Posts by Fabs79

  • Lanzarote next.

    Looks great, but does THE huge IKEA store seen in the approach video really exist in real life? Google maps and Google Earth don't show it near the runway threshold. There only seems to be an IKEA store close to to the harbour in Arrecife.

  • Tomahawk, 152 or Arrow?

    I can't add any real life experience to this discussion, but I also always thought that the GA planes in Aerofly don't glide as I had expected compared to other Simulators (in this case the A2A C172 in P3D) and to reports from a friend of mine who was preparing for his PPL in a C172 at that time. I had him over for a few simulator flights in the A2A C172 and he told me that it handled pretty much the same as the real C172 he was taking lessons in. We even recreated a engine off emergency Landing test his flight instructor once made him do by using a scenery for his home airport and the weather metar from the time he was taking his lesson and he said it played out almost exactly the same than his real world experience on that day. I never had him try Aerofly which I didn't use much in this time, but when I compare the A2A C172 in P3D (which he deemed realistic) to the Aerofly one it just glides much better than the latter. Same for the Just Flight C152. I believe Kai when he says that there's not much he can do about it due to the way Aerofly handles flight dynamics. But IMHO maybe the Aerofly developers have to do something about how the simulator handles flight dynamics to take care of this problem (that is IF they acknowledge that there is a problem). On a side note, I think that is a general problem of simulators that calculate flight models on real physics simulations like Aerofly and Xplane instead of using cfg files to determine flight behavior like FSX / P3D. Although the latter one may be a little less realistic and make the plane fly like it's "on rails" from time to time, it gives the developer total control of how the plane reacts in a given situation. The physics based simulator may have a better "feeling" of flight, but a small mistake in the physics calculations can easily cause an aircraft to unexpectedly divert from its realistic world counterpart in certain flight situations like gliding, stall behaviors or whatever. I faintly remember a discussion a few years back about Xplane 10 (or was it 11 already?) when the xplane developers changed something about how the simulator handled prop wash effects which caused an Addon plane to behave totally different from the real thing in crosswind operations. The developer of the Addon aircraft (who happened to be a real life flight engineer) told the xplane developers that they got something wrong in their physics simulations which they refused to believe until he showed them real world videos of flight dynamic tests of the real aircraft and then they admitted they made a mistake. I think they assumed a laminar airflow somewhere when the real world airflow was turbulent.

    Bottom line, maybe their is a small miscalculation in the Aerofly physics model that influences the glide ratio of the small GA Aircraft in an unrealistic way. Of course this is nothing I could test myself and I may be wrong about it, I'd just like the developers to take this into consideration.


    Cheers, Fabian

  • Cessna 172 glide ratio

    And would you say that the gliding behavior of say the Aerofly C172 is realistic? I have absolutely no real life experience with this but I was always under the impression that GA aircraft, unlike fighter jets, as a rule are designed for benign behavior in emergency situations that gives the pilot a chance to resolve the problem before something bad happens. I thought that included things like relatively easy stall recovery and at least some basic gliding capabilities in case of a engine out failure. At least that was what my friend told me when he was practicing these procedures. In Aerofly I have the feeling that the GA planes like the C172 or the Just Flight C152 drop like a rock when I set the engine to idle or when cut the mixture in flight, but maybe that's just from my lack of real world experience. I also thought that the real world Piper PA28 that my friend's FI once landed with me on the right front seat had a landing flare that seemed to last forever, while in Aerofly I habe difficulties to get into a decent flare before hitting the ground, but of course that might also be the difference between a low wing and high wing aircraft.

  • Cessna 172 glide ratio

    Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

    Keep in mind that the real world cessna also glides different if you just idle the engine or when you actually shut it down and the prop stops. If the prop is rotating at idle it creates more drag. If you only practice emergencies with engine at idle it may not be representative of an actual engine failure. I would suggest trying both with a flight instructor on a long enough runway so that you can land long without running out of runway...


    I actually have a Cessna mod with different flight characteristics: https://www.aerofly-sim.de/dow…oflyfs2/af2_c172_download

    Please give it a try and provide feeback so that I can correct things like this.

    If my modded cessna flies exactly like it should, then we can think about changing the default cessna to that setting.

    I'll try the mod and report back, though I lost my only real world flying reference because my friend moved to Switzerland a few months ago so I can't let him try the different tmd settings and ask which one he deems the most realistic.

