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FS2020 is around the corner and as such is on everyone's mind. On this episode of Inflight, Norm and Sol sit down with Bill Womack and Magnus Lorvik to discuss what we know and do not know about Microsoft's upcoming flight simulator. Thank you for listening to this episode of Inflight! If you would like to hear more, continue through our SoundCloud library. If you want to experience more from the Threshold editorial, visit: https://www.thresholdx.net Questions, comments, concerns? Our Director of Media can be reached at: sol@thresholdx.net Interested in advertising with us? Our CEO can be reached at: magnus@thresholdx.net Music used in Inflight is licensed under Creative Commons. Intro: Watch Me by Geographer — Can be found here: https://bit.ly/2SR7oA9 Produced by Threshold. Threshold A.S. © 2020

On this week's episode of Inflight, we talk New York holiday traffic, look over the busy news week, and speak with Bill Womack from iBlueYonder about his over 15 years of scenery development experience and his thoughts on MFS2020. Read from us at https://thresholdx.net/ Have questions or comments? Email us at editorial@thresholdx.net or submit to the forum topic: https://forum.thresholdx.net/topic/1940-inflight-feedback/ Music: https://danosongs.com/ Want to advertise on the podcast? Contact us through one of the methods above. Thanks for listening!

In this weeks episode, we’re at FlightSimExpo 2018 speaking to people at the event and interviewing the exhibitors! This is a two-part series because of the length it would have been if it was 1 episode. In this episode, we speak to Winfried Diekmann from Aerosoft, along with Bill Womack, Laura from Infinite Flight, Martyn from [...]

In weeks episode we take a look back at the week’s news and also have a special guest, Bill Womack, the legendary flight simulator scenery developer. Below you can find links to all the news stories discussed in the podcast, please feel free to give us some feedback so we can improve it for next [...]

Hosted by Eric McClintock, and Chris Palmer.  Listen Here: Download Audio Here Video: Download 720P HD | Download Low Quality Aerosoft Airbus X Preview More Information Here! A2A Releases Accu-Sim for the Wings of Power II B-17   The philosophy behind Accu-Sim was born many years ago. This has all been a dream for us, until now. After many years of hard work, we are proud to present our dream to you, our customer. A2A Simulations has made it possible for all of us to have the opportunity to enjoy the unique, challenging and fascinating experience of flying the most authentic, complete and accurate simulation of the legendary B-17 ever created. The creation and application of the unique, proprietary A2A Accu-Sim system enables us to truly put you in the B-17’s cockpit in a way that only flying the real thing could match. You can almost smell the leather seats, the hot oil, and the pungent exhaust from those four Wright R-1820-97 "Cyclone" turbo-supercharged, 1,200 horsepower radial engines. The philosophy behind Accu-Sim was born many years ago. This has all been a dream for us, until now. After many years of hard work, we are proud to present our dream to you, our customer.A2A Simulations has made it possible for all of us to have the opportunity to enjoy the unique, challenging and fascinating experience of flying the most authentic, complete and accurate simulation of the legendary B-17 ever created. The creation and application of the unique, proprietary A2A Accu-Sim system enables us to truly put you in the B-17’s cockpit in a way that only flying the real thing could match. You can almost smell the leather seats, the hot oil, and the pungent exhaust from those four Wright R-1820-97 "Cyclone" turbo-supercharged, 1,200 horsepower radial engines. More Info Here! 7S3 Stark's Twin Oaks Nestled in the rolling farmland of the fertile Willamette Valley near Portland, Oregon, Stark's Twin Oaks Airpark is ideally located for sightseeing in the Pacific Northwest. The rural location makes for less traffic and a relaxed atmosphere, while providing an easy jumping-off point for flights to either the coast to the west, or the rugged peaks of the Cascade range to the east. The scenery includes a large area of 30cm/pixel aerial photoreal terrain, featuring the various orchards, Alpaca ranches, and small farms in the area. One special point of interest in the area is the massive Glacier rock quarry, located a few miles to the southeast of the field. And