Perhaps a cylindrical image projection would work well with wide screens, that is to the edge of the screen, the camera is actually looking a little to one side. The conventional projection just stretches the edges sideways.
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Thanks Jan.
FS1 free add-ons, Zurich.
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The decimal clock will make things easier.
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Thanks very much Jan, I can get by without the pay planes I suppose, I have them on mobile. Your source of free add-ons is very welcome, I'll enjoy adding sense of scale buildings and wind farms etc, in the bleak mountain tops and around the glaciers. The Hughes helicopter is definitely getting a look at.
Do you remember how to enable the running engine in the Piper Cub? I have the sound files copied in but I have to use the height gain button to become airborne with a running engine.
Thanks again.
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The IPACS site no longer allows access to the above pages, the FS page now links to FS2 only. I would be interested in pay add-on aircraft and FS user aircraft and scenery object downloads. I recently got the Duchess pay add-on and the free Piper Cub which needs some tweaking, which I cannot find information on anymore. I also wanted scenery objects such as mountain top observatories. There was no warning of access removal.
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Flight Soda, Berne.
FS1.
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A few examples of what you get from VR Screenshots - worth bearing in mind that you get two seperate jpg's for each shot - one is the regular screenshot and the other is the dual image from the 3D capture with VR included in the default saved filename - you'll need to use something suitable to view that back in 3d via the rift again.
Hi, I hope you don't mind me making a left-right reversed copy of your pic for crossed-eye 3 D viewing? It can give non VR users an impression of the 3 D imagery.
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I decided to tackle learning how to make an airfield. After reading quite a many posts here on the forum and asking a number of dumb question, I went with modeling my local airfield, Point Cook (YMPC) outside Melbourne/Australia. It is apparently the oldest continuously operational military airfield, with the buildings near the sea going back from WW1. It was interesting as it has crossed runways and curved taxiway. Also it has far more trees close to the runway than I thought was safe, but I guess 'H&S in 1918 was a bit more laxed. See insert.
It is also an interesting place as there is an military air museum there, with quite many historica planes parked outside on the apron, there's a civilian flight school with a fleet of C172's, and often the are Blackhawks, as well as the RAAF's acrobatic team showing off, aside from a bi-annual airshow. I tried to put some of these as well in.
All the buildings are from the XREF library, used JOSM+scenProc from tree placement. Still polishing on building placements, was hoping to add some buildings to the base behind it, and fix up some of the decals a bit more, and add some wheel marks, but still happy with the first attempt. Feels really good in VR to fly into your neighborhood airfield.!
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Hi, I did some Cherokee and Citabria flying out of nearby Melbourne Moorabbin back in '93, it was just a bit more complex. I kept an airfield diagram handy when trying to negotiate taxiways and runway crossings.
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Could some FS like water effects be applied in FS2 in defined lakes for example. Mountain lakes in FS look really good.
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I was saying make what is already exceptionally good better, there are little authenticity tweaks possible in loads of places like making gusting side winds rock the plane significantly (ON THE GROUND) unless the correct wind direction aileron movement is applied.
Some unfortunate effects might have been fixed in PC, I haven't reinstalled it yet but the self cancelling rudder action in mobile is definitely worth removing. It mucks up flying rudder control presumably to give easier take off/landing roll nose wheel steering, can these actions be seperated?, that is dampen nose wheel rotation without hitting the aerodynamic rudder simulator control. Some Cessna nose gear is rotated via springs so rudder application does not bear directly on the semi castoring nose wheel.
Re the P-38, it is good to feature adverse handling flaws but I was never aware that the nose could not be held up, wings level below 120 mph, with the throttles closed. That would be a fatal flaw which the USAAF would never accept. It would mean that a crash would be almost certain from a glide approach. The only way I could get a half reasonable landing near 90 mph was to leave on at least 34% power with half flap. The problem persists even without flap. It goes out of control, flaps-up at 110mph with 34% power on, if it is held in a 30 degree bank. The elevator cannot hold the nose up and aileron control is completely lost, the only bank recovery is full opposite rudder which looses more speed or the use of the magic plus 500 feet button.
