I just wish the professional complainers would realise that every minute the IPACS team have to spend responding to their nuisance postings, is time lost to useful development of AFS - but then again, maybe that is what they are trying to achieve anyway. They make me sick.
Posts by emfrat
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No idea, but you'll need a DH100 to get in there....
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This page might help you to understand what is needed:
Steam Community :: Guide :: Sopwith Camel - Flight OperationsFlight operations in a Sopwith Camel biplane including engine start-up, take-off, and landing as well as more advanced maneuvers such as 3-point landing,…steamcommunity.com -
You can rename your gc-map.mcf file to gc-map.mcf.last
Restart AFS4 and it will create a new gc-map.mcf and you can modify that as you please. If you don't like your changes, rename the new mcf to mcf.dud and and then rename your mcf.last file back to .mcf
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And very nice it is too! I took the Baron there and did some banking
Thanks to all those involved.
MikeW
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Hello Mike,
As a result, also do a simple approach to the number of downloads on FlightSim.org, then the number with a thumbs up, and without even adding a simple THANK YOU to the author. Then you will unfortunately have an unconvincing answer.
Hello Pascal - Flight-Sim.org shows 2735 members, and their Donate list only has 14 entries. I donate anonymously but I don't see my automatic donation from May 28 - maybe there is a reporting problem there? I would change that to a public donation, but I detest fuss. I also donate to individual devs, if I like their work. and they request donations.
ATB, MikeW
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This forum has over 26000 members. I donate EUR10 each month, through PayPal, and it is completely painless. Just imagine if everyone did that, or even just half of them...
MikeW
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I went to Sim-market, logged in, and asked for a download, hoping to get the update to v1.1 but I finished up with the one I had already bought
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Hello Michael - I have the original zip file, it was a payware release on simmarket. There is a review of the software on flight-sim.org, but nothing else. I explored the zip, but I could not find any reference to blimp, airship, or goodyear. I will have another look tomorrow. There was a readme with a support link for email, but now I can't find it. Time for bed, I think.
Mike
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Have you looked at the Career option in the start-up menu screen?
Nothing beats the smug satisfaction of knowing you are better than anyone else in the community. Of course, I already know I am
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I remember spotting a blimp somewhere - it wasn't near Lakehurst, I think it was in the Boston scenery by TriSoft Sim
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Did you know that the CEO of Ryanair went into a Dublin pub and asked for a pint of Guinness' ?
The steward said certainly sir, that will be 2.5 euro...
That's a good price...We like to think so sir...
Now Mr O'Leary, will you be wanting a glass with your pint?
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Some wind directions are more equal than others unless ridge lift is disabled.
I thought I had a fair idea of how it all worked, but I learned a lot more from this website:
Sources Of Lift - Soaring - Chess in the AirUnlike helium or hot air balloons, sailplanes are heavier than air. Unlike airplanes, they have no engine. And unlike birds, they cannot flap their wings.…chessintheair.com -
Hello Pascal - there is some very good scenery and mesh created locally. I use the GeoffKiwi photo and mesh for AFS2. I like to float around and find airfields where I can land 'on the photo'. It would be great to have some fully developed small airfields for NZ. I have visited there several times and I would like to see more airfield sceneries ( or have the tools to create them myself.)
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Cheers, Michael - there are several active gliding clubs in NZ, as well as Oamarama, which was essentially shut down by government red tape.
Welcome to AIP New Zealand | AIP New Zealand
I wish IPACS would get on with releasing the Airport Construction SDK. I want to upgrade my Chatham Islands scenery, as well as creating more gliding airfields.
ATBMike
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In my other sim I had a CH Throttle Quad, which has six 'rocker buttons' spring loaded to a centred position. I mapped one to Mags Both in the defaut/centred position. Up (while held) was Mags Off, and down was Start Engine (in case I held it up for too long.) This was for flying rotary engined craft, like the Camel.
Now in my AFS4, I have a Logitec yoke with the elevator trim button/slider mapped Up or Down, while held, and holding the new setting when returned to the spring-loaded centred position for neutral.
My coding skills are pretty rusty these days, but it seems to me the coding for those switches must be very similar to what Larry is looking for.
ATB
MikeW
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If you tell the machine that frame rates are unlimited, you are saying "work as fast as you are able to".
If you set a limit, you are saying "don't try to go faster than this".
All the sim software does - haha, 'all' - is work out what the next screen to be displayed should look like. It works that out from all the inputs - throttle settings, control surface positions, switches, wind etc - and applies the result to the previous screen. All this is done many times per second by the CPU (central processing unit) and then passed to the GPU ( graphics processing unit, aka the graphics card) which actually draws the screen.
If you have a strong CPU with plenty RAM, it will have no trouble managing all the other processes, as well as running the sim. A GPU with plenty RAM will take anything the CPU can throw at it. If the CPU can only manage to calculate ten frames per second, that is what you will get from the GPU. Similarly, if the GPU is short on RAM, a strong CPU can flood it with data, creating a slideshow. It is best to have a balanced setup. Limiting fps will reduce demand on the processors, and that could prevent overheating problems. -
Yesterday I set up a flight in the Jungmeister at Christmas Island. When I clicked Start, I got the big red block with STOP written on it. I tried the Ju52 and that worked OK. Looking at the tm log, I saw that pilot_peter could not be found and had also lost his head, limbs, and body ! So I checked further and found him in \scenery\elevation.
Maybe he fell out during an inverted manoeuvre?
So I moved him back to \objects with the rest of his colleagues, and all is now well.
MikeW
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Downloaded the AFS4 Oct 7th release this morning. Looks good!
And I noticed the moon was in the correct phase - let's hope this is the first step towards real water with active tidesAll the little things add up.
Thankyou IPACS Team
MikeW