Rupert Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 OK, Put up with this last group of rocks and sand in Wales & I'll move on someplace else next trip. I know this may look like more of the same to you. But for me, on the three to 5 days per year the weather is this nice, this is inflight Nirvana! Thanks for your patience!!;) Michael Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liner simpilot Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Well done Michael. Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominicS Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Lovely shots Michael :-) I lived in Wales briefly (Rheidol Valley) when I was a kid in 1980/81 and still remember the training runs made by the RAF...absolutely stunning!! Thanks for sharing! Dom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBJim Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Michael, you always have such magnificent scenery. What are you using that's so special ? Jim Happiness is FSX Steam and Windows 7 . :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightsimg Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Hi! Fine shots! Some serene ones and some showing Wales really a Celtic area! Gérard Guichard, Dijon, Burgundy, France. i5 Intel processor, 4 Go of Ram, Nvidia GeForce 920MX, DirectX 12.0, and FSX Gold Edition with SP1, SP2. My personal flightsim website is at http://flightlessons.6te.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Nirvana looks awfully good Michael. Fine display of the coast of Wales. I especially like the golf course. :cool: :cool: :) Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 Hi Y'all, Thanks to all for your for your comments! Jim, as to software, I pretty much have ORBX for the whole world. I also have ORBX FTX add-on software for Great Britain and Scotland as well. Plus ScotFlight for ORBX as well. I've also found that since my RW flight career was flying low and slow in choppers, fancy payware aircraft don't strike my fancy. So I almost exclusively use default aircraft, fly low and slow, and usually keep my scenery sliders full right. Larry, those are two different golf courses about 15 miles apart. As I've said before, RW the coastline of Wales and Scotland are IMO per mile, the prettiest coasts I've ever seen. And I've seen a bunch! That's why I'm thrilled ORBX covers them so well!!;) In fact, I've posted so many shots of Wales and Scotland many are probably tired of seeing them so often. :rolleyes: Michael Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBJim Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 OK Michael, very good. I guess that I'm going to need to find out a little bit more about this ORBX ? Can you please detail it a little bit better, and how it works ? I assume that you are using FSX SE ? Thanks. Jim Happiness is FSX Steam and Windows 7 . :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Very well done again Michael! :cool::cool::cool: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 (edited) OK Michael, very good. I guess that I'm going to need to find out a little bit more about this ORBX ? Can you please detail it a little bit better, and how it works ? I assume that you are using FSX SE ? Thanks. Jim I'm using FSX Deluxe Disc edition with the Acceleration Pack installed. ORBX is an outfit out of Australia that does payware software of pretty much everywhere in the world. There work used to be available for purchase on many flight sim sites. But now apparently they've taken the whole sales process in-house. Basically you buy the rights to their software and can either download it, download it with backup discs mailed to you, or buy discs only. Obviously download only is the cheaper alternative. Notice I didn't say a cheap alternative!! Nothing about ORBX, except a few pieces of add-on freeware to their previous customers is even close to being cheap!!:mad: As to variety, ORBX has so many different levels of coverage and specific offers there's no way I or anyone else could give better advice than to go to their site. And if you decide to start installing their payware, BE AWARE ORBX SCENERY CAN EASILY MELT A LOT OF CHARGE CARDS!!:eek::eek: I have a bunch of ORBX software. But I've bought a piece or two of it at a time over a several years spread! If you have a wife who watches the charge card purchases as closely as mine does, spread your purchases out!! First pick one specific place you'd like to see better, especially if it is an area where you know what it looks like RW. Then buy that one piece of ORBX ware and see how it works with your computer and if you like it. Then after your plastic card cools down, look at another. Having said that, there are several other options other than buying ORBX!! For example there is some great Freeware Scenery in the Flight/Sim.com file library!!:cool::cool: I hugely suggest you use the search function of FSX freeware in the library and try a few of those spots ; before you look at payware. There are several posters on this site who only use freeware for any of their postings!! ;) Also please note ORBX IS NOT PHOTO-REAL TYPE SOFTWARE!! IF YOU LIKE TO FLY USING A RW ORDINANCE SURVEY MAP, ORBX WON'T MAKE YOU HAPPY!! I have a friend who isn't happy with any piece of software that doesn't show exactly where his favorite pub is, where he went to school in his home-town, perfectly, etc. He demands Photo-real scenery. Personally I've always felt using photo-real, as seen from outer space as being perfectly placed but the features all look like they've been stepped on and smashed down by Gulliver. If you fly over 10K above AGL, photo-real might be what you want. But at the altitudes I usually fly, photo-real looks awful IMO! Michael Edited July 19, 2018 by Rupert Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBJim Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Thanks Michael ...... I'll be looking into this. Jim :pilot: Happiness is FSX Steam and Windows 7 . :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightsimg Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Thanks Rupert, for all those much interesting details about ORBX! Gérard Guichard, Dijon, Burgundy, France. i5 Intel processor, 4 Go of Ram, Nvidia GeForce 920MX, DirectX 12.0, and FSX Gold Edition with SP1, SP2. My personal flightsim website is at http://flightlessons.6te.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 Thanks Rupert, for all those much interesting details about ORBX! At the risk of repetition, there is a ton of very good freeware on the library section of this site! In fact my favorite airplane, the Honda Jet, is a free download from here. Having said that, I hugely recommend that any/every person who uses the free library become at least a First Class Member!! Not only does your membership offset some of the costs of maintaining the site, it also gives you a faster download speed from the file libraries. ;) Michael Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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