Back in the saddle again!

I know, I know....

It has been over a month since my last flight. But I have been busy as hell and also built a new computer system for flight simming.

You read all about my new system by clicking HERE.

I also had to install all my flight sim software again, For two sims! Not to mention the freeware shit too. Then tweak the hell out of it.

And to boot Jure and Fengz from the AVSIM forums got me hooked on the ENB series gfx modification that caused me to go into a further frenzy of tweaking to get it looking right. (thank you again Jure for your help!)

Enough of that and on with the flight.....

The new HAL I7 at work.....

Back in the saddle is a fitting title due to the fact I am heading to cowboy country. Dallas Texas.

American Airlines flight #532. KLAS (Las Vegas) to KDFW (Dallas). Flying in my old hat the PMDG 737-800. Both amazing scenery were done by FSDT.

AAL#532 at the gate KLAS

Weather at KLAS was HOT! We are talking 39C hot to be exact. Wind was 210/13kts and clouds 11'000 few, 16'000 scattered. Using the COWBY2 departure off the very long runway 25R. I even did a derated thrust takeoff with this heat due to the length (just over 14'000 feet). It seemed like I rolled along forever out there before rotation.

Rolling along 25R KLAS

The ride east was a touch over 900nm and about half way took me over the city of Albuquerque. Lots of South West Airlines traffic in the area along the J72 airway. I used the UKW9 arrival for KDFW and runway 35C keeping me close to my terminal. KDFW is a gigantic airport and we encountered a shit load of traffic. They seemed to be coming from every where on the arrival route.

Weather at KDFW was wind 333/06kts with clouds 10'000 scattered and 26C. You fly down wind after UKW VOR and turn left base to your runway. This is where what seemed like airplanes coming from every which way. Even with AI smooth running. KDAL (Love field) is also in very close proximity to compound the traffic mess. I wonder if someone (like Jim Vile) has done an approach fix like they did for KDEN and KATL. Going to have to check....

Final for runway 35C KDFW

I greased that landing man! I was a bit over my VREF but better a touch too fast than slow. And it has been a while since I was in the PMDG 737 too. It's still one of the best no matter what they might say.

Taxi to the gate.

The FSDT version of KDFW is another piece of art from that team. It looks and runs great.

I also loved the ENB series added to the sim. It seems to give it more volume and looks less washed out and flat. Not that it looked "bad" before. I just love the way the lighting changes as you look around in the VC too. And going from sunny to cloudy.

With my new PC I can turn things up a bit in FSX, like the autogen for example. ORBX looks even better if you can imagine that being possible.

I might do a FSX flight with VFR Germany next (it looks awesome with the autogen cranked up).