Posts by Overloaded

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.

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.

Is mixture enabled in all the piston planes now?

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.

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.

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

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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.

The Captian Sim 737-200 has opening windows. I didn't use them in flight, too much trouble.

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.

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.

Merry and happy everything.

Is there a way to make the King Air's Rate Of Climb needle more visible, perhaps a 'reflective' edge?

Ho ho ho!

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Yep, they sure are! I got my tailwheel training and endorsement in a Super Decathlon and also learned basic aerobatics in it. Way more fun than anything else I've ever flown. Wheel landings are a blast once you get the hang of it.

I booked aerobatics in a Citabria in Melbourne Moorabbin, most of the flight was upside down! They are a great line, sort of lego looking but real aeroplanes.

A trappable carrier doing 30 knots into the wind.

Great to have some grass strips and run manual navigation and PAPI-less arrivals. Those of you who are in the Facebook Fan group have seen quite a few posts on manual navigation to many of the off menu grass strips that work well in beautiful FS, they are usually pretty good in the PC version.

Time to get out a chart of some sort and a stop watch.

Merry Christmas Everyone

There is no pressure, I have AF1 also on android, I have FS and FS2 on both iOS and PC so I'm not hungry! The beta works well so far in android 8.1 and the fixed PAPI intensity is a bigger plus than the glass cockpit bug is a minus. The 737 is superb in 1,800 vertical pixel resolution on a PIXEL C, it is not a perfect tablet either.

Merry Christmas to everyone in Tübingen.

The real one has Flight Director assisted ILS or VOR plus TACAN, FS2 has departed from reality a bit.

I stopped flying when a Garmin 55 AVD was a cool GPS. A single ----|---- line was the graphic interface showing your route progress. Its display was huge compared to a cigarette pack end sized display I saw in 737-200s.

Doesn't sound like you have a new version then?

You fly the -200?

An efficient Airbus instrument panel. It is blank except for a single on/off switch. Jan thinks it should have a back up. The Airbus pilots use the switch and watch the computer do everything. Remember how clued in the Air France pilots were over the South Atlantic?