Flying from Paris to Venice

Breathtaking view

Hmm

Paris at night.

 

5 minutes ago, Nikita Gerasimov said:

Beautiful pictures 

Early morning departure from Heathrow to Innsbruck:

 

 

24 minutes ago, Matth1a5 Knu€tt€l said:

Early morning departure from Heathrow to Innsbruck:

Hope to see a landing shot too.

Oh unfortunately not...

One more picture during climbout:

and one during boarding in Innsbruck for the flight back to Heathrow...

 

 

 

a deice

and cat3 autoland

Welcome to Palm Springs 

On the ground at Budapest:

 

Deboarding Alicante airport

 

 

Leaving Heathrow for Tenerife South:

2 hours ago, Matth1a5 Knu€tt€l said:

Leaving Heathrow for Tenerife South:

The quality of all your images are just stunning! OMG just look at it :)))

Thank you so much! 

Off to Phoenix

back in Cologne after Flight:

EDDK - LICC - EDDK

Irish weather..

a new Day in EDDK.

thx for the great RePaint @Christian Mohr

Approaching TFS:

Early morning hop from Phoenix to Salt Lake City

2-3 hours later, in KLAX.

 

Approaching ENVA (man, I gotta "fly" to Norway more)

Landing soon

Marking, marking on the ground

Will you tell me where's my stand

Quick turn around and already a pushback

A quick look at a beautiful sight from RWY 09

And here I go!

METAR at EVRA looks promising - EVRA 041420Z 04009KT 9999 -RA OVC005 07/07 Q0991 R36/290195 NOSIG

Though still better visibility than I had on departure.

EDIT: yup, METAR didn't lie!

I can see you, Riga!

4 hours ago, Artur Araripe said:

 

Whose Tomato preset are you currently using? And do you use ReShade as well? The second shot looks absolutely gorgeous.

Thanks in advance.

IniBuilds preset  

No reshade yet. But I plan to use it at some point.

1 hour ago, Artur Araripe said:

I always wonder how you guys have such "clean" bottom? I always seem to have this weird reflection of some random terrain on the bottom...

 

 

Also a bit off-topic, but how is 3700X? Planning to upgrade to it, wonder what kind of performance I could expect form P3D.

Runs P3D like a dream! Always above 30 fps during cruise, dips below 30 with a couple payware sceneries, but never under 20. It's a solid CPU for p3d.

2 hours ago, Dmitrij Nazarenko said:

I always wonder how you guys have such "clean" bottom? I always seem to have this weird reflection of some random terrain on the bottom...

It's because they're using a TomatoShade reflection profile.

Yea, TomatoShade. It's a must have. Makes the A320 look even more spicy  

4 hours ago, Artur Araripe said:

Yea, TomatoShade. It's a must have. Makes the A320 look even more spicy  

FS has come a long way if you compare it with the beginning. Haha. FS5.1 for me, how lovely.

My first flight simulator was FS2004. It looked fantastic back then 

How do you all get your pictures to look so crisp? As soon as I save it as PNG it looks like the quality is absolute trash.

6 hours ago, Christoph Sebek said:

FS has come a long way if you compare it with the beginning. Haha. FS5.1 for me, how lovely.

Here are my first and second. Yes! We were very happy with them 

PCEm!

A very solid emulator. I love it!

 

15 hours ago, Peter Pukhnoy said:

It's because they're using a TomatoShade reflection profile.

 

13 hours ago, Artur Araripe said:

Yea, TomatoShade. It's a must have. Makes the A320 look even more spicy  

I was afraid I would get this answer...

My 4690K, even overclocked to 4,2 GHz will struggle with it... Even if I have 2070 Super paired with it

 

3 hours ago, Antonio King said:

How do you all get your pictures to look so crisp? As soon as I save it as PNG it looks like the quality is absolute trash.

Ditto

8 minutes ago, Dmitrij Nazarenko said:

 

I was afraid I would get this answer...

My 4690K, even overclocked to 4,2 GHz will struggle with it... Even if I have 2070 Super paired with it

 

Ditto

Weird. Doesn't hit performance at all here. If anything, it improved the gpu usage so I get more frames now.

 

Only just recently acquired the Boxed version of Concorde-X (v1.2) via eBay. Unfortunately a few days too late so I can't buy/download any updates for it. I even had to reinstall FSX Acceleration again - side by side now with my FSX-SE - to run it. Anyway, I'm currently in the process of learning it. And the one thing I did learn very quickly is that she is a sight to behold... See below for some first impressions (just took her for a quick photoshoot, still have to learn how to fly her realistically though)  

Screenshots are all unedited, straight from FSX Acceleration - pressing the FSX "capture screenshot" shortcut. Opened and saved with MS Paint as .png

 

 

10 minutes ago, Dmitrij Nazarenko said:

My 4690K, even overclocked to 4,2 GHz will struggle with it... Even if I have 2070 Super paired with it

Tomato Shade is a shader app, so the CPU isn't really relevant.

The aircraft reflections have different detail settings (the Dynamic Reflections setting in the sim). The lowest one which is what I'm using doesn't cost me any performance.

I don't really care that much about aircraft reflections since 99.99% of the time I'm inside the cockpit, the main thing about TS for me are the atmospheric effects which use virtually no resources. They add a lot of depth but they also need to be used in combination with the right sky textures because the sky textures also influence the lighting. The Sky Force textures, for example, don't work with my preset at all because they already have a lot of blue in their lighting.

47 minutes ago, Artur Araripe said:

Weird. Doesn't hit performance at all here. If anything, it improved the gpu usage so I get more frames now.

 

33 minutes ago, Peter Pukhnoy said:

Tomato Shade is a shader app, so the CPU isn't really relevant.

The aircraft reflections have different detail settings (the Dynamic Reflections setting in the sim). The lowest one which is what I'm using doesn't cost me any performance.

I don't really care that much about aircraft reflections since 99.99% of the time I'm inside the cockpit, the main thing about TS for me are the atmospheric effects which use virtually no resources. They add a lot of depth but they also need to be used in combination with the right sky textures because the sky textures also influence the lighting. The Sky Force textures, for example, don't work with my preset at all because they already have a lot of blue in their lighting.

Interesting. All things I read previously on the Internet said that it is a resource hog.

Might give it a try next week when I have some free time to see it for myself.

12 minutes ago, Dmitrij Nazarenko said:

it is a resource hog

Only if you're you're using a reflections profile with a high Dynamic Reflections setting. All other features are minor shader tweaks with no measurable performance impact on my machine. It also has a couple of dynamic lighting tweaks that reduce the GPU usage impact of DL by a lot.

32 minutes ago, Dmitrij Nazarenko said:

 

Interesting. All things I read previously on the Internet said that it is a resource hog.

Might give it a try next week when I have some free time to see it for myself.

It will actually increase your performance as it will force the graphics card to work instead of sitting at 50% forever

Yesterday flying @John Tavendale 's Retro Aer Lingus into gusty Dublin.

Unfortunately no touchdown shot because I was busy getting down the plane in one piece.

Haha. 

 

One of my favourite winter routes. A nice NDB DME to fly on the way in, interesting terrain, and RealTurb really tops it off!

 

6 minutes ago, Kian Andrews said:

One of my favourite winter routes. A nice NDB DME to fly on the way in, interesting terrain, and RealTurb really tops it off!

That also apllies to innsbruck.

Holy jeepers! Looking really good!