VFR Photo scenery

Photo scenery can make a visually delicious flight

VFR Photo Scenery

even though the install software is for Windows & Mac the textures work perfectly under Gnu/Linux

Use Real Terra Haze to improve clouds and colour.

Read Terra Haze "is an add-on script for FlyWithLua is based on the findings of user PASCAL_LSGC over at AVSIM about the raleigh scattering controls."

Script your simulator with Lua

You want to use the power of a C/C++ plugin, but it should be easy as BASIC?

Lua is a programming language, even if you can't program the default install adds a few useful tools and I shall be adding pre-made scripts soon.

FlyWithLua

Eclipse 550 personal jet

is an awesome free-ware personal jet. it features all the the things you would expect from a pay-ware personal jet

• Virtual 3D cockpit
• "Glass cockpit" functional
• Customised sounds - Engine, door, call-out, and much more.
  Ground Power Unit
• 10 assorted liveries
• Flight management Computer (FMC)

and it is:

• 64bit compatible
• Windows / Mac / Linux compatible

it can be downloaded from x-plane.org

I'm still learning to fly this aeroplane but it is fun to fly and I will post a video on what I've learnt soon as I have a graphics card upgrade.

buying then flying!

After getting bored of the demo's time limit I decided to take the plunge and buy the simulator, I went for the steam version just because of ease of updating and "it just works", instant access to the simulator once downloaded and part of the steam community

New X-Plane Pilot needed, no experience necessary

This Blog is going to be my exploits of going from a total flight simulator noob to... well where ever it may lead.

When  I started a few month ago I'd never played/Flown a aircraft simulator, well once upon  a time on a ZX Spectrum but that is totally a different kettle of fish.


My system is a Debian Jessie, amd64 rig with
KDE Desktop Environment
Nvidia gtx 550 ti
16 GB of RAM
250GB HDD Root/System
2TB HDD Home.


First thing I did was set up my Debian system to use the NVIDIA drivers
as per the Debian/Nvidia Wiki as X-Plane can't/won't run with Intel graphics No matter how good they are under linux rebooted, Then  visit www.x-plane.org and downloaded the demo and signed up for the news letter (and claim my 5 free extra aircraft, the new letter also gave me tips and tricks for using X-Plane).

After downloading a few GB of game data for the area surrounding the demo air field, it is a simple task of running the executable in the download folder.