MAD1 Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 20231214 Thursday 14 December 2023. Hello world, as mentioned in thread 'FS 2002 Graphics in middle', post Dec 14 'G'day boys. Am 'back in the saddle again'. ... ', am starting this thread to share my new adventures. 1 video and 15 still screenshots (taken with handheld camera, screenshot quality isn't good). At the risk of annoying the FlightSim.com gods ('act now, seek forgiveness later') have done for my first time, uploading the .mp4 video file to the Files section of the FS site. As I did a 58 second video of the old, retired, 1981 Mazda 929L car that I'm using as my sim cockpit, didn't seem possible to upload the vid to a post, but could upload it to Files. Put it in 'FS2002 Misc.' category. I just took 4 screenshots from the vid as .jpg, and am posting all 19 .jpg's here. (I did reduce the filesize of all for proper Internet upload.) After suffering a life-threatening flood in Feb 2022 that flooded my house to the ceiling, and going through the stress of looking for and buying a new property, this time 2 hectares (5 acres) in the country, flood free, am finally able to settle down and enjoy this flight sim hobby. It has and does give me great satisfaction, joy, peace and community fraternity (via this FlightSim.com website). Intend to post here my new journey. First fire up of the sim was 14 Dec 2023, the default Meigs, flew two circuits, didn't crash! Next will be Brisbane International, Australia, with AI traffic and ATC. Enjoy, and if interested, say 'g'day mate'! (By the way, by pure coincidence, when doing the video, on the local community (non-commercial) radio 'COW FM' ('Casino's Own Wireless' 107.9 FM, we're cattle country here, was a great Aussie soft-country singer Graeme Connors, with his 1996 (27 years old) hit 'A Road Less Travelled', very apt. So that afternoon was a halycon moment here in the Kyogle hills!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 20231223 Saturday 23 December 2023. YBBN Brisbane International. Learning Air Traffic Control (ATC), the default in-built, so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI), as it existed way back in 2001 when FS2002 was built and released. Rather good, interesting to just sit in a corner of the airfield and watch the planes come taxing along ready to take off from runway '1', being 010 heading, and listen to the radio. A good learning experience. Combining this with the paper manual I have from FS2000 and the FS2002 electronic manual, plus the Rod Machado in-built lessons, it's a good education about ATC. Attached is a collage of 13 screenshots. Numbered from top left, reading left to right. (Need to tune Brisbane Ground to hear taxiing traffic, or Tower to hear taking off and airborne traffic.) Cessna N19896 red, landed. Landmark 4453 takeoff, American Pacific 1249 (IFR to Essendon) [DeHavilland Dash 8], American Pacific 2447 (IFR destination unstated), Orbit 9383 (IFR destination unstated),American Pacific 6479 (IFR Melbourne). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 240120 Saturday 20 January 2024. The Great Australian Air Race (this is the Flight Briefing Office, FBO thread, where the chit-chat and flyer stories are, the Official thread has the rules etc. There is also the (now closed) general thread prior to the race commencing Friday 15 January.) Organised by Club Chachapoya. My first for a lot of things: first in a group event; to do proper navigation ('nav'); flying a Cessna 182 Retractable Gear (182RG) instead of my trusty Cessna 172. Did very well, flew from YPJT Jandakot (near Perth, capital city of Western Australia), to YKNG Katanning (a small town about 3.5 hours driving time and 1 hour flying time south-east of Perth. The race isn't about speed, it's about accuracy of flight plan flying time versus actual flying time. From Perth (YPJT Jandakot) to Sydney (YSBK Bankstown), 17 airports. Then there's a 'free-flying' co-event to fly up the east coast of Australia to Cairns, another 9 airports. This adventure will be document here, with many screenshots. There's a great group of guys in the flying 'Gaggle' and it's both very engaging, informative and a lot of fun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 Leg 1 YPJT Jandakot to YKNG Katanning. Sunday 24 December 2023. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtnm Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 12/21/2023 at 7:23 AM, MAD1 said: 20231214 Thursday 14 December 2023. Hello world, as mentioned in thread 'FS 2002 Graphics in middle', post Dec 14 'G'day boys. Am 'back in the saddle again'. ... ', am starting this thread to share my new adventures. 1 video and 15 still screenshots (taken with handheld camera, screenshot quality isn't good). At the risk of annoying the FlightSim.com gods ('act now, seek forgiveness later') have done for my first time, uploading the .mp4 video file to the Files section of the FS site. As I did a 58 second video of the old, retired, 1981 Mazda 929L car that I'm using as my sim cockpit, didn't seem possible to upload the vid to a post, but could upload it to Files. Put it in 'FS2002 Misc.' category. I just took 4 screenshots from the vid as .jpg, and am posting all 19 .jpg's here. (I did reduce the filesize of all for proper Internet upload.) After suffering a life-threatening flood in Feb 2022 that flooded my house to the ceiling, and going through the stress of looking for and buying a new property, this time 2 hectares (5 acres) in the country, flood free, am finally able to settle down and enjoy this flight sim hobby. It has and does give me great satisfaction, joy, peace and community fraternity (via this