Classic British Flight Sim

Tomliner wrote:Hi Ian,screenings are something I've never really tried.I understand that FRAPS is one type of software to use,or is there something better.

Yes, you can use Fraps to take screenshots if you've got it. I only I use it for my rare videos. I've got two ways of taking screenshots but there may be more.

The easy way is to simply press The V key when you want to take a piccy. This saves a bitmap of your desktop in the FSX folder in My Documents (I think that's where it is - I'm not on the PC at the moment) so you can tap away as much as you like and save what you want later. But you have to manage the folder as bitmaps are big files and will soon swamp you

The other way is to press the PrtScrn key which puts a jpg of the desktop in the clipboard which you can then paste into an editing program. It will only do one at a time, though.

I use freeware Irfanview for cropping and resizing and converting to jpeg. You can also do some image editing with it as well. When I've got a finished jpeg I upload it to my own website and link to it in a post. But if you don't have your own space you can upload to Photobucket.

I've got the same attention span as you. I only fly between airports that are a max of an hour or so. I can get to top of cruise, make a cuppa and settle down for the descent! The bit in the middle is a bit boring unless you like navigation.

Ian

EDIT: if you're doing it to create an artistic image, as opposed to a descriptive image, it's better to pause the action and manoeuvre the viewpoint to get the best effect. You can also do this in replay to capture bits from earlier in the flight. Then you'll want to crop out the on-screen messages!

I flew LHR to Dulles last June in a 777 and back on a 767.

It should have been a 767 both ways but I stepped into an unmarked lift in Terminal 5 and found myself the wrong side of security and we missed the flight.......

SWMBO still reminds when she wants something sorted in the house.

The other way is to press the PrtScrn key which puts a jpg of the desktop in the clipboard which you can then paste into an editing program.

PrtScrn actually dumps a bmp to the clipboard (it takes less processor power to do as there's no compression to take care of), once you paste it into an editing program it's then a case of saving it in whatever format you prefer. Personally with the amount of storage available these days I've had no problems using the 'v' key and saving hundreds of bmp to the My Pictures/Flight Simulator X folder but Print Screen is handy for grabbing images of web pages etc.

Edinburgh to London in a B767 seems overkill to me. I once took an Easyjet Glasgow to Stanstead for, we were no sooner going up than we were coming down again.
That flight was hilarious, there were 14 other passengers aside from me and SWMBO. 737 of course.

Vancouver wrote:Edinburgh to London in a B767 seems overkill to me.

Working on BA 747 classics in the 80s we had some really, really short scheduled sectors. How about Miami-Tampa, Vancouver-Seattle, Montego Bay-Kingston, Los Angeles-San Francisco and Melbourne-Sydney? I think the shortest, though, was Johannesburg to Gaborone which is about 160 miles. These are all out of my log book.

Ian

DaveB wrote:SevenSix's are common place across the pond mate. My cousin flew LHR to SFO on one courtesy of United (a 763).
DaveB

Brisbane to Adelaide in a 767 qualifies as a cruel and unusual punishment...what does that make LHR - SFO?

Cheers
MikeW

I dunno mate. TBH, I fully expected their flight to be on a triple7.. these often do the trip but no.. it was a 76'. They flew it again from Hawaii to SFO and again SFO to KIAD. Can't remember the IAD-LHR leg Oh.. they got complimentary drinks on the Hawaii-SFO run because the media centre failed on the way out
ATB
DaveB

Thanks for the info gents.Re short haul 767 flights,as I said BA are currently mixing the type with A319/320/321s at the moment.Thinking back,I recall flying Melbourne to Sydney in a 767 of Ansett in 1995.
On a slightly different tack,I remember flying with BA in a 747-400from Heathrow to Seattle via Vancouver in 1991.We landed in Vancouver where most of the pax alighted and then continued in the same aircraft for a short but delightful leg at FL 190(I think) to Seattle.One of your flights Ian? EricT
ps,returned SFO to LHR a couple of weeks later on a BA 747-200.

Tomliner wrote:We landed in Vancouver where most of the pax alighted and then continued in the same aircraft for a short but delightful leg at FL 190(I think) to Seattle.One of your flights Ian?

It could well have been, Eric. I did a few of them. IIRC there were three or four a week and they alternated between LHR-YVR-SEA and LHR-SEA-YVR and reverse. It meant that the crew was always in the wrong city/country for the next flight. So for every flight between the cities we had to do a road trip in a coach, clearing customs at the border to get to the hotel for our break before picking up the return flight and doing it again. E.g. The day's work could be Seattle to Vancouver, lunch at the airport restaurant, Vancouver to Seattle, straight into a Chartered Greyhound bus and back over the border to Vancouver. Or vice versa what a job

If you've got the date, Eric, I'll look it up in my log book.

Ian

The use of 767 by BA for short haul goes back a long way . It was not uncommon to see a 767 on the LHR-MAN shuttle . Probably it was done for positioning purposes some of the time, because the 767 was often used on MAN-JFK instead of the ex Caledonian DC10s . It was convenient to position them by the shuttle because the rating was common between 757 and 767 and thus it was not necessary to misposition a crew - i.e. they could take the 767 to MAN and bring a 757 back