X-Plane

We have an FSX thread so how about an X-Plane thread?

FedEx

Great idea! Nice shot BTW.

Here are a few I saved up. Some are from a few months ago but I don't think I ever posted them.

Rob

Very, very nice! Love the dawn/dusk shots in the mountains. Excellent lighting.

Forgot all the awesome Helis this sim has. might need to fire it back up and pick up a chopper or 3

Are there any apps that provide some more 'purpose' to the sim, eg. Air Hauler or FS Economy for FSX?

Awesome screenshots! I've resisted buying this sim for a while, but you got me. Now off to the official website to order my copy.

Oh, well...

great shots!!!

Nice pics. What's the latest version of X-plane now? I have a copy I was going to sell but your all's pics make me want to try it again.

Scoobe, have you an external view of pic 2? LOL what's the story behind that one?

Thanks for all the comments!

The latest version now, is 10.40
Its still a release candidate but should become final in a week or two.

Pic #2 was an emergency landing on the Long Island Expressway. I did not open the cowl flaps and engine lost power and quit on me. That was in the Carenado Cessna 182T

Keep in mind, I have a lot of add-ons and tweaks installed in X-plane. Don't expect it to look like this out of the box, However, most of what I'm using is freeware except for the planes. Some of it is recycled FSX scenery too.
If your used to FSX, (As I was), there is a rather long learning curve when trying X-plane. Not much works the same way, so patients are needed. If you don't have patients or like learning a new program, It will just be a source of frustration.

Rob

Have not done much with X-Plane for some time. Not since having to help my wife
recover from a stroke. But have been an avid X-Plane user since 1999 with X-Plane
5.52 bought for $99.99 back in the day. Have thousands of screenshots and videos
made over the years. Kinda gave up with work and home taking more and more time.

Here a few shots taken years ago.

Nice pics guys ! Is that the flyJsim 727 ?

I just got into X-Plane and really enjoy it for the great little details such as the night lighting and hdr lighting effects. I really think this is the golden age for X-Plane like FS9 was the golden age for Microsoft sim as X-Plane is still under developement and appears to have a great future.

Yes it is, and Jack is planning on a huge update for it soon.

Cool shots, night lighting is fantastic in this sim.

PC-12 over Alaska, solid blanket of clouds east of Anchorage with winds 15 gusting to 30 at my destination, pretty happy that I actually landed it.

cool shots!!

Good stuff.


Wheels

Some Skymaxx v3:

Beautiful. I have Skymax 2 and will pick up 3 very soon.

Here are some shots of the Vflytair Cirrus SR20 for X-plane. I painted this one in the same paint scheme of my brothers SR-20.
A very cool plane. both in real life and in this sim!

Rob

What scenery is that ?

the chute is a nice touch!


I think I'm gonna break this one out again over the winter. Dump $150 or so into quality add-ons and Just take a weekend and really get her setup right. It's clear from this thread that it pays of in spades; It looks like folks are finally getting the lighting close to the 'crisp' look FSK has, and the scenery looks as good, if not better. Plus, XPX has always 'felt' better in the FM dept, especially with Helis (which I'm taking more and more of a shine too).

Neat paint scheme. That is one plane I should get.

KSFO by MrX

Very nice.


Wheels

A few of the Saab 340A I picked up on sale:

Beautiful pics gents! I got to get back into this sim.

Carenado F33 with simcoders REP addon

Rob

Cool, wonder if that would work with their V35? Should be the same plane with a v tail.

Fabulous shots of the F33.

Nice shots!

Rotate MD-80, as I'm a sucker for old airliners.

Beautiful model and the detail for all the old mechanical bits is great. Old enough that you can turn off all the electronics and hydraulics and it'll fly fine with the mechanically linked controls. Love that they modeled the little tabs that "fly" the elevators and ailerons into place.

That is a beauty,,great shots. This one is on my list for sure.

great shots!!

Delta MD80 at Ft Meyers FL







Rob

Really tempted to buy that but there are several nice planes coming out for X soon.

Cool screenshots.


