Author Topic: Let's see your airports! :) (Read 1433 times)

Enduro · « **on:** September 18, 2005, 02:28:11 AM »

Any other MS Flight Sim 2004 pilots here?

Would love to see your airports & get local tips on the best approaches.

Sp4de · « **Reply #1 on:** September 18, 2005, 09:11:44 AM »

Yeah. I live In Los Alamitos, Close to the airport.... Army Airport! MWhehAHHAHHa Have fun.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 18, 2005, 09:45:57 AM »

I find that the MS flight sims are boring.
Hard to find a dogfight.
I think it is because the maps are too large and the bases are too far apart.

Enduro · « **Reply #3 on:** September 18, 2005, 01:45:57 PM »

lol. Well, yea...AH2 will always offer the best rush for those of us that NEED more than flying the straight line.

Still, leaving SNA Rwy 19R in a Baron and landing at Catalina Rwy 4 was fun for me considering I had no idea what it was like--until now. Woot!

Would still love to see some airports from the AH community.

nirvana · « **Reply #4 on:** September 18, 2005, 01:55:26 PM »

I always try to land 747's but I think I start my approach too late. Anyway, I usually fly the Centennial or Denver International down to Pueblo. I've tried a few cross country flights but i can't do them, even overtime. Need some engine failures and weather or something:aok

AKDogg · « **Reply #5 on:** September 18, 2005, 02:01:56 PM »

I wish AH looked like that. lol

nirvana · « **Reply #6 on:** September 18, 2005, 02:26:54 PM »

I don't, hard enough keeping my FR up in there with weather on, I can't imagine GVing in those trees.

AKDogg · « **Reply #7 on:** September 18, 2005, 03:42:20 PM »

Well, they should have it programed to look like that but also be able to turn that off for the low cost machine.

Golfer · « **Reply #8 on:** September 18, 2005, 04:06:03 PM »

Just for this thread I made a movie of an approach into my current home airport.

Since I require someone else to host it I must wait for them to get that done before I can share it but this is a screenshot from the "day" it was "filmed"

The airplane is Eaglesoft's Cessna Citation II:

Golfer · « **Reply #9 on:** September 18, 2005, 04:37:33 PM »

The Movie

Dont know why the first 10 and last 15 seconds got chopped off...sorry I didn't pick it up sooner

Enduro · « **Reply #10 on:** September 19, 2005, 12:11:54 AM »

Very cool, Golfer. How'd you make a movie out of it?

I have to learn how to use all that l33t avionics stuff...I'm not getting nearly as much out of the sim as you are. wtg!

Which airport in Ohio?

Golfer · « **Reply #11 on:** September 19, 2005, 10:11:13 AM »

Movie is fixed! Sony Vegas and I had a dispute on who was right and I wound up having to bribe the program to have it render the whole thing

The airport is Bolton Field in Columbus, OH. KTZR the identifier and Rwy 4/22 with an ILS to 4 (no back course because that would send us right through Port Columbus' and OSU's approach paths)

I found that I like the Eaglesoft planes so much more. I don't know if its because I actually paid for them, but perhaps. I have the Citation II as well as the BeechJet 400A / Premier I combo. They really need a strong computer to run them and mine does a good job however not excellent.

Eaglesoft main page is here and you can see what they have to offer. I'm not selling anything they have just showing whats out there. They're really good flight models with good avionics models and that approach really didn't show the half of what the jet is capable of.

To make the movie I just ran Fraps (cheapo freebie version) while goofing off in flight sim and recorded a few movies here and there. I have a bigger movie being hosted as soon as the CD shows up in the mail to my buddy who hosts them so I'll post that when it's up. It only took a few minutes. I took off from Ohio State, snapped the screenshot below and dialed in some scuzzy weather. 1000 ft ceiling and 1-1/2 mile visibility I think. After I recorded the ILS segments I hopped into Sony Vegas and threw them together and spent maybe an hour from thought to finish.

It's a snap

I just wish I had a key to unlock saving things as a .mpg in vegas because the files as .wma are quite large.

Here's another shot of the cockpit. I wanted to see how far it would go and I flew from Hong Kong to Honolulu nonstop at FL430. The sun set behind me and rose ahead of me again. It took a long time even at 16x speed!

Max · « **Reply #12 on:** September 19, 2005, 10:34:56 AM »

Golfer that's a sweet cockpit display. Where can I find and download it?

DmdMax

Golfer · « **Reply #13 on:** September 19, 2005, 11:05:38 AM »

It's not free, but it's not expensive either.

Here's another link to Eaglesoft's website. They make a number of Bizjets including the Citation X, Citation II, CJ1 and some Beech/Hawker models.

The Citation II was around 20 bucks. If someone would light a fire under the U.S. Postal Service and get my CD to SC faster life would be good and I'd have the other movie I made hosted

Morpheus · « **Reply #14 on:** September 19, 2005, 01:17:21 PM »

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Originally posted by MwDogg
I wish AH looked like that. lol

I think those pics look like hell.

The terrain in AH is much more interesting.

with the exception of this one that golfer posted