G'day all , 

I know I've had pics up of my star ship from star trek game, 

but also have a love of airplanes for the real ones..

any ways you may have gathered thru my avatar pic and sig lately  I have

been learning to fly via microsoft flightsim , its a great game/simulator but with a

heavy learning curve.. but good fun when things go right!!

so here's some screen pics from my inageral flight from Hobart to Perth..

I think its always good to keep the mind active, hope you dont mind the pics

Thanks Milo, thats looks like a great challenge, when i have more time i may ask you how to get started with it,

Hey Milo, it looks good but it was only a straight line so how do you go turning corners, going around round abouts, stopping at school crossings and stop lights mate? I also hope there was not too many pot holes in the road.

Oh! It looks like you scraped your tail along the ground while taking off as well?

Dazren wanted to say all that but he asked me to as I know you.

Dougwe wrote,

Hey Milo, it looks good but it was only a straight line so how do you go turning corners, going around round abouts, stopping at school crossings and stop lights mate? I also hope there was not too many pot holes in the road.

Oh! It looks like you scraped your tail along the ground while taking off as well?

Dazren wanted to say all that but he asked me to as I know you.

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Gee !! Thanks Doug, you are such a good mate, Not only are you doing all the travelling to save me the trouble,  Now you doing all the Talking for me as well ! to save me time.

So while your at it, can you also talk to ''Wombat'' for me, as he has been picking on me ''unrelentlessly'' . no matter how nice i have been to him ?? He even said that he is not scared of my wombat bar [ OOPS ] Bull Bar on my car ??

He may listen to you as you have ''tricked'' him into thinking your his friend,  

G'day Milo

Do you know this game ????

http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/landing/

if your game enough , try learning to fly the helicopters !!!
my second training , going through these squares close to mountains!!

and check out where I have to land!! on a freaking aircraft carrier !!! 

 did i forget to tell you that the air craft carrier is moving too!!

holy cow !!!

I didnt get to take a pic of it landing on the air craft carrier but  I did it!!!

phew, ,hard yakka

The new motto is 

Milo Airlines , We'll get you there , We'll fly anything!!

oh just for fun here is a pic of me flying round sydney 

-- Edited by milo on Thursday 6th of December 2012 01:55:24 AM

Hi CC, I have had a look at Xplane, that I havent gotten yet

Pam the game is called Microsoft flight simulator x , nowadays comes as a gold edition
which is the deluxe version and an acceleration pack which adds more planes etc
you need a beefy computer like an i7 (usually quad cores nowadays) to run it

and yes I did scratch the paint on that take off and who needs roads when you got the great open air !!

and the jets also have the fasten seat belts and no smoking sign switches,
which are activated most of the time!!

so far I have put in about 60hrs into the game, most on cesna's mainly the cesna 172
learning the bombardier Lear jet 45 as in the pics and Boeing 737-800

there are addons that you can buy too that add to the game environment,

http://www.fspassengers.com/ this one (you pay for ) it gives you the addition of passengers in the plane
which apparently you can hear ,
also this one
http://www.fsdreamteam.com/products_gsx.html which gives you better ground activities while at airports etc, better than the
ones in the game..

i havent gotten them yet so not sure what there like

best to fly this with a decent joystick or if your keen you can buy the yokes for this too

oh if you really want to get into it , you can have a home set up like this guy has done

Milo, I've been FS simming for the past 10 years, its great fun, recently purchased a new Thrustmaster control system.

have a look at these site's for scenery etc

http://www.fullterrain.com/

 http://www.fullterrain.com/about.html

 http://www.flightsimstore.com/

pic of my setup

@ Wombat

Seems to be you like your flying

Is that all in your caravan mate ??

Cruising Cruze wrote:

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@ Wombat

Seems to be you like your flying

Is that all in your caravan mate ??

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 I wish,  see the monitor hanging over the desk? I keep saying to Mrs W that I need a new (bigger) computer room, I could easy clean out a spare bedroom to use for FSing but she says no, can you have a word with her please.

Thanks for trying milo, I'll let you know if it works. 

No game crashing, usually means you need more ram, how much ram are you running?

My desktop system was built for FSX only, nothing else running on it (except Win 7)

you should not have any CTD problems with that system, I have never had any CTD problems but I have heard of some guys who have had.

You may find an answer here http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&fromMainBar=1

Also would be a good idea to join this site and ask questions, the guys on here are really great http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/index

Only fly alone never have done the fly online thing and the ATC stuff is not the best in FSX, however I do have the ATC tell me where to go and sometimes have to wait awhile for taxi/takeoff clearance.

The Aussie scenery is really worth the cost, also the recent England scenery.

I will try to put up a pic for you of Perth A/P approach tomorrow, so you can see what it looks like with the aussie scenery.

milo wrote:

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Hey wombat,
I've been trying out the beech craft king air 350,
I think that's what it's called? Great little plane!

I'm llooking for something like that ,
but cross between a small jet and combination of passengers and or cargo
But not only for flying around aus but globally with an easy ****pit layout
like the king air. Any ideas mate??? I do like the one in my sig the bombardier Lear jet45 But find I have a lot of trouble with overspeed and some times The nose pitches up n down on its own and I can't figure out how to stop it With that plane, could that be flown globally ?! I don't like the big jets, too complicited...

-- Edited by milo on Saturday 8th of December 2012 02:53:33 AM

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 have a look here, you will have to join the site @ www.flightsim.com and the aircraft are free, they have 173 KingAir 350.

All a/c in FSX can be flown globally, the lear is hard to fly because of its speed, try getting more experience with the cessna's.

I'm just going to sort out the pics I promised you a couple of days ago, and will post them here soon. 

It's good that we are in I Digress... or somebody will whinge and have the topic moved 

Here are the pics as promised, maybe better to email me for more info if you need any, you have my email address

Milo, heres the site for boats in FSX

http://www.deltasimstudio.com/download_freeware.htm

The Gatwick shots are taken with UK2000 installed and without it installed

Countryroad, Mrs W watches TV then she watches more TV then more TV 

Ahhhh, brings back memories.

I did a course and got my Restricted License flying Cessna 152s out of Jandakot WA.  I went on and got a Aerobatics endorsement where-bouts I could do Spins, Hammerheads, Loops etc to keep me interested while I clocked up hours.

I never found the need, or time to go on for Unrestricted.

Pic 17 looks like some serious undercarriage mods have been made Wombie.

I might have to have a another look at Flight Sim although I don't have a joystick.

Cheers Neil