Wheels

A flight from Ft Myers FL to NYC (LGA)

Rob

A mix of various Planes..

Rob

Great shots Rob, have been outa the loop for some time now. Been ages since I checked out the X-15
missions.

Wow awesome Scoobe. I really like the X-15 stuff!

Biplane formation flight around Manhattan.

Cool, I sometimes just follow an AI plane to see where it goes.

I just found out another reason I like X-Plane, I have the download version and saved the whole thing with my setups, planes and scenery to a usb drive...

Windows crashed so I re-installed it and of all the programs X-Plane was the easy one to put back. It is just a folder with no ties to your user files or registry and so just pop the folder back in and your good to go. Along with this is the easy install of planes and scenery. Again, just a folder you pop into your X-Plane folder and that is it, all done.

Its Drzewiecki's NY. I finally retired my Aerosoft conversion, since their version looked better and ran better too.
I use Skymax 3.0 but I usually only use it for GA flying. When flying high altitude airliners, I use the default clouds with Tom Knudsen's Clouds 2015. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=29554

They really enhance the default clouds nicely and gives it a great sense of flying through them, that screenshots can not convey.

Some twin engine aircraft.

Great shots as usual and great collection of Carenado planes. I have their B200 and although the fps are a bit low it flies and looks just fine.

I bought the B200 when it came out, but for some reason skipped over the C90. I recently picked up the C90 I'm really enjoying it even more than the B200. Landing it correctly, took me some practice. It has a different feel than the B200. I've heard people complain about the C90 being a VRAM hog, but I haven't noticed this. The FPS on it are about the same as on all my other Carenado planes, which is to say very good.

Rob

Man the Waco looks better in X-Plane than it does in FSX,,,great shots.

Stunning!

Although it looks like you had a bit of trouble with the landing...

Thanks for the complements,

I am using MaxxFX, and Skymaxxpro 3. I don't use any Nvidia settings, I leave that all to default.

My X-plane rendering settings are in the screen shot below.



My Skymaxx pro settings are here:


My MaxxFX settings are here:


As for the flicking you are getting, Make sure you don't have any other NYC scenery installed other than DD NYC. Make sure your DD NYC scenery is towards the top of the list in your scenerypacks.ini folder. If not, cut and paste it to the top of the list.

As for the Carenado Caravan, mine is working good. Make sure you have the latest version. should be 3.2 now. If not, re-download it again from where you bought it. Do the views work on any other Carenado planes you have?

Rob

Hi Scoobe,

Do you use RTH or an other addon's for your lights?

Some fighters..

Great shots!

A few more random shots.

Picked up the flight factor 767, bit unusual for me as I tend to fly short/GA, but figured a I'd give it a shot. Did my longest flight I've done in a sim yet, Chicago to Amsterdam (time accelerated, with random failures on to make the long Atlantic section a bit more tense).

Great shots,,,everytime you post pics of xplanes planes it makes want to buy them. I have not been flying xplane much but have been making scenery for it. My project is small airfields of Iowa and xplane helps make that possible with great scenery editing softwared and sketchbook also lends a hand.

Put up a very short video of the scenery I am working on. I have been to the Antique Airfield long ago and thought I wanted to fly to it in X-Plane so here is the progress so far.

Thanks to the Antique Airplane Association's great web site for all the pictures that helped with the structures, signs and other unique items at this field. All buildings had to be modeled as well as signs and assorted objects.

Work in progress and yes I know the orange windsock pole is sticking through hangar number one's lower roof

The biggest problem is finding vintage static aircraft to populate the field - anyone know of any post please.

Looking good!

Rob

All kinds of fun stuff in here. Must be a member of of the .org to get in.
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=...ey=all&st=0

And Static aircraft. look through them all.
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&fromMainBar=1

Early morning flight at Blakesburg Antique Airfield



Evening flight at the Antique Airfield

Sweet, I see you have found some of Clipwings planes. A. Lynn Lockrow. He has been making classics
since version 6x. He actually goes to Blakesburg. Known him for years. Would like to make it down
there some time and film the action in 4k.