    On another note, does the prop really stop at an engine out failure? Depending on the cause of the failure wouldn't it be possible that it keeps spinning because of the airflow going over it, unless you have a prop pitch lever that lets you feather the prop, which the C172 doesn't have if I'm not mistaken? This is a question to the real world pilots out there because I obviously don't have any real experience with these situations.

  • Can I assign non-standard functions to buttons and axes?

    Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to assign functions like the Just Flight C152 carb heat or primer to hardware axes? The carb heat is not that important since Aerofly doesn't seem to simulate Carburetor icing, but it would be a nice touch if I could use push and pull the primer lever with a real hardware axis.

    Cheers, Fabian

  • Cessna 172 glide ratio

    Out of curiosity, if I understand correctly you're saying that the default C172 glide distance is too low, correct? I'm really interested in your findings because a friend of mine who recently got his PPL in a C172 once told me how he was practicing engine failure emergencies with his flight instructor by cutting the throttle on downwind and then had to return to the runway while gliding, and I was never able to recreate this procedure in Aerofly because the C172 dropped like a rock once I pulled the throttle all the way back. I asked on this forum if this was a mistake and was told off for having no idea how a C172 is not a glider and so on.... but your post suggests that there really might be a unrealistic value in the tmd file. I'm looking forward to what you'll find out about how the gliding performance changes with different values for the Flaps settings.

  • Objekts in a row .... form wavy stairs. :( ( objekts from 3ds max )

    I'm not entirely sure but I think If an object in Aerofly doesn't have a specular texture it will have a "standard" specularity which makes it look shiny. You could try to create a completely black texture and use it as a specular map and see if the shinyness is gone.

  • Requesting sounds for flaps hydraulics

    And when you're at it, overhaul the sound of the whole simulator maybe? As fantastic as the graphics quality and performance is, Aerofly's sound is one of its weakest aspects. All the sounds are thin and don't really add to the immersion, compared to for example an A2A plane for P3D where the sounds are an important part of the experience.

  • Eigene 3D-Objekte einbauen - funktioniert nicht

    Du hast brauchst kein Flughafenskript. Mit MCX kannst du das Objekt mit dem geoplacement Tool platzieren und dann anstatt Export object export scenery klicken. Dann hast du eine tmb file (das Objekt im Aerofly Format) und eine tsc file (eine Textdatei, in der die Koordinaten, die Höhe, die Rotation etc angegeben sind). Außerdem solltest du zumindest noch eine Textur im ttx Format haben, die diffuse map endet im Aerofly konventionsgemäß auf _color. Und ja, du brauchst eine Textur, ein Material kann Aerofly nicht lesen, was sehr schade ist weil man ja mit guten materials echt tolle Sachen machen kann. Es gibt nur diffuse map, bump oder normal map, specular map und light map für die Nacht Textur. Mach doch mal probehalber folgendes. Im 3D?Programm eine Textur erstellen und dann irgendwie auf dein Objekt drauf machen, egal ob es am Anfang doof aussieht. Dann MCX Das Objekt laden und schauen ob es im Viewer mit der Textur erscheint. Wenn nicht, kannst du versuchen, über den Material editor die Textur von Hand zuzuweisen. Hier kann man auch den alpha channel löschen bzw am besten gleich im 3D Programm eine Textur ohne alpha channel erstellen, damit kommt Aerofly nicht zurecht. Dann auf geoplacement tool, dein Objekt mit dem sich öffnenden map viewer über Google maps, Bing maps oder was auch immer an die richtige Stelle platzieren und dann auf export scenery. Dann solltest du o. G. Drei Dateien bekommen. Diese in ein Szenerie Verzeichnis für Aerofly kopieren (in der Regel in einen Ordner der places heißt) den simulator starten und dann an die location fliegen und erstmal schauen ob dein Objekt auftaucht. Schreib mal ob es geklappt hat, sonst können wir auch gerne mal telefonieren. Ich arbeite zwar mit Blender aber das Prinzip ist gleich. Bin selber noch ganz am Anfang aber immerhin erschienen bei mir die Objekte im Simulator, das feintuning ist dann aber nochmal ne Menge Arbeit.

  • New CASA 212

    Judging from the performance data this could be a good plane for the Lukla scenery. Service ceiling of 8500 meters and STOL capabilities. I'm really looking forward to this one

  • Just Flight C152 - GNS430 CDI not moving?

    Hi Jan,


    Just to let you know, the problem I described above turned out to be non-existent, I obviously just expected the CDI needle to be more sensitive than it actually is. When I strayed off the programmed flight path some more the CDI started moving as expected. What I have yet to try is if it also works with the CDI set to VLOC and the NAV radio turned to a nearby VOR frequency.


