Wednesday 15 March 2017

Blank rewards screen on FSX Steam edition after installing DLC

Very frustrating to find my rewards screen is blank. After searching some forums and trying without success to run the Log recover program, I found the answer in a Steam forum:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/314160/discussions/1/627456486410539855/

Just browse to the DLC sub-folder of the FSX folder, e.g. mine is:

D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\DLC

and add an empty sub-folder named "rewards", restart FSX and now the rewards page should be populated thus:


Tuesday 14 March 2017

Bucknall, Lincolnshire

A short flight around the small farm, grass strip airfield of Bucknall in Lincolnshire, England. Disused now and dificult to find on Google satellite view. Very challenging takeoff and landing for a Cessna. Scenery provided by UK2000, VFR Airfields volume 3

The road and farm building match those on Google streetview
The scenery is pretty accurate model of the farm buidlings and surrounding fields and tree lines.

Paring with static aircraft
Checking out runway 25
It's a tricky landing avoiding trees, electric lines and touching down early enough to have enough time to stop before the end of the runway. I landed on 16.

Just stopped before end of runway 16/34
Full HD video of my flight here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFCxKkdjEHw

Monday 13 March 2017

RAF Leconfield

The former RAF airbase (ICAO: EGXV) was used by Spitfires in WW2 and now is used by MoD Defence School of Transport. The runways are disused, but there is parking for helicopters. The custom scenery is provided by UK2000 as part of VFR Airfields volume 3.


There are some helicopters parked at the helipads near where the flight starts, careful to avoid the wire fence and then I took off from the disused runway and did a quick crcle of the airfield. Some quite good detail on the runway textures and the buidlings of the MoD facility.


The short flight is available in full in HD video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inHoowKNSGY

An aeriel photo of the actual airfield:


Monday 27 February 2017

FSX YouTube channel

I have just created a new channel for uploading my FSX recordings.

My first video is a circuit at Lanzarote in A36 Beech Bonanza. This is the Caranedo aircraft and using the FWI Canary Islands X scenery. I am using FRAPS to record AVI file and then converting to MP4 using convertavitomp4 freeware.

I hope to upload some more of the Canary Islands and also create a blog feature on the various sceneries for the islands.