DLH421 in Vatsim's Cross the Pond

In March and October of each year, Vatsim hosts it's prestige event "Cross the Pond". For 12 hours, Virtual Air Traffic Controllers man Oceanic airspace covering the Atlantic Ocean, British and Canadian airspace, and the facilities associated with up to 9 airports.

The Focus is traversing the Atlantic Ocean in transport category heavy jets crossing the North Atlantic organized track structure, known as the NAT's. Flying flights of generally over 6 hours duration, pilots fly their flight simulators over the Vatsim network, interacting with Air Traffic Control and other pilots along the way.

This video deals with a simulated Lufthans flight from Boston Airport to Frankfurt airport which tracks via NAT track Yankee and cruising at FL350 initially, FL360 across the NAT, and FL370 after reestablishing radar contact south of Ireland.

Departing in the Local Morning in Massachusetts the Boeing 747-400 D-ABVU makes its way over the Atlantic Ocean to an evening arrival in Germany.

I would like to thank Matt Sheil for his Boeing 747-400 simulator and the opportunity to join the WorldFlight Australia crew in 2011. Many of the cockpit views in this video were filmed on board Matthew Sheil's 747-400 Full Motion Simulator during the course of the WorldFlight Charity event in November 2011. www.worldflight.com.au

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Atlantic
• Boeing
• 747
• Vatsim

[tydaftpk38]

How do you get the lights to work on the AI traffic?

[musicalaviator]

@tydaftpk38 I got the lights to work on AI traffic in the following manner: I used FSinn.

[AlexKid8]

How did you change the Squawkbox aircraft models?

[musicalaviator]

@AlexKid8 Take a look at the vatsim (squawkbox) forums. However I'm using FSinn here, not Squawkbox. FSinn might be harder to set up at first, but it is far easier to set up different aircraft models and liveries as you go. (you can even add them while flying as long as the AI has been installed into FSX first). They also come with animations (Gear/Flaps) and strobe/beacon/landing lights and Contrails enabled without further editing.

[musicalaviator]

@tydaftpk38 Version 4 VAIP (from Compass VA) mixed with MyTrafficX. I found WOAI ok, but wouldn't allow shadows when at Aerosoft airports (the planes would turn invisible). This is due to the WOAI planes being built for FS9 and it's usually ok for FSX, but Aerosoft airports have some funky thing going on with their texture files that makes FS9 based AI turn invisible if you have shadows enabled.

[tydaftpk38]

@musicalaviator Thanks for the quick response. So what AI package do you use?



[musicalaviator]

@tydaftpk38 FSinn comes with lights on traffic. It does it independantly of the pilot. Basically if an aircraft is flying and under 10,000ft it has the Landing lights on. These stay on till the aircraft is under about 60kts (and on the ground) at which point it changes to taxi lights. Strobes are on if the aircraft is moving. nav/taxi lights if it has moved in the last 5 minutes. Gear down if flying below 2000ft AGL. Flaps if flying below 3000ft or so.

[musicalaviator]

@IrishAviator1 I think I just didn't have a livery installed for World Airways 747's so it defaulted to White 747.

[kurtdaking]

Great video, like allways good work

[MrCasuallyAwesome]

I wish I could fly in that beautiful simulator...