Nice shots Lance, it’s good to have a different viewing perspective from Manchester for a change

Not yet mate, I need a postel address, these are real navigation charts not downloaded stuff, pm me the address to send them to.

P.S. do you want high/low level navigation or airport plates?

Regds, Dave.

So are the ones from the link I gave, they are the official charts from the UK governing body, and up to date.
He’s already hinted he wants airport charts, not en-route charts

1. 184,000

2. KLM

3. Kangaroo Route

4. To stop birds feeding on the dropped seeds & bugs etc

🙂

Keep working Neil

I found the IR to be enjoyable, but not difficult, some say it is the hardest thing you will ever do, but I found this not to be the case, the hardest thing is the intensity.

I’m not sure what your instructor is doing Neil, because you are not allowed to do holds at Bristol, so I don’t really see the point in practicing it, you are better off doing them at Filton, Gloucester, Yeovilton or Exeter. They are all left hand holds apart from the 09 hold at Filton, this can catch you out if you are not careful.

That route yo specified earlier : BRI – EXMOR – N864 – BCN – OF, you say it isn’t used any more? be very careful, that was my test route in March, so Graham does use it, his favourite is BRI – EXMOR – N864 – EX, my sim partner got Yeovilton as well, this is a nice one except there is no DME, so it is a timed procedure.

I know what you mean when you say things can get away from you very quickly, just remember if you are sat in the airway twiddling your thumbs it is highly likely you have missed something.

When doing the NDB/DME procedure at Gloucester, be careful when on 27 because the NDB has a tendancy to bend around GCHQ, normally it will take you south of track (your track will show correct if you keep nailing it) but all of a sudden it will flip 5° off or more, then flip back a bit later, a GPS trace will show this nicely.
Overall there is nothing tricky about the NDB at Glouc, it’s quite good, just beware of the alternate procedure on 09 as well.
At Bristol you will also get a slight bend in the NDB signal when on 27 due to Dundry Hill, just stay on top of it. When you get to Glouc & Bristol for real you’ll see what I mean.

Neil have you got a copy of RANT XL ? worth every penny for Hold/NDB procedures and especially NDB tracking.

Thanks for the heads up and links Irv, appreciated

Dean

Hi John

I have a slightly worse GFX card than you, I have a GeForce 6600GT, these are my settings.

Scenery

Terrain Mesh Complexity – 65
Terrain texture size – Medium
Terrain Detail – Land Only
Water effects – High

Dawn/Dusk Texture Blending – ticked
Extended Terrain Textures – ticked

Special effects detail – High
Scenery complexity – Dense
Autogen Density – Normal
Add-on dynamic scenery – ticked & set dense
Ground scenery cast shadows – ticked
Sun glare – ticked
Lense flare – ticked

Aircraft Tab

Global aircraft quality – high
Virtual cockpit gauge quality – High
Reflections – ticked
Aircraft casts shadows – ticked
Landing Lights – ticked

Weather tab

Sight Distance slider – fully to the right
Cloud draw distance slider – fully to the right
3-D cloud percentage slider – fully to the right

Cloud detail – Detailed Clouds
Cloud coverage density slider – fully to the right

Hardware Tab

Target Framerate – 20
Display resolution – 1280x1024x32

Hardware rendering options
Render to texture – ticked
Transform & lighting – ticked
Anti-Aliasing – ticked

Filtering – Bilinear
Mip Mapping quality – 5
Hardware rendered lights – 8

Global max texture size – massive (slider to the right)

John

It could be your trilinear settings, try bilinear, also Mip mapping, set it to 5.
Try these and see how you go, report back if you have an improvement, in the meantime double check that you actually have got the latest drivers installed

Dean