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Posted: 02 Jan 2019

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Winging it over Dove Stones

Winging it over Dove Stones
Sometimes people inquire into my other hobby of 'Flight Simulation' and ask 'how realistic is that?' Well my friends on here will be aware that my favourite local photographic location is near my home: Dovestones Reservoir, Greenfield. So here I am flying one of my favourite virtual aircraft, the Piper PA28R Arrow, at just over 100 knots and 1090ft asl over Dovestones reservoir itself and looking up to the next reservoir: Yeoman Hey. The PiP shows the same aircraft being flown by me, over Greenfield and approaching the front of the Dovestones green earth dam wall just before I got to this position. One can see how the graphics have improved to almost life-like here. These are of-course-screen shots but I can tell you, that it is pretty life-like in many respects.
Program= XPlane 11, Graphics by Orbx- Real-Earth-Britain Central, Aircraft by JustFlight.
See the adjacent page to complete the story.
6x Pips, outside this plane, New York, Switzerland and Manchester in B77 at night & A10. Enjoy.

Nouchetdu38, Peter_Private_Box, TOZ, Holger Hagen and 13 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Herb Riddle
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Hi Andy. In that case, I am very happy that I have brought to you another facet of technology that feeds our insatiable desire to do things from our chairs , that otherwise could never be done. As said above, like you, I have flown in real life but to be at the controls of a B747,A320 or military helicopter is another thing completely. You can see that this sort of scenery adds to the depth of reality as does the even more realistic major airports with many other planes and ground vehicles moving around. As you say, like you, I may have gone further towards a PPL (I have the books) but the cost was prohibitive. If your laptop is powerful enough you could do as I did, possibly via this steam download, which is not too expensive: store.steampowered.com/app/314160/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_X_Steam_Edition

Cheers my friend, Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
6 years ago. Edited 6 years ago.
 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne
Three superb images Herb. If you hadn't said I would have taken it for the real thing! The pictures and notes are so interesting.
Happy New Year my friend. Continue taking your amazing pictures, and I look forward to them in 2019.....Rosa.
6 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
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Great to see you here again Rosa. Its a testament to the scenery makers that this is so accurately defined. As you say, especially for me flying, the scenery is accurate enough to find my way around from the air looking at real objects and landscapes that I know. Both Dovestones and Yeoman Hey really does look very much like this. Good tat you enjoyed my notes too.

I echo your sentiment re a Happy New Year and continue too, to take grand photos in 2019. Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
6 years ago. Edited 6 years ago.
 David G Johnson
David G Johnson club
I enjoyed and absorbed all the comments above Herb'... your images are fantastic...I have only played flight games very briefly .. and that was years ago... the advances in graphics are amazing... I can see myself getting one of these newer 'sims' before long.
Thanks for the info' .. Best wishes from Dave.
6 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
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Hi Dave. Always good to see you looking at any of my pictures. Here is something quite different. I had thought about placing some of these on here but was instinctively against putting up 'artificial photos'. However here they are. Since you wrote here, I have put in four more photos, here as pips and open for friends and family only. I hope you get a chance to see them too. - Yes, these shots demonstration a world of difference in the flight sims that you knew. It still takes a powerful computer (yours would be ok) and at least a good flight joystick (I have a realistic flight yoke, throttle controls and rudder pedals). It only remains ten to have patience in learning new things but the rewards can be great. Note these Dovestone scenes are far more realistic than the FSX default scenery area of the same.

Good luck with all that and Best Wishes, Herb
6 years ago. Edited 6 years ago.

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