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Reply #30 - Sep 30^th, 2010 at 12:52pm

Fozzer Offline
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Travis wrote on Sep 30^th, 2010 at 12:27pm:

I run Win XP as well, and won't be upgrading this rig I have EVER, since it's already older than damn near anyone else's I know of.

Anyway, getting back on topic:

Most of the world (with the exception of California and the largest cities) was half-cooked in both of the last two sim instalments, mostly because the designers couldn't spend five years creating it and refining it to map out each town in the world.

Although that is a bit strange, since most (non-commercial) pilots tend to utilize ground-based waypoints as their guides when not using GPS or frequency locators. If a town or dam or something similar isn't where you expect it to be in FS, you are simply SOL and have to revert to some other form of navigation, which is something I always disliked about it. This lead me to flying almost exclusively in places like the South Pacific, where the islands were (mostly) accurate.

Flying over your neighborhood and seeing the houses? Probably not.

Flying over your city and seeing mostly accurate roads? I frakkin hope so! Grin

Grin

One of the joys of my regular Californian flights is being able to navigate my way, by recognising the accurate Scenery surrounding me!
I can travel the Roads, Railway Lines, Rivers and Streams by recognising the same land marks on my Google Maps, including the realistic Mountain ranges surrounding San Francisco, the Pacific Coast, and Los Angeles.

Following Interstate 5, Highway 1 and 101, 118, I40, (and Route 66!), etc, etc, below me is very comforting when other navigation instrument methods are not available, or fail!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav...and a Map... Cool

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Reply #31 - Sep 30^th, 2010 at 5:54pm

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Cloud shadows on the ground. This is absolutely possible as I believe the guys at REX were already working on it.

Also, would love to see a coastline that doesnt cut right through the middle of a city! Im sure you all know what I mean.

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Reply #32 - Sep 30^th, 2010 at 8:52pm

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Fozzer wrote on Sep 30^th, 2010 at 12:52pm:

Travis wrote on Sep 30^th, 2010 at 12:27pm:

I run Win XP as well, and won't be upgrading this rig I have EVER, since it's already older than damn near anyone else's I know of.

Anyway, getting back on topic:

Most of the world (with the exception of California and the largest cities) was half-cooked in both of the last two sim instalments, mostly because the designers couldn't spend five years creating it and refining it to map out each town in the world.

Although that is a bit strange, since most (non-commercial) pilots tend to utilize ground-based waypoints as their guides when not using GPS or frequency locators. If a town or dam or something similar isn't where you expect it to be in FS, you are simply SOL and have to revert to some other form of navigation, which is something I always disliked about it. This lead me to flying almost exclusively in places like the South Pacific, where the islands were (mostly) accurate.

Flying over your neighborhood and seeing the houses? Probably not.

Flying over your city and seeing mostly accurate roads? I frakkin hope so! Grin

Grin

One of the joys of my regular Californian flights is being able to navigate my way, by recognising the accurate Scenery surrounding me!
I can travel the Roads, Railway Lines, Rivers and Streams by recognising the same land marks on my Google Maps, including the realistic Mountain ranges surrounding San Francisco, the Pacific Coast, and Los Angeles.

Following Interstate 5, Highway 1 and 101, 118, I40, (and Route 66!), etc, etc, below me is very comforting when other navigation instrument methods are not available, or fail!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav...and a Map... Cool

Cool

...!

Acurate roads and rivers would make me happy. Thats two out of three. Wink

Wink

Seeing your village below, well, maybe that's something I will have to learn how to create on my own.

Flying with twins is a lot of fun..

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Reply #33 - Oct 2^nd, 2010 at 1:15am

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True orbital capability would be nice too, assuming that once in orbit, you can still maneuver using attitude jets and retro rockets, and de-orbit.

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" Adam Savage, Mythbusters

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Reply #34 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 7:39pm

SeanTK Ex Member

Occasional streakers on the runway. Would liven up a flight quite a bit. Cheesy

Cheesy

Grin

(only joking)

In that vain though, bird-strikes, and the possibility of animals on a runway would be realistic and interesting in my opinion.

