[Amazing 2NC0 Mountain Air & The Great Smoky Mountains, USA]

1 hour ago, iflygary said:

….. the unlimited potential Orbx still has available to our wonderful hobby.

 

Gary

I totally agree Gary. Cheers.

[Amazing 2NC0 Mountain Air & The Great Smoky Mountains, USA]

Join me in the beaut Cirrus SR22 for a visit to the very scenic & very, very challenging 2NC0 Mountain Air airstrip, and nearby strips in The Great Smoky Mountains, the USA's most visited National Park & a World Heritage Listed Area. Details are provided if you wish to replicate the flight for yourself. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.

 

 

 

[WW2 Darwin, Northern Territory - Australia's Pearl Harbour]

Come with me in the F-A/18 Hornet fighter to see the many military airfields developed in Australia's Northern Territory "top end" for the RAAF & USAAF following the attack on Darwin in February 1942 by the same Japanese aircraft carrier fleet that attacked Pear Harbour in December 1941. Also, experience some maneuvers in the Hornet. Finally, enjoy a visit to famous Uluru/Ayers Rock smack in the middle of Australia. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.

 

 

 

[Few changes to the screenshot contest .]

Looks like an ok idea to me. Maybe I will finally win one!  Cheers.

[Italian Dolomites Part 2 - rocky peaks, disaster dam, castles & more.]

Come with me in this Part 2 video in the Daher TBM 930 high-performance turbo-prop to continue our tour of the famous Dolomite mountains in the NE Italian Alps. You will soon see why this is a UNESCO World Heritage Area. Challenge yourself at the small grass airstrips. See the awesome, disastrous Vajont Dam. Circle incredible rocky peaks. Overfly beautiful lakes. See castles & other sites as well. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.

 

 

 

[Announcing Landmarks Melbourne!]

Great stuff! Cheers.

[Dolomite Mountains, Italian Alps - awesome mountain scenery, Part 1 (MSFS).]

Come with me in the Daher TBM 930 high-performance turbo-prop for a tour of the famous Dolomite mountains in the NE Italian Alps. You will soon see why this is a UNESCO World Heritage Area. Challenge yourself at the small grass airstrips. Circle the incredible rocky peaks. Overfly the beautiful lakes. See other sites as well. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.

 

 

[May 2022 Screenshot contest! Prize? Any Orbx product of your choice!]

Top Gun Maverick over Orbx's Ruins of Urquart Castle, Loch Ness, Scotland, UK, with snow and storms. Cheers.

 

[Western Isles, Scotland, UK, Part 2 of 2 - remote islands & lighthouses galore.]

Join me in the Cub for a tour of the remote, rugged, scenic Western Isles (or Outer Hebrides), Scotland, UK - airstrips, beaches, lochs, mountains, cliffs, lighthouses, castles & more. Using Orbx's UK North scenery. Part 2 of 2. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.

 

 

 

[Western Isles, Scotland, UK - beaches, lochs, cliffs & more. Part 1 of 2.]

Join me in the Cub for a tour of the remote, rugged, scenic Western Isles (or Outer Hebrides), Scotland, UK - airstrips, beaches, lochs, mountains, cliffs, lighthouses, castles & more. Part 1 of 2. Using Orbx's UK North scenery. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.

 

 

 

[32 “Hero POIs” in UK North for MSFS - What are they?]

53 minutes ago, Ed Correia said:

 

Kml is attached in the release post.

 

Thanks very much Ed. That was not working the other day as a couple of us noted, but all good now.

BTW, are your great POIs meant to appear on the MSFS Map, or is that map just for MSFS-produced POIs - do you know?  Cheers.

[32 “Hero POIs” in UK North for MSFS - What are they?]

Please see question in above post. If there is no such list, just let me know.

 

And another question please: are Orbx POIs meant to appear on the MSFS World Map?

 

Thanks, and Cheers.

 

 

["Golden Oldies" 1929 TAT 1st Trans-USA airline passenger flights, coast to coast, Pt 2 of 2.]

