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Four hours intensive photoshop, in the name of "how to make things used and dirty like you don't even want to touch it"

Somewhere over western Turkey tonight: The mist (overcast?) was rolling down over the mountains and out over the sea:

A new aircraft I just took ownership of today and I am enjoying learning how she fly's. This is my first flight with her.

Hi to all! An update. The v1.1 will take some time to be released. I'm gearing up with SASL. This has two advantages. First I will remove many of the custom instruments and replace them with SASL code. So, it will be lighter on textures (= less VRAM). Second, added functionality to systems that are not very well simulated at the first release.

Today I flew CYUL-KMCO on a US Airways Boeing B757-200. More pictures HERE.

Sounds like X-Plane for the past 10 years...

There is no Intel bias for the benchmarks I linked you to. All CPUs are listed at stock speeds. You need to understand that Nr of Cores X Clock Speed does not equal work done equally between all CPU architectures. I have been an AMD fan for a long time (see also my sig) and have learned that the current Intel CPUs get more done per core per clock pulse than AMD CPUs do. Right now, I'd take the Intel i7 3770K which offers the best bang-for-the-buck, particularly for running X-Plane. Rendering programs employ far more threads than X-Plane will, and the 8-core FX8350 may very well be fine for that. That's why I built a quad GTX680 rendering machine for my son (an architect) that renders with 1536 x 4 GPU cores using OctaneRender and V-Ray RT. Kieran is correct stating X-Plane drives the GPU with one thread.

Carenado made a really nice C208 for XP http://www.carenado.com/CarSite/Portal/index.php

So sorry to hear that. Are you familiar with the member "ruyjo"? I think you gave the ACF to him, so he could make videos.

Awesome!!!!!! Looks a wonderful place to fly.....alot like Christchurch, New Zealand!!! Slainte, Andy NZCH

One last photo for the day

A slightly better daytime shot: