NZFF

Haven't looked at this sim for a while, I see all sorts of tweaks under the hood, and here's a new GA plane if that's your thing:
Over ORBX Monterey


And Coromandel


A much better model than their initial Duchess offering I reckon.
Seems fully featured, too.

Nice one, Charl. I'll check it out when I get back from the Canaries

Gran Canaria

Ah yes the T-tail.
Haven't tried it yet, dangerous things...

I like it, because the A/P has an Alt Hold, which looks after things while you do important stuff like looking out the window. Until Honeycomb get their act together, I am stuck with a twist-type joystick in my AFS2, which is not ideal. If you want to shorten a trip by re-locating the plane, AFS2 shuts the throttle and disengages the A/P, so you need to move smartly to the cockpit view and set things to rights. The MAP seems to read a bit low for the performance I am getting, but it is very flyable. It is very nice to sit in the left seat and see the spinners rotating in both directions, just as they should. Don't think I ever saw that in MSFS.

ATB, Mike

I see the Duchess was mended at some point after release, so I'll go back to it.
But first, there's another T-tail in the Arrow pack to look at.
We'll go to Innsbruck, interesting to compare with Adam's XP11 mountain shots.









And the Turbo makes light of the 10,000ft surrounds

Enjoying AFS2 again, a great "bridging" sim until MS produces the goods at some point.

A nice touch, the pilot figures are different between planes.



Flying Zurich as a waypoint, still impressed by the incredible smoooothness of the sim.
I should post a small clip of this for the unbelievers





EDIT: Having rediscovered WIN10's inbuilt video recorder Alt-WIN-R I managed this:

...and look at the way the sim handles light

Continuing the monologue...
I tried the new Oculus Rift thing and found it somewhat lacking, will wait for next-gen VR before buying.
(haven't we been saying this since the turn of the Century?)
So I dug out my old TrackIR5 and after a great deal of fidgeting got it to work in WIN10 AFS2.

It remains one of the better flightsim addons, not 3D of course but highly immersive.
I flew the Piper around NYC, here's half a minute: