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sellouts posted:Aside from Kilo and myself does anyone here still fly on vatsim regularly? I think  killed a lot of people's time, but I'm sure it'll come back. Once I move next month I should be back on it more regularly.
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The Geoff posted:Thanks for the heads up guys, my joystick doesn't even twist for rudder so it looks like the chopper sims aren't an option at the moment. There's an option in the settings for "Auto Rudder". I haven't used it because I have pedals, but I bet it would do what you need until you get something twisty.
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PMDG 777 Cockpit Preview! http://forum.avsim.net/topic/412156-24jun13-pmdg-777-virtual-cockpit-preview/ Looks amazing, as usual. I wouldn't read any of the posts after the first, because the very last line from Rob is "Oh... yeah.... when will it be finished? It practically is." E: Oh man, I just noticed the checklist in the second pic. #flightsim  mode activate!
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Diet Crack posted:Good god I hope the 777 is released this weekend. I think they gave more notice than that for the NGX. Also I'm moving in a couple of weeks and have no time, so I'm selfishly hoping it's later in July. :p
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Speaking of DCS Huey, is there a way to reverse the throttle axis in the game? I'm trying to use my X52 throttle as the collective, but it's "backwards".
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Jiblet posted:Yes, go to the axis settings for that device (in the in-game options menu) and invert the axis. But that would do it for everything, right, not just the Huey?
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Jun 27, 2013 21:46
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holocaust bloopers posted:It's module specific just as long as the Huey tab is selected for controls. Cool, now maybe I can suck just slightly less!
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Jun 27, 2013 22:31
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Gonna sim some beach volleyball with some other naked sweaty dudes.
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Sappo569 posted:Anyone have some insight into Cockpit Sharing for FSX, on VATSIM? Just about everyone in the irc channel has done it, although it's been a while.
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I really like my Saitek Radio and AP panels, but Ferretking hates them because you do need to use third party drivers to get them to work right for most add-on aircraft, then set them up in FSUIPC. I don't mind it, though.
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Mr. Mallory posted:So I've been thinking about getting in to FSX, are the planes in there as realistic/detailed as something like DCS A10? The PMDG 737NGX definitely is, as will the forthcoming 777 (and 747v2). There are some other very good add-on aircraft as well that I cna't think of off the top of my head. The default planes are terrible.
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Get a bath mat, put it on the floor, put your pedals on the mat.
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I didn't mention that because I thought it was a given. I guess everyone's a noob sometimes!
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Great job on leaving just enough room for your beer! A true semi-professional simmer.
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Goetta posted:My second time playing on VATSIM tonight and I managed to cream my Beechwood Baron into the side of a mountain because apparently you shouldn't fly through the Rockies at FL010? Someone did that once back when we'd fly 2-3 times a week. A goon went down, so another launched a CAP Cessna and started the search pattern. On VATSIM.
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Well there is a Ferrari Enzo for FS2004....
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Daimo posted:First impression of FTX Global. I always take my reviews from people with terrible English skills.
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Yeah lately I've not been doing a lot of VFR, so I'm not sure I can justify $100. But maybe eventually. My other concern is that I already have other terrain stuff installed, and I'm betting this will work better without all of that (aside from specific airports). I probably need to do a fresh install of FSX for this, and ugh... who has that kind of time?
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Good call on going TrackIR first. I would probably get either the throttle or pedals before another stick, since you already have a stick that's pretty decent. Personally I hate twist-sticks, so I'd probably go rudder pedals, but the throttle on the 3D Pro is kind of weak.
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Figures. I go away from the Internet for a weekend, and PMDG announces that the 777 is now in wide beta. It's getting close!
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Carenado is apparently working on an Embraer Phenom 100, so maybe we'll get a half-way decent bizjet now?
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Plus Swimnurd hates their clickpoints.
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The wing flex is spectacular. Also they plan on rolling a lot of this in to the NGX with the next service pack. And for folks who don't want to do long hauls, they have a system that allows you to jump ahead, but doesn't screw up the complex systems. I don't think I would use it (and you can't on VATSIM), but it exists. E: This video shows most of the cool features, like the mouse working directly in the PFD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjFSUkeHzBU 3 Action Economist fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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Diet Crack posted:I hope PMDG release the T7 soon just so I don't have to read the loving AVSIM forums again for another year. I just click on Tabs' or Robert's user names in the main forum and search for their posts. I don't really read anything else in there. 3 Action Economist fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Aug 15, 2013 |
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sellouts posted:Just follow pmdg on Facebook. They said there wouldn't be a stealth launch so they will likely advertise it through there. For the release date that's fine, but I like seeing some of the update posts, too.
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Aero737 posted:Newbie night on Vatsim was good fun. I haven't played in almost a whole year and it was good to get some pattern work done again. I had to remember all the radio verbiage, because even though I still fly every few weeks, it's almost always without ATC.
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Mederlock posted:I'm a little If you hang out in the IRC channel you could probably find someone to help. We have several real life pilots (and CFIs!) in there, two of whom helped me at the very beginning.
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that I missed this, being a newbie myself. Oh well, next time perhaps.
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sellouts posted:Hmm, this is kind of cool. Best I can see, PFPX will actually generate the route for you, rather than having to look one up. But then, being the spergs we are, we're all going to check the route and make sure it's a valid real world route anyway.... I dunno, so far, SimBrief seems like it does everything I'd ever need. E: And I think PFPX is supposed to be able to export a PMDG flight plan, but I kind of enjoy entering it in to the FMC.
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sellouts posted:For what it's worth Simbrief gave me an unrealistic altitude for a very common route and also didn't conform to appropriate noise restricted arrival on the route given the departure time. So I think for some common routes it'll pull info? SimBrief doesn't generate routes, it looks to see if someone else filed a route first and shows you that. What that means in your case is that the last person to file that route was a moron. The Ferret King posted:I just use real world aviation flight plan apps to do my sim stuff. For routes, that's fine, but fuel load, &c. is really what I'm more interested in.
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The Ferret King posted:Fltplan.com will do fuel and Weight and Balance for a lot of different planes. They can also add your plane if you have the figures and are willing to email them. I'd been using this http://fuelplanner.com/
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I think it probably bases it off direct miles, but I always add a little extra to be safe. SimBrief.com seems like I won't need to fudge it so much now.
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It's PMDG 777 release week! I can't find any more information though because the avsim forums have now poo poo the bed. E: quote:rsrandazzo member of PMDG wrote this today:
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Angle of Attack has a write-up on first impressions with the PMDG 777.
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Wow. I want it.
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Fine with me, next week is payday!
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So much for all their "we've upgraded all the servers so it won't happen this time!" I figured this weekend I'd get it anyway, since I won't really have time to fly it during the week.
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People on the forums (I don't know why I bothered) are saying you can still download it if you log on to your account. Also, apparently, there's a new "Ops Center" for getting updates and liveries for PMDG products so you don't have to run them as executables and fill up your add/remove programs with liveries (this was the "big surprise" I'm guessing).
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