X-Country to Tauranga via Tarawera: From a weekend at Galatea

Finally got CumulusX to behave itself after playing around with the config, so I set up a fictional weekend in NZGA and a x-country flight back to Tauranga with GXT...

We have the technology...

Watch this space!

A week of nothing... So here's a shed-load of screenshots

I'll blame it on the shitty weather and work... I pretty-much left the Sim alone all week, apart from a small session this afternoon trialling a program called FaceTrackNoIR.
For those who don't know, there is a product out there called TrackIR - a small infra-red camera that sits on top of your monitor while you clip what looks like 3 toothpicks with silver flags onto the peak of a baseball cap. You fire up FSX or your game of choice and this clever little bugger moves your view-point in the game around by tracking your head movements - left, right, up, down, fore and aft.
To be honest, it takes a little while to get used to but after that, it adds some real depth to flying. Now being a tight arse (TrackIR will set you back $200ish) I looked around and found FaceTrackNoIR - same deal but without the specialised hardware (all you need is to download the free program, and have a webcam) so I dug out a cheap old webcam and got it all up and running in about 5min.
Since I haven't got any new screenshots, I'll throw some old ones up... I'm not all about gliding y'know...