FlightSim.com website). Intend to post here my new journey. First fire up of the sim was 14 Dec 2023, the default Meigs, flew two circuits, didn't crash! Next will be Brisbane International, Australia, with AI traffic and ATC. Enjoy, and if interested, say 'g'day mate'! (By the way, by pure coincidence, when doing the video, on the local community (non-commercial) radio 'COW FM' ('Casino's Own Wireless' 107.9 FM, we're cattle country here, was a great Aussie soft-country singer Graeme Connors, with his 1996 (27 years old) hit 'A Road Less Travelled', very apt. So that afternoon was a halycon moment here in the Kyogle hills!) great, more, I downloaded the video. Happiness moments. Happy new year Quote I loved! Thank you by pictures. Regards from Ireland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtnm Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 1/21/2024 at 2:31 AM, MAD1 said: 20231223 Saturday 23 December 2023. YBBN Brisbane International. Learning Air Traffic Control (ATC), the default in-built, so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI), as it existed way back in 2001 when FS2002 was built and released. Rather good, interesting to just sit in a corner of the airfield and watch the planes come taxing along ready to take off from runway '1', being 010 heading, and listen to the radio. A good learning experience. Combining this with the paper manual I have from FS2000 and the FS2002 electronic manual, plus the Rod Machado in-built lessons, it's a good education about ATC. Attached is a collage of 13 screenshots. Numbered from top left, reading left to right. (Need to tune Brisbane Ground to hear taxiing traffic, or Tower to hear taking off and airborne traffic.) Cessna N19896 red, landed. Landmark 4453 takeoff, American Pacific 1249 (IFR to Essendon) [DeHavilland Dash 8], American Pacific 2447 (IFR destination unstated), Orbit 9383 (IFR destination unstated),American Pacific 6479 (IFR Melbourne). Mad Did you download any scenery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtnm Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 1/27/2024 at 2:43 AM, MAD1 said: Leg 1 YPJT Jandakot to YKNG Katanning. Sunday 24 December 2023. Good day mate! I always use all default. No scenery download. I love fps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted February 29 Author Share Posted February 29 On 2/5/2024 at 6:27 PM, djtnm said: Mad Did you download any scenery? No, have no time to mess with things like that. Before Feb 2022, when my house went under water in a flood and computer lost, I did have local scenery, a guy in Lismore did up a very nice Lismore (YLIS) airport with real world (RW) pics of hangers etc. But haven't had time to go find it and download it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted February 29 Author Share Posted February 29 On 2/5/2024 at 7:06 PM, djtnm said: Good day mate! I always use all default. No scenery download. I love fps. Thanks for the comments djtnm. Yes, FS2002, as I'm sure FS2004 is, is really well-designed software. Am more interested in a precise flying model rather than scenery. Makes life simple! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted February 29 Author Share Posted February 29 20240224 Sat 24 Feb 2024 Cessna Caravan amphibian. YBNA Ballina to YBCG Coolangatta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtnm Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 2/29/2024 at 3:32 AM, MAD1 said: No, have no time to mess with things like that. Before Feb 2022, when my house went under water in a flood and computer lost, I did have local scenery, a guy in Lismore did up a very nice Lismore (YLIS) airport with real world (RW) pics of hangers etc. But haven't had time to go find it and download it again. I agree. I also have no time to mess up my flightsim. I have FS 2004 all default and is really more optimised than fs 2002. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Starting my learning journey about the Concorde. Research, first thoughts: what is the minimum runway distance for takeoff and landing? Can I use a local airport as its home base, runway is 6,000 feet? Well, one plane did it's last flight into a UK airport, 6,000 ft, but once down could it ever take off from there again? (It went to a museum there, so never intended to take off again.). A quick search for info sites: https://www.daftlogic.com/information-locations-of-concorde-planes.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=concorde+takeoff+distance&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1 https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/241165-concorde-landing-help https://wiki.flightgear.org/images/cache/e/ed/Concorde.html https://www.aerofly.com/aircraft-tutorials/concorde-flight-tutorial https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-46510.html https://simviation.com//lair/Concorde Flying Notes.htm Much bedside reading here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 https://www.daftlogic.com/information-locations-of-concorde-planes.htm There were 20 Concordes built. Number 101, G-AXDN, is at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England, UK. https://www.heritageconcorde.com/duxford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 On 3/15/2024 at 9:16 PM, MAD1 said: https://www.daftlogic.com/information-locations-of-concorde-planes.htm There were 20 Concordes built. Number 101, G-AXDN, is at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England, UK. https://www.heritageconcorde.com/duxford Great info! Molly and I dreamed of making a round trip-one way on the Queen Mary II, the other on the Concorde. We've made several round trips on the QMII but the Concorde was sadly shut down before we could take it. 1 Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted July 13 Author Share Posted July 13 Am enjoying exploring the built-in flights. Currently flying the 'Sydney Scenic', an evening twilight in rain and windy conditions. Default weather is clouds scattered, precipitation heavy, visibility 20 miles / 32 km, wind moderate, direction 275 degrees. Played with all the weather settings. Default is Cessna 172, altitude at start is 1,482 ft, speed 116 knots, heading 191 degrees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Great Sydney Scenic shots! And frankly with the temperatures here. a few days in temperate winter would be a huge relief! 