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Hello ladies and guys, how are you ? I'm proud to introduce here on that lovely place that is X-Pilot, my new ( and very first ) thing for X-Plane, in fact, my very first thing I ever create on a computer. I've started learning Blender three weeks ago. Some day, I'm wondering myself if someone ever make a scenery of infamous V.I Lenin, mostly known as Chernobyl NPP.. And no, not in X-Plane at least, FSX got some medium quality one... So, I decided to give me a try. That area totally scares and frighten me, but it's fascinating at the same time, knowing that the region will be empty of human threat for many thousands of years, when I see all that vegetation and those rare animal species, I say my self " Wow, at least, those innocent one will leave in peace without human madness ! " Anyway, this will be a big scenery pack, I wish to include of course the Nuclear Power Plant itself, the nearby city of Pripyat, the Vehicle Graveyard, the Red Forest, the Russian Woodpecker.. anything in " The Zone of Alienation " the officially prohibited zone, highly radioactive in some place, that some people will go in to steal some .. magic things ( this is S.T.A.L.K.E.R ;-) ) I hope that large project will take me about one year or so. I wish to make it payware, cause my 2009 laptop is very outdated now, I run X-Plane 9 at medium-low setting at max 25-30 FPS,and XP10 9 FPS max without anything .. so, I wish to buy ( and built ) me the fastest computer avaible at the time I'll release that scenery, to take all benefits of X-Plane 10, 11, 12 and all other great sims ( DCS : Blackshark, IL2 Birds Of Prey ( when it'll be stable ), Silent Hunter V etc.. ). I hope that community will be interested a bit in this project, I know it's kinda strange choice, not happy at all, but it's the real life, and it will be a great place to explore in X-Plane world, a good argument to fly heading to Russia. I start with the original Power Plant, before '86 accident, when the Sarcophagus wasn't and people of Pripyat were happy and healthy .. I'll start the bad things later, when I'll completely finnish the NPP. Valentin

What an excellent and thoroughly helpful comment this one is. The fact that you even took time to spend writing it has me scratching my head. Was it really worth the effort to try and make someone feel bad? I just dont understand I guess

ENAL-ENML in Carenado Bonanza

Very nice video, I really like the hangar!

Thanks!!

Nice video Ola, thanks for sharing!

CAS is Crew Alerting System. As in EICAS = Engine Instrument and Crew Alerting System, which is the two central displays. It means you should check the yellow warning messages on the left and the white status messages on the right EICAS display and take any messages into consideration. The Fuel crossflow switch is in the overhead panel, in the fuel panel: The center switch of the top row is the gravity crossflow (which is simulated including the influence of sideslip!!!!) and the center switch in the bottom row is the powered (pumped) crossflow. Both should be dark. Philipp

I bought it myself for christmas, and I find it quite enjoyable. I would call it an "ONLY" simulator: It is day-only, VFR-only, switzerland only. The photo scenery for switzerland is *&!"HOLY CR*P THIS IS AWESOME£~+!@ impressive. The dynamic shadows are as good as X-Plane(10)'s. The fps are incredible: Everthing set to "Ultra"+HDR+8xAA=170fps on my machine. The aerial photos are good. The colors look credible (i have seen a lot awful blue-greeny photo sceneries, this is not one of them). The resolution is okay, but it could use either autogen buildings or an even higher resolution because most houses are simply brown blobs if you look very close. However, the scenery is ideal for VFR flying. I flew around areas I know from winter holidays and immediately recognized the skiing areas I'm familiar with. Also the highways I know were easily recognized and some adjacent villages also. The autogen scenery lacks houses (there are some, but too few). The trees are gorgeous however. The flightmodel physics feel plausible as in "it feels very similar to X-Plane". I would say X-Plane and Aerofly FS feel roughly the same, whereas FSX feels quite different. The weather options are barebone: Two cloud layers and one global wind setting. Thats all. However, it has thermal generation for soaring: dark patches of landscape in the sun generate thermals you can easily find when flying over them and hear the Variometer go "boouuuueeeiiiiii! beep! beep! beep! beep! beep!" The aircrafts are barebone: Only the "holy six" instruments are working. No radio navigation is implemented. No Autopilot. No electrics. No working switches, no electrics. Engines are always running and cannot be shut down or started. The piston engine model is nonsense: it has no idea of density altitude, so you can climb the C172 to FL200 with 1000fpm. Mixture control is not implemented. Also the manifold pressure is nonsense, as are the temperatures (neither fuel flow nor EGT gauges work). For me, Aerofly FS makes for a very good soaring simulator, and awesome VFR flying with simple aircraft. However, I would love the density altitude effect as it would make mountain flying really interesting, when you really have to plan ahead because your performance is limited. Philipp

Again some screenshots, now with XP10. Did some more texturing, this and that, but the most did XP10 - with the dynamic shadows and the better mesh elevation. Unfortunately the latter is still not good enough for LPMA (especially for the runway on pillars), and I painfully experienced that it is not (yet) possible to edit the elevation, so we have to wait. Maybe I will release an intermediate version without the runway on pillars when I'm finished so far. And now for something completely different ... the screenshots:

uhhh, yesterday I waited more than half an hour at Girona Train Station. There was one cargo train not moving a milimeter. I thought "well, another will eventually arrive" - but no. However I've never been to Girona in real life, so maybe it's just like Melbourne

This looks great ..... like a professional picture, with the shallow DOF.

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