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Northern Lights

Wing_Z

Wing_Z

Charter Member 2011
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...

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

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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:
 
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:
 
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.
 
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.
 
They're still out there!

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):

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

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Ralf Roggeveen said:
You should have landed. Joanna Lumley might have been down there...;)
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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.
 
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.
 
claudius24 said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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