1 Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted July 14 Author Share Posted July 14 Thanks for the comment Rupert. Hot? I know you guys are in mid-summer, so is it really hot in your neck of the woods? What part of the country (what country, USA?) are you in? By the way, is Sydney Scenic in FS2004? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbasil_1 Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 16 minutes ago, MAD1 said: By the way, is Sydney Scenic in FS2004? Not really... gotta get P3D V5 or V6 to get some scenic Feeling... otherwhise, it's not really different than FS2002... as FS2004 Scenery is pretty basic, even with the Payware Addon: SYDNEY PROFESSIONAL X V2.0 Basically FS2004 is still lacking a real good rendition of Sydney - Kingsford Smith Intl. Airport. Which is a real pitty... I do hope, that the Malaysian Flightsim Group (MFSG) will do a nice rendition of this Airport, one day... allthough, that be very doubtfull at the moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted July 14 Author Share Posted July 14 Thanks Airbasil. Hmm, interesting. I don't have any add-ons, only all default. (I did download a few years ago my local small airport, Lismore, YLIS, which a local guy had done good scenery with photos etc. But that was on my deskto computer that went under the flood. I also downloaded Brisbane YBBN, which was quite good. Will have to go download them again when I get time (not much time for this hobby.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbasil_1 Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Well..., here's what FS2004 / FS9 does in Sydney... Still pretty basic and not really satisfying to me... I'd got another taste of Quality Scenery to be honest... To me this looks still pretty FS2002...ish... which is a bit disappointing, specially when it comes to the Airport buildings and Terminals, which are pretty Dodgy Blocky FS2002...ish... and still pretty much VOZ oriented... And I really hate, that there's no photoreal Ground Poly included... They could've done it much better than this... I usually try to keep out most of such poorly done airports and like to take just close up shots... to get rid of unimportant things... These shots then finally look something like that: Arrivals: Departure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperPilot2 Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 2 hours ago, MAD1 said: Thank Airbasil. Hmm, interesting. I don't have any add-ons, only all default. (I did download a few years ago my local small airport, Lismore, YLIS, which a local guy had done good scenery with photos etc. But that was on my deskto computer that went under the flood. I also downloaded Brisbane YBBN, which was quite good. Will have to go download them again when I get time (not much time for this hobby.) You just keep doing what you're doing. If it works for you, that's all that matters. 1 "I created the Little Black Book to keep myself from getting killed..." -- Captain Elrey Borge Jeppesen AMD 1.9GB/8GB RAM/AMD VISION 1GB GPU/500 GB HDD/WIN 7 PRO 64/FS9 CFS CFS2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAD1 Posted July 14 Author Share Posted July 14 Thanks Airbasil for the screenshots. Agreed, the graphics do look pretty poor. At least your airplanes look good. Being a skin flint, tight, and not having time to really get into this hobby, given I'm still working part-time 3 days/wk, plus RW stuff, I might lash out and buy 2020 or whatever it will be, when I actually retire, hmmm, who knows, maybe sometime in the next 5 yrs. Am 69, I better go do the bucket list soon whilst I still can, which does include a trip to the US, including a visit to NASA at Houston, and Cape Canaveral. That should be in 2026, the last year of my current passport (boy they're expensive these days, I think it's over Aus $220 or something for a 10 year passport, not good if you only use it a couple of times in that period.) Given the above, my mate in Brisbane, who is a keen scavenger, visiting it favourite garbage tip in the environs, which has a good recycled 'leave stuff here that's OK, other people can take it for free', from where my FS2000 and FS2004 boxed sets came from, has an X-plane 10 boxed set, must be the same guy living in that area who has upgraded again. My mate will visit me soonish (200 km away) and I'll have that new old toy to play with. Will see how it looks and feels. And VP2, yep, thanks mate, I ain't changin nuthin. The sim is working good enough in the 1981 retired Mazda 929L cockpit, I just simply love it! It's my little 'happy place'! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbasil_1 Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Actually FS2004 brings pretty cool things as well.. considdering the Screens I allready shared on 25 Pages in the FS2004 Random Shots Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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