Hi Frank,> I suspect that I shall
> use this scenery to re-experience some of that, but it won't be my
> choice all the time.
Well I use one PC for airliner flying, with a floor-standing pedestal yoke and centre console, 4 PCs linked and running Project Magenta instrumentation, and 3 screens on a Parhelia for the outside view (only). I use an entirely separate PC for GA flying in a Piper Arrow III using the Aerosoft hardware cockpit and a single screen for the outside view.
Really the scenery is only appropriate to the latter, but I use it one both because I like to keep both installations "on a par" with each other. The fact is, on the Airliner PC it really doesn't matter a toot what scenery is present -- I shall only see a little bit on landing, very little on takeoff (due to attitude), and both times are pretty hectic in any case! <G>
> >>did you not use your Terrain Mesh with the VFR scenery?<<
> I think I must have. I did not remove it before installing VFRPS.
But if you did a full install you may have two terrain meshes installed, as the VFR photo stuff comes with one too.
> We did
> not like the way the new scenery 'wrapped itself' around the contours
> but could understand why it appears like that. Would that look better
> with the Lago software?
I don't understand your comment. If the textures don't wrap themselves onto the landscape, what do you expect them to do? They really do that in real life too, so that's what they need to do in FS. They'd look daft stretched out flat over an undulating landscape below!
The Lago Terramesh seems quite accurate, but whether it is better or worse than the Visual Flight stuff, or whatever other make you have, I really could not say. Sorry. It just seems very good to me, in the UK. (Don't ask about Ireland though! <G>).
> >>Has Gary done a UK rendition now?<<
> Sorry, I didn't express that very well. I am a great fan of Gary's work
> and have all his airports to date including his latest - and in many
> ways his greatest - Part 5. It was those I was referring to.
I have all of them including Part 5, and as I say his airports sit well into the VFR textures. Absolutely excellent in fact! <G>
> Incidentally,I thought I read somewhere that he was going to adjust his
> green colour to fit in with this VFRPS am I just dreaming that?
Sorry, I don't know. What green colour doesn't "fit"?
> Also, we
> got a very strange looking area around Reigate airport and the M23, I
> must look at that again.
Don't know. I've flown over there at some stage, but not landed. Didn't notice anything odd, but them I was just enjoying the views and identifying places and things on the maps, as you do.
> Not so. To me that is pure flying and I bought this scenery to hopefully
> re-visit the thrill of spotting the familiar church, railway station,
> etc to trigger the appropriate turn to return to base. Our VFR training
> out of Fairoaks involved the use of a kneeboard with an OS map marked
> with a triangular route from which we directed the pilot through the
> speaking tube. It was great fun. What is the O/S software you refer to?
Memory-Map Navigator, and the full set of 12 CDRoms with 1¼" OS maps covering the UK. See www.memory-map.co.uk.
> And, how do you display it to work alongside your FS?
On a separate PC with a "null modem" (twisted) serial cable, with my own GPSout sending it data and it set to display positions, altitude, and so on as if FS were a GPS. It's the same process I use when flying airliners except then I use Jeppesen's "FliteMap" with a world-wide database.
Best regards,
Pete
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