Simviation Forum - Re: Back to Basics

Jan 6^th, 2004 at 6:44am

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Nice landing I keep putting the nose in on mine! i forget that the wheel is unferneath my passenger's bum lol.
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Reply #1 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 9:11am

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awesome! we don't have pics of gliders here too often,you know...

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Reply #2 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 9:37am

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Very nice shots! I like them a lot, good quality!

Takes me back wome time. When i was a kid, there was an airport for general aviation in the area. You could see a lot of gliders, cessna's, ... Was nice.

But they closed it and it became a expositionhall + concerthall.

Oh yeah, if you think a framerate of 25 is a bit dodgy, i think you are a spoiled little brad! ... Grin

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Reply #3 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 10:16am

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nicely done! Those faces almost look familiar! Shocked

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Reply #4 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 10:22am

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Beautiful, just beautiful. Grin

Gliding was always my first love. This is real flying. Nice landing too. Well done Congo. Wink

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Reply #5 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 12:31pm

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Glad you liked them.

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Reply #6 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 12:38pm

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how do u open the cockpit?
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Reply #7 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 1:20pm

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this gives me back the "sunday afternoon feeling" i'll experience again next summer...aahhh, time i can get in my glider again! Wink

btw, aren't these shots a little too big for this site?

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Reply #8 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 2:27pm

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Oh yeah, if you think a framerate of 25 is a bit dodgy, i think you are a spoiled little brad! ... Grin

What he said Grin

Beautiful shots and original too

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Reply #9 - Jan 7^th, 2004 at 6:16am

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Sam, I have the canopy opening with Shift+E, it's mapped in the game's settings as follows:

Settings/Assignments/General Aircraft Commands/Select Exit.

And to Bones: No, the shots are just 800x600, around 60k with a 470k total approx.

This Place is a local strip I designed for FS2002. I used it to fly radio models in real life, and have permission to use it for outlanding in Sailplanes, however, I never landed there in reality.

I used 3 thermal layers with different and dynamic thermal qualities for my weather. The Cloud generated by the thermal program is distinctive in shape and easily distinguishable from normal FS Clouds.

To make things interesting and more realistic, I try to hide the thermal cloud a bit by introducing a cumulus layer then adding a stratus layer just above it, using a cloudbase range of 1000' so they don't all appear too uniform. Above that goes a sprinkling of cirrus at a local jetstream height of 16,000' - 18,000'

I save the flight and get the weather reproduced when I reload the Flight to save setup time. It can be varied from there.

The thermal program is called CUMULUS! It's pretty easy to set up dynamic thermal scenery after learning the few command line parameters and using a bit of imagination.

OK..... I just tried the thermal scenery in FS9, the lift works and the cloud shows up but I'm not sure yet if the dynamics are the same as in FS2002, as far as the thermals are concerned.

Here is a pic of the same scenario in FS9.....

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Reply #10 - Jan 7^th, 2004 at 7:20am

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Cheers Congo!

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