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Posted: 02 Jan 2019

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Piper PA28R Arrow towards Dovestones

Piper PA28R Arrow towards Dovestones
Winging it at 100 knots towards the dam wall of the reservoir. No I did not crash, but there were a lot of complaints to the CAA re my low flying in this. Note, the hills in front and to my right are the Saddleworth Moors which were alight this year. These same hills are overflown quite low by civil aircraft airliners on there approach to Manchester International Airport and so a plane such as this Piper would not be allowed to fly like this here.
This scenery uses a clever combination of photo realism for the distances - so the sides of these hills are almost exactly as I would photograph them with the small ravines and colours but the 3d ground detail is added afterwards, sometimes one at a time by hand, making it less real but giving us fliers a chance to fly around solid objects to examine the other sides. Another feature for me is the incredibly realistic lighting as seen on the side of the hill and shadows. From high - it is as good as the real thing from a jet-liner passenger window.
(See adjacent photo an 4x pips too.)

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 LotharW
LotharW club
Fly on ... the PA 28 is very manoeuvrable and so on until you get away quickly ... :-)
5 years ago.
Herb Riddle club has replied to LotharW club
Great to see you here Lothar. I have only just made this page available to all my viewers. Yes the PA28 is very maneuverable indeed, at least on my XPlane Sim (see next pic for technical details of that.) I guess you know about such things my friend.

Cheers, Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.
 Peter Castell
Peter Castell club
Interesting images of your other activities Herb. I always connect Saddleworth Moor with other events
5 years ago.
Herb Riddle club has replied to Peter Castell club
Thanks Peter. Yes we all have another side to us here. As you say, Saddleworth moor has perhaps some unfortunate connotations, but take it from me, its a wonderful place place to wander and photograph, not least fly!
Cheers, Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.
 Peter Chet
Peter Chet club
Nice work Herb
5 years ago.
Herb Riddle club has replied to Peter Chet club
Thanks Peter, my pleasure to share here. Herb
5 years ago.
 Tractacus
Tractacus club
The level of realism is very impressive. Does it come as standard, or as an add on? Various scenery packs are available for FSX, but the reviews are so so.
Neil.
5 years ago.
Herb Riddle club has replied to Tractacus club
Thanks for this Neil. This was actually done with XPlane 11 not FSX (more technical details on the previous page) I would say with the scenery: XPlane's default scenery is far better than FSX's default. They both have add-on pay-extra scenery from 3rd parties. I have effectively the same scenery on various parts of the world with both and that is from Orbx but it looks better with XPlane as that is a more modern 64bit program as opposed to FSX at only 32bit. However, the Orbx scenery on FSX is outstanding, especially if you have not seen the same on XPlane. I obtain the same satisfaction of reality with both programs. FSX has still more choices of add-ons especially when it comes to aircraft and side-programs like weather and traffic control. Xplane is where the future is though! . Better than FSX is Prepar3D (at a price) and you cannot beat DCS for reality of military flight sim. Aerofly FS2 looks good but is severely restricted when it comes to reality of flying itself. Hope this answers your questions
Best Wishes, Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.
 TOZ
TOZ club
Hi Herb like this you can fly over Dovestones from the comfort of your home can you change the conditions.
TOZ
5 years ago.
Herb Riddle club has replied to TOZ club
Good to see you on this page Toz , hope you managed to see the last page too. Yes, I can change the weather completely -no clouds, storms, thing in-between and seasonal variations on the ground too -ie Autumn golds, Spring yellows. My MSX program with similar scenery has snow on the ground or blizzards on the windscreen here. That along with temps and winds and any times ie sunsets/rises makes for some stunning photo opps via flying. You should give it a go my friend.

Cheers, Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.
 Fred Fouarge
Fred Fouarge club
ben je piloot ?
5 years ago.
Herb Riddle club has replied to Fred Fouarge club
Oh nee Fred. Ik ben slechts een man die speelt als piloot op zijn computer. Dit is allemaal een simulatie.

Beste wensen, Herb.
5 years ago.
 Peter_Private_Box
Peter_Private_Box club
Hi Herb

Very nice sequence, and information. If you hadn't said, I would have thought you were really up in the sky!
A far cry from the British Airways training simulator I had a quick go in many years ago.

Best Wishes, and a Good Weekend
Peter
5 years ago.
Herb Riddle club has replied to Peter_Private_Box club
Thanks Peter, an indication of just how good these things are nowadays. Some places are much better than others with this scenery. I only have the True Earth series Britain South and Central. North has not been created yet. I do have however all of Britain by the same people (Orbx) on my Microsoft FSX program, also the whole of Germany of which I am doing a virtual tour off at the moment (my Cessna parked at Traban-Trarbach). Yes, these sims of today are far more real as far as graphics and even life-like aircraft internal operation than the old pro sims -but they do not have the real cockpit controls to handle with their real over-head panel etc nor the real-movement/vibration of the modern professional hydraulic simulators that BA will have today. That being said, many enthusiast do make up working almost real cockpits with real plane parts in some cases, that are wired up into the computers via USB and work perfectly. XPlane was designed especially for such people and there is a slightly better Pro version for makers of real planes to design and try out new ideas on. MS-FSX is also used with almost life-like cockpits too.
I hope this brought back happy memories Peter.

Cheers, Herb

NB 4 more pips of my other flight sims & aircraft here.
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.

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