World Tour 08

[r0g3r5]

I don't know how far I'll get, but I plan to fly to as many places as I can with my goal being to always land safely, and to always take off from where I've landed before. Also, all done in real time (no slewing or time compression, I don't even know how to use them or care) and with real world weather......

I started out in New Orleans, where I live. Not much scenery for this area, only thing enhancing the default scenery here is Ultimate Terrain:

After taking off from Armstrong International, heading generally Easterly, you can see here the city between the river and lake, which is much to it's detrement during hurricanes:
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/11/city1tp3.jpg

This is the causeway bridge which goes across Lake Pontchartrain:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5043/causewaymc7.jpg

To the right is the Huey P Long Bridge:
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/4163/city2rh9.jpg

Getting closer to the city:
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http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/475/city4cg1.jpg

The Superdome:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8366/superdomefl9.jpg

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7789/city6ol1.jpg

Lining up at the Lakefront Airport:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5134/lakefrmu0.jpg

Coming in for a landing on this short sight seeing flight:
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/9339/lakefrontlandingsw7.jpg

stay tuned....more to come including megascenery and some other freeware photosceneries (I've made it to Kansas so far going through texas and oklahoma).

[vortiz56]

Nice flight. Spectacular images.

[r0g3r5]

Thanks Vortiz.....here is the second leg of my journey, a slightly longer flight, this time from the lakefront, back past New Orleans, to the city of Thibodaux.

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3412/departingcitydd1.jpg

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Here you can see city park:
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http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5400/wetlandssx3.jpg

Arrival in Thibodaux
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5903/arrivingthibodauxgl9.jpg

[vortiz56]

is this your neck of the woods? Sure looks like a labor of love.

[r0g3r5]

is this your neck of the woods? Sure looks like a labor of love.

Yeah, the idea was to start from home and explore from there using as many of the new fangled sceneries for FSX as are within my means.

My ability to point out specific landmarks will certainly diminish as I get farther from home :)

Thanks for checking out the shots.

[vortiz56]

I could tell you knew that area way well. Have to use that philosophy myself and get myself to fly GA around LA in increasingly wider circles.

[Smutley]

Cracking shots, great scenery. :cool:

[r0g3r5]

Thanks Smutley :)

My next leg was from Thibodaux to Lake Charles Louisiana. These flights are over the wetlands of South Louisiana, and may not be the most spectacular scenery, but UT does make them more insteresting with the more accurate coastlines and such. Don't worry, things get more interesting when I get to Dallas (megascenery) and Colorado (bluesky photoscenery) then Las Vegas (another megascenery) and so on.... but I want to fly to every place from one point to the next and not just put my plane there in the flight planner.....so here ya go, Louisiana Wetlands:

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/4439/53699650lg9.jpg

That's the Gulf of Mexico over in the distance:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/857/54152332hh2.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4900/19326916ut1.jpg

There's Lake Charles in the distance:
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/2307/65789203ds9.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5679/82964952jr7.jpg

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Safely on the ground in Lake Charles:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/751/24693972ri4.jpg

[Smutley]

Neat looking screenshots again. :cool::eek:

[r0g3r5]

Okay, next leg takes me from Lake Charles to Houston.

Leaving LC:
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After landing in Houston, I took off again for an evening flight around the city:
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[vortiz56]

Landing you GA with the Big Iron, eh? Looks like you are having a ball.

[NMLW]

Good series. Nicely done!

[r0g3r5]

Thanks for the comments.... and yes, I am having a ball, probably the best fun I've had with Flight Sim in a long time!

Next flight was from Houston to Dallas. When I got to Dallas, I flew around and explored the scenery a bit (megascenery X):

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9751/20361345rl6.jpg

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3918/67985494rt8.jpg

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http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/6796/10vw9.jpg

[r0g3r5]

You may notice that my view changed a ways into this. I bought an extra LCD screen, and here's a "screenshot" of the new rig I'm using....this is why you don't see my gauges in the VC view screenshots anymore :)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6339/rigaw6.jpg

More screenies to come.... I'm currently in Boulder, Colorado.

[vortiz56]

that joystick make helos easier to fly?

[r0g3r5]

that joystick make helos easier to fly?

I can't say vortiz, cause I don't fly helos much. I'm mostly into GA airplanes.