The plane also bounces like a tail dragger if a main gear only contact is achieved (it requires a 85-90 mph touch down) it launches upwards with the nose wheel stationary and with the main wheels spinning. Is there a 'sim contact box sense' adjustment required here? I know that this effect can happen in real life with a very rear Centre of Gravity at a very high nose up attitude (putting the C.O.G. behind the rotated forward wheels) but the low vertical stabilisers prevent that in a P-38. Full flap gives a more nose down attitude which would make this worse.
The elevator problem is not unlike the very initial iOS FS2 Corsair, it simply had insufficient elevator authority at low speeds. The aileron authority also seems to run out inside the flying envelope, it cannot effectively correct roll excursions below 100 mph.
I am trying 100% to be helpful. Torsten said in the past that some of my comments were useful.
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Have the IPACS team actually tried the published android version in the last year or two? The navigation feature is genuinely unusable and android Aero is significantly inferior to the iOS version. It is screaming out for even the most minor of fixes and perhaps with ongoing hardware performance improvements since the last version, the inferior to iOS scenery textures could be improved upon. Android users are well aware of having a second class Aerofly.
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How about improving the aerodynamic feel of what we already have? My most favourable and earliest impression of old iOS mobile FS was of how natural and dynamic-speeding-airborne-aeroplane like Aerofly really was.
There were some early turkeys like the initial FS2 Corsair but IPACS really got stuck in there and eliminated the flaws and gave us a magnificent convincing flight model. The current Corsair is sweet and is even better than that in FS. Mobile FS of course benefited from years of maturing development in the original PC version.
The current FS2 P-38 is clearly not satisfactory, it could never be landed with the throttle closed, the mobile A 380 has monumental adverse yaw and for an undisclosed reason has not migrated into PC.
The core Aerofly simulator's outstanding flying quality remains truely essential and more work on improving the authentic feel of this wonderful simulator can only further seperate it from the more archaic and pretentious competitors.
The excellent recent post on fine tuning the aircraft feel in the hold off and flare is an example of what might possibly be really more productive than largely focusing on the introverted unauthentic game-mode navigation feature.
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Is mixture enabled in all the piston planes now?
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I hope time is not invested in gimicks for the youngest generation who have to socialise and 'cool dude' each other, I'm on about multiplay. It might even bring in money but it is nothing to do with simulating a real world ride in an aeroplane. Some audio feature would be OK but flying in tandem through a mountain pass would leave me stone cold.
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Look at the crazy angle of the VOR 360 bearing in California and compare it with Switzerland. To fly real north in the Bay area you have to steer 360 minus 15 degrees or 345 on the compass. It is called magnetic variation, not a bad name for it.
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Sorry I should have written "ought to" instead of "should have". I don't think you can select VOR/ADF.
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Piper Cherokee 180
Piper Cherokee 180
The Just Flight Archer in the PC and iOS FS is the ugly current fashion victim version. It has the ridiculous pointy spinner and dog's rear-end air intakes engine cowling and to top off the marketing division's insult, the top of the windscreen is blanked off to hold a tiny overhead switch panel so it has the '747 cockpit' look. The original switches position has blanking plates to cover newly empty places! The instrument panel is bare metal with exposed gauge lights to give a sort of 1960s military panel illusion.
A new Aerofly Archer or Challenger PA-28 180 with the attractive Vickers Viscount /FW 190 style spinner and traditional 'spot the new bird's nest' capability air intakes with the instrument panel that so many of us got to know in our sleep would be a wonderful reminder of old flights in the sweetest of all the Cherokees, tons of power and no fly-you-into-the-ground when things are going badly automatic rectactable gear extension as in the PA-28 R Arrow. It had the sweetest confidence boosting, gentle wings level stall and the 'chocolate bar' wing with a strong nod towards laminar flow sections glided forever during engine failure forced landing exams.
I am a bit of a fan.
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The Captian Sim 737-200 has opening windows. I didn't use them in flight, too much trouble.
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A localiser has different signals from a VOR, a RMI expects a signal with phase differences but a localiser lacks that, it has varying ballances of two modulations which do not give radial information. Aero should have working VOR/ADF selectors, it would allow needle one to show an NDB bearing and needle two could show the box 2 VOR.
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Happy 'Boxing Day' Tübingen.
I do not know if this 26th December phrase makes sense in Germany. In the UK it is a big football fixture day, perhaps 'Boxing' comes from the rival fans in the pubs?
Muhammad Ali R.I.P.
