petermcleland 48 Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 Continuing the Circumnavigation in the iFly BBJ3:- Ready to depart from Zvartnots in Armenia to Narita, Tokyo...The flight takes 9 hours 37 minutes. Up and away into the night. Here in the cruise at FL330 and Mach 0.79 we will step climb on route. Black as "Newgate's Knocker!" Practically all the flight will be as dark as this. However... ...for these next two shots I have wound up the contrast to show the contellation of Orion (the "belt" is the three stars above the nose). Ignore the "Noise" at top and left edges of the picture. Just in front of the nose there are the Pleiades. Sharp eyes should see seven faint stars in the group. Most people don't realise how accurately FS portrays the night sky...Especially if your "stars.dat" file is of size 429 KBs and dated 01/12/2001...If it is not that file and of smaller size then you will not see as many stars. If you need the proper file then ask and I will upload it. This is a long time later and we are at FL390 and the green T/D, Top of Descent mark is showing on the map at about 35 miles. Note the wind from the right at 134 knots and the large angle of drift to hold track. I remember many years ago as a Vanguard first officer on the Summer Night Shift, the dawn rising Sun used to hit me in the right eye as we flew back from Malta...I tended to send me to sleep. This shot reminded me of that... zzzzz Here the descent is underway and we are looking at the Captain's full IFR panel. On the final approach to Narita with a rather imposing Hotel on the left. Crossing the runway end for a... ...manual landing. We do have AES here and my "Follow Me" car has arrived promptly. You can see the "STOP" signal showing just above the HUD. The nearest jetway is moving in towards our front door and the steps are already at the rear door. The baggage vehicles are moving towards the holds. Catering is here... ...and we are being prepared for the last leg of our Circumnavigation...From here back to our start point at McLeland Field. Thanks for looking Link to post Share on other sites
MarkJones 0 Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 Any plans for a night on the sake on this stopover? :biggrin: Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 Another execellent set of shots Peter - must really save up for the iFly 737! Link to post Share on other sites
petermcleland 48 Posted November 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 Thank you Kieron...Good idea Mark but I might need another day to get over it :lol: Link to post Share on other sites
IcedUpPitotTube 0 Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 Marvelous shots Peter! Plain and simple... not overedited (if you did edit them). I wish my shots were at least as good as yours. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 Vibrant and interesting shots Peter, never short in interest! Cheers, Joe Link to post Share on other sites
petermcleland 48 Posted November 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 Marvelous shots Peter! Plain and simple... not overedited (if you did edit them). I wish my shots were at least as good as yours. Andrew, The only editing I do is to change the size of the image from the original 1600 pixels wide to 900, but on the two shots to show the stars I had to increase the contrast for them to show up...This naturally makes the image of the aircraft too bright but you can see Orion and even the Pleiades Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 Great shots Pete, the HUD looks like a great addition to the panels.. Can't wait to get my hands on the PMDG 737 once it's relesed... My only grudge is that you will beat me, I still have 14 out of 15 legs to go in my circumnavigation of the globe. :biggrin: Link to post Share on other sites
petermcleland 48 Posted November 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 Great shots Pete, the HUD looks like a great addition to the panels.. Can't wait to get my hands on the PMDG 737 once it's relesed... My only grudge is that you will beat me, I still have 14 out of 15 legs to go in my circumnavigation of the globe. :biggrin: Stu, I'm at present on my last leg from Narita to McLeland Field...It has just got dark and I'm out over the Pacific...The Pleiades is up ahead and Taurus has just risen...I'm just waiting for Orion to rise and I might get a shot of all three together :001_th_smiles89: Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 That would be some screenshot.. looking forward to seeing your last leg... And feel free to call me Micke or Mikael.. Link to post Share on other sites
petermcleland 48 Posted November 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 That would be some screenshot.. looking forward to seeing your last leg... And feel free to call me Micke or Mikael.. Mikael, I answered your question about FSX stars in my Last Leg post :001_th_smiles89: Link to post Share on other sites
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