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Postby cowpatz » Sun Apr 13, 2014 1:35 pm

No I'm not talking about the curse of the blurries but the blurring of the boundary between reality and virtual.
It just gets better and better with the bar seeming raised with each FS release.

Fly Tampa YSSY

Aerosoft Pilatus Porter Almost impossible to distinguish these cockpit images from the real thing.

Very exciting (and expensive) times for the flight sim addict. smile.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Apr 13, 2014 1:44 pm

I heard there was a move on the Sydney airport by Tampa , that dose look superb ! cool.gif
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Postby Splitpin » Sun Apr 13, 2014 2:37 pm

The porter pit is stunning .... clever buggers, great link CP.
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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Apr 13, 2014 4:14 pm

Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 13 2014,3:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The porter pit is stunning .... clever buggers, great link CP.

Only re-installed the Twin Otter yesterday and equals that quality and the other supreme effort from Aerosoft in the same league is that Bronco cool.gif
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Postby s0cks » Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:59 am

There has to be some credit given to "the other" flight sim too. X-Plane is coming along nicely too.

With World2Xplane it's very easy to import OSD data for an accurate representation of the world. It can be quite stunning.

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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:38 am

That dose look very nice, I've got Xplane, I had a little look but got side tracked ... actually that AGN layout looks much better than default MSFS ... nice screen cool.gif
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Postby s0cks » Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:56 pm

Out of the box XP10 looks awful. It takes a bit of patience to get it to a level we are used to. I'm still tinkering (that isn't my screenshot).
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Postby NZ255 » Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:08 pm

I believe that shot also uses an aerial image as a backdrop? (With the open street maps data over the top?)

Very exciting times, thanks for the heads up of the YSSY preview CP.
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:14 pm

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Out of the box XP10 looks awful. It takes a bit of patience to get it to a level we are used to. I'm still tinkering (that isn't my screenshot).

Guess it go's with all FS packages, patience is the primary.
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