......and GEX North America, UTX Alaska and Canada, and the Aerosoft DHC-6 twin otter with the Mission Pack.

Special thanks To Rob V. for answering my questions on GEX and UTX!

I installed GEX and UTX and got sidetracked by the Aerosoft Twin Otter in the flightshop which led me to the Twin Otter Mission Pack. So I installed it as well, and tested it all on Pan American Charter routes.

Pulling into Skagway Alaska at the end of flight 1017:


A picture of the real Skagway can be found here
http://www.alaska-in-pictures.com/data/media/12/skagway-alaska_1011.jpg

Leaving Skagway:


Another picture from the real world:
http://www.rideyukon.com/images/skagwayphoto.jpg



Some shots of the Aerosoft Twin Otter:



















Thanks for looking
Gary

Nice pictures, scenery looks great

Thanks Cal,
I bet they will look even better when I find some talented livery painter to redo my twotter in CVA colors?
Gary

I agree. Did you spend a lot of time tweaking UTX with the app it comes with?

zilch so far Rob, but I hope you don't mind me PM'ing you for tips on that one ?

Gary

Rob, should have that 767 with the wing tips soon, my computer cant run the LDS 767-300 if it's still on my desktop. I'm heading home tomorrow.so it should be a couple days.

Great shots and a beautiful plane. Yeah, I wish we had a CVA paint for the Aerosoft Twin Otter.

That will be great, Cal.

And Gary, pm me if you want, but I suggest the forums. I'm a novice compared to many of these guys and they'll have lots of good tips. Like making sure I have it set correctly so that the Ottawa River isn't missing a 50 km piece, right Barry?!

Anyway, just turn off FSX and start up the UTX Setup Tool and you can scroll through each and every different layer and item and turn it off or on, for night or day, and it will show you if it takes up a lot or a little of system resources to run each one. Here's a pic



- vertical arrow shows the navigation tools to find the various layers/items that you can turn on or off
- horizontal arrow shows an item selected (and resulting graphic)
- circle shows the amount of system resources the selected item uses
- square shows the button to turn off/on the item (sometimes you can choose to turn it off and other times you are forced to choose between a couple or three items that conflict and only one can be selected)

Have fun - it all depends on your desire for frame rates and your system. I prefer the best picture and don't mind stuttering slide shows, since FSX never crashes from stutters anyway. My frame rates are about 30 enroute and down to 5 to 10 at airports. AND IT LOOKS GREAT!

Oh and by the way, you can also match your UTX settings with tweaks to FSX settings directly from the UTX Setup tool.



This tool is a lot easier to use than going into FSX and testing and tweaking there. This tool lets you choose settings based on system resources too.

Here's mine:

Rob
Your screenshots are a great start! I wasn't even aware of the "Setup Tool" It's really odd I've set the new computer up to "show hidden files" but the setup tool didn't show up anywhere. No start menu item, no desktop icon and when I looked in the flight one folders no executable to be found. I finally typed "Setup Tool" in the start menu search box and found it that way. If you hadn't posted those screenshots I'd still be flying in the dark Am I missing something there?

As for trying the forums, I'm keen on anyone reading this post who may have any tips or opinions and are interested in sharing them.

And once again a big thanks Rob like I said if it wasn't for your response I'd be flying in the dark

Gary

Thanks Barry!

It was your Prince Rupert to Terrace post that drew my attention to the Aerosoft twotter to begin with

Have you figured out a way to get around that splash screen they use in place of the 2d panel screen? I've always set up a button on any controller I'm using to cycle views in "Cockpit View" and having that splash screen pop up whenever I'm trying to get to the "Mini Panel" view really takes my focus away from the task at hand (which is usually trying to land)

I downloaded the Paint Kit for the airplane with the honest intention of learning how to do a repaint for it myself after googling for tutorials. Joined the support forum over at Aerosoft, downloaded the paint zip extracted all the files, opened one up took a look at the template and abandoned all hope Oh well

Gary

No, you're not missing anything. The defaults are already well balanced for performance and looks, but now you can tweak little things to your preferences, which may be different depending on what you do most. Some people mainly fly heavies at 36,000' and some people only fly twotters around the valleys, so they can't have it set up perfectly for everyone.

I'm sure you'll get some good feedback here, even offers of help or resources to start painting.

cheers