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Prosim 2.0 Update

Prosim-AR released a new updated version of their software on the 1st January 2018. Prosim737v2. There were a lot of changes in it. First the update model was modified, means that you need an annual subscription to get the latest updates. Same as Navigraph, etc. If you decide not to continue the subscription you can use the software of course.
The migration from v1 to v2 is free for user who already had a v1 licensed.

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Planning for a new Route in 2018

New year, new plans.

I have started my planning for a new route in 2018. Let’s call it “Fly through Europe”.
I will start to fly around in Spain including a “small” jump to Teneriffa and Gran Canaria.

It will be followed by Italy and Greece, but no detailed planning was made.

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a merry Christmas.

This was the only “winter looking” picture I found from the last flights.

Gatemonitor installed

I have now mounted an old TV Screen in the flightdeck room.

Now I can show the Gatemonitor or other screens on this TV.

Inflight entertainment from Prosim Utils

New CPU Cooler for Main PC

During the migration to P3Dv4, I noticed that I can overclock my i5-4690k CPU to get a little more performance out.

Therefore I had to change the CPU cooler to take the stonger temperature of the CPU off.

I decided to use a Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-Extreme cooler. Its a monster 🙂 But in Windows idle I get now around 27°C, before it was in the mid 30°C.

With overclocked to 4GHz I get around 50-55°C with Prime95 and 100° Processor performance.

Vatsim Cross the pond event 2017

On Saturday 14th October the Cross the pond event was held again. This time, as usual in the autumn Eastbound.

I was participating with a flight from Toronto to Copenhagen as OS364.

The block time was 8 hours an 30 minutes. We lost about 45 minutes on ground due to heavy traffic.

Here you can some pictures from our flight.

A timelapse vide will come later this week.

Virtual Airline – Senior Captain Rating

Many of you know, that I am flying for the Austrian virtual airline.

Yesterday I have achieved the Senior Captain ranking, which is the highest rating that you can reach.

The flight was from the Seychelles back to Vienna as OS22 with the LevelD 767.

Turbulence Sounds with Body Shaker

Together with Michael from Germany and Benny I realized a longer project part on the list.

Turbulences.

Now, thanks to Benny, we have a .dll file which reads the actual Turbulence data out of the API from Activesky 2016. With a .lua script and manual created sounds we are feeding Prosim and Prosim Audio with random shaking sounds. Each Sound file is 1 second long and changes every second randomly, so you will not hear a sound twice.

The turbulence can be none, light, moderate, heavy and severe. With the turbulence now the flight feeling is more accurate and makes really fun to fly.

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Cabin Photo Wall

A long other item on the to do list can be ticked off now. The Cabin photo on the wall behind the flightdeck entry.
When you now look out of the flightdeck you can see the Cabin of the aircraft.
Looks really nice. Thanks to my wife for the idea back in Summer 2015. And a very big thank you to my dad and my brother who helped applying this on the wall, was not easy – as every time when I touch something in or around the flightdeck.