WestWind Virtual Airlines

As a new airport scenery artist for X-Plane 11, I had my first 3D airport approved. It is KCMX, Houghton County Memorial airport in Hancock Michigan. All of us artist (as we are called) are upgrading all of the older, default 2D scenery to 3D; modifying the airports as needed and adding 3D objects. ...

I too, have been using FS9 for years. I've tried FSx on my Windows computer, which I built with much ram and a super video card. But still doesn't have the performance that I enjoy with FS9. I am thinking X-plane, but not too sure if I could try it at this time. I guess my primary consideration is:...

Just posted more about MSFS 2020 a few minutes ago.
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Here is a good preview of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 pre-Alpha. The previewer is a RW 737 pilot who was invited to a special event by Microsoft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RciDscn ... _hmrNLPQXA

https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-wants-to-bring-back-flight-simulator-to-show-it-supports-pc/ Youtube has several commentaries with with video trailer of the new Microsoft Flight Simulator. From the looks of the graphics in the trailer, it will need a super-computer to run it. However, I think I c...

Thanks Mark! There is a limit to all areas of flight simulation: flight dynamics, instrumentation realism, scenery, weather, ATC, etc. there needs to be priorities. We can't have it all; and even if we could, we couldn't afford the necessary computing power. I think all of us old guys who started ou...

Thanks for the link Mark. Looks like that discussion is for Mesh only. Too complex for me. Here is a link for the forum pertaining to the Airport Scenery development: primarily the use of WED and Overly Editor: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/forum/7-scenery-development-forum/ Also, for...

Thanks Sean! I've viewed a lot of YouTube tutorials since I started flying X-Plane 11. A lot of good stuff out there.

Here is the official release notice for X-Plane 11.30: http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001-8VrCBXY1M0tKhbs0jxRPKYp9AprZ2ZFBjIWzvxRFZQ90OuAV9X62CltBb7BXlQfXicqufAaA92T8bXpz6CH8qEKc0CJZcNFY09VsUWiPHxbUekJq5hOU0z4C6ElxrP3pU4bk72u998DGXcDUfqVIneF4bMxI7trNVxiDK3W4dSDh7_sLJwvYAuXzIqa6Q-oR0B4xV5q7Qfb3RWMo2XE5n...

Thanks Mark! This will make it a lot easier to zero in on an individual's specific Interest.