Helo & Flightsim Screenshot Thread! - Page 182

Arclight · 08-04-10, 08:32 AM

"It's the only way to fly."

Arclight · 08-04-10, 09:52 AM

Bloody English weather

Nice skies over the North Sea

Oh noes...

Bloody Dutch weather

Oberon · 08-04-10, 10:01 AM

Well, you had much better luck than me when I tried that jaunt. Got lost in thick fog over Rotterdam and totaled the 737 on landing

Great pics, keep posting them

Arclight · 08-04-10, 10:40 AM

I can imagine; aproaching Dutch coast at 6000ft, I got violent crosswinds. Suddenly had the nose pointing 10 degrees in another direction, or forced up resulting in an unwanted climb. Flew through thunder and lightning over Leeuwarden. Couldn't see the runway untill I broke the low-hanging rainclouds, around 2000ft I think.

Control cleared me to land; "are you kidding?! I can't even see the airport!"

Arclight · 08-04-10, 05:07 PM

Bad weather persisted from take-off to the French border. Passed a light-show shortly after take-off.

Cleared up after leaving Belgium behind, but a bit further it was more turbulence ahead once again.

Made for an impressive cloudformation though.

Sun was setting when entering southern France, still some 200nm from Perpignan/Rivesaltes.

The offer of an ILS aproach was graciously accepted.

CCIP · 08-04-10, 05:40 PM

My ride over the last few weeks.

Oberon · 08-05-10, 12:39 PM

That's a nice VC CCIP

CCIP · 08-05-10, 03:17 PM

Yup, it certainly is. I'm really glad feelthere put in the effort into making this one pretty as well as functional. Great little plane - I own their (older) 737 as well, but even despite my affinity for the 737, I find myself playing the ERJ more and more. It's pretty, retentively modeled, and well... it's a more hands-on plane. No autothrottle! In something like the 737 you just hit the VNAV button and it does most of the work for you. Here you really gotta work the throttles, and that really does make it a fun ride, especially on approach.

Still a really "smart" plane though.

***

Couple more!

Meeting an airforce KC-135 at cruise level. Triggered a traffic alert, though he was 1000ft above me, so no dodging

The office:

Taxiing in to my base at Charlotte-Douglas airport, E terminal (where most of the little sods like my ERJ are parked):

Dowly · 08-05-10, 05:41 PM

Sigh... if only I could be arsed to install FSX and stick drivers...

CCIP · 08-05-10, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly

Sigh... if only I could be arsed to install FSX and stick drivers...

Haha, I know that feeling. For me my FS9 setup is a labour of love... and frustration. Forget the money I spent on add-ons - that's not nearly as painful as the many hours, days, even weeks spent getting it tuned and running as I like it.

Lionclaw · 08-06-10, 03:08 AM

Great screens Arc & CCIP.

Ah, the feelthere ERJ-145. I've had lots of flights in FS9 with that plane.

Haven't flown it much in FSX.

Have you flown the Wilco E-Jets? ( Embraer 170/190 )
I've been thinking of perhaps getting it some day.

---
Doing a series of flights at the moment in a Mooney that started in Iceland, I'm in Tanger, Morocco at the moment, final destination is Cape Town, South Africa.

Edit: Had to redo the flight to Tanger, seems I had accidentaly removed the log of that flight.

Edit2: After completing the Almeria to Tanger flight a second time, it wasn't logged in the log book... It had become corrupted, it is now fixed and I have to fly the route a third time.

Dowly · 08-06-10, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CCIP

Haha, I know that feeling. For me my FS9 setup is a labour of love... and frustration. Forget the money I spent on add-ons - that's not nearly as painful as the many hours, days, even weeks spent getting it tuned and running as I like it.

Well, it's not that huge task for me as I use just the stock version. But I know what you mean, when I play Oblivion, it first takes whole day to download all the mods I want and maybe a week the playing is 15 minutes in-game, 45 minutes checking out smaller mods that might come in handy.

CptSimFreak · 08-06-10, 12:50 PM

CCIP · 08-06-10, 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lionclaw

Have you flown the Wilco E-Jets? ( Embraer 170/190 )
I've been thinking of perhaps getting it some day.

