flavik Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Hi all! Just finished a flight in ZIBO's 737 from Palm Springs to San Fransisco. And my initial impressions from VFR flights in the TBM and SIAI-Marchetti were confirmed: this is such a stunning scenery, just amazing! Well done Orbx! It's certainly different looking down from FL340, but none the less beautiful. This was one of those flights were everything just worked. I had a flight last night in the ZIBO to test things out - Fort Lauderdale to Key West using Orbx TE Florida. That flight was a mess! TrackIR was acting up, messing up the views, and all autopilot descent modes went completely bonkers in the ZIBO mod. It resulted in me flying a manual arrival and approach all the way from FL250 down to rwy 9 during nighttime. I made it down but it was quite exhausting! Todays flight plan: Today, all the plugins cooperated like a fine-tuned orchestra. Departing Palm Springs 31L via the slightly challenging Cathedral 1 departure, the mountaneous terrain quickly revealed itself after takeoff. This SID from 31L requires a turning climb almost 180 degrees towards PSP Palm Springs VOR, outbound southeast 10 miles to EMRUD intersection, then another 180 degree turn back towards PSP. It certainly brings the aircraft quickly up to altitude, avoiding those mountains. Then it's business as usual for the rest of the climb to FL340, towards Palmdale VOR... ...then a northwesterly route towards Big Sur VOR, which marks the beginning of the Big Sur 3 STAR. The ATIS at KSFO reported winds 150 at 5, a cloud base at 1100', good visibility and 28L available for arrival. Descending through the cloud layers, those annoying cloud shadow bugs in 11.50 beta 6 became really noticeable. This wall of clouds does look a bit strange, don't you think? Some Active Sky anomaly perhaps. Then came the reward: breaking out underneath the cloud base on final approach ILS 28L and San Fransisco Intl and the surrounding metropolitan area revealed itself in all its glory! And the frame rates: +30 fps all the way down to the numbers, and they kept up for the remainder of the session!! Go Vulkan! All in all a VERY rewarding flight Thanks Orbx, thanks Laminar and thanks ZIBO for giving us all of this! X-Plane 11.50 beta 6 Orbx TE Southern California Orbx TE Northern California KPSP Palm Springs International 1.0.4 by Flyfree Productions KSFO San Francisco International Airport 2.01 by MisterX6 Airport Environment HD 2.13 by MisterX6 Boeing 737-800 version 3.40.27 by ZIBO Active Sky XP 7414 Traffic Global 1.0.9113 X-Camera 2.4 Beta 17 TrackIR 5.4 Cheers, flavik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Cracking set of shots. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Beautiful! I've seen dopey clouds like that in XP with ASXP too many times to count. But what a glorious set of shots these are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 An excellent set of views, I enjoyed your flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eberhard Haberkorn Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Wonderful set of shots. Quite a distance you covered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavik Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share Posted May 11, 2020 Thanks Iain, Jack, VH-KDK and Eberhard for your feedback! Good to know I’m not the only one with the wonky cloud phenomenon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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