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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2019 6:26:56 GMT -5
Very much appreciated - wonderful airport scenery at Rekyavik. Followed the DC-7 in while doing night circuits in the Catalina.
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jun 15, 2019 9:20:53 GMT -5
Glad you’re enjoying it.
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Post by Dennis the menace on Jun 18, 2019 2:32:22 GMT -5
Glad your enjoying it! That scenery started because I like to fly Loftleidir and the dumb default FS Reykjavik airport had buildings stuck out in the middle of the apron which made it impossible to taxi around them. Nothing happened for several years until this Icelandic sight suddenly released historical photos of the place and then I decided to build it.
One thing you will notice at Reykjavik (assuming you have all the libraries from the Mega library installed into the static objects scenery folder) is that coming in, or taking off from one of the runways is a shrimp boat with a flock of animated sea gulls flying above it. I placed the boat at just the right spot so that as you take off, or land, you will fly directly into the flock of birds. I've even seen them appear to whack the windshield. Just don't try this with an Eastern Air Lines Electra unless you want to end up in the bay! Anything larger than a DC-6B has to land at Keflavik, and that was just about as much work or perhaps even a bit more. Unfortunately I rarely get to Keflavik due to the fact almost nobody flies there. I think only Pan Am flies a couple times a week with a DC-7C. Mike
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 6:01:28 GMT -5
Thanks for the background. I must admit there is something about Iceland that draws you back there. So those period airports are great. Have not noticed the birds and the shrimp boats (yet). I have been smitten by Loftleidir as well and have had a little project going to do repaints for all the aircraft they used to use that I have in the sim. Not perfect paints but fit for purpose, I am still learning the ropes with this stuff and using FSX models with their bump mapping etc is quite a challenge, but so far so good done the Catalina, the DC-3, DC-4 (and an early Dh89 Rapide) have the Icelandic DC-6, Viscounts, B727-100, DC-8, DC-10, and I did a paint of the Icelandic Cargo L188 Electra. Icleandic of course was the outcome of the merger between Loftliedir and Flugfelag Islands. Done some reworks of local airports using Instant Scenery and came across some nice work of Icelandic airports via the Norwegian sim site, that an the ORBX Iceland with your airports as the crown jewels.
I found most of the approach charts for Iceland thanks to their free AIP-Chart website, all I can say is some of the approaches are just expert class, very very difficult and I can see why they used to have 2 big ADF dials where the autopilot usually was in the DC-3, you needed them as a lot of the approaches are twin located NDBs, just increased my respect for these guys flying in that terrain and weather - they do it very well indeed.
Aaron however has me diverted back to OZ in the DC-9 at the moment. Cannot see anyone operated the DC-9 to Iceland, just not enough range for that sort of flying.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 6:18:08 GMT -5
A few screens of Icelandic stuff. The WW2 flying boat base around the corner from Rekyavik: Viscount on the run from Rekyavik to Glasgow: DC-4 at Akyreyki:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 6:18:57 GMT -5
And Keflavik: Comet on the main apron with MATS 707.
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Post by deltalima on Jul 2, 2019 20:37:22 GMT -5
Lovely FSX shots, Mike!
Your second (Viscount) shot over Greenland is insanely beautiful. Is that a special or the stock FSX mesh?
The Flight Replicas DC-4 looks gorgeous. Never did get around to buying that. But those shots make it tempting.
DL
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Post by aharon on Jul 2, 2019 21:26:37 GMT -5
Your second (Viscount) shot over Greenland is insanely beautiful. I agree!!!!! It looks REALISTIC!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2019 5:58:05 GMT -5
The Iceland you see in the screens is the ORBX freeware Iceland for FSX. It is very nice basically LC plus some aerodromes most they just left the stock ones which are terrible but the LC etc lifted Iceland very nicely indeed. I also have installed a mesh for Iceland (Iceland 76M Mesh) but I cannot remember now where I found that and I deleted the original installation files (sorr( .