Not yet! Maybe next month, these things are a bit expensive

From what I understand the E-Jets are fairly similar to the ERJ, except with full VNAV capabilities and a few other extras. I do love the planes themselves, I think out of all the airliners I've been on in real life so far I'd enjoyed my ride on the E-170 the most so far. I think the feelthere E-Jets and v2.0 of the ERJ were released around the same time, so it's probably pretty close in terms of look and feel.

CptSimFreak: is that the Eindecker? Did they already release that?

I've been watching RoF from the side, I think I will be picking up the Iron Cross edition of it eventually. Great looks, and I hear the features came along nicely.

Arclight · 08-06-10, 01:42 PM

Rather uneventfull flight. Just clouds, turbulence and more clouds.

08-04-10, 08:32 AM	#2716
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	"It's the only way to fly." __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

08-04-10, 09:52 AM	#2717
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	Scotland - Holland (EGPH - EHGG) Bloody English weather Nice skies over the North Sea Oh noes... Bloody Dutch weather __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

08-04-10, 10:40 AM	#2719
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	I can imagine; aproaching Dutch coast at 6000ft, I got violent crosswinds. Suddenly had the nose pointing 10 degrees in another direction, or forced up resulting in an unwanted climb. Flew through thunder and lightning over Leeuwarden. Couldn't see the runway untill I broke the low-hanging rainclouds, around 2000ft I think. Control cleared me to land; "are you kidding?! I can't even see the airport!" __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

08-04-10, 05:07 PM	#2720
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	Holland - S France (EHGG - LFMP) Bad weather persisted from take-off to the French border. Passed a light-show shortly after take-off. Cleared up after leaving Belgium behind, but a bit further it was more turbulence ahead once again. Made for an impressive cloudformation though. Sun was setting when entering southern France, still some 200nm from Perpignan/Rivesaltes. The offer of an ILS aproach was graciously accepted. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

08-04-10, 05:40 PM	#2721
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	My ride over the last few weeks. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

08-04-10, 10:01 AM	#2718
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Well, you had much better luck than me when I tried that jaunt. Got lost in thick fog over Rotterdam and totaled the 737 on landing Great pics, keep posting them

08-05-10, 12:39 PM	#2722
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	That's a nice VC CCIP

08-05-10, 03:17 PM	#2723
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Yup, it certainly is. I'm really glad feelthere put in the effort into making this one pretty as well as functional. Great little plane - I own their (older) 737 as well, but even despite my affinity for the 737, I find myself playing the ERJ more and more. It's pretty, retentively modeled, and well... it's a more hands-on plane. No autothrottle! In something like the 737 you just hit the VNAV button and it does most of the work for you. Here you really gotta work the throttles, and that really does make it a fun ride, especially on approach. Still a really "smart" plane though. * Couple more! Meeting an airforce KC-135 at cruise level. Triggered a traffic alert, though he was 1000ft above me, so no dodging The office: Taxiing in to my base at Charlotte-Douglas airport, E terminal (where most of the little sods like my ERJ are parked): __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet** (aka Captain Beefheart)

08-05-10, 05:41 PM	#2724
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,005 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Sigh... if only I could be arsed to install FSX and stick drivers...

08-06-10, 03:08 AM	#2726
Lionclaw Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,006 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Great screens Arc & CCIP. Ah, the feelthere ERJ-145. I've had lots of flights in FS9 with that plane. Haven't flown it much in FSX. Have you flown the Wilco E-Jets? ( Embraer 170/190 ) I've been thinking of perhaps getting it some day. --- Doing a series of flights at the moment in a Mooney that started in Iceland, I'm in Tanger, Morocco at the moment, final destination is Cape Town, South Africa. Edit: Had to redo the flight to Tanger, seems I had accidentaly removed the log of that flight. Edit2: After completing the Almeria to Tanger flight a second time, it wasn't logged in the log book... It had become corrupted, it is now fixed and I have to fly the route a third time. Last edited by Lionclaw; 08-06-10 at 05:49 AM.

08-06-10, 12:50 PM	#2728
CptSimFreak Frogman Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 291 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0

08-06-10, 01:42 PM	#2730
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	S France - S Spain (LFMP - LEZL) Rather uneventfull flight. Just clouds, turbulence and more clouds. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.