Heading for the clouds

[happytraveller]

Flying with real world weather can produce some great results. I was doing some sorties out of Wanaka earlier, and the clouds just kept increasing. Ended up with one great screenshot, which I like because of the quality of the light. It seems to bring out the shape and form of the Spit so well, and the bad weather up ahead just adds to the atmosphere. Hope that you enjoy it just as much.



Smooth Landings.

[Ian Warren]

Cool pic HT , Jonnys really gets a work out with you , love to see this paint looking a little more battle weary

[Adamski]

QUOTE (happytraveller @ Feb 25 2009, 09:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Flying with real world weather can produce some great results. I was doing some sorties out of Wanaka earlier, and the clouds just kept increasing. Ended up with one great screenshot, which I like because of the quality of the light. It seems to bring out the shape and form of the Spit so well, and the bad weather up ahead just adds to the atmosphere. Hope that you enjoy it just as much.

Tremendous looking pic!

I joined up with VANZ and have to do many relatively tedious flights too build up my hours to get on the next rung (is this what it's like in Real Life, I wonder? ). To relieve the boredom (and to add some realism) I turned on real weather. It's made a *huge* difference - as each flight is different and, as you say, some of the cloud build-ups have been spectacular. Amazing what FS can achieve, really. I also found that the darker skies toned down the awful FSX over-bleached shine on some aircraft models a bit.

As to the "battle weary" thing ... I often wonder with these Warbirds - in repaints and in restored condition at air displays. I mean - they just didn't look like that [for long], did they? I'm old enough to have seen steam trains and remember them as the impressively smelly, greasy, rusty things. Seeing a "restored" steam engine just doesn't do it for me. With Warbirds, you kind of expect the aircraft to be treated with great care (as they're so rare) ... but they could still make them look like the work-horses they were (even if it's just a paint job <?> .

[Ian Warren]

Hey Adam , after the amount of times HT flys JJ's plane , she should be looking a little weathered

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 25 2009, 01:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey Adam , after the amount of times HT flys JJ's plane , she should be looking a little weathered

I'm a closet JJJ (Johnny Johnson Junkie) myself

[Naki]

Nice - like an oil painting---- wonder if you could sell prints??

[Njbb1995]

[Anthony]

Wow!
That is a wicked awesome pic happytraveller!