An Australian tour

I don't know how far this will go but just thought i'd do a little tour using any FSX aircraft i have so they may be varied. First leg is from Port Lincoln to Melbourne in the Aerosoft Twin Otter of the Australian Bureau of mineral resources.































Thanks for looking!

Next leg is from Melbourne to Canberra in the First Class Simulations Lancaster.



























And that's where my screenshot utility decided to quit, so hopefully it'll be ok for the next leg, thanks for looking!

Man have I missed this. Looks like you are acclimating well to FSX there Welsh. Those landing shots in the first series were amazing!

Thank you Bel. i've missed this too, it's been a long time so that's why i thought i'd do a little tour ! It's about time we started getting things going again . I cannot get over enough how good ORBX is, the shots here are too small to see it in all it's glory and the view out of the flight deck is awesome and as always low and slow is best with this type of scenery, although i suspect that won't always be the case on this little tour !

Very very nice, Orbx is brilliant, keep the tour going, your screenies are very enjoyable to see!

I don't think I've ever seen screenies depicting a Lancaster... remember, you saw it here first!
This then Ladies, is the same aircraft that rudely interrupted Will and Kate's smooch-fest on the balcony

Great pics WF

Great scenery, is it all just ORBX? Made me want to take out the Twin Otter myself!

Happy flying..

Thank you very much all cuartz7o yes it's all ORBX apart from some default airports!

The next short leg is from Canberra to Sydney in the A2A Spitfire. A bit of getting used to this was required and i had to keep opening the canopy to stop the cockpit misting up and i could'nt find a de-mister .

Checking it out


Start and taxi




Takeoff and climb for Sydney




Cruising along




Beginning to descend














Runway in sight and gear down




A little bit high......


....so back off on the throttle and looking good....











.......untill touchdown too hard and the left gear collapsed, the preservation society are not happy with me at all



See you soon and thanks for viewing !

Haha, very nice ending there, and the scenery once again is absolutely amazing.

OMG Welsh... all these years, all those high value aircraft, and this is what you do to a classic?!? You fired!

Thanks gents , next time i'll fly something that can take a bump or two !

Now now... in Welshflyer's defence - he was checking the density / hardiness of the tarmac... not his fault that the gear wasn't up to this rigorous test

It's nice to know that someone still has faith in my flying abilities , thank you Tailhook !

Oh I have the utmost faith in your flying abilities... Your landing abilities are what I am questioning at the moment.

...and again - you my friend Bel as an F-14 driver should know that it is difficult to quickly adjust from a carrier a/c hardened gear to the what may be rightly or wrongly described as a 'field gear' as on the Spit... agreed?

Remember WF spends most of his time trapping... or bolting

Bolting

You said it... I am way too polite

After the little...errrrrr......mishap...... with the Spit, it was with great reluctance that i was let loose for the next flight but let loose i was . So we try to land safely this time after our flight from Sydney to Coffs Harbour in the Hurricane .

Looks how it should, the spit looked a bit iffy the last time i looked..


..start her up and taxi out


line her up and climb away






There's some stunning coastline along this East Coast


The compulsory cruise shot






Begin the descent....


...and overfly the airport before turning to land


Just over the harbour before the turn


On approach


Looking good (but i've said that before)...




...but this time a nice three pointer


Taxi to stop






Thank you for viewing, sorry, no crash this time.

After that successful flight we head up to Brisbane in a Seneca.



















































Thanks for looking gents.Just a little bit of info, some of the sceneries i'm using here are free over at the ORBX site and work perfectly well with the default scenery.

Last one for now gents, this time we hop on a CLS 747-300 up to Cairns

Loading everything on board




All closed up we taxi to the runway and get clearance to roll










So we begin the descent into Cairns......






.......and fly up a nice wide valley for the approach








All dirtied up over the city












Arrival and taxi at Cairns














Thanks for looking gents

Flying into and out of Cairns is absolutely amazing, I managed to snatch a jump seat ride on a Skytrans Dash-8 from Cairns to Townsville and back, its just an awesome experience.

Please keep up the shots WF, don't stop now, more!

Holy cow you've been busy WF... and not once did you damage the gear
You've just about sold me on the ORBX now, some stunning pics there... what can I say, I'm speechless and you won't experience this very often

Thanks very much both it's very kind of you. My shots really don't do this scenery justice as i'm either too close to the aircraft or too far away from it , i can't get the views just right.Ooohhh and my PC did'nt like running Brisbane the Carenado Seneca and ASE at the same time but it's not very high spec.

Lol point taken Tailhook, point taken.


By the way Welsh.... very nice job there. Here are your wings back.

Thanks bel , ok you two Carrier freaks enough of my landing skills . The next flight takes us from Cairns to ................































.....a very short French Carrier off the coast. I can now sail around Australia at will .

Errrrrrrrr...actually i can't because AI Carriers keeps crashing FSX !

Well that sucks.

Amazing screenshots as usual. Do you suppose you could tell us your FSX settings?

Great lighting in these shots and the Intruder is one of the classics I for one never get tired to look at - Kudos!!

Thanks gents , while this carrier debacle goes on we got dropped off in Darwin and head inland for nothing more than to see the great ORBX textures . So we leave Darwin for Ayers Rock in a nice light aircraft .

Starting her up


Taxi to the runway .................


..................and...away we go


climbing out over the suburbs


and heading for the outback




you can see the gradual change from lush green to arid














Just have a little look at this rock before we land


















Thank you for looking gents. Sorry for the delay life's a bit errrrrr .........complicated at the moment.

Cheeks i don't know if it's the FSX settings or the FTX mode that you're after. but my settings are :-

Frame Rate-26
Resolution-1920x1080x32 (23 inch screen)
LOD-Large
Mesh Complexity-66
Mesh Resolution-38m
Texture Resolution-1m
Water-Low 2.x
Scenery-Dense
Autogen-Normal
Special Effects-High
Clouds-60 miles (Detailed)
Traffic-80%