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Posted: 02 Jan 2019

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Piper PA28R Arrow towards Dovestones

Piper PA28R Arrow towards Dovestones
Winging it at 100 knots towards the dam wall of the reservoir. No I did not crash, but there were a lot of complaints to the CAA re my low flying in this. Note, the hills in front and to my right are the Saddleworth Moors which were alight this year. These same hills are overflown quite low by civil aircraft airliners on there approach to Manchester International Airport and so a plane such as this Piper would not be allowed to fly like this here.
This scenery uses a clever combination of photo realism for the distances - so the sides of these hills are almost exactly as I would photograph them with the small ravines and colours but the 3d ground detail is added afterwards, sometimes one at a time by hand, making it less real but giving us fliers a chance to fly around solid objects to examine the other sides. Another feature for me is the incredibly realistic lighting as seen on the side of the hill and shadows. From high - it is as good as the real thing from a jet-liner passenger window.
(See adjacent photo an 4x pips too.)

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 Herb Riddle
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Good to see you on this page Toz , hope you managed to see the last page too. Yes, I can change the weather completely -no clouds, storms, thing in-between and seasonal variations on the ground too -ie Autumn golds, Spring yellows. My MSX program with similar scenery has snow on the ground or blizzards on the windscreen here. That along with temps and winds and any times ie sunsets/rises makes for some stunning photo opps via flying. You should give it a go my friend.

Cheers, Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
6 years ago. Edited 6 years ago.
 Fred Fouarge
Fred Fouarge club
ben je piloot ?
6 years ago.
 Peter_Private_Box
Peter_Private_Box club
Hi Herb

Very nice sequence, and information. If you hadn't said, I would have thought you were really up in the sky!
A far cry from the British Airways training simulator I had a quick go in many years ago.

Best Wishes, and a Good Weekend
Peter
6 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
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Oh nee Fred. Ik ben slechts een man die speelt als piloot op zijn computer. Dit is allemaal een simulatie.

Beste wensen, Herb.
6 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
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Thanks Peter, an indication of just how good these things are nowadays. Some places are much better than others with this scenery. I only have the True Earth series Britain South and Central. North has not been created yet. I do have however all of Britain by the same people (Orbx) on my Microsoft FSX program, also the whole of Germany of which I am doing a virtual tour off at the moment (my Cessna parked at Traban-Trarbach). Yes, these sims of today are far more real as far as graphics and even life-like aircraft internal operation than the old pro sims -but they do not have the real cockpit controls to handle with their real over-head panel etc nor the real-movement/vibration of the modern professional hydraulic simulators that BA will have today. That being said, many enthusiast do make up working almost real cockpits with real plane parts in some cases, that are wired up into the computers via USB and work perfectly. XPlane was designed especially for such people and there is a slightly better Pro version for makers of real planes to design and try out new ideas on. MS-FSX is also used with almost life-like cockpits too.
I hope this brought back happy memories Peter.

Cheers, Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
6 years ago. Edited 6 years ago.

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