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Aerobatic Video: First in FSX
Simulator:   Microsoft FSX .
Aircraft:       AX-1 aerobatic trainer, custom built exterior
                   model and flight dynamics for FS2004
Date:           24 Oct 2006  

Flying my AX-1 aerobatic trainer built for FS2004 was the first test I did with the new version Flight Simulator X . I encount-ered no problems with the external model resp. with the flight dynamics model compared with the use in FS2004.

So I was able to train this sequence, the result of which I recorded via the FSX video function.

The FSX video has been captured with FRAPS, which generated an .avi -file which sadly is copmpressed and loses in qality but still looks good enough. The file size, even zipped is 650 MB . So I converted this .avi to .wmv- and .mpeg -formats with Pinnacle Studio 8 which yields smaller sizes but worse quality, I´m not happy with. I feel .mpeg is slightly better than .wmv so I splitted the bigger .mpeg-file from the complete sequence into 4 seperate videos. 1)

Videos  © C.J.K

 .wmv .mpeg
.mpeg (zipped )
Playing the .mpeg videos online freezes the Meda Player in my System ! wmv video works fine
Complete sequence 6.5 MB 57.1 MB 19.1 MB
Separated into 4 files
In a test I was not able to run the .mpegs online
so I added them zipped, too.
Part 1 
  • Inverted Flight on the deck
  • Half Roll
  • Half Cuban Eight
- 12.3 MB 7.1 MB
Part 2 
  • 4 Rolls in a line
- 11.2 MB 3.3 MB
Part 3  
  • Roll at Top of a Loop
  • Hammerhead
  • Spinning in the downline of this Hammerhead
- 18.3 MB 4.1 MB Spinning in the downline of a hammer-head

Real life video here

Part  4
  • Half Cuban Eight
  • Knife-Edge horizontal on the Deck
  • Knife-Edge climbing
  • Quarter Roll
  • Half Roll
- 15.4 MB 5.0 MB Knife-Edge climbing

Real life video here


1) Splitting the avi File in four smaller parts is no help as the new .avis created this way with Pinnacle Studio 8 are of no better quality as the .mpegs. Capturing smaller parts of the complete sequence directly and zipping these would yield a decent file siz eat least for high speed download, but the original .avis created by FRAPS can only be run with a specific codec, which comes by installation of the program.


Started : 21. Sep 2002  Revised : 02.11.2006   Author: C.J.K.  Contact 
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