Microsoft Flight Simulator Discussion

[mattfb]

Downloaded flight sim x demo, man its hard! Hopefully gonna get it soon though.

Nice screenies mark! Are there good tutorials on how to fly in the proper version? Otherwise I'm going to be lost.

 

[themuel1]

Downloaded flight sim x demo, man its hard! Hopefully gonna get it soon though.

Nice screenies mark! Are there good tutorials on how to fly in the proper version? Otherwise I'm going to be lost.

There are indeed. TBH - With stuff I didn't understand when I first got FS 2000 (VOR's, DME, ILS) I wikipedia'd and read about the real thing - applied it to the game. Also, multiplayer was a huge thing for me. (Used to be a microsoft website for Multiplayer - shut because of piracy apparantly) Loads of people doing short hops - able to ask them (many were real pilots) questions about stuff you didn't understand and they'd answer them for you.

You guys have got me back into this game. Gonna cost me ?1000+ too! I hope your happy....

 

[MasterBlaster76]

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.

I might grab the demo to see how it runs on my new specs - I only sold FSX because I assumed FS 11 would be with us by now.

 

[pcfan123]

Hey Sam,

apparently there are still ways to play multiplayer on hamachi and other services. I haven no idea how to get it to work but there is lot of help on flightsim.com forums.

Matt, the tutorials are intense, they are structured in the exact same lessons that you would take if you wanted to get a pilots license in the States. IF you sit down and go through them you will know how to fly any plane!

Feel free to ask any questions that arent answered in the demo. (oh and post a screenie, I want to see how it runs on other systems), I just got a bunch of addons too so will post some screenies of my new planes. Mostly military jets.

Mark added 0 Minutes and 33 Seconds later...

oh and Sam you were right about the 737, it such a beautiful jet and so much fun to fly, great distance too, I flew one from Gatwick to Moscow!

Mark added 1 Minutes and 46 Seconds later...

You guys have got me back into this game. Gonna cost me ?1000+ too! I hope your happy....

Haha this game (FSX actually) is the reason I am getting a new PC as well. Mine will cost only around 600-800 though

Also might as well build a nice PC since Microsoft Flight is around the corner!

 

[pcfan123]

Here we go,

some free addon military jets

Fairchild Republic A-10 WartHog (Known as the flying tank) Only used by the USAF and US Air National Guard

and the General Dynamics f-16 (old outdated jet, used by the USA, Israel, Pakistan, Turkey, Netherlands and Venezuela)

 

[pcfan123]

amazing story, Sam you'll love this.

A private flight from Louisiana to Florida in a Super King Air two-engine turboprop aircraft, pilot dies along the way and one of the passengers contacts ATC. He has only flown a single engine plane before and they help guide him to landing.

Here is the entire ATC from when he 1st contacts them to landing. You hear everything, from when he contacts hem and they try to clear the channel, one guy just constantly directs other planes of the line while a woman talks him down. It's a crazy story and perfectly documented.

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9sNwmeCws&feature=channel

 

[themuel1]

amazing story, Sam you'll love this.

A private flight from Louisiana to Florida in a Super King Air two-engine turboprop aircraft, pilot dies along the way and one of the passengers contacts ATC. He has only flown a single engine plane before and they help guide him to landing.

Here is the entire ATC from when he 1st contacts them to landing. You hear everything, from when he contacts hem and they try to clear the channel, one guy just constantly directs other planes of the line while a woman talks him down. It's a crazy story and perfectly documented.

Part 2
YouTube - Passenger lands plane, pilot dies - full length complete audio part 2

Gay work won't let me watch that - I'll have a look when I get home

Here's what a Del guy recommended me when I chatted with him last night:

Genuine Windows? 7 Home Premium 64bit- English
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (2.80GHz, 512kx6)
OS Media : MUI Windows 7 Home Premium (64 BIT) Resource DVD"
new 6 core processor
1 year of coverage included with your PC
McAfee? Security Centre 15 Month Protection
8192MB (4x2GB) 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory
2TB Dual Hard Drive Raid 0 "Stripe" (2x1TB - 7200rpm)
1GB ATI? Radeon? HD 5870 graphics card with Vision Black label
Blu-R"ay ROM combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write)
Dell? USB Entry Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Dell Optical Scroll USB (2 buttons scroll) DUAL TONE Mouse
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Card

I didn't even know 2tb hard drive was an option. Is the graphics card any good? Base price of this is ?1104.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Hmmm, I wouldn't call the F16 'old and outdated' - it can still hold its own - from what I know, it's still one of the best Air Dominance fighters in the world. Wasn't it F16s that were scrambled on 9/11?

