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Sometimes FS makes you go wow....

yeah, i'm a painter over at IRIS and not even i have that bucc lol, see if the boss has i suppose....:jump: *goes hunting DB*
 
In FS9 or FSX, I like to start a flight at dawn or about 30 minutes before dusk....I think this is where each sim really will "wow" you as it transitions...it really hits its mark.

Nice shots everyone ! Gotta find some more hours in the day to do some flying....

Do you ever wish you had one of those "Stop Time" stopwatches where you could stop time for everyone except you? Time is stopped but you carry on....Might be able to catch-up with a lot of stuff with one of those.
 
Here's an AI shot I took last night over the Amazon. Nothing fancy, just Silver Wings.
 
Nice Screenshots @ all :ernae:
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What is really cool is to see how everyones setup is different, but we all experience that popping "WOW" factor....
Here is another once from testing a new paint and new 412 model that I will be releasing this weekend (hopefully)
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My install of FS2004 is mostly stock (other than the nearly 500 aircraft in my collection..and still growing). The only mods I have made to the sim itself is the installation of Real Evironment Pro, Rhumbafloppy's new world mesh (a huge improvement over the stock mesh in both FS2004 and CFS2), and the use of FSMetars to handle real time weather. I get those "wow" moments quite often in both sims...but looking at screenshot from you folks with all the payware mesh, scenery, ground textures, cloud packages....my "wow" factor pales in comparison....but, for a sim built around freeware items, I am still happy with what I have. Simming is supposed to be my cheap hobby...fish keeping is my "expensive" hobby.

OBIO
 
my expensive hobby is Ultralighting/Microlighting... but do enjoy racing on a bike or in a car round donnington racetrack on track days :jump: easy to get through a set of tyres :icon_lol:
 
Obio, the only payware in my FS install is some of the aircraft. It's just a matter of finding the most bang for the buck. I fly older aircraft and Bill Lyons' Silver Wings fits real nice with that.

As for more expensive hobbies, I quit doing the motorsports thing years ago. Now, my outdoors hobby is horses.
 
yeah most of mine is environmental, with splotches of scenery all over... still enjoy loading up in my Harrier over in Afghanistan and hitting the valleys over by the Pakistani border, which reminds me to finish some scenery items for 'training camps', which brings me onto a slightly off topic question, anyone know where i can find EZ-Effects so i can place smoke etc...? back on topic, anyone with activesky, is it worth getting? i mean in terms of looks and ability to render complex weather patterns...
 
Willy said:
As for more expensive hobbies, I quit doing the motorsports thing years ago. Now, my outdoors hobby is horses.
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How to make a small fortune out of horses....start with a large one :bump:

To topic: I go outside and look at the sky, and it doen't look as good as some of the screenshots around here!
Thinking about Active Sky, I look one more time at my Flight Environment setup, and see that I haven't even scratched the surface of the possible combinations of cumulus, cirrus, stratus, there must be thousands of possibles.
So I take a chance on the Random Spinner, and it ain't 'arf bad:

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Moves well inside the sim too, which is important.
Decisions, decisions...
 
Smoothie said:
yeah, i'm a painter over at IRIS and not even i have that bucc lol, see if the boss has i suppose....:jump: *goes hunting DB*
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Its'a good (IMHO) model, the animations of the tailplane flaps are correct,
unlike some others which tag them as elevators, just needs a good 2d panel to go with it; although I use a HUD minipanel.

For the purists...the model is an S2A variant, sans the bulged bomb door tank, (and 'Pave Spike'...) however, we did have a couple of 'slick' bomb doors available in case one had to be removed due to leakage (which it did fairly frequently)

ttfn

Pete
 
yeah the Bucc is an aircraft i absolutely love, shame about the red tape here restricting it to static and fast taxi, might do a piece of profile art on the Bucc, it's deserving of it i feel...
 
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