Andyrooc

Yeh - I was kidding. Objects don't tend to be 'hard' in any case. 74 orthos? Wow, that's about 74 more than I've ever placed They do look great though.

Nice. Chocolate chip too! (was that the best picture you could find?)

Cool....so what did I win?

If I know Chis' airports, then it'll br 100Mb +. Maybe wait til it's released...I'm sure it'll be worth the wait

I'd say it's Newark International Airport.

You blew a tire & smoke's coming from the engine! I assume this was from a misplaced object? You did have PHLI & PHKO in your 'location' thing.

Your Lebanon Airport is going to look amazing when done @skiflyzander! One of the 'balances' I'm not sure about, is how much detail to add into the model vs how much you leave it to the texture to add the detail. I'm always a bit nervous about having too many individually textures faces on an object and what it might do to my framerate. You can have mega-detailed objects, but once you have 100 mega-detailed objects at one airport, your PC is going to notice. I tend to err on the side of less detailed objects (ok, my objects aren't that great in the first place :\), but that's my preference because I don't spend a lot of time looking at scenery in X-Plane although I do enjoy a 'nice' level of quality. ie: I tend not to model individual windows unless there's a particular reason for it. Does anyone have a rule-of-thumb they use when modelling/texturing? (heh, reminds me of a look I got when I told a colleague I had spent the weekend modelling! )

There is: http://www.fscharts.com but Vatsim have quite a good list here: http://www.vatsim.net/charts/#Europe http://www.vatsim.net/charts/#NorthAmerica

The speed may have been because they were trying to go around, but couldn't get off the ground in time...?

Being Russia, they are already saying it's pilot error. I hope not though.

So, where will the riff-raff go if there's no Org? Here? Long live The Org I say! Between The ORg, PilotEdge, the various VA's etc, there are quite a few fly-ins going on around the place. How about something a little different? I'm thinking something like X-Mission (maybe not as prescriptive) - flying with a purpose. Something like each week attending to some global emergency where people fly-in in a selection a appropriate aircraft, drop food/dump water on a fire/perform air-rescue etc like a virtual United Nations effort. There's often some real-life emergency somewhere around the global that the mission could be aligned with. Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods etc. I even have a suitable theme shoud I need it

This is a new concept I've been working on. It still needs a bit of 'fleshing out', but I think you'll agree, it's showing a lot of promise.

Nice!

I slept right through the whole End of the World shebang and missed all the excitement. Still, it's not first EoW and it won't be the last I suppose. There are still some 7 million Mayans about. Well,at least there was yesterday. To think about a more recent example...there was a whole bunch of people who thought "nobody in there right mind will be using this in the year 2000!" ...so they didn't bother putting the century in the dates of their computer systems. What's more, the world failed to end then as well.

The Org is back online. Nasty bit of malware infected the index page apparently. http://reports.antivirus-lab.com/261983/trojan-lameshield-60/ This site will need the same update The Org got I assume?

Supposed to be 10pm in Sydney. I'm waiting with baited breath.

From FB: See X-Plane owner and developer Austin Meyer on CBS tomorrow (Friday) morning, around 7.30 am! There'll be some in-cockpit footage of him in his plane, with an interview on the patent-trolling lawsuit as well. Cool stuff! http://goo.gl/Si8MM

Well, the org appears to be down & out now. For an upgrade, and until they can figure out the problem.