I do treat Fs as a game, I do all the proper procedures duiring flight yet I find it fun.

sometimes It's fun to crash an f-16 into the ground at mach 2 ignoring all ATC ect. does this make me an incompitent pilot even though I can fly within all the rules? or just someone who rearlises that unless hes in a plane it will never be "as real as it gets"?

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Not exactly incompetent, although this is a TOTAL misuse of MSFS. It is not proper to crash a F-16 into the ground at mach2 ignoring atc. Also it is never good for a fs pilot to call it a "game" when it is so much more. just beacuse you feal the need to get some childish enjoyment out of the sim and see some explosions witch would be either a fighter or a plane carrying Pax  it is NOT good. If you want explosions watch military clips or go get some firecrackers and desroy a model airplane you have made, see how it is to get something you worked on alot sent up in flames as you suggest with adding realistic crashes to planes people have made in there SPARE time for FUN. now for your attitde, incompetent? no ignorant, immature? yes.

I'd like to see compressor stall in turbine engines in FSX.  Accelerate or spool down rapdily a turbine engine, hear it bang, backfire and high chance of reduced thrust due to loss of compressor blades or engine shutdown due to lack of power.

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I'm going to have to disagree with you there.  I got my CL-65 type rating at CAE a few months ago.  They failed the gear on me a couple times, and you DO go skidding along, trying to keep the plane on the runway and in one piece.  And the sim does NOT reset, it keeps going until the plane comes to a stop, and still does not reset.  And then, if you are a good pilot and still have your wits about you, you call for an emergency evacuation and carry out the proper procedures.

First of all; I do not champion the need to have crash effects in FS. Fireballs and twisted metal are not required. 

We are though, talking about a $50+ computer program.  People we are all getting a bit hot under the collar here. It is MS’s entire making. If you want a real simulation, then dump out of the sim all but the cockpit views. That is all you get in the real world and in the professional simulators. It would have the added bonus of making download some what smaller!  MS made this sim so that we could enjoy seeing our aircraft from outside, watch that perfect landing from the rear quarter view. However in doing this, MS opened up a can of worms. 
What is the definition of real when you are not stood next to it in the real world, there is none and there is none here either. It is a $50+ computer program, I very very good program, but none the less a program so that we may wile away out time dreaming of what it could be like. In giving us external views, it is in the nature of the beast to want to have more and more and more. Some people want that perfect cockpit, some people want crash effects. There has to be a compromise. The compromise is Photo realistic cockpits.  I sit every day in a 737, I can say, that no matter how good our sim cockpit is, it is nothing like the real thing, but I am not jumping up and down about it. Crash effects, we do not need, however there is a difference between crash effects and damage. Gear damage, flap damage, they reflect real life and have an effect on how the aircraft flies. Now that is the compromise.  However we are talking about a program that has not even been released yet and over which we have no input...........think about it.

Although I don't think graphic crash effects would add to the sim I do like the idea of more realistic failure/damage modeling.  For example, mistreating your engine in today's sim never results in loss of power or loss of the engine.  I'd like to have some negative consequences if I forget to, say monitor the engine temperature and overheat because I left the cowl vents closed.

It would also be nice to have a better way to set random failures and have the probability of those random failures adjust based on how the plane is treated in flight.  I would assume flying a real Cessna 172 upside down would do nasty things to the oil in the engine and could result in damage or loss of that engine.  It would be nice to have that modeled as well.

i have noticed that for me its mainly structual damage during flight if somthing breaks i want it to break like it dose in real life edleast to the same effect like in cfs 3 to much stress the ac breaks apart i would like to fly one to distructon just to see and not have it cut short buy a red damage message that stops the game not to imatate terrorests but because i get board 

Damage, not crash effects would be nice in FSX. Am I an incompetent pilot, no, I fly more than 90% of my regular flights without incident, almost 100% when I fly for Noble Air. I have had one incident since I joined. It was my maiden flight in the MD-11F, I landed a little hard at Gulfport-Biloxi, all I got was the little crash message. I would have liked to see my gear struts collapse, tires blow, ect. NOT mangled bodies or that beutiful plane torn up and spread around the airport grounds.

There is no need for the beautiful works of art by such designers as Bill Lyons, Erik Cantu, Moach, PMDG, POSKY, or the like to be shredded an scattered about the airport like confetti on New Year's Eve. There is however, a need for an accurate modeling of failures, ranging from near-catastrophic (loss hydraulics) to severe, but surviavable damage such as loss of an engine, to minor, but important detail, such as the gear not extending. Seeing the plane look as it should in such emergencies would not only add to the realism, but also add to the apparent severity of the situation. Being able to see the gear fold back up into the bays after a hard landing, seeing a bent prop after making a belly landing, seeing your glossy engines all scraped up after a 2 gear landing in a 737 would add to the realism. I'm not asking for end of the world fireballs when I dont quite make that turn down Lexington Ave. in my extra, just subtle details that enhance the overall effect, that both challange your skills (landing a plane without elevator control), and make the sim look real.(er) Like most other people, I think that actually seeing somthing can make the unbeleivable beleivable, if my 737 panel only shows 2 green gear lights, I would like to see what the problem is, is the gear not extended at all, is it down but not locked, is my light malfunctioning?

Thanks for reading this long post, but please keep in mind that the above is simply my own OPINION and like all other members of this forum, I am ENTITLED to my own opionion, weather you agree with me or not. No matter what MS decided to do, if I'm in the mood for some concentration, I'll still fire FS up, if I want to blow something to hell, I have other choices.

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