The Viscount is the JBK Viscount 700 series and the paint that came with it, could not do better. I use Mikes Keflavik and Reykyavik as my main ports, then I have a variety of Iceland Aerodromes that came from the Norwegian Flight Sim Site and the rest I have modified myself using Instant Scenery. Yes the Flight Replicas DC-4 is a gem and in my view the goto for a DC-4 but you have to be a VC driver as there is no 2D panel and FR does not do 2D panels for the models he produces.
Because of my fascination with Iceland I redid all the aerodromes from photos and in the meantime have redone paints or collected paints so that I just about have the history of aviation in Iceland covered from the Dragon to the 737-800. The only aircraft that they used in Iceland I do not have is the Waco floatplane and there is no FSX or FS9 model ever done of the one they had which kicked off aviation. They used the Beech 18, Catalinas and DC-3s for a long time, then the DC-4 (FRs), the DC-6 (PMDG) , the Viscount, then went to the CL44 then the 727-100 (Capt Sim) , DC-8 (JF) . DC-10 (CLS) and the F27 (JF) and Aersofts Twin Otter and that is where I stopped. I do not touch the Beech 18 much, I know a lot of folk like it but I would rather fly the Lockheed 10. The paints look simple but they are actually very hard because they used a variety of interesting logos etc.
But for challenging flying Iceland is like the Aleutians or Alaska, it is always cold, blowing a gale, and the instrument approaches are more than a challenge they are from a perspective of a real world pilot, expert class, you really have to be on top of IF and Instrument Approaches and the aeroplanes to make them work (well realistically) and invariably they are what are called a cloud break procedure - they get you down to a minimum below cloud and if your visual you make a dive for the aiport in the fjord. But it is rarely calm and clear there as well. Standard day seems to be a roaring gale, freezing temps and low cloud. But as you see with the Viscount shot when you get a clear day the place is stunning. A real challenge is getting the Viscount into Isfadjor, which they used to fly in there regularly, base turn has to be at a continuous at 100ft, You go down the side of a fjord on descent to 100ft to reach the end and then just keep turning until you do a 180 back to the runway on the other side of the fjord.
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Post by aharon on Jul 3, 2019 9:28:34 GMT -5
Mikeh,
Great explanations
Regards,
Aharon
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 8:52:56 GMT -5
Another pic of Dennis's great Reykyavik scenery. Maybe this thread should be renamed - ICELANDIC SAGAS. An Eagle Air Lockheed Electra Freighter on the ramp. Eagle Air is yet another one of those Icelandic airlines that sprung up with great promise in Iceland in the early 1970s. There was another company that operated this aircraft called Icelandic Air Cargo (same colour scheme but different registration) but they went bust and Eagle Air took it over. Usual story expanded rapidly replaced the Electra in 1982 with a 737-200 Combi then picked up a couple of Boeing 720's then a 707-300 then a DC-8-71 stretched version struggled on until the went bust in the late 1990s but were reformed and went back to what they started out doing, domestic passenger ops. Now they have or did have a Jetstream 31. Fascinating how they turned a buck. Parts for Ford out of Holland for Southend in the UK. Fish from Iceland to Glasgow in Scotland. Condo buyers from Germany to Spain and backwards and forwards to places Scandinavian etc. Alas they were also up against the powerful combination of Loftleidir and Flugefelag Islands later to become Icelandic Air. For a country of less than half a million souls, that is a lot of aviation activity in a short period of time. KBT ELectra Cargo Version. I think it looks suitably scruffy and well used.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 8:54:44 GMT -5
This was the B707 in a fancy green scheme - this is the Captain Sim 707. Anyway enough of the Avtur, time to get back to Avgas and round engines.
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Post by aharon on Jul 8, 2019 10:13:02 GMT -5
Dennis's great Reykyavik scenery. Mikeh, Is it for FSX, please? And another great explanations on local Icelandic air cargo operations Regards, Aharon
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jul 8, 2019 10:33:16 GMT -5
The scenery is for FS9, but Mike is using it in FSX.
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Post by aharon on Jul 8, 2019 17:37:25 GMT -5
The scenery is for FS9, but Mike is using it in FSX. Tom, Thanks for answer. Wondering how he did that! Regards, Aharon
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