Got flight sim ?

[cocheese 0]

I was missin Florida so much last night that i was up til 4 am. doing take offs from every dz airport in FL.(just got the program a few days ago)
Way cool as i took off from Titusville and flew to the Space Center and surprisingly saw the space shuttle on the pad.
Did some fly bys near the shuttle in an Extra 300 !
Then off to Sydney for some low passes under the bridges and by the Opera House.
From Alaska to South Africa and even my home town little grass strip airport was in there.
I searched for my ex girlfriend's landing strip, but it wasn't in there.
What a great program. If you get it, make sure you get a joystick that has a twist handle so you can use the rudder easier.
Hmmmm, where to fly around tonight ? NYC at night ?
Hawaii in the rain ?
My home dz in the fog ?
Guess I'll start out in Eloy and go from there.
I flew over your house last night ! Sorry about your antenna

[lisamariewillbe 1]

Can you fly me to south africa... theres a trail I would like to hike ...

Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this
Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this

[cocheese 0]

Ok . Let me get my rig. Would you like to take the 747 or the Lear jet tonight ? I think we are going to have to sell some toys and get a C130 so we can bring our helicopter and friends.
Which keys are these ? i get the big jets mixed up.
(things you might hear at Don Kirlin's house)

[CanuckInUSA 0]

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What a great program.

Yes Flight Sim has come a long way over the years. I haven't used it in over a month now, but I have flown all over the western US states and western Canadian provinces. I don't use it to learn how to fly (I already know how to fly as I am a real world certified private pilot), but it's a great tool for IFR practice as well as VFR terrain recognition if you've got the right bells and whistles.

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If you get it, make sure you get a joystick that has a twist handle so you can use the rudder easier.

Are you sure about this? I've never flown an airplane with a joystick with a twist handle to control the rudder. How about going a little farther and getting yourself a yoke with rudder pedals. You'll never be able to properly replicate the feeling of flight, but at least you'll be using your hands and your feet as they'd be used in a real airplane.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[cocheese 0]

Yea i bet that would be better. But it's not bad as i fly r/c planes and am used to video game flight stuff with a joy stick. Pedals would be nice as i like to wag the tail.
Great now i need 2004 and yoke n pedals, and more tech stuff. And i just needed a little jump. This NOT jumping thing isn't saving me any money.

[pilotdave 0]

I use the twist grip for rudder too... nothing like a real aircraft (other than the comanche helicopter), but it gets the job done... At least you don't have any passengers that'll get airsick as your tail swings around wildly.

So when are we gonna have a multiplayer session? I've got an awesome twin otter for flight sim...

Dave

[ffejdraga 0]

IF you have pre 2004, i think one of the best challenges was trying to land a lear jet on the aircraft carrier. I am pretty sure 2004 doesnt have that, but if anyone knows how to get to it, let me know. I think I tried it about 200 hundred times, and managed to not skid off the deck only twice.

In 2004, i found this random airport in India called Jeypore. I wonder if it is on the previous versions. See if you can find it, the airport is interesting to say the least. It is at the bottom of a 2000' hole that is about 1 mile around and has sloping slides. Getting in is tricky, and you definitaley have to climb in circles to get out.

I tried finding info about it in the real world, and I found Jeypore, but no info about the airport. Maybe it was a big quarry that they eventually built a runway at the bottom...
weird, but I would like to know more.

enjoy it, it is fun stuff.

jeff D-16906

[lisamariewillbe 1]

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Lear jet

swoon

Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this
Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this

[MooChooser 0]

Meh, I dont really understand what flight sim is all about. Its just so god damned boring.

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it's a great tool for IFR practice

It definitely helps with learning the procedures at different airports but to be honest thats pretty much it.

What about the people who dont use it for practice? Do you really simulate long haul 747 flights for fun?

[pilotdave 0]

There are a few airports like that in flight sim... it's just a mistake. They entered incorrect elevation data for the airport, putting it below the surrounding terrain.

Dave

[CanuckInUSA 0]

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Its just so god damned boring

You're entitled to feel this way. But some of us don't view it like this.

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Do you really simulate long haul 747 flights for fun?

Who said anything about flying the heavy iron. I don't fly those airplanes in the real world so why would I fly them in the virtual world.

Several years ago while I was conduction real world flights in Colorado, I fired up my FS to learn the mountains of that state (I've got a few bells and whistles added in the game to give myself closer to real life elevation points, so my mountains in FS rememble the real things). So when I landed in Glenwood Springs, Colorado's 2nd or 3rd hardest airport for real on a nice crisp sunny January winter day back in 2002, I couldn't help but pinch myself and tell myself "Hey you've been here before". I'd much rather learn from my mistakes in FS (like flying up the wrong valley) than make them in the real world.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[LearningTOfly 0]

Once upon a time I found it fun to fly around a city with a few bridges (say, Vancouver)- and loop every bridge in sucession. There's a Cap232 add-on out there somewhere that was fun, as well as a Cap21. Another fun thing is to get a jet of some sort, and go ridge running around some mountainous area- 400-500 kts- flying up a hill- hit the peak, roll inverted, back down the other side.

That was a while ago, though- I used to use it for IFR practice, but even that became tiresome. There are too many unrealistic features in the game...

Oh, just another note- there is a skydiver that you can download for fs- one half is a skydiver in freefall, the other is the same under canopy. Haha, it's very good practice for working on those hookturns.

Have fun

[ripcord4 0]

I use a Saitek Cyborg Evo with FS 04.

A decent $50.00 Joystick with Throttle, Rudder (MUST have!), Point of View cap, Point of View Cycle…. and a bunch of other useful controls.

My minimum requirements for a decent Flt Sim are (above & beyond the obvious X,Y,Z) are Throttle, RUDDER and POV.

The larger and heavier the base of the Joystick…..the better as the Rudder is usually a twisting motion; left to right on the Joystick.

I mounted mine on a small, portable metal floor stand 24” off the floor, so I could place the Joystick between my knees (especially handy when trying to pull UP from an imminent crash).