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Oct 30th, 2010 at 11:54am

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G'day guys,

Sorry, another dumb question - I was just wondering if there is a fix for the ground 'moving' underneath the aircraft when you pan around at places like Svalbard (Norway) and Thule Airbase in Greenland.

Is it an 'altitude' problem (airport slightly too high for the actual ground)?
 
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Reply #1 - Oct 30th, 2010 at 7:47pm

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Likely is might be the fact that the FS2004 is based upon a cylinder, not a globe.  So when you head toward the poles...... things get weird.  Go far enough north or south and you hit a "wall".

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Reply #2 - Nov 1st, 2010 at 1:34pm

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Correct.  That's one reason why they went to the round world in FSX.
 
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Reply #3 - Nov 1st, 2010 at 5:43pm

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Thanks guys - it's a shame - it's fun to fly to the far north! Wink
 
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Reply #4 - Nov 3rd, 2010 at 5:35am

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This is me flying somewhere over extreme north of Norway/Finland, heading to Murmansk...
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