Ah…OK…didn’t realize Vulkan was in the stable release…
I think you’ll enjoy the performance boost with Vulkan…
Today I’m heading from Portland over to Moses Lake on a commodity run - the pit stop at Moses Lake is to sell some shoes in order to afford to buy a Port Wing for the Kodiak Quest that I’m building at my aircraft factory in Pullman. The wing is in Spokane, but there was no profitable commodity between Portland and Spokane directly, so I’m making a stop in Moses Lake to make some cash.
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Alrighty…dropped commodities off at Moses Lake - interestingly, that airport has commodities, but not aircraft parts. So I picked up another commodity run from Moses Lake to Felts Field (Spokane/KSFF). I think the Port Wing part I seek is actually at KGEG (Spokane), but again, there was slightly more money to be had by going to KSFF, then I’ll make the short hop to KGEG to see if I can secure the Port Wing. I’m not sure how long airplane parts stay in an airport’s inventory…so best to make haste.
Hope you can fit the wing in the doors 
I’m gonna bolt it to my Cessna 207…
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I got an interesting event coming out of Moses Lake a bit ago. I had just lifted off and got a “windshear windshear” audio (I think generated by Active Sky). Funny because it is the exact same audio file you’d hear played in a real airplane (or a real full motion flight simulator) - so it has the same effect - it is startling. (Same as when I get a bee-boop TRAFFIC callout…)…
Anyway, it was interesting to observe my Cessna 207, packed to the gills with cargo, at MTOW and seeing the airspeed rapidly increasing. Knowing what was coming next, I went ahead and pitched and took advantage of the headwind because about 60 seconds later the windshear switched to a tailwind and airspeed started to decay. If I had been much lower, I might have crashed…but I managed to fly out of it.
Really cool implementation by Active Sky though…fun stuff…
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“Windshear, windshear, windshear” is reactive (meaning: you’re in it). Something ahead, which is what I would imagine would be generated by Active Sky, would be predictive. The PWS caution is “Monitor Radar Display!” followed by a version of (dependent on phase of flight) the “Windshear ahead! WINDSHEAR AHEAD!” warning. Either would be quite a fancy installation in a 207, requiring both an IRS system and doppler radar.
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I think (and don’t quote me on this) that some modern avionics can also do the windshear alert based on a sampling of a couple factors. I’m guessing it is comparing ADC data to GPS groundspeed and having triggers set at certain delta rates. We have windshear alerts in the Citation and we don’t have Doppler radar or IRS, but we do have differential GPS and two ADCs. Something something magic.
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On my way for a long, two hour leg from Pullman over to Everett, WA. I’m on the hunt for aircraft parts. I don’t think all parts show up on Part Finder…I think some you can just stumble across. So I’m pairing my scavenger hunt with commodity runs. Watching my company balance gyrate between 500K and -100K as I load and unload commodities is unnerving.
Got it. So it would be reacting to a current event you were experiencing. That’s a level of weather sophistication I didn’t know existed in XP. Cool!
Well, I don’t know if Active Sky is reacting to windshear or just randomly generating it based on an analysis of current METARs. My guess is that Moses Lake had an ATIS or METAR with the LLWS abbreviation in it and then Active Sky took that report and randomly injects a windshear event below a certain AGL altitude. I think Active Sky also generates the audible windshear alert, not the plane you are flying. I think there are settings in Active Sky to allow or disallow this.
@BeachAV8R TAF raw report: KMWH 191728Z 1918/2018 19005KT P6SM SKC FM200700 VRB04KT P6SM BKN100 OVC150 FM201200 VRB04KT P6SM OVC080.
Beautiful day over Washington…heading over “The Hump” toward the Seattle area. Actually Everett I think…
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Whoop, whoop, pull up, whoop, whoop, pull up"
Arrived in Everett…which is a masterpiece by Dzerwhiskytangofoxtrot…
And came across the Queen of cargo…! Hmm…maybe I should be collecting 747 parts!!
…OR…maybe I can ship my own parts!
Time to check the inventory here at Everett and see if they have any Kodiak parts laying about…
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Well, disappointed that a big airline factory base like Everett doesn’t have more parts! No Kodiak parts to be found here…
Even the base KPAE is pretty good. Landed there the other day. I assume it’s gateway scenery, unless that’s orbx (though I don’t think TE includes airports?). I don’t have the drz stuff.
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On my way over to CYYJ - Victoria International. I’m bouncing around the Seattle/Vancouver area in search of aircraft parts. Apparently, the more places you visit, the more likely they will stock parts. I’m not sure exactly how it works, but from checking the AH forums that seems to be what the developer is implying.
Fun visiting some of these bigger airports because Traffic Global populates airports with actual aircraft schedules…which means bigger airports = lots of traffic. It adds some fun because the traffic will hit you if you aren’t careful, and that will destroy your plane. I don’t know that Air Hauler would recognize it as damage (I wish it would), but it adds a nice dimension. Now if only Traffic Global would populate small GA airports like Traffic 360 did I’d be happy…
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