Anyway, I don't see the point in having military aircraft if you can't shoot anything.

 

[pcfan123]

Not everything is a about action and the f-16 is old and outdated, it can be shot down by a F35 from miles away without detecting it on Radar. The US will decommission it in 2020 and from then on replace it with the f35. the f16 was developed in 1971!

Flying a jet with proper protocol, (speed, proper altitude (ascent, cruise, decent), heading) is a hell of a challenge.

Sam, you might want to create a thread in the Tech section and post that list, you will get some really good feedback. That computer sounds like a beast but I don't know too much about the individual parts.

Starting my VOR and ILS training today.

Oh and my dad had a go at the Sim yesterday. He said its not really like flying, but its 100% accurate in terms of instrumentation and said that alone makes this Sim very educational.

 

[pcfan123]

Sam let me know when you listen to those ATC tapes, I can't stop listening to it, its a rollercoaster of emotion from when he 1st contacts them all excited to when he gets really somber and quiet during approach.

The main problem he has is trying to stop the autopilot, the pilot had set it at 10,000 but he died and the plane kept climbing to 17,000! Imagine how scary that must be for someone who has only flown a little single engine at low altitude, and now a turbo propliner with 5 souls on board!

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Not everything is a about action and the f-16 is old and outdated, it can be shot down by a F35 from miles away without detecting it on Radar. The US will decommission it in 2020 and from then on replace it with the f35. the f16 was developed in 1971!

Flying a jet with proper protocol, (speed, proper altitude (ascent, cruise, decent), heading) is a hell of a challenge.

Sam, you might want to create a thread in the Tech section and post that list, you will get some really good feedback. That computer sounds like a beast but I don't know too much about the individual parts.

Starting my VOR and ILS training today.

Oh and my dad had a go at the Sim yesterday. He said its not really like flying, but its 100% accurate in terms of instrumentation and said that alone makes this Sim very educational.

F35 - what's that? Don't you mean the F22 Raptor? The F16 might have been developed in the 70s, but it has had numerous upgrades to keep it going. Of course, it can't go forever, but it can live with most of the fighters out there. The Raptor is in a class of its own however.

 

[pcfan123]

Sam I need help with VOR, I can't understand how to use it or what it really is, the tutorial is a bit ████ on that one.

 

[themuel1]

F35 - what's that? Don't you mean the F22 Raptor? The F16 might have been developed in the 70s, but it has had numerous upgrades to keep it going. Of course, it can't go forever, but it can live with most of the fighters out there. The Raptor is in a class of its own however.

The F16 can still beat many fighters in aerial combat. Chances of it coming up against a F22 Raptor are very very slim, seeing as the US don't sell to enemies lol.

And the Raptor is not in a class of its own. The Eurofighter, in a dogfight, outmanovers it completely. AND the Eurofighter is cheaper I believe.

The F35 - Joint Strike Fighter - (Can Hover like a Harrier) Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Would like to stress that a lot of pilots believe the F35 and F22 could be beaten by the F15, F16 and F/18 if the pilots in them were decent. It's thought that upgrading and maintaining the older planes would have been better, seeing as the US major enemies don't develop aircraft. (Russia not really an enemy anymore).


@ Mark - What part are you stuck on? This is a very short paragraph explaining what VOR's are and how they are used in aviation. Being replaced by GPS. VHF omnidirectional range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[pcfan123]

I guess the part I am stuck on is entering the VOR code in the Nav, after I do that nothing happens. I don't see that line pop up on the VOR indicator that I am supposed to turn towards.

Mark added 3 Minutes and 6 Seconds later...

oh and i know its obsolete but you still need to know VOR to get a private pilots license here. It's still used by private pilots for short hops.

 

[themuel1]

I guess the part I am stuck on is entering the VOR code in the Nav, after I do that nothing happens. I don't see that line pop up on the VOR indicator that I am supposed to turn towards.

Mark added 3 Minutes and 6 Seconds later...

oh and i know its obsolete but you still need to know VOR to get a private pilots license here. It's still used by private pilots for short hops.

Question - Do you have it on "GPS" or "NAV" ?

It's not obsolete yet.