FSX Flight - Golden (CYGE) ~ Revelstoke (CYRV)

This is a VFR flight my friend and I took a few nights ago from Golden to Revelstoke. It was a nice flight over the northern rockies and then down the VFR track long the Illecillewaet River. Very scenic and a lot of fun in the Aerosoft Katana DA-20.

Sorry for the mispronunciations of Revelstoke.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• FSX
• ORBX
• FTX
• North
• Rocky
• Mountains
• Aerosoft
• Katana
• DA-20
• TrackIR
• Saitek
• Flight
• Simulator

[normannobrot]

amazing system , say...do you know if theirs anyway to have the FS MAP showing up on another monitor? or a laptop? realy good vids mate..

[flybman2007]

@normannobrot Thanks - yes, there is a way. In fact I run it from a laptop. It uses simconnect just as PlanG, Active Sky Evolution, FSInn etc. I run all of these 3rd party apps on a side laptop. This frees both the simming view and resources. I like FSMap - it's a nice tool to have the sectionals right there on the fly.

[normannobrot]

@flybman2007 great stuff, and thanks. also, how do you work a 4 engine aircraft with the go flight modules??? i've seen some for sale that do "single" and "double" but not "triple" or "quad" .... big fan of the c-130, and want to have each engine on a go flight sort of module... any ideas? and thanks again flybman. would be cool if you get the time to show us some more close ups of your "modules" best regards.

[flybman2007]

@normannobrot I don't have any Go Flight modules. I use only the saitek boxes - Switch Panel, Multi-panel and Radio Panel. They do pretty good but can't vouch for operating big tin. I can say this - the more complex the plane, the less compatible the boxes become simply because they don't know how to interface with complex systems. About the only thing I have seen people do is string together 2 saitek throttles or buy the CH throttle quad.

[id5556]

Oh and beautiful scenery in this vid! I hear this katana has a good flight model?

[flybman2007]

@id5556 The Katana (4x) version is pretty nice indeed. There are some "gimmick" type effects for oil / refueling etc. but all those aside, the DA-20 is in fact a pretty good model and pretty good flight dynamics. Fortunately I don't have a lot of real world flight experience other than sitting right seat a bunch so I really can't pinpoint when a particular flight model is off from the real world.  The DA-20 and the C210 are two recent purchases that I do feel the flight dyn. are good.

[normannobrot]

@flybman2007 interesting. so theirs 2 variant's or "makes" of so called modules. cool. yeah the engine management and complex aircraft management will need to be looked into, how "open" are the settings for your modules? what i mean is can you custom set the buttons and switchs? or are they "set" to be as they are. would be good if you could set them your self.

[id5556]

@dans949 I know both sims very well now, xplane has excellent flight model, but can be too touchy sometimes. You can use both, Xp for fine tuning technique, and fsx for visuals and procedures. You can't beat fsx for visuals and traffic

[DanS949]

Ya I thought it might have had something to do with the 3rd person view, thanks for the advice

[flybman2007]

@DanS949 There are many reasons for this - namely the collection of planes, scenery etc. on the market. There are also planes that replicate stalls, spins but usually they are small small GA planes. In your case x-plane is certainly worth a go.... by the same token, so is FSX for other reasons.