Other things....

Proper helicopter autorotation! (Kind of weird having to fidget with the "throttle" and have it cracked a certain percentage for autos to work currently).
Actually, helicopter physics in general could be looked at too. Along those lines, I think someone mentioned true VTOL capability too, with the likes of such things as the V-22 and forthcoming BA-609 tiltrotors. Don't forget the Harriers too!

Ability to experience lost comms AND have the tower use the light gun for clearances. (likely not going to happen)

Accurate waves and water "physics" for float/seaplane operations.

Convective currents and ridge lift for sailplanes in free flight mode.

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Reply #35 - Nov 23^rd, 2010 at 5:59pm

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How about better winter flying conditions? By that I mean ice on the aircraft, and realistic snow and ice conditions at the airport. I wonder if it would be possible to include airfield NOTAM conditions in the real weather download from Jeppeson.

Dave

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Reply #36 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 11:50am

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Ability to experience lost comms AND have the tower use the light gun for clearances. (likely not going to happen)

Actually, I think this is totally possible. It would only require that MS spend a little time creating a dedicated flight operations part of the sim, as one person already suggested. The coding wouldn't have to be changed much to accommodate this.

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Reply #37 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:57pm

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Guy wires and power lines, just to make things interesting when you try to fly a slalom between the power line masts or use radio towers as pylons for your Red Bull practice.

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" Adam Savage, Mythbusters

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Reply #38 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 8:56pm

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Hopefully a better trim effect. Maybe I just don't understand how it works in the sim but it just feels so wrong.

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Reply #39 - Nov 26^th, 2010 at 12:01am

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Actually, I don't get the trim right very often, and I actually have a license . . . so don't feel bad about it. Roll Eyes

Roll Eyes

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Reply #40 - Nov 26^th, 2010 at 12:15am

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Travis wrote on Nov 26^th, 2010 at 12:01am:

Actually, I don't get the trim right very often, and I actually have a license . . . so don't feel bad about it. Roll Eyes

Roll Eyes

I have 28 hours, I know its a sim but It does feel so weird trying to trim for landing in a C172, but hey it is just a sim after all

I have to laugh while doing touch and goes in FSX, having to reduce trim down dramatically after takeoff, if you let go of the yoke your practically pointed up 90 degrees.

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Reply #41 - Nov 30^th, 2010 at 2:25pm

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drbob777 wrote on Nov 26^th, 2010 at 12:15am:

Travis wrote on Nov 26^th, 2010 at 12:01am:

Actually, I don't get the trim right very often, and I actually have a license . . . so don't feel bad about it. Roll Eyes

Roll Eyes

I have 28 hours, I know its a sim but It does feel so weird trying to trim for landing in a C172, but hey it is just a sim after all

I have to laugh while doing touch and goes in FSX, having to reduce trim down dramatically after takeoff, if you let go of the yoke your practically pointed up 90 degrees.

I'm not really clear on what it is that you dont like about this.....if you are configured for an approach (power,trim,flaps,etc.) and then you dramatically change your throttle settings (touch and go, or a go-around) then holding down the nose of the aircraft IS a handfull Shocked

Shocked

it's a very dangerous transition of flight which requires firm forward pressure on the control column and alot of trim adjustment to relieve the pressure......it's a technique which needs to be practiced and mastered......and in my opinion it is modeled fairly well in the FS sims.

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Reply #42 - Jan 22^nd, 2011 at 4:03am

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See those cumuli ? A perfect
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real ridge- and wavelift would be nice and thermals that make cumuli Cheesy

Cheesy

just a pair of long wings and some rising air.

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Reply #43 - Mar 19^th, 2011 at 8:44am

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I would like to see a military jet come up beside me when I have entered a restricted area after ignoring ATC's instructions to change course. But it would be nice to be able to turn it off when you don't want it.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #44 - Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 5:10pm

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Doug (Flying Trucker) just came up with another thought. When landing on a dirt strip with prop reverse, it would be nice to see the dust fly, like my edit of the Caribou.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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