NMLW Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 A short 1 hour and 5 minute flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in an America West Airlines B-747-400 late 1980s livery. Click to Enlarge More in the Reply Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 Click to Enlarge . . . Thanks for flying America West. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downwind66 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 "The Queen," in all her glory! And, beautiful colors to boot! Very nice, Larry! Thanks for sharing her! - Rick :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macroburst Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Cool shots. +1 for the retro America West Airlines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVIDSTRAKA Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Love it Larry! Great capture on those shots and a textbook landing :pilot: Senior Rookie Bragware: FSX Gold - Acceleration | HP Omen Obelisk Desktop | Intel Core i7 3.2 Ghz |16GB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | 1TB HD | 256 GB SSD (Gaming Computer) REX Worldwide Airports HD AS16 + ASCA ORBX Global BASE ORBX Freeware Airports ORBX HD Trees [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 Thanks for your comments Rick, Blair & David. :) Unfortunately many of the older models don't have VCs or wing views. :( Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenvox Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 is that a 3 or a 400? i diont thimnk they had 400's but still good on ya to find that!! WJA221, BFL0200, ASA2703 http://www.darrensfs9site.weebly.com http://darrensflightsimblog.blogspot.com/ https://discord.gg/6d5V7Qu << <<<fs9 discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 Darren, it's a 400. From the readme file: America West Old Livery This is a repaint of the FSPainter Boeing 747-400 (model and air files ARE included)in the America West old livery which I wish to dedicate to my relatives and freinds in Arizona. America West was operating some 742's(I think 2) but I guess they weren't very economical so AW stopped using them. 747 model and base textures by FSPainter, America West textures by Pantee Farhangi. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Funny how different people have opinions based upon their experiences. Being stationed in Santa Ana Ca. in the sixties I could never imagine that big a bird only carrying people from La to Vegas! However, in 1987-8 I made several trips from Kentucky to Komatsu Japan where 144" stamping press lines were being built for our auto stamping and assembly plant in Kentucky. The drill was, you'd land at Narita Airport on a many hour 747 flight from the US west coast. Then you'd take the "free" mass transit train from the international area to the local. Upon arriving in the local area you'd then board another 747 for the few (250+-) hundred miles trip to Komatsu on the west coast of Japan. Going west in the morning the plane was nearly empty. But in the morning at Komatsu the east bound flight to Tokyo was always overbooked. In the evening, the reverse was true. Why, hundreds upon hundreds of Japanese traveled to Tokyo to shop and also to commute to and from work daily! !!!:eek::eek: Reserved seating?? NO, lots of people with brief cases and/or huge shopping bags, yes. Those 747 flights were exactly like riding a city bus or subway in any major city of the world! Actually in California in the 60's we had a similar experience while flying Air California. They had a "bus route" of Electras which rotated California in a counter-clockwise rotation seven days a week. If you wanted to go from LAX to Santa Ana you got aboard and paid your (10 bucks, frankly I think that's right but don't remember for sure.) In about 30-40 minutes you arrived in Santa Ana and got off the plane. But if you wanted to go from Santa Ana to LAX, you paid the same ten bucks or so, but it took hours because you started on the bottom of the loop. You left Santa Ana and landed in San Diego, Riverside, etc. etc. before you finally came over the top and arrived at LAX. If you traveled 40 miles of several hundred miles, the price was the same. Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdish Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I'm dying to see the enhanced LAX airport and what Las Vegas looks like in the new sim :p Gigabyte GA-X99 Gaming G1, i7-5960X, Noctua NH-D14, Crucial Ballistix Elite 64Gb, Nvidia GTX Titan X, Creative ZxR, Ableconn PEXM2-130, WD Black SN750 250Gb & 2Tb NVMe/Gold 10Tb HDD, Sony BDU-X10S BD-ROM, PC Power & Cooling 1200w, Cosmos C700M, Noctua iPPC 140mm x6, Logitech M570/K800, WinX64 7 Ultimate/10 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Michael, I don't think American West flew a 747 to Vegas, at least I couldn't find any sign of it in their timetables. I just chose to do so because I like the livery and I hadn't flown a 747 for a while. I imagine that 727s and 737s would have been used in the 80s-90s (737s probably still today). You are right there are some weird air routes out there, many that seem to make no sense. I guess that as long as passengers are happy and airlines make money crazy routes will continue to exist. But some are imposed by various bureaucracies. In my own experience when I served in the Foreign Service back home at State Department the travel people booked me from Dulles to Atlanta to Dallas to Albuquerque when a direct flight existed. It was cheaper, but about two and a half hours longer. Another time I was booked Washington National to Pittsburgh to O'hare to Salt Lake City to San Jose. Again cheaper, but I could have gone Dulles to San Fran. and driven to San Jose and saved almost four hours. There were many occasions that are just too painful to recount. My butt and back hated the travel folks. :( Jack, Hope your dreams for the FS2020 scenery come true. :) Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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