what is possibly a first for an FS airport: multiple elevations. Twin Oaks is carved from the side of a gentle slope, and as a result, the Starks' house, garage, and two of the hangars are on a hill overlooking the rest of the field. Lead developer Bill Womack has obsessively researched and photographed the airport over the last few years, with the enthusiastic support of owners Bob and Betty Stark. We're proud to offer the definitive sim rendition of one of Oregon's aviation jewels. Ground imagery at 30cm per pixel Crafted by master developer Bill Womack Full of 'little details' that make it charming Superb HD 5m terrain mesh for super clarity Includes a large coverage of photoreal area Lush rural valley with farms, crops and more World first - multiple elevation airfield Made with full support of owners, the Starks Includes custom GA AI Traffic movements Made from thousands of on-site photos Superbly detailed models of all buildings Several years in the making! Orbx TextureFlow optimised models   More Information! 1S2 Darrington Municipal Located in a beautiful valley, Darrington Municipal Airport has one of the most glorious settings in the entire flight simulator world! Serving Snohomish County and dwarfed by the shadow of the mighty Whitehorse Mountain, this airfield is set in the heart of picturesque Darrington village on the confluence of two rivers. Rich in salmon fishing, wildlife and pristine natural surrounding, it's a perfect base for your bush flying adventures into the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area and North Cascades National Park. The Orbx duo of Andreas Hegi and Heiko Glatthorn (aka 'Mango') have lovingly crafted this airfield to include so many details, including uniquely modeled churches, houses, hangars, buildings and of course, the 'little' touches. 1S2 is destined to become one of our bestsellers! Ground imagery at 30/60cm per pixel Beautifully modeled airport and town FSX gmax poly runway and aprons with fx Spectacular mountain setting Includes a large coverage of photoreal area Accurate watermasks for the rivers Photos taken by Orbx staff for all buildings Includes custom GA AI Traffic movements Seamlessly blends into FTX NA PNW Expertly seasonally color matched First in a series of WA area airports! Orbx TextureFlow optimised models   More Info Here! E-Mail Update From Last Week... Hanging around the ORBX forums, someone has found the model that they plan to produce and was confirmed by john venema. it is a Lancair IV, a model kit plane. http://www.lancair.com/Main/iv_ivp.html from http://orbxsystems.com/forums/index.php?topic=20669.0 do you guys know anything about this plane? keep up the good work on the show.  

Hosted by Eric McClintock, Mark Stewart, Brendan Farmer, and Chris Palmer. Listen Here: Download Audio Here Video: Download 720P HD (1GB) | Download Low Quality (427 MB) Orbx PNW NA Blue Released! Welcome to North America, and Orbx's most ambitious project to date. Over twelve months in the making, the FTX Pacific Northwest region is truly a stunning achievement which combines all the elements of the much celebrated FTX AU region series, but goes much further. To PNW we have amped the quality of the ground textures to the next level, and sourced them from pristine imagery to create beautifully crisp terrain even at ground level. Going further, we've added photoreal areas above the tree line to many mountains, glaciers, lava flows, as well as including photoreal Seattle CBD, the ports of Tacoma and Olympia, KPAE, Bonneville Dam and many other POI's. Additionally we have created brand new autogen textures, hand-crafted every square mile of landclass, included full moving traffic, 3D night lighting and much more! The icing on the cake? Over 400 airports in the region have been upgraded with custom buildings and objects, elevation corrections and other details. FTX PNW is going to reinvent bush flying, and to celebrate Orbx is also releasing many small to medium airports for this area. The most stunning Orbx product ever! Superb ground textures by Matt Tomkins Hand-crafted landclass covers every mile Accurate roads, rivers, coastlines 10m Holgermesh for crisp definition Large photoreal coverage areas New autogen textures and objects Super accurate autogen annotation Over 450 airports upgraded, including KPAE! Works seamlessly with UTX Glaciers, lava flows, river mud flats Photoreal Seattle ... and MUCH MORE! Price: AUD$54.95 (~$50) Download = 4.21 GB. Our episode with John and Holger, and Bill Womack: http://www.fsbreak.net/podcast/43 Other payware sceneries to be released: 7S3 Stark's Twin Oaks (Bill Womack) 1S2 Darrington Muni (Orbx) Videos: Related: FSAddon's Vancouver to be updated... Jon Patch, the main desiger of VancouverPlus, explains on his blog “ Holger (Sandmann) and I are working on a Vancouver+ update for the upcoming FTX Pacific Northwest product (FSX only), aka FTX NA Blue. Photography is complete (thanks, Nigel!), and modelling and other work is progressing... As well as compatibility with FTX PNW, new features will include:   DHC-3 and DHC-6 AI aircraft. The existing AI flightplans in Van+ reference these aircraft. detailed 1m satellite photoreal imagery for the entire downtown area, south shore of False Creek and the East Side and North Shore dock areas. This replaces the existing 1999 5m imagery. completely redone autogen for the photoreal coverage area: much more dense and accurate new buildings: the Vancouver Convention Centre, the Fairmont Hotel and the Living Shangri-La a couple of bug fixes These updates will be available for free for existing Vancouver+ users, regardless of whether they buy the FTX product or not…..”. FTX PNW purchasers who have not bought Van+ to date, will be able to purchase a discounted version of Van+ for €25. They will get the key elements of Vancouver+ which are not redone in FTX PNW: custom bridges, buildings, photoreal coverage, AI, sounds, waterfalls, detailed CYPK and CYNJ and other unique features….”. VancouverPlus will be available via FSAddon Publishing of course, AFTER Orbx’s release. Original Story... New Helicopter Flight Models from Hovercontrol Helicopter Total Realism ver. 1.0 - HTR is a physics library that replaces FSX helicopter physics. You can create your own configuration files for your favorite helicopters. Helicopter Total Realism (HTR) is a program that overrides FSX FS9 flight model with a more realistic model. All the helicopter reactions are calculated using formulas taken from different aerodynamic books. Every helicopter can be configured using a .cfg file similar to the aircraft.cfg but with custom parameters used by the application to model the physics profile. I have included a full manual with samples on how to create your own configurations. Data is passed to and from FS using FSUIPC, so it works on FSX and FS9. Original Story... New FSX Concorde Preview As we’ve entered beta testing of the Concorde-X, we decided it was time we gave a first video preview of our soon-to-be-released work, which we hope will make flight sim enthusiasts and novices alike really appreciate the talent of our development team. We’ve put a lot of effort in this product, this video preview is but a token of the sophistication, modeling and visual beauty found in the FSX Concorde-X! Original Story... Area 51 C-5M Galaxy The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large, military transport aircraft built by Lockheed. It was designed to provide strategic heavy airlift over intercontinental distances and to carry outsize and oversize cargo. The C-5 Galaxy has been operated by the United States Air Force since 1969 and is one of the largest military aircraft in the world. Features Different MDL files for FS2004 and FSX Very High Detail Exterior and Interior Photoreal Textures Detailed doors and Cargo bays 2D Panel Flight Manual Paint Kit   Original Story... ASE (ActiveSky Evolution) from HiFiSim Active Sky Evolution is the next installment in the Active Sky series, bringing further refinement and accuracy in weather synthesis and depiction, improved smoothing, increased high-fidelity aircraft compatibility, a new graphical look and many other behind-the-scenes improvements to further increase your desktop flight and weather simulation experience! The Active Sky series, first released in 2002, has been continually developed in effort to provide the most realistic and enjoyable weather simulation engine possible for Microsoft Flight Simulator users. Supporting both FS9 and FSX, this latest version offers tons of useful features including universal graphics add-on compatibility, graphics snapshots with weather influence, an in-flight weather display gauge, realistic wake turbulence, vertical air simulation, comprehensive weather and flight planning, full graphical mapping and much, much more. Were you having any problems? Let us know! Original Story... Flightsimdealoftheday.com http://www.flightsimdealoftheday.com Welcome to flightsimdealoftheday.com… your opportunity to enjoy a great deal on all