Simviation Forum - Crop spraying/dusting

Nov 18^th, 2012 at 11:02pm

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Where do most FS9 crop sprayers go to do their thing ?

I can't seem to find any crop areas on my FS9 even with the thing maxed out.

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Reply #1 - Nov 18^th, 2012 at 11:17pm

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Gringo6 wrote on Nov 18^th, 2012 at 11:02pm:

Where do most FS9 crop sprayers go to do their thing ?

I can't seem to find any crop areas on my FS9 even with the thing maxed out.

I LOVE doing sim crop dusting. I have half a dozen excellent planes for it too.

Stock scenery there are places to do it. However if you want good FREE-ware scenery for a good crop dusting, try the Silver Wings scenery/terrain mod. It changes the world textures, auto-gen, and scenery making it lest like the real world but makes it look more like woods, real neighborhoods, and real farms...also really bumps up the number and distribution of auto-gen trees which makes crop-dusting really challenging.

To find specific areas, I suggest looking on Google Earth for crop-heavy areas. I like buzzing around my local fields. Crop dusting in Michigan is limited usually to small blue berry fields and the like...which is a nice challenge Wink

Recently I acquired Ultimate Terrain USA FS2004, it looks awesome, but the auto-gen is far below the density of Silver Wings (which is available here at simv).
http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=silver+wings+package+fs2004&x=0...

I will add to that as I said Silver Wings fails at matching the real world but makes the sim world seem like A real world due to the massively improved auto-gen which tends to create lots of forests and farm land all over. In short, make a back up of your scenery/autogen and give Silver Wings a go. It is wonderful free-ware that is perfect for us virtual crop-dusters.

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Reply #2 - Nov 19^th, 2012 at 3:47am

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Looks interesting Adam!

As a low and slow flier, I presently use the wonderful "VOZ 1.8" for my ground textures, colours, and buildings; and the equally wonderful "Ultimate Terrain" for my road and rail system, so I'll give the Silver Wings program a try-out as an alternative.... Wink

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Anything to make the scenery below look more realistic/different!

Paul....FS 2004...

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P.S. Note: Crop Dusting can seriously shorten your life!... Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Nov 19^th, 2012 at 7:55am

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Fozzer wrote on Nov 19^th, 2012 at 3:47am:

P.S. Note: Crop Dusting can seriously shorten your life!... Roll Eyes

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So can engineering school Grin

Losing a great many hairs this morning Grin

As always Paul, make a back up of all your scenery/autogen related files before trying Silver Wings in case you do not like it. I installed it to a temp folder first to see what FS9 folders I needed to make back ups of.

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Reply #4 - Nov 19^th, 2012 at 9:42am

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wahubna wrote on Nov 19^th, 2012 at 7:55am:

Fozzer wrote on Nov 19^th, 2012 at 3:47am:

P.S. Note: Crop Dusting can seriously shorten your life!... Roll Eyes

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So can engineering school Grin

Losing a great many hairs this morning Grin

As always Paul, make a back up of all your scenery/autogen related files before trying Silver Wings in case you do not like it. I installed it to a temp folder first to see what FS9 folders I needed to make back ups of.

Excellent tip, Adam....

At the moment I select different areas in VOZ 1.8 to create a similar effect...
VOZ Northern Territory shows the lush green textures.

For SOCAL late Summer/Fall season, I select VOZ SW/Central Territory to create a drier landscape, together with FS9 Gerrish Grey's September Season showing the Autumn golden trees.!.

Its fun playing with different textures/colours for different seasons and areas.

Paul...FS 2004...My garden is full of fallen, golden leaves now, (Late Autumn)!

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Reply #5 - Nov 26^th, 2012 at 3:08am

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