4 hours ago, Richard100 said:

If you would like to fly one of the early US Air Mail routes using only concrete arrows and beacon lights as your guide, we have created an MSFS scenery available here https://flightsim.to/file/32132/1926-airway-route-cam5

 

Each of over fifty arrow and beacon sites has been built for the sim and located using original maps and research by aviation historians.

 

For an authentic experience fly the route at between 50' and 300' AGL, in marginal weather or at night, with no navaids, GPS or autopilot.

Thanks. Just the sort of historical stuff I am into. Will check it out later today. Cheers.

[32 “Hero POIs” in UK North for MSFS - What are they?]

Hey Orbx, can you tell us what the 32 “Hero POIs” are in the great UK North for MSFS scenery? Cheers.

[Papua New Guinea - Missionary Bush Pilot Medical Emergency Flight]

1 hour ago, happytraveller said:

I think that Ryan (Missionary Bush Pilot) flies for another company, not MAF.   I believe that he may have done some training with them but is not flying for them,

 

Jerry

Ah ha, looks like you are right. In his latest video, in one of his replies, he says he is now with an organisation called Ethnos 360 Aviation in the USA and New Tribes Mission in PNG. Cheers.

[Great Britain North for MSFS]

Further to my post immediately above, the map referred to is useful, but unfortunately the 32 "hero POIs" (out of the 600 total POIs) are not identified separately, and also the long list of POIs is not in alphabetical or any other useful order. But it provides a start. Cheers.

[Great Britain North for MSFS]

Found it guys. You have to go into the product description and click on Discover. It brings up a map. Cheers.

[Great Britain North for MSFS]

21 minutes ago, Jon Clarke said:

Hi Frank

There is a .kml file that highlights the POIs at the bottom of the announcement.

Does that do what you are looking for?

 

Thanks Jon. I did see that before posting but all I get is the message below. Does it work for you? Cheers.

 

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[Great Britain North for MSFS]

This product is great stuff. But do the POIs appear on the MSFS World Map? Is there a list of POIs? We need these sort of things to be able to plan routes/flights. I asked this question in another topic which was then closed without an answer. Cheers.

[Introducing Great Britain North for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

Great stuff. Do the POIs appear on the MSFS World Map? Is there a list of POIs? We need these to be able to plan flights. Cheers.

[Papua New Guinea - Missionary Bush Pilot Medical Emergency Flight]

Come replicate in MSFS the emergency medical flight of YouTuber Missionary Bush Pilot in his video of 6 May 2022. Fly from Goroka to short, steep, mountain-top strip Dinangat to pick up the patient, and then onto Nadzab to deliver the patient to the doctor. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.

 

 

 

[River Spey, Scotland - Whiskey & War (RAF Airfields)]

Come journey along the River Spey in Scotland from its source in the Highlands, through world-famous Speyside Malt Whiskey Distilleries area, to the RAF Airfields (current Lossiemouth, and former Dallarchy, Milltown & Kinloss) around the River's mouth where it enters the North Sea. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.

 

 

 

["Golden Oldies" 1929 TAT 1st Trans-USA airline passenger flights, coast to coast, Pt 2 of 2.]

Come visit 1929 Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) and see how TAT formed the first airways airline passenger route across the USA using Ford Trimotor aircraft and innovative systems for flying and for passengers. Called the "Lindbergh Line" it involved 2 days of combined travel by air and train. This Part 2 video covers Waynoka to Columbus. Part 1 covered Los Angeles to Clovis. Clovis to Waynoka was by overnight train, as was Columbus to New York/Washington DC. Cheers.

 

 

 

["Golden Oldies" 1929 TAT 1st Trans-USA airline passenger flights, coast to coast, Pt 1.]

Come visit 1929 Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) and see how TAT formed the first airways airline passenger route across the USA using Ford Trimotor aircraft and innovative systems for flying and for passengers. Called the "Lindbergh Line" it involved 2 days of combined travel by air and train.

 

 

[WW2 Isle of Man - "Aliens" & Trainees in the Middle of the Irish Sea.]

Come visit the beautiful Isle of Man, a UK Protectorate in the middle of the Irish sea, and see how it defended itself, housed civilian "alien" internees, and trained tens of thousands of military personnel in numerous areas. See the airfields as they were then in WW2 and as they are now in MSFS. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.