EDIT: I can only imagine that the highly accurate, hands on throttle would help with helos....Other than that, I'm out of my area of expertise.

[r0g3r5]

The next leg was from Fort Worth to Oklahoma City:

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9296/14439396vo2.jpg

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Oklahoma City:
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6857/42347847gy7.jpg

On the ground in Oklahoma City:
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/2615/37832339cy9.jpg

[yakov456]

Really enjoying this trip, keep 'em coming.

[r0g3r5]

Really enjoying this trip, keep 'em coming.

Thanks yakov....I'm leaving for a real trip, to play music in Pittsburg tomorrow, so I'll update this thread again when I get back in 3 days. Thanks for watching :)

[r0g3r5]

Okay, I'm back from Pittsburgh. The flights were a little rough, but I still saw some really cool "scenery" heh. Got a really good look inside the glass cockpit of one of the regional jets we flew on too.

Here's the next leg of my virtual journey, from Oklahoma City to Topeka, Kansas. After arriving in Topeka, I took off in my favorite sight seeing plane (the Maule Orion) for a brief local tour.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5360/37425252pk6.jpg

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[VFR_Steve]

Nice! Reminds me of when I first did a world tour in FSX last year.

[vortiz56]

You are making progress, chum

[r0g3r5]

The next thing I did was to fly clear across Kansas to get to Colorado. Kansas is pretty flat and boring, so I did some evening/night flying to make it more interesting:

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3044/29904856yi3.jpg

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http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8308/68740676ah1.jpg

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http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2559/43824566et1.jpg

[CoffeeNZ]

Great work! Keep it up. Look forward to more!

[r0g3r5]

Thanks CoffeeNZ!

My next leg took me to Colorado, and finally some mountains! I landed in Boulder:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8756/32378157ko7.jpg


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[CoffeeNZ]

hehehe yeah I know that feeling of finally seeing some landscape! Great shots. You seem to capture the mood of the flight well

[MXP]

Nice one(s) I love the Maule Orion, and the road traffic on the King Air approach.

[r0g3r5]

Thanks again, I appreciate the comments and views very much.

My next flight was a short hop from Boulder to Denver for sight seeing.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7829/66621385vy2.jpg


http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6470/55716986ro7.jpg


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Millenium Stadium
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http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7272/09ju4.jpg


Coors Field
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7/10kh5.jpg


See the Birds?
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http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7295/13wb8.jpg

[max-ua]

I'm doing something similar right now, except I'm touring North America only - started in Toronto, down eastern seaboard to Florida, then Bahamas, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico and then up to Texas and currently I'm in New Mexico. Next, West Coast all the way up to British Columbia and then across Canada home to Toronto. Really enjoying it, flying with VATSIM makes it more challenging (have to read up on charts before the flight).

Do you always fly the same aircraft across cities? I fly my Piper Cheyenne across and then jump into Cessna or Mooney to do some sightseeing around the area and then always back into Piper for the next leg..

[be58_drvr]

In the picture labeled "The Superdome:" you have exceeded Vne.

Used to fly into and around New Orleans a lot after the hurricanes, and it was quite a sight (and smell.)

[r0g3r5]

In the picture labeled "The Superdome:" you have exceeded Vne.

Used to fly into and around New Orleans a lot after the hurricanes, and it was quite a sight (and smell.)

Yeah, on my first flight the flying was really bad.

I didn't have my screenshot button mapped to a good place, and I was flying very crazy.

If you notice, in the rest of the pics after that first flight, the intstruments are much more calm and peaceful.

Thanks for looking :)

[r0g3r5]

This time I had to file IFR for the first time. Bad weather, late evening, mountains. I went from Denver to Central Colorado.

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[CoffeeNZ]

Very nice! Nice landing at the end there

[r0g3r5]

Thanks again CoffeeNZ.....

My next leg took me from Central Colarado Regional, to Telluride (the highest commercial airport in the US). I have the freeware Bluesky Scenery for this area, which, while sampled at FS4 resolution, is still quite beautiful and a huge leap over the default:

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8494/54736091ah0.jpg

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/3173/57150509bp5.jpg

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[knotts04]

Great Shots, Gotta love that Telluride approach!!

Keep up the great flight
Best Regards
~Chris

[r0g3r5]

Thanks knotts! :)