Cruising Cape Cod, hop to Nantucket

[Lionheart]

Hey guys,


Nice day off.. Took up the 172SP and flew down to Nantucket from Cape Code (Providence airport on the tip of the Cape).

Nice flight. Clouds the way I like them. A bit bumpy on the wind. Flew calmly at about 2,000 Feet Alt.

With all the wind buffetting, I broke down and woke up Auto and had him hold the course and Alt while I looked around, enjoyed the scenery, and shot pics with my virtual iPhone.

:d


Put down nicely. I like how the flaps effects are on this particular plane. She handles gently on touchdowns with full flaps. Floats right down for a smooth touch down. Great feeling after a long flight.


I really need to add some buildings to the airport scenery here... arrghh..



Bill

 

[JimC1702]

Nice shots! The 172 is quite nice, looks good and flys well.

I downloaded a scenery from X-Plane.org for southern New England that included several airports and the Cape Cod Canal bridge. Works well.

Jim

 

[Lionheart]

Hey Jim,

Did you get that scenery at the XP9 website?



You know... I just realised, AVSIM have XP9 downloads.. I might paruse their library...


Bill

 

[JimC1702]

Here's a link.

http://web.me.com/theosdavis/xpfiles/scenery.html

The file I downloaded was New_England_South.zip. He has files for most of the US. I flew into Providence, RI and it was nice to see terminal buildings and jetways.

Jim

 

[JimC1702]

Hey Jim,


You know... I just realised, AVSIM have XP9 downloads.. I might paruse their library...


Bill

I was looking over there, most of the uploads seem very old. Avsim did just open a dedicated X-Plane forum. Copying SOH.

Jim

 

[Lionheart]

Hey Jim,

Many thanks Sir for the link and the heads up.


Well, people will follow when you are 'leading edge' man!

:d




Bill

 

[kbr]

Nice flight, Bill. Lovely pictures, I really like the way Xplane 9's terrain looks.