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Jan 11^th, 2004 at 2:22am

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I have a few aircraft ( X-15, XB-70, Space shuttle) that I would like to test above 100,000 feet. When I get to 100,000, the plane just hangs there. Any way to edit this behavior?

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Reply #1 - Jan 11^th, 2004 at 2:33am

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Unfortunately not. 100,000ft is the absolute limit of the fs2k2 "universe". Your aircraft will not go higher than this and as The FS world is a cylinder and not a sphere you will see no curveture in any case.

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Reply #2 - Jan 11^th, 2004 at 2:36am

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Every FS limits the altitiude to 100,000 ft. The reason is that in the FS world, the globe is made as a cylinder. The equator is the circumference. That is why the poles of FS (North and South) are hard or almost impossible to negotiate.

There are many instances of aircraft disappearing or being relocated to another area when the aircraft crashes. FS is not viable over 100,000 as the scenery starts to curve in strange ways when you near either of the magnetic poles.

If you are interested in going above the limit or into space, I would suggest Orbiter. It is probably the most comprehensive simulator available for space flight; and it is FREE! Cheesy

You can download it here:
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html

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