On The Glideslope

Month: October 2017

  • More Tampa Gateway Progress

    I’ve scrapped the earlier work and have decided to use the new Terminal Kit, objects, and lettering available in the X-Plane 11.1 beta libraries. While this means the Tampa International I’m designing for the Gateway won’t work with X-Plane 10, I prefer to design for the future. And the new Terminal Kit is much more…

  • TPA Update

    The American Airlines terminal. Good progress on the ramp, and I have the perimeter of the terminal accurate, but theres a lot of work to do on the window and height scheme. But it’s coming along.

  • The Next Scenery Project

    It is KTPA Tampa International, using only default objects for Gateway upload. This one is going to take weeks, but I’m just going to chip away at it one section at a time. First bit is getting the multiple tarmac textures set to match the satellite imagery. Then we’ll go to buildings – although I…

  • A Quick Video Tour Of World Traffic 3

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    I’ve been getting familiar with Classic Jet Simulations’ World Traffic 3, and I have to say I really like it. It’s worth spending a little time reviewing some of the tutorials for how to use the software, and YouTube has plenty of them. Once I understood the basics I found it an excellent addition to the sim.…

  • Does World Traffic 3 Produce GA Traffic?

    I’ve been asked this several times. Yes it does. Quite well in fact. 

  • Just Arrived

    I’d read about this book and plan to use it to design training in the sim. I’ll let you know how that goes. 

  • WorldTraffic 3.0

    WorldTraffic 3.0

    One of the things I’ve missed about P3D is AI traffic. While flying on PilotEdge fills the skies with aircraft (drones and those piloted by real people), the default AI system in X-Plane simply is not very good and is a CPU hog to boot. So I’ve followed the release of Classic Jet Simulations’ World…

  • First-Person View KSBA to KSBP on PilotEdge

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    First-person view videos are not everyone’s cup of tea. Some love them, and others find they make them nauseous. I like them, and try to make one every six months or so. Here’s the latest, a short hop from Santa Barbara to San Louis Obispo. We make this flight on PilotEdge, and with few interruptions…

  • Tampa To Sarasota At Dawn

    I made this a few weeks back but forgot to post it. It’s a flight over the new real-world territory, Tampa to Sarasota, highlighting modified night lighting and xEnviro 1.07 weather. I enjoyed this night-to-sunrise flight and hope you do, too.

  • Amazing X-Plane Night Lighting Modification

    There’s a modified lights.txt file in the XP11 forum at x-plane.org, and I must say it produces some stunning results with no performance hit so far as I can tell. Thanks to Dave for pointing me to the file, and here’s the link (the file is about half-way down on the first page). I shot…