Screenshots WALL : Tack up your pictures!

[kiofka]

There was a bug in the first release for Windows users for Sea Traffic Plugin by Marginal.
I picked up the new version, (.11) and got it working.
I found these three ferries out by Alcatraz in the San Francisco bay.
I had to look closely as these ships move very very slowly.

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LFX 10 setup at 5U1, full fuel, 460lb load.

up and off with a 12kt crosswind. made brief work of the takeoff roll 'short field' format.

left pattern, turning crosswind into the wind to come around over the town while climbing

climbing up over Dutton on an intercept course direct KSEZ

intercepted course and on my way

whirrrrr. in climb at 180 kias making for a healthy cruise climb profile

:D the beautiful view of the southbound afternoon climb

LOVE

high altitude continued climb up over the farm fields of central Montana

nice scenic river down below on the way

up at altitude and on a nice sustained cruise

settled in at FL330, in the brightest summer clear skies.

throttle full open, turbo singing, prop tuned down a bit, making short work of the ~750nm trip

~enroute~

at about 160-180nm left to go, and at the speed going within 20 minutes of Sedona,

let down over northern Arizona to appreciate the canyons.

about 13.5 here southbound, north and west of the Flagstaff area.

down to 11.5 and looking east with the San Francisco Peaks mountains still barely in view, seeing Flagstaff over there in the distance about 15 miles.

cresting the canyon ridges and descending into the Verde Valley and the majestic Red Rocks of Sedona ahead

such rugged and amazing Arizona desert beauty.

seeing Sedona there on it's tabletop mesa plateau, among the most beautiful and challenging airports in the country.

setup for landing, calm, northward, speed down to the slowest calm speed, full flap, spoilers armed and coming in high

high, because at Sedona any air movement across the mesa top towards you drops off and is a short final runway threshold downdraft like water coming along and curving off and taking you down with it. the most crucial aspects of plateau/mesa runway landings.

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[kiofka]

Chased down this Tourist boat in the S.F. Bay Area.
I'm finding out a few things about this Sea Traffic Plug-in by Marginal.
First thing is that there doesn't seem to be a large variety of types of ships/boats.
The second thing is that on replay, the ships and boats are not there, but are somewhere else.
So if you fly around a vessel and then go back to see it on replay, in hopes of a nice screenshot or for a better view of the vessel, you'll be dissapointed to find it's no longer there. The plug-in is random location, on established sea routes, in live or replay.
Screenshots have to be done on the fly, literally. (Pause button)

[AADX]

AADX 1500 IIX (FREE)

First off, the x1500 is such an easy aircraft to fly. I love how all of the buttons are arranged so they can be reached in both the 2D cockpit and 3D cockpit! I Normally start at either Houston IAH, Calgary YYC, or Munich MUC. I turn off the engine, boot up the APU, and I don't know why I do this, but then i hook it up to a GPU. I fill it up all the way with kerosene, then disconnect the GPU, turn on the engine, turn off the APU, turn the lites on, and Seatbelt and Non-Smoking signs (I just love that sound), then I file a flight plan, set my auto pilot, then head to the runway. When in Calgary, I always fly up into the rockies, and normally land in Vancouver, with a stopover in Banff. When I fly in Houston I fly south down to Corpus Christi, and then fly up to Dallas and then Back to Houston. And when I'm in Munich, I normally fly to Frankfurt, or Paris. I really have a lot of fun with the plane. I push it to its limits one minute, and the next I'm flying it like a Gulfstream G650! It is actually the most flown jet in my logbook right now!
There is a screenshot of me over the gulf coast of TX.
Cheers, Chuck

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(AADX LJX 10)


(AADX LFX 10)

OPSEC, it's important; http://youtu.be/X-Xfti7qtT0

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CCM510 MUSTANG 10X

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CCM510 MUSTANG 10X

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10.10b8, CIRRUS SR2X 10. HDR-OFF

CIRRUS SR2X 10

[Ralf]

Yellowstone to Jackson Hole: http://sdrv.ms/Pugo4X

[mariodonick]

... Even if your plane has a beer livery ...

... you shouldn't drink when flying.

Happened shortly after takeoff in KSAN, heading for KLAX...