Simviation Forum - Bird-strikes

Jan 8^th, 2006 at 1:33pm

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Taking a look at that incredibly beautiful shot of what looks like rare white parrots, I cant help but wonder if these things are gunna be another way of microsoft screwing up my flights??

Check out the sreenshots and see what you think?

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Reply #1 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 2:29pm

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You could fly around them.. Roll Eyes

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Reply #2 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 2:36pm

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Well for those that can't be bothered with the very real threat of bird strikes in a sim (if infact they exist) I am SURE M$ will put in an "Animal Density" slider or "Allow Bird Strikes" check box in realism options. So you can shut em off or or make em invincible hehe.

I know I will have some great fun chasing some birds around seein if I cant get some Air Kill Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 2:42pm

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I 'could' also hunt them down!! Ha! Tongue

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Reply #4 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 3:27pm

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Well if they were Canada geese instead, someone could design a shotgun toting Elmer Fudd to clear the way for a safe landing. Grin

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Reply #5 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 6:26pm

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Shh...

Be vewy vewy qwiet. I'm hutin pawwots. Huhuhuhuhuhu. Roll Eyes

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Reply #6 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 6:45pm

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I hope there are other types of birds in FSX. How about Canadian geese? I'd be cool flying 10,000 ft and pass a flock of geese.

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Reply #7 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 11:40pm

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Hopefuly FSX is VERY mod friendly and will allow for editing birds "traffic patterns" and adding new birds much like AI.

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Reply #8 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 4:09am

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Hopefuly FSX is VERY mod friendly and will allow for editing birds "traffic patterns" and adding new birds much like AI.

Maybe the odd Pterodactyl practicing a missed approach. Grin

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Reply #9 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 7:16am

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You can get AI Canadian Geese from Avsim. Haven't tried it myself yet, might give it a go. Looks pretty good to.

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Reply #10 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 7:43am

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Shh...

Be vewy vewy qwiet. I'm hutin pawwots. Huhuhuhuhuhu. Roll Eyes

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Reply #11 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 4:33pm

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japanese suiside parrot hunter Grin

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Reply #12 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 6:03pm

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I 'could' also hunt them down!! Ha! Tongue

LOL imagine how funny it'd be to run into a flock of birds and see feathers puff out everywhere!!! Grin

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Reply #13 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 6:30pm

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Lol, I think their animated to fly around the airplane with a XML code etc. dunno ? Wink

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Reply #14 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 9:55pm

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The most fun I had in my Turbine Engine Theory class when I was going to school, was the 4 hours we went on about bird ingestion. We watched the slow motion video of the chicken being chopped up by a turbofan. All kinds of good stuff. I like how the FAA regulates engine manufacturers, and how many of what size bird they can ingest before they have problems. Grin

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Reply #15 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 10:24pm

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By the way yes i just registered today everyone so hello. Now what would be even funnier is if you get a WWII fighter (P-51 preferably) and blast 'em out of the sky as some people have suggested. But then again if I were to do that the birds would be burning Grin

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Reply #16 - Jan 10^th, 2006 at 8:33am

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hitting a few pigeons and geese aint that bad just dont hit any swans Wink

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Reply #17 - Jan 10^th, 2006 at 11:25am

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hitting a few pigeons and geese aint that bad just dont hit any swans Wink

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Reply #18 - Jan 10^th, 2006 at 1:41pm

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Hmm... roast bird. *gargle-drool*

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Reply #19 - Jan 10^th, 2006 at 3:12pm

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Hmm... roast bird. *gargle-drool*

I think you will find, more freeze dried that roast..........Beef Jerky Grin

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Reply #20 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 7:09pm

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Well,...... I really don't think bird strikes will cause any improvement on anything related to the upcoming FS X. I mean what would that kind of thing really do for us simmers?

And what the heck do the birds want anyway? More worms? Not having to get up at sunrise to make all that racket chirping away? I mean... the birds don't really have to even do the flying...... us sim pilots do that. And they aren't writing the code.

Heck... I bet that if every bird in the existing fs2004 sim walked out tomorrow morning, that the flights would just continue on as normal and no one would really notice at all. What makes them think that FS X will be any different?

What do they think they will accomplish? It's not going to get them any concessions out of Microsoft. Waste of time.

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Reply #21 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 8:23pm

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Well John there are no birds in FS2004 so I guess flights do go on as usuall. I highly doubt they will include strikes. Like you said would require teremendous amount of code to have the animations and the effect of bird and plane be right according to point of impact. Then they would need to do this for every bird and every plane. Then any ad on devs would need to code it into their plane so the birds have an effect. A lot of work for a quite unlikely thing to happen. It would be cool but I think the devs time is better spent elsewhere.

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