sorts of flight sim related products every day of the year. Products you’ll find on offer range from older blowout titles to current hot titles at very special prices; instant downloads and boxed products; from various flight sim companies around the world. Your savings or added value can be up to as much as 80%, depending upon what’s on offer. Deals Of The Day run for 24 hours only from 9 am to 9 am USA EST (GMT-5) or until what is on offer has sold out – whatever comes first. We don’t tell you how many are available for each deal of the day so if you like what’s on offer we highly advise you click the buy now button right away as it could sell out at any time. Please don’t forget to join the mailing list to receive your daily notice of what’s on offer at flightsimdealoftheday.com. Also, you can rest assured that you are dealing with a reputable company through flightsimdealoftheday.com. It’s owned and operated by PC Aviator Inc (www.pcaviator.com) – flight simulation’s most long lived company currently in its 20th year of business. Enjoy the exciting Flight Sim Deals we’ll bring you through flightsimdealoftheday.com and the important thing to keep in mind when you visit is…. “Don’t Miss Out!” McPhat Studios Repaints Just a quick note, looks like we missed this, there are some new HD repaints from McPhat Studios, check them out below! A few small items from Captain Sim Check out Captain Sim for new items such as 727 Demos, and a lot more. Head on over to Captain Sim. Wilco's Piaggio P180 II Avanti More Details... The Pacific North West scenery winner! Crowman: Low, slow, high, swift land like this is truly a gift Now to my Cub, a flight I make Hope I win this, thanks Fsbreak. Auburn Tigers Jeff P Puget Sound A Apple Orchards C Cascade Mountains I Ice-capped Volcanoes F Fir Trees I IFR Weather C Columbia River W Whistler, BC N Numbered Airfields Recommendations Eric: Interfacelift Brendan: Great Circle Mapper   E-Mails and Voicemails FSX PC's Hi guys, I'm in the UK and follow your podcasts all the time - keep them coming. I've been simming since the days of FS98 but generally I've always been running behind in terms of hardware - low budget and lack of research on my part to blame. This time I've commited to get a decent spec geared entirely around FSX, but it will also run other applications as it will be a main computer. My current Core 2 Duo at 2.4Ghz and 2gb ram fails miserably and even at base settings with sparse terrain I get un-flyable frame rates. So what is the best way to tackle this? Perhaps I could fire a few questions at you guys?   1. Core i7 or Quad (Q9650 e.g)? 2. Does FSX benefit from the "8" cores of the i7? 3. I don't want to overclock as I don't know how so what speed should I look for? 4. What RAM? I intend to run Windows 7 64 bit, does this benefit FSX? If not which OS? 5. Which graphics card? I read somewhere that nVidia seem to work best. 6. I know little to nothing about motherboards. Do they actually make a difference in terms of visual performance if all other elements are kept the same? Incidentally, I learned to fly (back in '92) before I owned a PC but since since FS9 and latterly FSX I'm amazed at the levels of realism being replicated. Thanks guys, much obliged. Regards, Dan St. Barts Landing with Fly Tampa scenery Hey Guy's, I just wanted to share with you my first attemt at making a video. I've been putting this off a long time always afraid it would just be to hard and require a lot of expensive equipment. But I discovered it's really not that hard. I downloaded the free version of Frapps, and used the built in Windows Live Moviemaker. Since this was a Carribean setting, I chose what I thought was a catchey tune for the background. And was pretty amazed how it turned out. Mabe you can urge some of your viewers / listeners who are putting it off to give it a try. I have attached a link to my video. Thanks and keep up the great work. Phil Raulston ( BigDBlue ) http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=100935443275639&ref=nf  

