Microsoft Flight Simulator Discussion

There are loads, most of them payware. If you bought all the add ons for this sim it would cost well over $5000
 
Yea some are free and some are payware. There are lots of companies who release payware for these sims, like new planes, textures etc. You can find a lot of freeware though to make the game awesome. I got all of downtown houston and its very accurate.

Anyhow my trip to the windies is progressing.

From

New Orleans (KNEW) to Tallahassee (TLH)

Tallahassee (TLH) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL)

So now at the southern tip of Florida and need to find a Caribbean island I can reach before running out of gas :p

Oh and I tried the Mooney, way too powerful for me, I could never trim it to fly straight, so back in my jalopy Cessna.

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how do I refuel when I land at an airport? Does that option even exist?

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Just some vids to show what FSX in high settings looks like. Will make that the benchmark for my new PC :)


 
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Mark said:
Yea some are free and some are payware. There are lots of companies who release payware for these sims, like new planes, textures etc. You can find a lot of freeware though to make the game awesome. I got all of downtown houston and its very accurate.

Anyhow my trip to the windies is progressing.

From

New Orleans (KNEW) to Tallahassee (TLH)

Tallahassee (TLH) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL)

So now at the southern tip of Florida and need to find a Caribbean island I can reach before running out of gas :p

Oh and I tried the Mooney, way too powerful for me, I could never trim it to fly straight, so back in my jalopy Cessna.

Mark added 0 Minutes and 44 Seconds later...

how do I refuel when I land at an airport? Does that option even exist?

Mark added 11 Minutes and 24 Seconds later...

Just some vids to show what FSX in high settings looks like. Will make that the benchmark for my new PC :)


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You can do - I believe there its something like ctrl F and you have to be by the fuel pumps - Normally a yellow box with an "F." - though I'd check the controls on the toolbar. You can also do it via the toolbar when parked at the gate - go to fuel and payload.

In FSX you can call the trucks over to refuel - load passengers, baggage etc.

Trimming is difficult, remember, you need to adjust the engine power as you trim. AND adjust the trim really slowly. (If you can assign the trim to buttons on your joystick).

As for the high end vids - OH MY tweaking GOD! How much does a comp that can do that cost? I was thinking of getting a new PC - but I can't justify anything over ?1500.
 
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1) In flight planner choose "nav log" has a heading in there. Failing that use the GPS.

2) Try the Caribbean islands - doing shorts hops - Good scenery, lots of take off and landing practice too. There were some missions on 2004 I believe which had mountainous airports which were fun.
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Yeah, flying round the Caribbean Islands is a real pleasure. :)

Edit: I just hope they make it less like a series of unconnected flights - a career mode of some sort is a must. Start off learning on a Cessna, progress to turbo props flying regionally around a country, move on to an airliner, and eventually the Captain's seat. Some kind of midflight save though, eh? I mean, I like flight sims but just flying over the sea at 37,000 feet, for eight hours - real time is just plain boring and if you speed up time, you'll miss a change of direction/altitude and then the somethingorother flight plan gets cancelled, and you no longer have ATC.
 
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As for the high end vids - OH MY flingING GOD! How much does a comp that can do that cost? I was thinking of getting a new PC - but I can't justify anything over ?1500.
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Haha that was my reaction as well when I first saw those videos. For 1500 quid you can easily get a comparable machine. I plan on making one for around $600.

Thanks for all your help so far mate.

Oh and Steve, there is a "speed up sim" option, so when you are at proper cruising speed, altitude and heading then you can skip the "boring" part of the flight.
 
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Haha that was my reaction as well when I first saw those videos. For 1500 quid you can easily get a comparable machine. I plan on making one for around $600.

Thanks for all your help so far mate.

Oh and Steve, there is a "speed up sim" option, so when you are at proper cruising speed, altitude and heading then you can skip the "boring" part of the flight.
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I know, but every time I used it, some sort of change of direction/altitude or something comes up, which I missed - and there goes my ATC. Maybe it was patched at some point - I sold FSX a while back because I was bored with no career mode (and other games were taking my time up). It would've been fun to see how it would've run on this machine though. :)
 
Yea that happens if there is turbulence along the way.

Not sure how close it is to a career mode but there are "Virtual airliens" in FSX multiplayer. No idea how it works or if the FSX multiplayer even works, apparently fs9 multi does not.
 
Probably the coolest airport in Fight Sim and the real world.

Lukla in Nepal

 
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here's the actual airport

 
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A few screenies from my 1st Jet flight PIA 737-300 Karachi (Jinnah Intl) to Kathmandu (Tribhuvan)

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and then a little trip in the Himalayas in a tiny Cessna, bad idea it was topping out at around 13,000 ft and the mountains were 26000ft. Had to fly around them.

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haha yea I did but I just bounced off like a tennis ball and continued flying :p (I have crashes turned off right now)

This game is really awesome, but if your computer can handle it, I'd get Flight Sim X, its much better and the multiplayer is great supposedly.
 
Yea I have a 2.4 Ghz old ass computer with a ATI Radeon 9550 (256mb) video card and a gig of ram.

This runs fs9 on medium-medium high setting at 22fps.
 
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