thanks Garry! 🙂

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nice shots guys – mark, i love those clouds. thats not the default is it?

here are four shots from some old flights. enjoy 😀

thanks

step by step, as best as i can do it:

download an aircraft and save it:

for the example, go to avsim.com (http://library.avsim.net/) and search ‘british airways union 757 posky’

when you’ve found the above file, download it. save it in ‘Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator 9Aircraft’ :

it’ll start downloading (sorry if u haven’t got broadband, it’ll take a while.

go to the aircraft folder in your flight sim main folder.the file that has been downloaded will look like this:

unzip the file using something like winzip or winRAR. right click on the zip file, and click ‘extract here’.

it’ll extract it, and you’ll end up with an aircraft folder with the ‘posky 757 BA’ folder in. it’ll be called something like that.

open the folder, and check that it looks like this:

if it does (which it will), then close all the files and folders, and launch fs. hopefully, the program will notice that there is a new aircraft, so it’ll build the new scenery database.

once flight sim has loaded, go and look for the aircraft under ‘select aircraft’ – the aircraft could be found under ‘boeing’, or ‘Project Opensky’, or ‘POSKY’

enjoy flying her!

i hope that helps

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What really frightens you?

getting stabbed in the eye by my hairdresser who swings his pair of scissors all over the place 😮 . 😀

…and anything with eight legs

How is it that Ryannair can afford to charge 1p for seats…? I know that not all the seats are offered for this price, but how do they make up for the shortfall…?

seats aren’t the only the stream of revenue for low cost airlines.

ryanair sells items on board, it sells hotel rooms, car hire, airport parking, etc.
MOL says he’ll be introducing in-flight gambling.

I know that not all the seats are offered for this price

some days, you can get good cheap deals; some days, you can get prices that are as expensive as legacy carrier offerings, usually when you buy tickets at short notice – i.e. just a couple of days before you flight.

i think, like most low cost airlines, you are charged an arm and leg for changes to your flight itinerary

whether you think that adding RAM improves performance is a personal opinion – there are many opinions out there – some believe that adding RAM is good, others don’t, but it depends on the type of system – some computers will see a huge improvement, some won’t.

the most important thing for good FS performance is the processor. FS is a huge game, with a hell of a lot of information for the processor to think about and process. the processor has got lots and lots of rendering to do, perhaps more than say, if it was running a game like Halo – although don’t quote me on that.

so the game performance is only as good as the processor. the next most important thing is the graphics card. the power of the graphics card will reflect how the game looks – i.e. whether there are jagged edges to the aircraft or not etc.

HOWEVER, the graphics produced are only as good as the main processor. the graphics card is supplied with information by the processor – so the graphics card depends on the processsor. if you buy a supreme graphics card and you install it into a computer with a very slow processor, the graphics card will be wasted – becuase the processor will not be able to give the graphics card information fast enough, so the over powerful graphics card will be wasted – ‘”its potential won’t be realised'”. you need a fast processor for a fast graphics card.

next, RAM. again, you’ll only get the best out of lots of RAM if you have a fast processor. the RAM stores texture information etc from the hard drive. it is the processor that takes the info from the hard drive and puts it on the RAM, so that the processor can easily access texture etc information quickly, without having to look through the hard drive each time it needs information.

FS is a texture hungry game – you have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of textures that the game uses – all of which have to be extracted from the hard drive when needed, put into the RAM, taken out of the RAM, put through the processor, and then the graphics card, and onto your screen.

computers are changing so fast – so if u buy a fast computer, by the time you get it home and ceremoniously plug it in, it will already be outdated,and a faster machine will have been produced.

i would suggest an AMD processor (Intel processors tend to perform better with office applications – AMD tend to be better for gaming – thats probably one of the main reasons that you see Intel processors, not AMD processors, in offices).

if you are thinking about get a new machine, i would suggest getting one with an ‘AMD Athlon 64’ processor with a processor code of atleast ‘3000+’.

you also have the choice of an Nvidia Geforce or Ati graphics card. the latest Geforce model is the ‘7800’ – although it costs two arms and three legs. i would suggest a Geforce ‘6800’ if you choose Nvidia. i don’t know much about ati cards, but a card similar in performance to the Geforce 6800 would be the Ati Radeon ‘X800’ or ‘X850’.

the top Ati Radeon model is the X850, but again, it costs two arms and three legs.

1 Gb RAM is the best figure now, without going overboard, 512 Mb is the minimum. you’ll not find a new PC with less than 512 mb RAM.

i hope that helps, sorry its as long as War and Peace, and i hope it wasn’t too technical 😀

thanks guys.

by todays comparisons, my PC spec isn’t fantastic. by comparison, a year ago, it would have been a speedy machine. the PC was home built, and i think i have spent around £400-500 – but that was at Nov/Dec 04 and Jan 05 prices – prices would have fallen since then, and for that amount now, you can get an even better machine.

Its an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ processor (2.1 GHz), 1Gb RAM, and a Geforce 6600GT graphics card – fps can get up 70 when im cruising, but can get as low as 9fps (frames per second) at places like Heathrow, where i have Uk2000 Heathrow scenery and Justflights VFR photographic ground textures. i use 100% AI traffic all the time, so at these places it can be a strain.

all i have done to edit the shots is use Adobe Photoshop. i have cropped the images, sharpened them, applied ‘auto colour’, ‘auto contrast’ and ‘auto levels’.

the angles that i use are what FS is capable of – no addon camera program – i have just cropped them to make the angles look different.