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Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1798 Conrad on October 27, 2006, 12:01:24 pm
Morning all,

Razza and i decided to continue on our alps tour (has taken months so far ;) )

Today we flew from Aosta to Courchevel and what nice scenery and ocassional nice weather. We had perfect clear skies but alot of turblence and windshear!

Here are the pics:

Looking down at Aosta:
(http://cold-peak.com/lf/1.jpg)

Map view:
(http://cold-peak.com/lf/2.jpg)

Climbing Out:
(http://cold-peak.com/lf/3.jpg)

Passing our navigational waypoint (the lake :P ):
(http://cold-peak.com/lf/4.jpg)

Small mountains up there ha :
(http://cold-peak.com/lf/5.jpg)

Turning into the valley, preparing for approach:
(http://cold-peak.com/lf/6.jpg)

Crossing a ridge before finals:
(http://cold-peak.com/lf/7.jpg)

Comments welcome ;)
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-0654 Murray on October 27, 2006, 12:07:36 pm
X-Plane???
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1798 Conrad on October 27, 2006, 12:09:53 pm
Correct ;)

Its just dam amazing - love it ;)
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-0654 Murray on October 27, 2006, 12:26:14 pm
It's certainly a darn sight prettier than when I last saw it...

If only PM would get on and make their IPCServer so you could use the GC software with it... I'd forget FSX all together.
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1798 Conrad on October 27, 2006, 12:35:08 pm
heh,

Well ivap seems to run much better on X-plane, alot less resorces and better i feal, but thats my opionion! Razza kept up, just :P ha
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1343 Jonathan on October 27, 2006, 12:52:13 pm
Great shots,

Some images from the flight.
The first shows Mont Blanc from the Italian Side looking fantastic.

(http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4633/fsscr134lg7.jpg)

(http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7118/fsscr136cv1.jpg)

After making a left turn down a valley, we came into some very nice foothills, however it got a bit bumpy with AS6 enabled.

(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2361/fsscr138er8.jpg)

(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/1155/fsscr140by7.jpg)
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-0654 Murray on October 27, 2006, 01:37:36 pm
@Conrad: Last question, is that the default Alpine scenery, or the Global Scenery Europe?
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1798 Conrad on October 27, 2006, 01:49:48 pm
Global Scenery Europe (went for the 8 DVD package from X-plane.com (world scenery))

around 69 $$ or so, but thats like 45 quid. Around 60 GB of scenery if you install all the global scenery packages :D

also, thats with most of my sliders down at low :D so - think of the possibilities with max :D

Just waiting for my Ram to arrive and then the sliders are going up ;)
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-0654 Murray on October 27, 2006, 01:51:29 pm
Yes, that's the one I'm looking at... Not that I've got 60GB to spare :)

A new, fast, big SATA HD and X-Plane + Global Scenery... hmm...
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1798 Conrad on October 27, 2006, 01:54:44 pm
It takes some time getting used to, Ie, you dont have airport buildings unless you download freeware scenery or use a MS2XP (converter) but the weather systems and various things are just amazing, so many variables to customize, will upload  some more shots later ;)

One of my favorites, exceed those flap speeds/ g force / anything, you will pay lol!

Last night, my flaps were torn off when i was climbing out of heathrow with a Beluga ;)
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1358 Tim on October 27, 2006, 02:28:45 pm
Nice! Think I might buy X-Plane...

But you didn't show the runway at Courchevel!

How are the frames? Better than FS2004? And is it a resource hog?
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1798 Conrad on October 27, 2006, 02:48:19 pm
Well, I was too busy, laughing at Razza :P :P :P

Well RAM wise it would like alot of that, but CPU cycles, mine are down at 39% with a p4 2.66Ghz

Im waiting for my extra module of 512mb to arrive and then i can maximise it. At the moment on 768mb ram, it was using around 300mb ram, and around 1.2 gb of pagefile.

Frames are good, i usually sit around 25fps (more than i got with MS).

But im not here to persuade anyone lol, just pics lol. Still i think i will keep FS running in the background when i get the erge for pmdg.

One thing to remember, X-plane has many ups and downs like MS, and i suggest you research on forums and look at things before completely buy it to make sure its right for you ;)

But if you want to know anything, just ask on skype or here ;)

But we will see ;)
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-0654 Murray on October 27, 2006, 04:17:29 pm
Conners, are you aware of the B738 by Benedikt Stratman for X-Plane? Opinions? (It's the only one I could easily find using Google...)

If I'm going to think about this seriously I need one plane (a B738) and then any of the rest of the fleet I can find as I pass along is a bonus - particularly a 772ER or a 744, and of course anything from the VFA fleet. (Already found a Falcon 2000, my current fav business jet)
Title: LIMW Aosta -> LFLJ Courchevel
Post by: EHM-1798 Conrad on October 27, 2006, 04:24:05 pm
Tbh mate i really havnt looked into the aircraft at the moment, but some very good sites:

forums.xplane.com (downloads at top right)

http://www.xplanefreeware.net

Some very good aircraft here ;)

As such FMC's, i think there is a 738 coming out very soon with a fully functional FMC, but not sure where i read that lol