Weather-wise, actual weather patterns would be nice, so if you're flying into a hurricane, you actually have the spiral feeder bands, the eye wall, and outragious winds.  Same for thunderstorms, with downdrafts, wind shear, hail, the occasional tornado..

Excellent idea Roy...

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Fozzer wrote on Sep 28^th, 2010 at 12:23pm:


I have a feeling that this is much more plausible these days than it was in the past, Paul.  Hopefully they won't scrimp on that in this incarnation.

I, too, would love to see a hurricane in FS (or should we just call it "F"? ).  This was actually possible in FS9 and possibly FSX by use of the Gmax SDK, which granted you the power to create cloud formations in Gmax itself.  The creation of things like tornadoes and hurricanes is what I think ACES was attempting here, but no one seems to have taken the time to work with that particular part of the system, since learning to make aircraft and scenery for each version always took too long.  I'm really hoping it's going to be possible to simply fly out and find a hurricane that is actually happening so we can fly data missions.  Or perhaps check out hurricanes from the past . . . as well as other natural phenomena such as volcanoes.

Another thing that would be interesting to see would be a dynamic and changing planet.  For instance, if I wind back the clock to 1903 Kitty Hawk, it would interesting to see around me the world Orville and Wilbur would have seen.  Probably still out of the realm of wishful thinking, but we are "wishing" here, are we not?

Wingtip vortices and C-130 prop-tip style lines ... You know what i mean, sound cones, when in tower view and you go by supersonic you get sonic BOOM, and all high g effects when enogh moisture in the air... Also I apologize for poor grammar, I am doing this post from my phone and I am lazyJ

I'd like to see more realistic high-res 3-d scenery areas - both around airfields and elsewhere - together with a tighter elevation mesh and photo-realistic (best Google-Earth-like) photo terrain at a high-enough resolution for realistic low flying worldwide.

I'll just combine what everyone is saying into one sentence.

We want Star Trek Holodeck level realism that will run on a Pentium 4.

Some more environmental stuff..

Water was mentioned.  I'd like actual, rolling waves. I want whitecaps when the wind is strong enough.  I whant hit-knuckle waterlanding in a Goose.

For that matter, ditching.  If you ditch right, you should not crash, even though ditching is technically crashing, or rather, and emergency water landing. Add to that (though it would be part of the model), life rafts popping out and passengers disembarking (Heck, that'd be nice for the air-stairs....)

Come to mention it, even crashing should be doable.  A nice gear-up belly landing should not result in "end of game" so to speak.  Of course, it basically *is*, but you should have all the time you want in order to admire your handy-work, be it a "soft as a baby's bottom skid to a stop, or a towering pillar of smoke and fire comming from a crater.

No "crash" if you brush againt a tree-top with your wing tip. By all means, "crash" when you actually crash, but winging a twig shouldn't be fatal. Damage the aircraft, sure, to the appropriate extent. Again, that probably needs to be built into the model.

Two words:  "Bird strikes".

Just more thoughts.....