at all similar the western systems most of us will be used to. I managed to fly it successfully on two occasions, but the navigational systems had me confused most of the time.



The AN-2 is a great machine, it's loud, slow and ugly!



Aerosvit Airlines operates the largest network of flights in the Ukraine. This is one of their A320's on the ground at Donetsk Airport.



I took the opportunity to fly the monstrous AN-225 (seeing I was flying right over her home airport), from Kiev to Moscow. This is on landing at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow.



Even though it's not a terribly realistic route (to my knowledge anyway), to fly this freeware IL-86 across Russia to Kazan Airport. It wasn't a bad piece of freeware, however many of the gauges were misconfigured and it ended up crashing my sim on final approach.



The CS 757-200 at the fantastic freeware Khanty-Mansiysk Airport, over the Ural's (and technically in Asia).



The PA A319 in S7 Airlines colours taking off from Sheremetyevo International.



The CS 767-300 in a default Aeroflot Scheme on the way to Helsinki from Moscow.



REX was doing it's stuff accurately on the leg (not that I've ever been to any of these places), looking very nice on the ground, at dusk in Helsinki.



The Swedes are known for being innovative, and their Air Force is no exception. Most of their Air Force is designed to operate from small airfields, or even sections of closed public motorway. Swedish manufacturer SAAB are responsible for the designing and building of many of their aircraft as well. Here is the SAAB 105 trainer jet, cruising up the Baltic Coast.



Here is one of the Air Forces small airbases, hidden away in the woods. The jet is the fantastic freeware SAAB J35 Drakken. Do have a fly in it, it's a great simulation and a really fun plane to fly.



Much to my delight, I found a Swedish registered Cessna 185F repaint for the Carenado model.



Kiruna is a small town in Sweden's far north and is likely to be the furtherest north I'll reach on my trip. Courtesy of REX real world weather a ripper of a snowstorm kicked up; here's the tail end of it.



A Scandinavian Airlines Service (SAS) MD-83 on short final to a great Freeware Gardermoen International Airport, just out of Oslo, in Norway.



Norwegian Air Shuttle is a fairly recent airline, but has grown rapidly. Because I can't shell out for the PMDG model, however, I am flying the Posky one instead.



I took a Cherokee for a spin down the West Coast Fjords...



...and took a Catalina Back up.




I am now at Heathrow International Airport, sorting out Western Europe. I'll probably take a break for a few weeks before I start.

Thanks for looking!

[Ian Warren]

Great , the TU s always so cool .. and the weather .. best stick with a Bear

[connor]

Thanks Ian.

[scaber]

Great shots and a stimulating tour of the world so far. I like your use of local paints for the aircraft too.

[deeknow]

Awesome stuff Connor, gonna have to PM you for some of those scenery links.
Gotta love those eastern-block liveries huh

[connor]

QUOTE (deeknow @ May 28 2012,12:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Gotta love those eastern-block liveries huh

Yeah, not much of an artistic flair with most of them!