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In flight emergencies with appropriate responses from ATC

I'd like to see in new FS version some kind of pilot career
managment,when you,say,have to start from beginning
private Cessna pilot in small company,or start from the level that depends on  your flight exams results.
Then to be promoted,getting flight assigments,generated by sim,depends on airline company you choose to work for... 8)

Hi there,

I think that SCENERY is the next logical step. We now have aircraft that look almost photoreal, sitting against a background that looks like "Lego"

I also think that we should have more aircraft in general. I enjoy the default planes (great vc's, etc) we just need more of them. Honestly, who flies the default "Vickers" on a regular basis!?

Lastly, but in my opinion, most importantly - MILITARY!!
I have never seen so many people talk about a subject that is not included in the sim. I understand that it is not everyones cup of tea, but when Kirk Olsen's "Viper" came out, tell me, you didn't download it!!!!!!!!

Thanks
Eric

I`d like to have : Flocks of birds , realisticly scaled
buildings ( not those dwarf huts) , living blocks
(houses with yards in the middle that you find in most
western cities -if they cover larger spaces on the
ground you need less scenery objects - hence :
better FPS !) , wet rainy runways with enviromental
mapping , wake turbulences caused by heavies &
the possibility to leave the outer atmosphere.

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Well..... actually..... I didn't download it  .

best,

................john

Well, FS2004 has been a chalenge to my frame rates.  So as much as I would like better scenery, I do not want it at the cost of less disirable frame rates.

As far as other aircraft, I think that would be great.  But I do not fly the default aircraft much, I fly mostly freeware aircraft now and panels.

I would like to see more improvement in ATC.  I think this is something they can do without cratering frame rates.  I would like to see holding instructions, SPEED RESTRICIONS, we have altitude, now lets have speed, better spacing, but get rid of the 40 mile vectoring to final.  Maybe 10 to 20 miles of vectoring.  I would just once like to fly a published STAR into a airport without being vectored off a third of the way into the STAR.  When I request a change of runway, let me land on that runway and not ask me to fly the approach but land on the original runway.   Declarie emergencies.

Basically, I feel there is enough freeware scenery, aircraft, and panels to do the job.  But there is no freeware addons I have seen other than adding airline call signs to ATC.

Have a button you can click if you want holding instructions or not.  Also, have a button to add narrow body and/or wide body jetways in the top 1000 cities so long as it does not crater frame rates.


Just some thoughts, Microsoft, I hope you are reading some of these excellent ideas I have been reading on many members posts. 

FS2004 is much improved in regards to ATC and Weather in my opinion over FS2002.  Now, lets raise the bar proportionately in FS2006.

Regards

Gabe

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True...   But it would be quite presumptuous of us to conclude that any advancement in the graphics and other features that Microsoft makes to FS in the next release would result in just that.

This reminds me of similar comments made by some back when we were still using FS2000 (not so long ago).  When the question of improvements came up for the yet to be released 2002 version, there were of course those reluctant and apprehensive of progress, afraid that their computers would not run the new, more processor hungry Flight Sim.

Ideas had been suggested, such as adding trees, improvement in terrain realism, increased cloud complexity, among others.  We all know FS2000 was pretty poor when it came to these features, and we wanted improvements.  And oh yes, comments similar to "I'm not willing to lose FPS because of some trees" were heard.  MS did release the 2002 version with many of the improvements.  Sure, some really old computers couldn't hack it and were left out in the dust.    But the majority of average computers during that period were able to run it OK depending on the degree one used the new souped up features (as always, as in previous and future releases).  And, as has always been the case, the high ended machines ran it the best.

Microsoft is an aggressive savvy company in the business of making money (all the lawsuits will attest to that ).  You will never have to worry about MS releasing software that ONLY the absolute highest computers could run.  They also know quite well from a business standpoint they have to offer some new advancements in their product, otherwise who in their right mind would fork up $$ to get basically what amounts to a clone of their previously owned copy?!

My point is the fact that by the time it comes for another release of FS, computers and graphics cards will also have advanced significantly to allow us to ramp up the improvements in FS software.  Sterk was right when he half-joked that by that time, we'll be making fun of those who have processors below 5 GHz.     MS will no doubt take advantage of the beefed up processor power and release FS2006 with some of the enhancements we want.  If the idea that advancement should be curbed due to the mentioned fears was actually followed, we all would be still flying staring at flat wireframes going by on the screen.    http://simflight.com/~fshistory/fsh/fs1.htm

As the average power of the computer increases every year, so should the newest FS reflect that, and that is what MS has always done.  I expect no less and no more this time around as well.  

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Hyperion, I absolutely agree with you on that one.   Which is why, despite all our complaints about MS, they're probably going to have to find the right balance of innovation, so we will feel it's worth our hard earned money to buy the new FS, and at the same time not eliminate most PCs from being able to run the sim. Business wise, being a shrewd company, they'll never go to either extreme.

And I'm sure that's the process they go through everytime they release a new version.