Thanks I would love to get in touch with Clipwing because I have modifed his Monocoupes and painted about 8 so far. I am getting ready to do a video of 10 or so Monocoupes taking off from the Antique Airfield so had to paint and name new versions to work with X-Plane 10. I also made some of them long wings to mix it up a bit.

You need some of Heinz`s old Beech 18 and few others to help to.
Could always send a PM to Clipwing at the org forum.

A little airport in Long island NY called Spadaro. Tough to get in and out of. lots of trees and mostly dirt and grass. I flew into this airport for real once back in the late 80's and its a scary ride. Cliff Robertson kept one of his planes here way back. I think it was a Baron.

This is the Carenado C210 with Reality Expansion Pack. (similar to accusim) The combo, makes this one of my favorite GA planes for X-plane.

Rob

Monocoupes over Blakesburg

great shots and airport!!

Sweet, should send a link of this video to Clipwing in a PM. He would love it.

Thanks, I did and also gave him a version of the field scenery.

Great video Warbirds!


Rob

Careando SR22t

Love the shot of it being towed down the highway.

Carenado's latest for X-plane.

I made a little re-paint for the Baron.

Rob

Nice paint job !

IXEG 737-300 shots, loving it so far:

Looks nice! I haven't purchased it yet. I will eventually, but I haven't really learned the rotatesim MD80 yet and I'm forcing myself to master that first before delving into a new plane. Too many planes in my virtual hanger, that I haven't touched in a while.

Rob

What's your RTH settings Scoobe?

I am constantly adjusting things, but here are my current settings.

Free L-410 released today, very nice quality for a free addon with a good 3d cockpit.

http://x-plane.hu/L-410/

Playing around with G2XPL and created some photo scenery for Phoenix area.

Rob

Amazing pics Rob! I see you got the new 737 that has been tempting me.

Mr. X's KPHX is a masterpiece. Easily as good as any payware addon in FSX.

And there are literally dozens of airports like that available for free for X-Plane.

Rob, excellent job on your Phoenix photoscenery. I really need to learn how to use G2XPL.

Here ya go, from the creator of G2XPL.

Great freeware scenery of Boston by misterx6.
Also some shots of the Alabeo Diamond Twinstar.

Rob

Nice shots, but what's with the rose tint?

Piper Navajo over NYC.

Rob

Night lighting is very good but I gave up on X-Plane when I thought I was getting all new 3D cockpits with the last version I bought due to the box art misleading me and all I actually got was one plane with a nice new 3D cockpit and all the rest of the planes were exactly the same as before. Then it took 6 hours to install the complete world from disk to the HDD.

Microsoft Flightsim is still being developed but is now taken over by Dovetail Games.

http://www.dovetailgames.com/products

Not entirely true. Microsoft Flight Simulator is dead. That won't see further development. Dovetail released the Steam specific version and that's the end of the line. They bought the license to develop their own ESP-based title, just as Lockheed Martin is doing with P3D.

Started working on some ortho scenery

That last delta shot is real nice

Sethos/Scoobe......beautiful shots, all stock or do they include mods/payware?

Thanks,

There's practically no stock elements left in my game but it's a mix of payware and freeware, lots of plugins going on.

Few from New York





And getting pushed at KBOS

Recently picked up a Challenger 300, plus JustSim's Innsbruck. So I've been flying around Austria, enjoying my ortho scenery

Already Pre-ordered mine.

http://www.x-plane.com/

I'll ask my question in here as the one I popped into the civilian section didn't get any replies.

How does X-Plane handle military stuff? I saw that there is a Tornado coming up and wondered what I could actually do with it?

Thanks guys.

I know it worked in 10, so would assume it would for 11. To early to tell with so few
details.

I was wrong, read more about it here.
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/108387-x-plane-11-surprise-found/

Military planes can fire missiles and shoot guns, but that is about it. You can`t shoot down other planes
as far as know. Bombs do make pretty good explosions. Have not even tried in 10x. but did it from 7 to 9.

This was from 8.
http://www.xplanefreeware.net/jim/video/XP8/WMV/B-58Nuke640x480.wmv