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    Topic: What do you NOT use in FSX?

    in Radio Chatter Room

    Posted

    My biggest gripe with FSX is:

    * too much focus on eye-candy and not enough on SIMULATION.

    - the flight model is out dated and has serious weaknesses

    - bloom - only kills performance, and adds nothing

    - AutoGen - the trees are not bad, but in general it is totally unrealistic outside the USA and a frame rate killer

    - reflective water - looks like the sea is made of blue tinted aluminium foil

    - clouds - not nearly realistic enough

    - weather system (see flight model) - apart from wind and pressure, it is a toy. No attempt was made to actually try and simulate it properly including wind shear, turbulence (you can fly through a severe t/storm and it has no effect), etc..

    - the engines merely produce thrust, and are not affected by such things as bleed air usage, etc.. though great strides have been made in piston engine modelling in recent times.

    If you can focus on the FLIGHT in FLIGHT SIMULATION, and not so much on the eye-candy that it kills the whole thing and affects the realism of FLYING, you'll get my vote.

    I suggest looking at DCS:BS for how a sim should be. Extremely realistic from the flying perspective, and enough eye-candy without going mad. Using FSX as a role model is a bad choice, IMHO.

    I also wouldn't mind if your sim came on 20 DVDs if that is what it took to get good satellite mapping of the entire earth into the sim. About the only good point of the new earth model in FSX was high res textures, and some stunning photo scenery that sits atop it; forget the limited landclass model - it's out of date and totally useless for real VFR flying.

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Topic: Lights... I see the light!

    in Radio Chatter Room

    Posted

    Why not leave it open for devs to say "I want 50 external lights"? Why put an artificial limit on everything? IMHO this is where FS fundamentally went wrong.

    Have your lights if you wish, but make the API such that you can theoretically have an unlimited number. If it kills the system having 50,000 lights rendered on one aircraft then so be it, but I think you get the point. :)

    The same for engines, etc.. - make it as scalable as possible. Talking of engines - permit types to be mixed (e.g. 4x turboprop engines and 16x rocket as in Fat Albert).

    Best regards,

    Robin.

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    Ridge Soaring Revisited

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Gah! Anyone willing to fire up an MP session of FSX sometime and talk me through the elusive art of ridge soaring?

    I started out at Aspen, and maybe made a bad decision to use real-world static weather.

    The cloud base was approximately 14,000 ft, with a 4 kts wind from the SW, but I found as I soared that the wind was reversing 180 degrees as I flew.

    I used the BM, and did a self-launch up to 1000 ft AGL. I thought I might catch some thermals so climbed and headed in the general direction of Eagle (KEGE).

    No thermals were apparent and possibly over-powered by the sink, so I climbed to 8500 ft (nearly 2000 ft AGL at this point). The engine seemed like it was reaching its limit, but still nothing. By this time I'd soared maybe 12 nm, nearly all of it using the engine.

    I kept my speed up, and found the "speed to fly" function of the C4 rather useful.

    Just in case I'm not trying to do something I can't do - the Discus is happy to soar at these altitudes (and higher) isn't it? What is its ceiling?

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Discus BM Self-Launch

    in Specific-3d-Design

    Posted

    Looks that way! :D

    A bit slow to accelerate, but it gets there eventually.

    If you try it at Aspen "the other one" it doesn't seem to want to know. THanks for the tip about ballast though - I suspect that may be the reason. Aiming for the side of the cliff might have helped a little though!! :lol:

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Discus BM Self-Launch

    in Specific-3d-Design

    Posted

    @Peter: to whom were you talking?

    I can start the engine on the ground, and the RPM comes up to 5000 or so RPM but it just doesn't want to accelerate???

    Please note I'm talking about Aspen with the grass runway, not Aspen-Pitkin County. :)

    I didn't know there was a turbo model in the sim. Which model is that?

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Problem with Spins

    in Specific-3d-Design

    Posted

    Hi,

    It seems it requires the nose to be pushed over to get it out of the stall then a normal dive recovery can be made.

    Your ailerons does not work as intended on a stalled wing. It can be that you stall the wing on the lower aileron even more, and the plane fall over this wing.

    For example: You stalled the plane goes to the left, you try to recover with right aileron and zapp it goes over the left wing.

    because you stalled the left wing and even recovered the right one with the up going aileron.

    Excellent that this is simulated!

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Ridge Soaring

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    That makes sense. I think I was perhaps expecting too much from it then.

    Time to do some flight planning! :D

    Is there any free replacement landclass for the Alps? The default looks a bit weird...

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Problem with Spins

    in Specific-3d-Design

    Posted

    Frame rates are 20. It can run faster but stutters.

    I used the correct spin recovery technique, but the very problem is that the ailerons are reversed and the tail is unresponsive.

    I'll have to check the speed. I thought it was 150 kts, but maybe it is pegged at zero and I'm actually completely stalled.

    Let me re-check that and report back.

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Problem with Spins

    in Specific-3d-Design

    Posted

    Hi,

    When trying to spin, I experience a few things:

    1) It spins the direction it wants to go - you can't bias the spin direction with a bit of roll/yaw input at entry

    2) Once it has got spinning, I frequently experience aileron reversal whilst trying to recover, and it stops responding in pitch

    Once (2) has occurred, my only option is to slew to get it out, otherwise it is unrecoverable.

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Ridge Soaring

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi,

    OK! :D

    I did wonder if it was a bad situation to get into in the first place.

    After the screenshot I flew towards the mountains on the left as it was very slightly into wind, but there was still insufficient lift.

    I'm not totally sure if I have things configured correctly in the sim, either. I'm currently using the default settings of CumulusX!.

    There are some other mountains I tried soaring along, and whilst I can maintain altitude overall, I seem unable to actually climb unless I'm already reasonably high. I'll get a screenshot of that, as well.

    Once I'm going it is fine, but it is just this situation of being lower than I would like, and getting up and out of it.

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    Ridge Soaring

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi,

    Yes, I realize 080 is *from*, and that I was flying almost straight into wind. To turn would result in an unacceptable loss of altitude and put me in direct conflict with the mountains.

    I could use the engine, but that was not the point of the post. I was flying the version with the engine to get the screenshot because as of this moment, I'm useless at getting out of this scenario. :(

    Best regards,

    Robin.

    CTD BUGFIX

    in Specific-3d-Design

    Posted 

    Problem signature:

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    Best regards,

    Robin.

    UnBlue

    in CumulusX!

    Posted

    Interesting.

    What is the recommended coverage then? 7/8? I did initially start with 3/8 until I read that FS can report clear skies, so set it to 5/8 but was still finding a large proprtion of thermals were without associated cumulus. At one point it was so bad I was heading towards all the clear areas to get lift!

    Best regards,

    Robin.

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