Flight Sims X/2004/lockon etc..

[chris330 0]

Great pics guys! Was wondering if any of you could give me any advice about Squawkbox 3? How much of an improvement from the bad old days of SB2 is it? Are the model representations more realistic and is it a lot less jerky?

[ingram 258]

Sendai cargo route

[Shashman 0]

hey shashman. u know the link to Dubai airport buildings. I live in dubai atm. and that airport is bloody amazing.

Ah that's cool! I really like Dubai airport (never actually been though ,haha! ). Interesting design and the traffic you get there is exotic (not as exotic as Sharjah though, which I'd reeeally like to go to one day).

Yeah I'm an anorak

Nice screens Ingram. I presume you're an ANA fan then?

P.S@Batdog: have you seen Emirates' A380 then?

Oh and chris33; if you want to fly online with VATSIM, you have to use Squawkbox (they've just released a beta of SB4 btw)

[ingram 258]

Nice screens Ingram. I presume you're an ANA fan then?

Yep I love Japan since I was a 6 years old kid so I am a fan of their airlines

Some aviation history

[cozza 24]

P.S@Batdog: have you seen Emirates' A380 then?  

I've seen the singapore airlines A380 when I was there like 2 months ago lol

acculy i was asking if u remenber where u downloaded the dubai airport building for FSX becuase on my one Dubai is just a big square building. Big airport though, like a shopping center in there lol

[ingram 258]

Or the other question. Is this a freeware or a payware addon. I've seen many airports in "Scenery" category on this site .

Today I was testing 2 really nice done payware's.

The Pilatus PC-9 and PC-12 made by Iris which is well known in FSX and FS9 community.

The best in PC-9 is that it requires more attention from the pilot because if we incease too much the engine power it will just blow up.

Pilatus PC-9 & PC-12

[Shashman 0]

Love the PC-12. Such a smart looking aircraft.

The Dubai scenery I use is payware, made by the excellent FlyTampa scenery design studio. They've also made St.Maarten, which is one of the best, and favourite FS9 and X addons in the community, sort of the equivalent of BAS in the FS community. As well as Vienna, Hong Kong Kai Tak (awesome), Seattle-Tacoma, San Francisco, San Diego, Tampa, Miami, Boston Logan (which is actually freeware and available on avsim.com) and Chicago Midway.

Along with Cloud9 and FSDreamTeam, they're the most famous and most respected scenery designers

[ingram 258]

Hmm.

Indeed it looks great . Maby I think that I should try it soon.

I finally decided to switch on my Xgraphics from FSX HiFi/s.

I've got the package from 2 weeks now and I totally forgot about it.

This aplication is just awesome. We can change the graphics as much as we like and the game is 100x beautiful now.

We can change everything from the roads, aiports on the beggining into the sky, clouds and sound effects.

Even more I've noticed that game performance increased.

Here are some of my shots taken from FSX with Xgraphics.

[Shashman 0]

You should get Flight Environment X.

It improves ground textures, water textures, cloud textures, sky textures, even the moon.

It's really an excellent all-round upgrade.

Have a look at these screens!

http://www.flightenvironment.com/album/images/screen49.jpg

http://www.flightenvironment.com/album/images/screen48.jpg

http://www.flightenvironment.com/album/images/screen35.jpg

http://www.flightenvironment.com/album/images/screen6.jpg

http://www.flightenvironment.com/album/images/screen11.jpg

http://www.flightenvironment.com/album/images/screen37.jpg

By the way, Ingram... Do you use any AI traffic packages? The one I currently use (and have been using for a long time) is outdated and the author apears to have disappeared off the face of the earth unfortunately, meaning it doesn't look like it'll be updated anytime soon with new airlines and routes, so I'm currently looking at my options.

I know that World of AI release a lot of packages (including aircraft models and textures, not just the flightplans), but there's also the Alpha India Group (who only release flightplans) and there's Project AI (who's aircraft models aren't that good, but good on the FPS). There's also Ultimate Traffic and MyTraffic which are payware, but to be honest, their textures leave a lot to be desired, when compared to the quality of some of the freeware ones I've seen.

[ingram 258]

Well I am planning to get some since right now I am putting more concetration into the sceneries, planes etc.

I know about Flight Enviroment X. It's a little more increased version of Active Sky X.

This 3 programs (Xgraphics + Active Sky X + FEX) can work together as one aplication.

Right now I am running on XGraphics and Active Sky X and The effect is really great.

Textures you mentioned can be also changed in XGraphics. I have now a realistic moon, I can change even color from yellow into orange and white. I have also new sun effects, cloud models and textures, sky effects (I really am enjoying now the sunsets), runways, airports, roads, railways etc.

Here is an example:

Active Sky X works the same as FEX. I am connecting to the each weather station and downloading the current forecast.

The best was when I was flying MH-53J in a storm with XGraphics lightnings effects.

It was just awesome

[Blackhawk 0]

Ahhh I love Atlas Air's livery. Great shots   I fly in and out of OMDB (Dubai Intl.) a lot and there's always an interesting selection of cargo operators there.

Here's a small selection of Dubai screens:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/Shashman/EK1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/Shashman/EK11.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/Shashman/EK5.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/Shashman/EK4.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/Shashman/EK9.jpg

I've flown a few Kalitta routes (you should check out their schedule. Lot's of 'dodgy' destinations like Algeria, Russian Far East, Israel.... Blatantly arms deal flights    )

Shashman, Thats a Fantastic picture of Dubai Airport, I've been there myself many times, Quick Question -

I currently have no add-on packs for FSX, Only tonnes of FS9 ones, Hopefully, I'll start and get some Scenery ones first, Then Aircraft, Just wanted to know if the Dubai airport you used was Payware, If so, which package did it come from?

