#4001724 - 08/27/14 10:40 PM
OT Winter project (re-posted)
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There was a hang up when I posted so here it is again : I see you guys are holding the fronts well while I am away from my joystick ! It will be difficult to catch up ! I have nevertheless access to the internet and besides reading your high deeds, I have been spending some time preparing a special project for the coming months. " I have done all the calculations once again, everything confirms it is impossible. Now we only need to do it !" It is with these words that Pierre Georges Latécoère started right after WW1 a great adventure of airplanes and special pilots ( Mermoz, Guillaumet, Saint Exupéry...): the Aéropostale. With some Breguet XIVs sold by the Aéronautique Militaire after 1918, he started from my good old town of Toulouse to transport letters by air mail. Until 1931 l'Aéropostale would open new routes through Spain and Morocco to Dakar in Senegal, then jump over the Atlantic ocean to south America. The mail will then take 5 days to be delivered where it took 5 weeks before. I plan to refly these routes making 150 to 200 nm flights in FSX. I have made the plans for 35 flights. I want to do it real time, real weather, in the conditions of 1930 (VFR, no GPS, no VOR, only radio compass using short range NDBs) I also wanted to do it with planes of the 30s. After reviewing many freeware planes, I finally settled on a "Tante Ju" Junkers 52 as main plane (I might also use a Beechcraft D18 "Twin Beech" 1937 for some flights across the Andes as the JU 52 has a service ceiling of 5100m) As a tribute to World War 1 pilots, I will use a red repaint from Lufthansa called "Manfred von Richthofen": I will open a blog at my usual FSX hangar and give the link if some people are interested in following the adventure. I reckon I will be able to make two or three flights a week, so the whole thing should last 12 to 15 weeks. I also intend to give historical background, pictures and stories besides writing about my own flights. I still need to install a couple of things (mainly sceneries for Africa and South America where I am rather poor)so I reckon it should start some time in the second half of September. I'll keep you posted and hope it will be of interest to some of the aviation history fans around here.
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Gigabyte Z87P-D3 - CPU I5 4670 Haswell @ 3.6Ghz - 8 Go Ram - GPU HD 7850 2Go OC - SSD Samsung 128Go - HD 2 x WD Black 1 To - 27" Iiyama Pro Lite - Logitech Extreme 3D Pro - Saitek Pro Flight Yoke - Rudder Pedals - Quadrant - Cessna Trim Wheel - Track IR 5 - Logitech G35 headset ... and a big coffee maker ! Flying in FSX/Air Hauler, Wings over Flanders Fields, Rise of Flight, IL2 1946 Hsfx, Condor soaring.
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#4006994 - 09/09/14 12:54 AM
Re: OT Winter project (re-posted)
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For those interested, I started a topic "Aeropostale 2014" in the AAR section of the forum: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4006991#Post4006991After reading reports of guys who did it in FS9 a few years ago, I have finally abandoned the "Tante Ju" which was really a too big bird, but I have other plans for later with it.
Gigabyte Z87P-D3 - CPU I5 4670 Haswell @ 3.6Ghz - 8 Go Ram - GPU HD 7850 2Go OC - SSD Samsung 128Go - HD 2 x WD Black 1 To - 27" Iiyama Pro Lite - Logitech Extreme 3D Pro - Saitek Pro Flight Yoke - Rudder Pedals - Quadrant - Cessna Trim Wheel - Track IR 5 - Logitech G35 headset ... and a big coffee maker ! Flying in FSX/Air Hauler, Wings over Flanders Fields, Rise of Flight, IL2 1946 Hsfx, Condor soaring.
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#4007138 - 09/09/14 09:40 AM
Re: OT Winter project (re-posted)
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Man, I wish I had your patience. I tried to do a flight from England to France in Flight Simulator X and I was getting antsy on the runway! My first Air Hauler company was started in November 2013 in Rennes (west of France) I have now bases in Swansea (Wales), Shannon (Ireland), Inverness (Scotland) and Agen (South West of France) It is operating BN2 Islanders and a couple of Cessna Caravans. I have crossed from UK to France and from France to UK numerous times since then, by all kinds of weather, by day and by night. They are usually short flights fom one hour to one and a half flying around 6000 feet. They are almost always IFR flights ( a few VFRs to bring back the plane to base empty at low alt ) and between enjoying the landscape (I use Ground Environment X + Ultimate Terrain X + Flight Environment X), follow navaids and restricted airspaces, switch from one ATC to the other and follow instructions, look out for other traffic (I use Ultimate Traffic 2) insert in the traffic for landing ( having to wait or go around a few times ), landing with various crosswinds, not one of these flights has been boring and a different experience every time.
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Gigabyte Z87P-D3 - CPU I5 4670 Haswell @ 3.6Ghz - 8 Go Ram - GPU HD 7850 2Go OC - SSD Samsung 128Go - HD 2 x WD Black 1 To - 27" Iiyama Pro Lite - Logitech Extreme 3D Pro - Saitek Pro Flight Yoke - Rudder Pedals - Quadrant - Cessna Trim Wheel - Track IR 5 - Logitech G35 headset ... and a big coffee maker ! Flying in FSX/Air Hauler, Wings over Flanders Fields, Rise of Flight, IL2 1946 Hsfx, Condor soaring.
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#4007178 - 09/09/14 12:22 PM
Re: OT Winter project (re-posted)
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Corsaire, this looks like a very interesting project. I'd like to give something like this a go at some point myself. Any advice on what I would need, apart from one of the latest flight simulators?
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#4007347 - 09/09/14 05:25 PM
Re: OT Winter project (re-posted)
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I will use FSX Gold (with SP2 and Acceleration patches)
Scenery is enhanced by :
- Ultimate Terrain X for Europe (I also have North America, Canada and Alaska but I won't fly there) main function it to correct the standard FSX by putting roads, railroads, bridges, coasts, at the right place. It also adds night environment. Important for the VFR nav !
- Ground Environment X for Europe - Africa and Middle East - South America and Asia main function is to replace the standard FSX ground textures by something looking much better
- Flight Environment X : enhances skies, clouds and water with a wide choice of ambiences
* Note these Flight 1 products are rather old, ( today everybody is crazy about ORBX textures or photorealistic sceneries ) but they don't impact my FPS, don't take hundreds of Gigas on my HD and look good enough for me. I am more of the "plausible world" people than "realistic", I don't expect to see my house when I fly around my place.
Besides this, I use freeware sceneries for the airfields/airports I will use. I found almost all of them. This is the good point of Microsoft FS, it's been out for so long that you can find almost anything freeware with a good research.
Gigabyte Z87P-D3 - CPU I5 4670 Haswell @ 3.6Ghz - 8 Go Ram - GPU HD 7850 2Go OC - SSD Samsung 128Go - HD 2 x WD Black 1 To - 27" Iiyama Pro Lite - Logitech Extreme 3D Pro - Saitek Pro Flight Yoke - Rudder Pedals - Quadrant - Cessna Trim Wheel - Track IR 5 - Logitech G35 headset ... and a big coffee maker ! Flying in FSX/Air Hauler, Wings over Flanders Fields, Rise of Flight, IL2 1946 Hsfx, Condor soaring.
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#4007501 - 09/09/14 09:17 PM
Re: OT Winter project (re-posted)
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Alrighty then, I just ordered a copy of FSX Gold that includes FSX Deluxe and the Acceleration Expansion Pack. This should get me started and allow me to sort out what else I might need once I am flying. Thanks Corsaire!
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