[Really cool vid of DHC-6 Twin Otter]

I did do a flight plan from Calgary to "about" where the Rothera base is. The flight was actually a great deal of fun and I spent time observing in FSX and then going to Google Earth to confirm and learn. There's some beautiful stuff along the way and it certainly got rugged around the Magellan Strait. With that said, it has got to be an agonizing flight in a Twin Otter for 10 days... whew! And the Antarctic scenery in FSX is pretty marginal at best (as I'm sure it has been all along regardless of the FS version) and I could never get to the South Pole station - even though the flight planner had it as a location. I must have been doing something wrong. Alas.

Anyway, thanks for the post and linky to the visual. Good fun.

GMark@KLUK

[Otter prop management]

Aye, Wing Nut. She came around to 76% and straight and level heading toward Portugal. I've issued two life jackets and called for volunteers to lighten the load - with the promise of a two bottles of Rothchild '98 should they reach the shore... evil laugh.

Thanks!

GMark

[Otter prop management]

pbear

If I haven't messed up the picture, are these gauge values roughly right?

Gmark

[Twotter V1.11 WOW!!]

I have to hand it to you folks... top shelf product and top shelf support.

Graham

GMark@KLUK

[New aircraft project....]

With due respect to the constraint of "nothing really modern ". Who's doing an Eclipse or other small jet configuration, like from Honda?

GMark@KLUK :?:

[Twin Otter X: open issues]

Thanks Private-Cowboy for posting the item about VC texture loading. I've been going nuts over this. I have a new clean system build with an E8400 and 8800 GT and (everything latest SPx and no OC). Most of the time - but not all of the time - when I load the VC from some other view, I wind up with a black VC that has to be refreshed - which typically takes about a second or two. I have been watching and reading but nobody else mentioned this so I was sure it was my problem. And maybe in part it still is (never said I was a good FS tuner).

But all that said... if you're able to go from 5-6 seconds to 1 or so by using the DXT5 textures, then surely there is some avenue for improvement on my end (as well as others).

BTW Mathis - a great addition to my hangar. I'm still on a learning curve with VC only, but the "modern" 2D stuff provides some salve.

Cheers!

GMark@KLUK (moved from KMGY)