AFS2: The hobbyist's flightsim

[Charl]

Looking at what some bright chaps have put together for a corner of Norway, it seems feasible the AFS2 community can Do Stuff as and when required. Great news.

I do take it for a spin every now and then, here's some Colorado:

[emfrat]

Paris is very pretty, too. Great work by the community.

[Charl]

Glad you put that up, Mike, looks pretty good.
Any issues with the install?

[emfrat]

Glad you put that up, Mike, looks pretty good.
Any issues with the install?

It's a pretty beefy download, but I had all three parts installed and flying by 1030 Oz time, after starting just before 0900.
There's a good readme file supplied.
There is already an update in production, with even more famous buildings by the same crew.

ATB
Mike

[Charl]

Excellent news, I am going to give the Norway thing a spin, and later move on to look at Gay Paree.
I wonder if that's even a description any more

[Splitpin]

Great work gents ....still can't get it working but I'm working on it.
Question....if I delete the whole thing and reinstall ...will I forfeit my DLC?

[emfrat]

I am watching the Lofoten project. There is a lot of good work being done, much of it freeware.
There is now another mesh for Norway/Sweden/Finland. IZ0JUB has nearly covered the place with photo and cultivation. FlightXtreme has done almost all of Czechoslovakia with mesh, photo and cultivation.
There are meshes for Italy, Spain and Portugal and more and more cultivation, but as yet not much photo. Same for Ireland and Scotland. Lots of cultivation and scenery models for la belle France, by Gasy24.
It's all looking good

[emfrat]

:thumbup: Great work gents ....still can't get it working but I'm working on it.
Question....if I delete the whole thing and reinstall ...will I forfeit my DLC?

Marty - if you used Steam, they have a File Verification thing which will check your installation and repair it. If you have third party addons, best to move that folder to a safe place, because I think Steam only recognises official stuff. But once they have fixed your standard install, you can move the custom stuff back in, ideally one by one, in case some of that caused the propblem.
Take care
Mike

[Splitpin]

Thanks, Mike ... will give it a spin

[emfrat]

Thanks, Mike ... will give it a spin

"Official" stuff lives in C:\Program Files\Aerofly FS2 Flight Simulator\ ...

Official Addons, like the ORBX airfields, live in
C:\Program Files\Aerofly FS2 Flight Simulator\ AddOns\...

Other stuff is in \user\Documents\AFS2\ etc etc

Mind how you go

[Charl]

Mind how you go

Yah my Steam install for example is in D:\blahblahblah.
There are bits of addons all over the show,.
The folder structure is not terribly robust, it better get fixed before the sim grows to 125 Exabytes.

[emfrat]

Yes, Charl, lately there has been some discussion about file structures. I have found quite a few that work, but I personally have standardised on one. I am a DVD person, I don't use Steam, so I don't know what Steam sees as a legitimate FS2 install

[Bugdani]

Great pics of a very nice place to fly.
I like to perform these approachs with the dash in very visibility condition: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1910/06403LDA25.PDF
Loc is 3° off the center line, so , do not decend below min. alt.

Dani.

[Charl]

Lots of high terrain alright...
Dani I can't remember if you've shown us shots from here, would love to see some of your work in this backdrop.