Some northern hemisphere simming

[AlisterC]

I was going through my screenshots for February, and thought I might share a few with you. I tend to fly in other parts of the world now days after clocking up hundreds of NZ hours, so forgive these being out of country. But, my title warned you they would be. Hopefully you'll just enjoy them for being different.

First up, 2nd Feb, departing Amsterdam for Orlando, FL.


Arriving into Phoenix after the flight in from Providence


Arriving into Santa Ana, California in the 752


And departing again in the new United scheme to SFO


Departing Seattle for the long cross country to Boston


On final into Boston. Weather not as bad as the metar was predicting..


Longer haul, Portland to Amsterdam with Delta


Climbing out above the clouds over Salt Lake City, UT


Spooky skies pushing back in Boise, ID - heading to Spokane, WA (unedited)


Approach to land again into Seattle


Heading northwards to Fairbanks, Alaska in Salmon-thirty-salmon


Approaching the northern most point of Alaska, the town of Barrow! WILD weather today, winds from 220, 38 knots gusting 54. Considering it's a crosswind, on an icy runway, this is probably well beyond the limitations of the aircraft


Passing some volcanic cones along the Aleutian peninsula, heading to another very isolated place, Adak Island.


And lining up for Adak, once again battling strong, gusting winds, but that's half the fun


Cheers for looking!
Alister

[Naki]

Stunning shots! What models are you using - Capt Sim 757/767 and PMDG 737?

[AlisterC]

All my favourite payware toys (I'm a boeing boy)
Level D for the Boeing 767.
Quality Wings 757
737NG is by iFly (my PMDG 737 has been retired after giving me many years of excellent service)
737-300/400 is the 50North with freeware panel and sounds
Cheers Paul

And thanks to Doug for the computer upgrade and repair a few weeks ago. Sure works great now

[Ian Warren]

I really like Boeing , Al , come 73,75,767 , well built and better than any Arbust .

[ardypilot]

Still repping FS2004 Alister? All your shots still look great, 10/10!

[Charl]

What a great series - full of texture, full of depth!
FlyTampa KBOS always a favourite too.
Wonder what the diehards are thinking in both companies under the new "Continented" banner...

[AlisterC]

Thanks guys. Yes I'm still cruising in FS9, but also using FSX. Depends really what I am flying and where. I've been flying the iFly 737 a bit this month, and it's FS9 only at this time.
I'm not anti-airbus by any standard, I just don't feel like learning from square one all over again so stick to what I know.
I haven't upgraded to Flytampa Boston 2.0, this is just the free one from avsim. One of the great freebies out there. Also Charl are you using the free KPHL scenery in FS9? It's really amazing if you haven't seen it. I'm not sure what the diehards are thinking of the Continented merger, the new livery is growing on me
Cheers,

[Charl]

I bought the Overland airliners - all the Boeing and all the Airbus - because I wanted a decent A380.
It's still the best around, and had a surprising (to me) spinoff.
The pointy end of one AB is pretty much the same as all the rest, so I found myself flying AB more often than not.
It's a trend Boeing has finally picked up on; you don't need to retrain all your pilots from scratch as they graduate up the food chain!

Back to topic: my non-NZ sim leans to Eastern Europe these days, but I do have KPHL, along with some other excellent freeware offerings from 'Shez' Ansari, like the brilliant KLGB

[Splitpin]

Beautiful set.....every single shot is magic. Hard to pick a favourite......but if i had to.....THEY would be #1,4,5,7,9 and the last one. I can tell you put a lot of thought into setting these up....and it worked.......many thumbs Al

[AlisterC]

Thank you SP! Just glad if I can put in half the effort you do!

Edit: Ohh I know that name now. I wrote to him to ask for a reupload of his KSNA airport to avsim after the hack. Yes I'm a fan too

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (AlisterC @ Mar 3 2011,5:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thank you SP! Just glad if I can put in half the effort you do!

Edit: Ohh I know that name now. I wrote to him to ask for a reupload of his KSNA airport to avsim after the hack. Yes I'm a fan too

thank you too Al.

[deeknow]

Awesome range of locations and airframes Alister, lovely screenies. Whats the weather engine? REX?

[AlisterC]

Nah, I've not had the budget these recent years so I stick with faithful old Activesky. Clouds are thanks to the freeware HDE2.0. I use low resolution clouds on the theory my gfx card can then support more clouds, rather than having to work on detailed clouds. I think it works nicely
Cheers!