    Thanks and best regards,


    Fabian

  • Just Flight C152 - GNS430 CDI not moving?

    I know that this question technically belongs into a Just Flight support forum, but before I post it there I just wanted to ask if anyone else is having this problem or if I'm doing something wrong.

    When I create a flight plan on the navigation page, it is transferred to the GNS correctly. But when I do the flight, the CDI does not move at all even if I'm way off the programmed flight path. Even when switching from GPS to VLOC and back doesn't move the CDI. Am I missing something here?


    Thanks, Fabian

  • 3D moving Clouds ?

    I guess they won't change the clouds before they develop a new weather system. The problem with the rotating clouds is not exclusive to Aerofly, you can see that in P3D, and I'd reckon in Xplane, too. The only solution would be to have real 3D volumetric clouds instead of the 2D sprites we have at the moment. But this probably would be quite heavy on performance. The new MSFS 2020 seems to feature volumetric clouds, and I'm really interested to see how it looks there and how big of a performance hit it will be.

  • ORBX Truearth GB

    Quote from ryansumei

    I think ORBX has taken a look at the New Microsoft Flightsim and pulled the plug on their True Earth development. I mean whats the point when the entire world is now generated in unprecedented reality, all in one Sim.

    True Earth might not be needed in its current form but detailed airports will most likely not be available in the default scenery for the whole world with its 40000 or so airports and airfields, so there's still a market for developers here. Furthermore, it was stated that there are only 450 high detailed photogrammetry cities, the 🍴 will be rather generic. In an interview the lead developer also stated that outside the detailed cities only a few hundred POIs have been modeled all over the world, while the true earth regions mostly contain more than thousand custom objects in a comparably small area. So orbx could release regional POI packs for example. I'm really looking forward to seeing what 2020 will bring to the world of flight simulation

  • ORBX Truearth GB

    Quote from larrylynx

    Give the users some serious and easy to use tools and we will do the job. One of IPACS biggest failures, in my opinion, is to fully appreciate the power of the user base.

    My thoughts exactly. Couldn't have put it better.


    Airport development tool

    Blender plugin

    Open up the texture files, great they are encrypted but naffing useless to a developer

    And don't get me started on the TMD file :D


    +1000 for the blender plugin

    Add to the list : ground flatten polygons like in FSX (easily usable with tools like ADE or Sbuilder X) ; exclude polygons that remove all default objects so that you can place custom ones

  • ORBX Truearth GB

    True Earth GB for Aerofly has been put on indefinite hold according to the ORBX CEO because of problems with the conversion that made it difficult to achieve the same quality as for the other platforms (especially concerning the airports in the region if I remember correctly) and the small potential customer base. It seems that sales of previous ORBX products for Aerofly accounted for less than 2% of total sales so it seemed economically unreasonable to continue development.

  • 3D model not displaying correctly in Aerofly FS2

    It´s good to hear I´m not alone. Another thing I was thinking of is that maybe the fact that not all the vertices are connected to each other causes the issue. My model has several components that I just moved into place so it looks like they are connected, but in fact they aren´t, i.e. the vertices of the turbine rotor blades are not directly connected via an edge with the vertices of the "nose" and so on. If all vertices need to be connected I´d need to use a whole different approach to modeling from the beginning. It would make things considerably harder.

  • 3D model not displaying correctly in Aerofly FS2

    Quote from Jet-Pack

    each geometry in your 3d model is displayed when the model is placed onto the terrain. The height offset comes from different 3d origins for each geometry which is useful to displace buildings by different amounts.

    You need to make sure that all objects that belong to your model share the exact same pivot point or 3d origin otherwise each part is going to be moved according to the terrain height directly underneath the origin, which at a slope means the parts move relative to each other.

    Hi again,


    I did what you suggested but still no luck, in fact it looks even worse now with the wind turbines sunken halfway into the ground and the rotor still detached. I set all the 3D origins of the individual components to the bottom of the pylon of the turbine because I assumed that the simulator would place the origin on ground level height. But obviously there's still something wrong? Is there a certain way to correctly place a 3D origin of the model? At the bottom? At the center of the geometry? Another thing that came to my mind was that maybe the export to collada format had something to do with the problem? Maybe the origin is not preserved correctly? Blender doesn't have a direct export option for Aerofly so I have to somehow get the model into MCX, But maybe exporting to .3ds format might help?