John Heaton

Jonathan Beckett has given us a look at the Orbx trees and the use of flight recorder Quite interesting and colour blind as I am - I can see the difference - but maybe needs a tweak of the contrast etc on his picture My question is - what effect will 2024 have on this and is the software out of date already

https://youtu.be/7v9yj8B97s0 Where2Fly This video is a way of introducing 2 things - a great piece of freebie software of "where shall we go today" - in one of our birds and take advantage of our beautiful world offered by MSFS. - and to introduce you blokes to an old bloke - old pilot - and to spoken Aussie humour . A few days ago we were asked -who did we use as regular go too's for our U-tube fixes in simming - and I failed to mention a bloke that is actually my favourite. Not because he is a local Aussie - through and through - but his attitude to simming is very much like mine - somewhat lacksidasical in nature - sometimes anti establishment - but at the same time - loves flying in the sim and shows all his errors. I don't know where he lives - but I think he must be somewhere around Brisbane - and was a pilot at some time - did his training at Archerfield and he is old and qualifies for membership of the old coots on here. His videos are very rarely over 30 mins and far from boring If you want to hear a genuine Aussie commentary - try hm out and subscribe to a real change in boring Utube summaries

big clean up then - into a reserve file - come November? - you dooo need help

What he said - except I'm not looking for SSDs👍

The rules here in Queensland are clear on this entering the freeway There is a full line for some distant which you must not cross - followed by a dotted line that you may cross and oncoming vehicles must give way

starting to advertise Brisbane for the 2032 Olympics Graeme unless of course - entering an Orbx scenery as an airport in the thread BTW - great pics of our city - oh bearded one

That's just what my wife said - when we switched to separate bedrooms😉

I am sure Rodger wonders what happened to his thread 😉 However - 2 cents from me who - at 89 - is probably the second oldest on here - and I can't agree with my older colleague above who gave up at 80 I have to admit to giving up my very fast V8 - 2 years ago - but that was only because of the hole it was making in my old age pension with cost of fuel and extra registration costs but I am still flight simming in my spitfire - etc - skimming through all the high rises in Orbx cityscapes I still drive myself to doctors and Hospital visits and to my kids now and then - and the weekly shop with the missus - but only in her Mazda 6 little car - and feel sure that I am not adding to the poor road statistics these days

I used to watch Aussie flight simmer and Simhanger - but they went too "commercial' and that annoys me we get enough advertising in life without it in simming I forgot to mention Warbirds - but he has turned to Choppers recently on a similar subject - anyone noticed that Orbx has been advertising for a Marketing man - experienced in e mail advertising - Stand by chaps for a barrage👎 - as if we don/t get enough from them

pretty much all of Jonathan Beckett's videos - and "Island Sims Pilot's

2 years later it was blue and full of flight badges😉 I know that some of my friends on here get a little kissed off - with my repeated Winge about the old Bing Australia map and beating my drum. After I wrote the above alma mater earlier - I tried a sabbatical flight in a 140 out of Moorabbin (freeware) taking off to the South and saw the motorway construction of the Frankston freeway as it was - years before it opened 👎 Locals might tell us when the Motorway opened - I guess some 8 years ago - Mates - you are being Cheated - especially as it is around 2 years since a WU of Australia was sold to us as an upgrade Q.E.D.

I have 2 wishes for Orbx - or any other developer - for MSFS 2024 - well - 2 principal ones. First and foremost - is the use of an updated Bing Map for Australia - and Orbx to reproduce a 2024 version of the Gold Coast City Scape - as good as their P3D efforts way back. I am notorious on here spruiking the fact that the current Bing is 11 years old😉 The other is also very personal - although there are a few who would agree with me. Way back in 1972 - I climbed into a Piper Cherrokee 140 with a flight instructor - for my T.I.F. in a light aircraft - at YBMB - Moorabbin the first time since my one and only GA flight from the beach at Southport in the UK in a DH 83 Fox Moth in the 60s Over the following 20 years - Moorabbin was my home airport where I learned to fly a number of types of GA aircraft - including the single and twin Comanches' - and owned my own PA 32 - 300 -(avatar) - and was a long-time member of the Royal Victoria Flying Club. As well as the very good Gold Coast airport and city scape of the Gold Coast - Orbx produced a perfectly good Moorabbin Airport also in P3D - an airport which is the 2nd busiest in Australia. - Why ? - probably because Orbx was a proud Australian developer in the early simming days.👍 OK Orbx - I - as an old Orbx fan - really request you to return to the old Australian days - and start right now on working up these 2 Items which would be a first day purchase on by many similiar minded Aussies! and maybe a few others who wonder what the Gold Coast really looks like in 2024 PS the pic is landed after my first solo

good job you aren't at home then Mate C degrees Temps for the Gold Coast are 31-30-30-30-31 for the next 5 days and official Winter still has 7 days to go Did someone mention Global Warning

They didn't catch me flying with the Roulettes😃

well done Iain - you really have made a huge contribution over the years - some of your own pics are not too bad either😉 I was here at the beginning also - but after a couple of years sabbatical whilst I went sailing - they couldn't find me so, I had to start all over again. However - you are dead right - a great forum - and great company -which I refer it - to a pleasant dinner party with friends👍