Hosted by Eric McClintock, Danton Berube, Mark Stewart, Brendan Farmer, and Special Guests Scott Gentile and Cody Bergland. Listen Here: Download Here A2A Simulations Join us as we talk to Scott and Cody with A2A Simulations about their history and future, and their Piper J3 Cub with AccuSim, and past and future products from them. Recommendations Eric: Plan-G - Free IFR and VFR Flight Planner for FS9 or FSX http://www.tasoftware.co.uk   Google Maps interface for rich topographical and satellite detail Shows airspace, airports and navaids on the map (from Flight Sim data) Configurable levels of detail (objects displayed) for each zoom setting Fully editable plans can be saved in FSX or FS9 format Existing FS plans can be loaded Reverse flight plan Print map and PLOG Customisable database of user waypoints, VRPs, airstrips etc (UK CAA VRPs, plus some OZx airstrips already defined) Connects to FSX via SimConnect Aircraft telemetry, breadcrumb trail, traffic, weather etc available when connected to FSX Saved flight trails can be displayed for later analysis Range Rings can be configured to show distance or flight time Mark: FourFlights Four flights is a web site that publishes 4 flights a day to find 4 different degrees of weather happening in real world locations. Danton: Ground Environment X Europe Ground Environment X Europe represents our new approach in texture design, incorporating high level detail graphics in the default Flight Simulator X 1-meter texture resolution format. This delivers a hi-fidelity image without using excessive disk space or processor power. Our design allows a simulation pilot to enjoy clearly defined visuals from nearly ground level up to higher altitudes. Brendan: ZurichX airport scenery for FSX and FS9 Zürich Airport is a scenery developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) and Flight Simulator 2004 ( FS9 ). It's has been created with great attention to visual quality and performance, using the latest available programming techniques, both in FSX and FS9. The product is sold as 2 Products in One. This means, by buying one version, you will automatically get the other for free, since activation and serial codes are shared between FSX and FS9. Voicemail X-Plane and 8 Cores from Ben E-Mails E-Mail from Gerry My name is Gerry First I want to congratulate you and your team. FSBreak has grown to be a fantastic podcast of the highest quaity. You should be very proud. I have listened to every broadcast and look forward each week to the next one. I've been a flight sim fan since the very beginning and spend a lot of my flying time on Vatsim. It's hard to believe when I look back and think how excited I got flying in a wireframe environment. FS has on gotten better and better since then and I look forward to what the next generation will bring. This is for Danton, but Eric should also go this route. As one who uses Matrox Triple Head-2-Go, I could never see myself going back to a single monitor. I don't care how large the monitor is, you still only have a narrow field of view. The additioal monitors give you an expanded view that you will not believe. And yes, you can still use your track IR. Go to Matrox web site and look at the examples they provide. Since you are building a fantastic system, you should take another look at this type of setup. You won't be sorry. Keep up the great work. Many thanks again, Gerry New Bush Pilot VA I was wondering if you guys could give my new VA a plug, I have Bill Womack as a pilot, and John from FTX, has given us his endorsement! I know you probably don't do this type of thing, but what we have is something unique! We are the Only VA designed for A2A's J3 Piper Cub! With Hubs and FBOs located in TongassX, FTX Australia, PNG, Plum Island and the Pacific Northwest! Our Forums are only open to pilots, but I have a few things to look at! Stop by! And give Us a Look & Shout! http://www.backcountryservicesva.com Thank you for your time and consideration! Blue Skies! Xflyboy Ed Cleveland    

Hosted by Eric McClintock, Danton Berube, Brendan Farmer, Mark Stewart, and special guests John Venema, Holger Sandmann, and Bill Womack. Listen Here: Download Here We talk with John, Holger, and Bill about FTX and the Pacific Northwest The A2A Simulations Piper Cub and Orbx's FTX NA Blue make the ultimate companions! Listen to the first part of the show for an entire interview with John Venema and Holger Sandmann of Orbx Simulation Systems, creators of FTX AU and the much awaited Pacific Northwest (PNW) scenery. We also talk with Bill Womack about the Pacific Northwest region too! If you're following this project at all, you're not going to want to miss this episode. Listen to this week's show for several surprises! Also, Eric wanted to share just a few of his screen shots from the PNW region using FTX NA Blue, check our gallery here. Of course a huge thanks to Orbx for letting us bring this content for you.   "Around The World" Repaint Contest Winners Over the past few weeks Aerosoft was nice enough to lend us their user base and offer a free download to anyone who did a repaint of the Carenado Mooney M-20J for the upcoming "Around The World" flight. (Check out our PBY Catalina or Discus Glider X Reviews if you need some ideas for your free download!). The grand winner got an additional two downloads (Three Total) and three runner ups got one additional download (Two total). And here are the results!! First Place (3 Downloads) - Kurocl Eric's Pick (2 Downloads) - RedEye Brendan's Pick (2 Downloads) - FourtyFreak Mark's Pick (2 Downloads) - Guenseli All winners should be contacted shortly. Here is the original thread! And here are all of the entries, good work everyone! First Place: RedEye (Runner Up): FourtyFreak (Runner Up): Guenter (Runner Up): Other Entries: Want More AU Burger Flying? Well, we are extending the usual $100 Hamburger updates since it took longer than usual to get the last one up. But Steve has also published a second flight which you can download here to hold you over! Thanks Steve! Recommendations Danton: FSXMark07 & Fraps 2.9. Set Up of FSBreaks's FSXMark07 Challenge! Download: Fraps 2.9 Download: FSXMark07 1) Download and install FRAPS 2.9. 2) Configure FRAPS FPS options as follows: A) Disable Overlay Display Hotkey B) Set Benchmarking Hotkey to P C) Leave "Only Update Once a Second" off D) Set benchmark to automatically stop after 300 seconds E) Check box to save "MinMaxAvg" statistics 3) Download FSXMark07.zip and unzip the contents into your "Documents/Flight Simulator X Files" folder 4) Under Settings in FSX, customize the Graphics settings to: A) Target Frame Rate: Unlimited (far right) B) Full Screen Resolution: to 1280 x (800 or 768 or 720, depending on your screen proportions) x 32 C) Advanced Animations: ON D) Light Bloom: OFF E) Preview DirectX 10: OFF F) Lens Flare: ON G) Global texture resolution: High I) Anti-Aliasing: ON J) Filtering: Anisotropic 5) Click OK and at main Settings window, set Aircraft, Scenery, Weather, and Traffic all to Medium High 6) Load FSX and select Free Flight 7) Click "Load", select FSXMark07 in the saved flights, and click "Fly Now" 8) When the game is ready, it will be paused. Hit "P" which will unpause the autopilot flight and start the benchmarking at the same time. Let the autopilot fly the plane! 9) After 5 minutes, the yellow FRAPS frame counter will reappear to show benchmarking is complete 10) Right click the FRAPS icon in your system tray to see your benchmarks 11) Post a screenshot of the results! Brendan: http://www.protu-154.com/index_e.html Project Tupolev Tu-154M Eric: Two Picks First: FSX.cfg modification to make autogen easier to handle (Credit: John from Orbx): This simple tweak will limit the number of autogen trees being displayed whilst still allowing you to have a high autogen slider setting. Add the following two lines to your [TERRAIN] section in your fsx.cfg file: [TERRAIN] TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_TREES_PER_CELL=1000 TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_BUILDINGS_PER_CELL=1000 Second Pick: http://ninite.com - Eaisly Load Programs to Your new or Rebuilt computer E-Mails & Voice Mails Voice Mail about "Yugo" GPU's from Ben Supnik Thanks for the voice mail - Check out that page here! Microsoft ESP Are you aware the Microsoft is selling an advanced flightsimulator called Microsoft ESP? See: http://www.microsoft.com/esp/default.htm There is also an article about it in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of "Airliners." I will scan and forward you this article for your review. Perhaps this is something that FS Break listeners may be interested in? All the best and keep up the great work! Russ Tillman   Thanks for the tip Russ - We did know about ESP, however ESP was also canned with ACES. From their website: Microsoft has ceased further development of Microsoft® ESP™, but ESP remains available to customers and partners.  Microsoft is currently exploring 3rd party licensing options for the future of ESP and will announce details at the appropriate time. Also, does anyone know how ESP was different from FSX other than the name change?

Hosted by Eric McClintock, Mark Stewart, and Bill Womack.Listen Here:We talk scenery with Bill WomackA BIG thanks to Bill Womack (@bwomack) for spending some time with us to talk about his scenery projects. Check them out here:Dillingham airport in Hawaii (Aerosoft)Plum Island, Massachusetts (FSAddon)Airports in Tongass Fjords X (FSAddon)Also be sure to visit his site [...]