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EagleSkinner

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  1. Places like Caernarfon, Elstree, Booker, Shoreham, Stapleford et al really have made msfs a truly georgeous environment. The scenery itself and the buildings, the airport life (especially when they are well visited, like Elstree - that seems to have the most AI so far), the atmosphere...

    So I decided to answer a question earlier: how far is it from Elstree to Booker. Well as the moth flies, around 20 miles - or a percieved lifetime with a strong headwind as it turns out. (OK, it's an FSX import of Ant's Tiger Moth that crashes msfs if you try it in VR, but...)

    We are getting to the stage where 100 dollar burger flights are really a possibilityand you still have time to fly home after lunch for a cream tea.

     

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  2. What a pretty little heli- airport. First pleasant surprise was to see another (AI) Bell 47 on run up:

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    And then those wonderul helicopters stuck into the gtound by their tails next to the runway - get a Herc in there guys!

     

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    What raving lunatic put a pair of 300 foot high windmills slap bang in the middle of an airport? Oh well, nowt so strange as folk...

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  3. I noticed that the clock on the front of that Hotel next to Meribel Altiport is fixed at 10 past 10

    Wouldn't it be a grand wheeze if you wizards could link the clock to msfs "system" real life?

    ...and while you're at it: The clock tower at Westminster (don't forget: Big Ben is the bell), and any other visible clocks for that matter...

     

  4. 15 minutes ago, olderndirt said:

    If you landed that baby on a veldt of lions - their reaction would make a great video :).

     

    Well I did fly over some in a helicopter near some in Kenya (real life). The only reaction from the big male lying in the sun was a huge yawn. I think he had already had his Gazelle for lunch (Thomsons, that is. Not the Aerospatiale one I was flying in.)

    Talking Gazelles... I was nearly brought down by one as we were flying (very) low over the Masai Mara. We flew over a rise and startled a herd of "Tommys". They have an amazing vertical acceleration when the need to "offski". Think of the damage report... "Gazelle cat 5 due to gazelle strike"

  5. The SWS Okavango scenery is rather special, isn't it? Leave assists off and finding the campsand airfields needs a lot of DR flying, luck and guesswork. Even with assists, you still have to be close to find things, but hey, practice makes perfect and I have only been buzzing the area for just short of 10 hours. But what is great fun is that the whole region is so photogenic, that there is much to be discovered every time you take off. More to the point, you don't even need to land at set airfields. There are enough open spaces to drop a STOL cab anywhere. Anywhere, that is if you don't mind having a herd of heffalumps, hippopopadoms and 10 foot long necked horses in their jim jams.

    Incidentally, are there any zebras, lions, tigers etc.? I have spotted some gazelle.

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  6. Ah yes... I see there are some "Pythonesque" folk out there who know about things like "Le grand mouton anglo francaise" and flying sheep (notice they don;'t so much fly as plummet".

    A stealth elephant would be just the thing to come out of Gilliam's pen.

     

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  7. Anyone not sure who Lucy is?

     

    The Okavango is a beatuful scenery area, but I think that elefants are somewhat heavier than water, no?

     

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    But all in all, I think it was money well spent, the only open though being is "It's going to be difficult to find a photo for the monthly screen contest." Unless of course we go to one of the camps or bases and park next to a residential structure of some sorts... Just a screenie of animals  won't do it, no?

     

    But no matter what, this is one very pretty scenery here - I'm loving the vegetation too. A great place for low flying. Thanks Orbx.

     

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