The AVSIM Screen Shots Forum

Occasionally, I run into an (un-explored) aircraft in my Archive that brings such a pleasant surprise, and also so much fun to fly...! This happened today with the (respected SIM developer) Golden Age Simulation (GAS) created "Travel Air Mystery Ship", which is the topic of my post here. In one of my earlier posts (on Alabeo Gee Bee Z), I'd mentioned the (prestigious) Thompson Trophy Race of the 1930s. The Race's first competition would take place at the Cleveland Municipal (now Hopkins) Airport, in Ohio, in 1929. Until then (1928), all the National Air races had been completely dominated by military competitors, simply because the military had (ready) access to the:…

Here (below) are the other colors of this famous (Travel Air) monoplane, including the Red & Black, I had posted earlier. All total, only five R-Types of Mystery Ships were built. The plane in the 3rd and 4th images below (Texaco - Red & Cream) is the one that's now preserved at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, which I'd a chance to visit. The Exhibit is suspended there, with strings, from the high ceiling, in a tilted fashion, and, on their website, I read today, the following note about this display: "To indicate speed, the Travel Air makes a swift and steep banking turn from above the Coal Mine (btw, the Coal Mine was also an excellent Exhibit, as I …

Along the Southern Coast...English that is! Thanks for viewing...

Wendover was chosen for the 509th's atomic mission training because of its sheer isolation, which kept the project secret. Anyone with loose lips might sink ships, and Paul Tibbets did not hesitate to send them to Nome Alaska or the Aleutians if they were a bit too talkative. John

Shalom and greetings all my pals, Presenting a nice inter Africa flight from DNAA Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport located 12 miles west of Abuja which is capital of Nigeria to DGAA Kotoka International Airport located in Accra which is the capital of Ghana Fully boarded and ready to start engines in a rainy day Taxiing to short of runway 22 Still taxiing passing intersection of taxiways toward the runway Holding short of runway 22 awaiting for take off clearance from airport tower Starting take off run spewing rain splattering behind Airborne on climb to FL300 via waypoints IB LAG POLTO TYE …

Shalom and greetings all my pals, Exciting river approach toward runway 06 of PAVD Valdez Airport three nautical miles east of the business district of Valdez, Alaska can be pure beautiful and fun as you get to fly 3,000 ft above river THROUGH between mountains on way to runway 06!! Descending to 3,000 above waters of Valdez Narrows river Navigating above river through between mountains can be beautiful and EXCITING On final runway approach above waters of Port Valdez toward runway 06 DARN THE STRONG ALASKAN WINDS making me land right wheel first before left wheel Left wheel gliding down to mak…

Good to see some old friends again! 😁

Good aircraft for seeing the sights.... John

My favs are my last two shots over the AeroflyFS2 Venice freeware scenery.... John

Shute! I have just realised this is the screenshots forum and not the video forum. My apologies.

Some personal observations: It appears that the LOD & Mipmaps in Microsoft Flight Simulator scale pretty similarly to Google Earth. Although at high altitudes & over long distances, the Mipmaps used by Google Earth are extremely low poly & of low quality. Maybe Bing 3D does it better, I don’t know, because I didn’t use Bing Maps. I found their app super janky & inconvenient. I’m more comfortable with Google Earth. Regardless, it appears that Microsoft is running some algorithm on top to clean out the low poly buildings, trees, etc. at high altitudes and over longer distances, to make them appear much better and give the impression of better LOD. Of co…

Back to The Boat!! This time The Weather has taken a turn for The Worst!!😱 Thanks for l@@king Friends!👍

I had purchased Aerosoft's (wonderful) DC-8, but not flown it...so here is my 1st flight with it. And, to recall the memory of this iconic aircraft from Douglas, I've chosen Icelandair for livery. Icelandair has a very interesting history. The airline is naturally blessed with a (strategic) geographic location (being headquartered near Iceland's Capital City of Reykjavik) - convenient for transatlantic flights. It originated in 1937, when a new fledgling airline named Flugfélag Akureyrar was founded in Iceland's north coast. So, this was the beginning of Icelandair. Then, in 1944, came, Loftleidir (founded by 3 young pilots fresh from their flight-training in Canada), lat…

Since I recently added Aerofly FS2 I did not want to be remiss and forget about P3DV4 and Xplane11, since I have heavily invested interest in those sims way before I found Aerofly, so my last post was Xplane11, and I am now sharing some P3DV4 screenies from NYC to Dulles... John

here are some shots over Orbx TE GB north/central. nothing special - just felt like sharing...

Over the Napa Valley and the SF Bay, and over Arizona, out of Stellar Airpark in the Chandler Metro Area towards Casa Grande... John

Unique VSkylabs aircraft...

Sedona is Arizona's answer to the Napa Valley, and I am qualified to say that since I was raised in the Napa Valley.... The 339 is a great high platform from which to see Arizona, pics were around FL450-480.... John

OK, they already came, when they were in Northern California and the West Coast, including the Russian River Area shown in these shots.... John

Been a while since I have posted in this forum. Blasting out of Darrington Field 1S2 Looing out over Washington State:- en-route to Anacortes Parked at Anacortes 74S Getting strapped in at ENSD Approaching ENNK Descending into LOWI Innsbruck Climbing out over LOWI Phenom close up Enjoy

Swiss-Scapes...Two planes, same scenery! Thanks for viewing, Darryl

Over Aerofly FS2's highly recommended New York metro area add-on, again, outstanding VFR scenery and amazing fidelity with impossible to believe fluidity and fps... John

AeroflyFS2 Utah add-on scenery. By far, the best Monument Valley mesh I have ever seen! John