I tried a 737-500 manual STAR into Ontario in Southern California not too long ago. It was great in vmc seeing the hard terrain close to the real life route, being guided down around some serious mountains. Wonderful fun 'in' a proper aeroplane. They are a bit Airbus happy at the minute, an on/off switch would do for an Airbus 😎.
Posts by Overloaded
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Great fella, I'd worry a bit about his parents possibly brain washing him. Then again if I had Google access when I was six years old?
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Could something similar work on the tablets which always seem to have built in webcams? There is a sort of open source PC program that tries to imitate track IR using a webcam.
I presume the mobile work is not in its final stages?
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I remember Piper Aztecs needing a decent rpm during taxi to keep the volts up but I don't remember Cessnas or various Piper 'Cherokees' being that fussy.
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This is new to me, how does it compare to Track IR and does it need a higher spec PC?
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Just set up your rpm blue levers and look up how to operate complex piston aeroplanes with constant speed propellors. I use key presses as the rpm isn't changed that often but if you have spare sliders on your joystick you could use them.
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Is there a way to easily display side by side views?
I'd like to try parallel stare into infinity type 3D (or reversed right/left cross over viewing). I do not have any VR gear ..... apart from red-cyan glasses!
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Perhaps hi res pics are hard to get?
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What controller was that? Did you have manual trim?, I do not like the in-sim automatic trim with manual throttle, the plane never feels right whenever power is temporarilly changed.
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Have you tried the pause key, it lets you view the scenery.
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I bought a kit of parts and added a big cooler and fan but it never went above 42 degrees C!
Mine is only a 2 core G3258 Anniversary Pentium set-up so it never makes that much heat. It runs 4.3 GHz (just!, in the winter) and is great for FS2 with a fairly decent graphics card.
I was concerned bringing home an overclock box of parts but honestly it was quite easy in the end. I followed on line and YouTube guides and used free software tools to help me slowly increase the speeds to find the point where it would black out from instability. I think I got 95% of the tuning done over two days. I also got an overclockable graphics card so it was fun too, it was more relevant to getting FS2 running on ultra everything.
Honestly if you are getting a new PC give overclocking some thought, look at a few YouTube videos to defuse the apprehension and look up some supplier's offers. I got guaranteed compatible parts and it went together without even the slightest hitch. You can buy a made up and overclocked PC to get you started but you won't get one fine tuned to get the very highest performance, that would be your job!
I got a 34% CPU speed increase plus many mysterious performance increases from the graphics card which I don't really understand.
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FSX will always be a problem. You will really need an overclocked CPU running in the 4.2 to 4.7 GHz range. It only really uses one core so you would not need an i7 but other sims use multiple cores.
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On the third week of March and September the Sun hits the horizon at due east and due west. In the northern hemisphere the sunrises and sunsets can move up to 90 degrees north in the summer depending on the locations lattitude, for example on 21st of June on the artic circle, the sun touches the horizon at midnight on due north.
From the Sunrise Sunset android app set as described, allowing for summer time.
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Check the station reception range first, there are low powered VORs for local use.
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Jeff's point is right, in real life the instrument lights do not allow full night adaptation of the eyes. The ground in ordinary areas is pitch black and 'VFR navigation' is based on keeping a tally of the towns passed and checking their expected size, shape and location. Once using nav-aids the precise mental map gets lost.
As Phil says a photo based on a 30 second exposure is way brighter than what the eye sees. I'd like to be able to darken the ground, medium-dark grey looks false to me.
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Don't forget mobile next year, a version of the New York scenery would sell well. Is Android scenery in app purchasing fixed?
Mobile devices have got faster and have more storage than when they were last handled.
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Keep your detailed bill with times. Put it in your new log book as the trial lesson hours count toward your minimum time required.
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I'm wrong. i haven't done my HD and FS2 install due to a recovering illness.
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How are you going to tune in your cockpit (com) radio? Not one of IPACS' crowning achievements so far.