[ingram 258]

I think that it was FlyTampa scenery.

Well you can also get many freeware ones from sites I mentioned.

For example this Manila scenery:

This team also released Shanghai, Quebec, Kuala Lumpur and some other great sceneries.

[Blackhawk 0]

Oh well, I looked at the Fly tampa website and They only have two Airports for FSX, I'll have to go to the site you mentioned.

[ingram 258]

The beauty in storm

oups! too much power

[Shashman 0]

I use Activesky 6.5 + Ground Environment Pro + Flight Environment for FS9.

Activesky is used to implement the current meteorological conditions of the area you're flying in. Ground Environment Pro is like, an extension to Activesky (but a separate addon) which changes the ground textures according to what the weather is like. Flight Environment Pro changes things like the quality of the water textures, the textures and look of all the different types of clouds, the tone and colour of the sky, the colour and detail of the moon and adds things like haze, fog and various atmospheric phenomena. They are all designed to complement eachother and work together.

Yes that Dubai scenery is payware and it's made by FlyTampa.

Again, those are beautiful shots Ingram

Here are a few shots taken from my first flight as a MetroAir Virtual pilot:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/Shashman/MET_319_KBOS.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/Shashman/MET_319_KBOS_2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/Shashman/MET_319_NYC.jpg

[ingram 258]

I use Activesky 6.5 + Ground Environment Pro + Flight Environment for FS9.

Activesky is used to implement the current meteorological conditions of the area you're flying in. Ground Environment Pro is like, an extension to Activesky (but a separate addon) which changes the ground textures according to what the weather is like. Flight Environment Pro changes things like the quality of the water textures, the textures and look of all the different types of clouds, the tone and colour of the sky, the colour and detail of the moon and adds things like haze, fog and various atmospheric phenomena. They are all designed to complement eachother and work together.

Yes that Dubai scenery is payware and it's made by FlyTampa.

Again, those are beautiful shots Ingram

Hehe everything you mentioned I am getting with XGraphics + Active Sky X

Thanks a lot Shashman.

I like your shots since they are very detailed if it comes to aiports

I've decided to release my small wallpapers pack.

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Hope you enjoy them

[Shashman 0]

I've never heard of X Graphics. Is it only for FSX? (I use FS9)

[ingram 258]

XGraphics is a program developed for the FSX which you can change the graphics in the game as much as you like.

You can change everything. Clouds, sky effects (day, dusk, dawn, night) many effects like storm, rain, thunderbolt sounds, water textures and colour, runways, taxi ways etc.

It works also with Active Sky X which is installing into FSX textures and settings you choosed in Xgraphics.

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums....MG]

[Shashman 0]

So is it only for FSX then?

[ingram 258]

Yep. I was reading about it on polish site yoyo-sim's and it's made only for FSX

Joker

Boeing 377

Flight into the sun

[ingram 258]

I think that I'll make an article about best addons for FSX (the payware's and freeware's). Wchich is great, which is terrible, whats the difficulty etc.

I would like to ask you Shashman, would you like to join the article since I would like also to write about addons for FS2004.

[Average Joe 0]

I think that I'll make an article about best addons for FSX (the payware's and freeware's). Wchich is great, which is terrible, whats the difficulty etc.

I would like to ask you Shashman, would you like to join the article since I would like also to write about addons for FS2004.

Let me know what you thinks good or not Ingram, always interesting to hear simmers preferences

[ingram 258]

Here is the first page of my article.

[Shashman 0]

Yeah I'd love to contribute

Btw, I can't see the article. Broken link

Edit: OK didn't know I had to click on it (broken link icon)

Initial thoughts: Not bad for a first page, but I disagree with you. I don't think payware is necessarily better than freeware. It's a pretty bold statement to make, considering the sheer volume of freeware available.

For example, many people merge the PSS 757 (payware) panel with the Project Opensky 757 (freeware) model. Same thing for PSS 777 (payware) panel with Project Opensky 777 (freeware) model. The Project Airbus A319 is, in my opinion, the best A319 model available, with the neatest features (dynamic wingflex, hyper-detailed wings, down to the rotating flap actuators) and that is a freeware project. When I've been looking for a particular airport freeware addon (for instance Louisville Sandiford, for my UPS Virtual Air Cargo flights) and failed, I've had to resort to buying the addon instead (BluePrint Simulation's KSDF in this case), simply because there wasn't a freeware alternative, and in all honesty, I have some pretty poor payware scenery addons, when compared to some of the freeware ones I have (BPS KSDF included).

Yes, there are a lot of extremely good quality payware addons available, made by the likes of FlyTampa, Cloud9, Aerosoft, Captain Sim, Overland, FSDreamTeam, but they are expensive.

Another thing I notice about your article is that there's not much mention of commercial aviation (you seem to focus on warbirds and GA), which is what the majority of FS pilots fly.

To be fair though, the issues you have with freeware addons are limited to FSX (and this is an FSX article afterall) so nevermind. I'm only speaking from an FS9 user's perspective.

[ingram 258]

To be fair though, the issues you have with freeware addons are limited to FSX (and this is an FSX article afterall) so nevermind. I'm only speaking from an FS9 user's perspective.

That's why I would like you to join since you have got better knowledge about addons for FS9