AirNZ 747 400 early morning out of AKL

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Postby happytraveller » Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:02 am

A few early morning shots. Sometimes I fly on instruments in cloud for an hour and practice approaches, other times I just fly for the views. Here are the shots for the views of the sky. These bring back a lot of memories of early morning (bleary-eyed)arrivals on NZ1 into AKL. Set several layers of clouds in FEX, set the autopilot and just enjoyed the clouds. It will be even better when RealNZ Auckland comes out.















Smooth landings.
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Postby kiwibarguy » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:13 am

Good shots! looks like you have a nice setup running there HT.
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Postby ronindanbo » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:31 am

Nice shots but its a god awfull paint
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Postby waka172rg » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:09 pm

ronindanbo wrote:
QUOTE (ronindanbo @ Oct 10 2008, 10:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Nice shots but its a god awfull paint

I think it looks good the New Zealand sticks out like dog poo.gif dry.gif and thats what we want New_Zealand_etc.gif
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Postby Q300 » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:21 pm

Lookin good HT! Ohh to have FSX happy.gif
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Postby happytraveller » Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:54 am

My set up is not fancy by current standards, only a laptop with 2.0GHz dual core, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 8600GT graphics card. Run FSX with Alacrity to stop all unneccessary programs, and also have done a lot of tweaking, things like reduced tree size textures. Currently got Vista 32 bit running, but I am considering returning to XP as I do not like Vista at all. Lots of small niggles with Vista and it uses so much power just to run. One thing that I love is a high resolution screen, so I have got FSX running at 1920 resolution.

Wonderful clouds thanks to FEX, and just the default 747. I will probably not go for a better 747 as I am concentrating on the smaller aircraft, and am concentrating on getting to know them really well.

So if you screenshots are not coming out as well, then try some tweaking!!!

smooth landings.
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Postby Daniel » Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:32 am

Nice shots there Happytraveller clapping.gif
I don't think the paint stands out too bad unsure.gif
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Postby Q300 » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:20 am

happytraveller wrote:
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Currently got Vista 32 bit running, but I am considering returning to XP as I do not like Vista at all. Lots of small niggles with Vista and it uses so much power just to run.

Yea im finding that aswell, I got better performance from my old computor (very low spec but was running XP) than I am on my new one (vista) which has about 4x's the specs of my old comp sad.gif
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Postby ronindanbo » Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:32 pm

waka172rg wrote:
QUOTE (waka172rg @ Oct 10 2008, 07:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I think it looks good the New Zealand sticks out like dog poo.gif dry.gif and thats what we want New_Zealand_etc.gif


THe lettering is OK but the Pacific Wave is bloody shocking.
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Postby BigBird » Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:13 pm

Great looking shots. That sky looks awesome!
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Postby ardypilot » Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:06 am

Great atmosphere captured there HT- FEX really makes a clear difference from stock textures.

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These bring back a lot of memories of early morning (bleary-eyed)arrivals on NZ1 into AKL.[/quote]
Know what you mean- was elated to have an mid morning arrival into Auckland on Wednesday for the first time in about five years!
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