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You don't have to learn it. You're living without it right now.

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But they did it for 20 years, since the first Flight simulator. Fortunatelly they are going smarter, and they will soon stop the flight sim serie to begin a new Crismon Skies serie for the next 20 years, right ? 

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What do you mean there ? That what you see on your screen is not as you see it in real life ? LOL and then you proudly state that the sim is not precise ? Yeah most likely they have used some dumb math formula they took off from FeeSpace2, and applied it to FS to get less realism on purpose   

I have programmed some similar application. The fact is that you will never get the same speed feeling as in real life, until the ground gets as detailed as in real life, and your screen gets as big as it can. BUT the sim is currently accurate, and there's just nothing to complain about. If you flight 450 mph at 200 feet in the sim during X seconds, you will go exactely the same distance as if you would flight 450 mph at 200 feet during X seconds in real life. Your small screen, your small resolution and the actual visual level of detail in the sims just can't give you the same feelling for now. 

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Why ? Because they have adapted the interface so that you could pilot on a Joypad instead of a yoke ? Wow, do you know the first versions of the sim could be played with the mouse ? or even with the keyboard ? Sooooooo arcade, I tell you... 
Does anybody there seriously think that FS could ever be played on a gaming Console ? No chance with the actual console players, and No chance either without a keyboard and a mouse.

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half-decent, you're even more pessimistic than I am 

...Definitely......!

I just think that Uncle Bill and his designer crew try to give us what we wish for, within the bounds of cost, our capability, and sensibility.... ...!
As long as they are still interested in producing "reasonably good" flight Simulators for our "amusement", I will continue to support them by purchasing each version as it is released... ...!

Without our enthusiastic support, like everything else, the series will go down the pan, I'm sure... ...!

As I said before, it's only a flippin' "game" which we all enjoy, after all...
...like lots of my other enjoyable computer games which I play every day......!
LOL...!

Paul...I need to get out more......!

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You seem to be such an expert in simulation.  
I'll give you an advise: don't talk about things you do not know ANYTHING about.

You are talking about visual feeling, and that all.
The plane in the sim has a correct speed. when its going 250 mph ground speed, it will just go 250 mile in one hour.
There is no scaling.
There is no fu**ing MS conspiracy.

It's just like that. See the same game, on a cinema screen and with a correctly set angle field of view, and you will think it's fast. See it on your small screen with small resolution and stupid angle field of view, and it will SEEM slow, but it's not. The speed in the sim is correct. There's just nothing there about the peformance of your CPU.

Want to test ? Just take any runway of precise lenght, 0 wind, and a chronometer.
Then take an aircraft on very low altitude and fix speed, and try to measure how much time it takes to go from one end of the runway to the other.
Then use a little formula to compute your real speed and see if it's different.

You surely have some programming skills, don't you ? Why don't you try to make a little test program to display a moving object in a 3D environment ? You would be very surprised...haem, dissapointed  

There are times [in real life] that I normally see airliners appear to nearly stall in the air while in fact, they are still flying at reasonable speeds. It has something to do with the laws of physics. The closer you are to the speed of light, the faster that time [outside the vehicle] goes by. So, to the outside observer the airliner would look like its near the stalling point while the passengers onboard would see the cars breaking all the speed limits.

However, I don't know if the laws apply to the simulator.

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Aww....Go on... ...!
You know you wont be able to resist it... ...!

The nice new cardboard box with a picture of an aeroplane on the front, and a shiny jewel case inside containing some disks that reflect the wide smile on your face stretching from ear to ear.... ...!

It's going to happen, and you know it... ...!

LOL...!

Paul... 8)...!

Daube,

Ask yourself this: did I at any time say there was an error with aircraft speed at low level.

Do you really believe that if you were in an aircraft doing ~450+ Kts at 200' and you looked out to port at say a church or other building that it would gently pass you by as you merely poodled along at a mere 500MPH?

If you do then I can only think you must be one of those rare individuals who thinks Aircrew headgear is designed to withstand crash impact.


Close objects whizz past at those speeds and altitudes---fact. You also have to remember 500MPH is in the realms of average bullet speed.


KMA

Jasper

I remember when FS9 came out and I was running 2002.  I said no, dont get it.   It wont run well, let them work the bugs out.  Ill have to patch it.  Got it the next day.  Still have everything that came with it, tin box and all the cards.  It really is becoming  something to collect, although I cant find anything from 2002!  I say Ill wait, then Ill see a screenshot of an Airbus approaching ahead of a thunderstorm, and Ill buy it.  It is getting rather tedious building them up over two years and then starting all over again.  It has taken me those two years just to get a stable system, and I still have issues at times.  It almost like the challenge of trying to make it perfect keeps ya going.  Either that or I need a sledge to the head to straighten me out.  Todd