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Taintrunner posted:Loosely related to this thread, but you have to see it to believe it: Reserving judgment til I see how the cattle scatter when planes fly overhead.
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Been waiting for Gremlins 3
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Taintrunner posted:Loosely related to this thread, but you have to see it to believe it: Oh my god the loving TFC conc jump off of the plane exploding is 
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I see "gently caress You, It's January!" has outlived movie theaters and continued on into the direct-to-streaming marketplace.
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I have a flaky ten year old i5 2500 system, still running windows 7, with a five year old gtx 960. This is below the minimum spec, so I was planning to get a new system for msfs. But it turns out this is a bad time for buying hardware. A couple of days ago I installed windows 10 and bought the game anyway, and am surprised at how well it runs. I have everything on high (I turned off vsync and motion blur, turned off airport traffic, and turned down all world traffic to I think 15; I turned *up* terrain detail to 120) and I'm getting solidly around 30fps, with no tearing, which is fine for this. I've been doing mostly the Nevada bush trip, so there isn't much going on around me, but it has seemed okay when I've been flying in busier places and overhearing lots of ATC traffic. Plus the clean install of windows 10 has made it feel like I just got a new, more solid, machine. The bush trip is good, but extremely long. I was passing the time playing with the drone camera. But on the last leg I couldn't do this - I had the plane trimmed, but whenever I switched to the drone it would go into a shallow, steepening dive, coming back when I switched back into the cockpit. Any idea what this could be? I'm pretty sure I hadn't toggled the thing that lets you control the plane from the drone camera. (I wish the camera commands were not so obscure.) Pishtaco fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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So I'm done with the 747 in MFS for a while. Tried to Los Angeles to Seoul. Even adjusted the payloads and everything. I CTD shortly after takeoff. The next attempt was better, but VNAV didn't give a sweet gently caress about my flight plan or AP altitude and would just hold at my current altitude. I also noticed on the map my course was going to hairpin and send me back for some reason. I figured this might be some wonkiness with the date line or poles or something, but it froze sometimes after I had passed the Aleutians, so I never found out what that was going to do.  I'll stick with the A320 for my tubeliner jollies. It actually went from Memphis, USA to Ireland on a tank of fuel. Although it drained the right tank and wouldn't crossfeed, so my right engine died for no good reason a bit before descent. I didn't care though, because that's kind of cool.
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I’ve heard that if you plot a course over the dateline, the auto pilot gets to the date line and then shows an abrupt 180 to go the other way around the earth, but what actually happens is you get to the date line, the plane starts to turn and then passes the date line and recalculates and adjusts back on course.
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Anyone have a X56? Apparently these things powered USB ports which I have never used before. Thing is dying anytime I move the throttle because of maybe power problems?
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V for Vegans posted:I’ve heard that if you plot a course over the dateline, the auto pilot gets to the date line and then shows an abrupt 180 to go the other way around the earth, but what actually happens is you get to the date line, the plane starts to turn and then passes the date line and recalculates and adjusts back on course. Correct, I did this a week or so ago flying between Alaska and Russia. The autopilot gave the wings one tiny wobble as if it was about to pull a u-turn, and then as we crossed the line the flight plan updated and re-drew itself correctly in the G1000.
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Enigma89 posted:Anyone have a X56? Apparently these things powered USB ports which I have never used before. Thing is dying anytime I move the throttle because of maybe power problems? Stick draws an assload of bower for some reason. my current HOTAS setup is the X56 throttle + CH pedals + CH Combat Stick on an unpowered hub and it works fine.
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Enigma89 posted:Anyone have a X56? Apparently these things powered USB ports which I have never used before. Thing is dying anytime I move the throttle because of maybe power problems? I've got an X56 that I picked up a few months ago and have also been having problems with the stick, specifically with the trigger and some of the hat switches. I googled it and the responses were about evenly split between "the stick isn't drawing enough power" and "these things have shoddy construction and you might be hosed." I'm sure this is a dumb question but is a powered USB port like... different than a normal USB port on a PC tower? Do I need some kind of special hub? 
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USB 1.0 and 2.0 should be able to deliver up to 500mA but looking at what people are writing just the stick alone can use that with the X56. A USB 3.0 port on your PC (if you have one) which has a max current rating of 900mA might work, or like you said, a powered USB hub that is plugged into the mains will provide enough current.
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V for Vegans posted:I’ve heard that if you plot a course over the dateline, the auto pilot gets to the date line and then shows an abrupt 180 to go the other way around the earth, but what actually happens is you get to the date line, the plane starts to turn and then passes the date line and recalculates and adjusts back on course. That's most likely what it was then.
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Holy moly, I can't wait for VR for this now. I just got the HP Reverb G2 and compared to the Gen1 Oculus Rift it's basically as clear as a flat screen once you get it well adjusted. The very edges of the headset still have some fuzz but there's no issues with small text and things anymore. I'll need to try it out on some stress cases because the last big "if" about it would be performance, but otherwise it rocks.
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Here's something for the bush pilots. IL-2 just added more detail ground terrain mostly to benefit the tank gameplay. It looks like grass field landings are going to get more difficult. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avz3Bdba2KQ
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Bold Robot posted:I've got an X56 that I picked up a few months ago and have also been having problems with the stick, specifically with the trigger and some of the hat switches. I googled it and the responses were about evenly split between "the stick isn't drawing enough power" and "these things have shoddy construction and you might be hosed." I'm sure this is a dumb question but is a powered USB port like... different than a normal USB port on a PC tower? Do I need some kind of special hub? It's a USB port, the port plugs via USB into your computer and it plugs into the wall directly.
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That being said, there actually are USB ports with special abilities. You can google the symbols but basically if it is blue on the inside it us USB 3.0, if there is a lightning bolt it is for charging devices and remains on even with different power states (mostly found on laptops), if it has an SS it is ‘superspeed’ which is basically 3.0 equivalent in that it is designed around higher bandwidth/data transfer (like for an external drive), etc. Try a USB 3.0 port? dialhforhero fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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X55 definitely benefited from a powered hub. If the x56 has adjustable leds set it to the lowest brightness or off, I'm sure that sucked up most of the juice.
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I had an X52 once and I turned off the LEDs on principle because they were bright as poo poo. And just to see what could contribute to this, what kind of PSU do you have on your computer? Do you have any other peripherals hooked up? If so, what are they?
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https://twitter.com/polygon/status/1338528263895965698?s=21
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I'm disappearing into flight simulator. I have installed neofly. By now, I have a little airline, with 8 planes. I think ill be buying a bunch bunch of Grand Caravans and Baron G58s and let the AI take over the grinding while I do some nice small potatoesissions on a small island. It's an addictive way to play the game. Neofly sends me all across Europe, but ik always coming back to the Mediterranean and the alps. It's the most consistently pretty part of the game world in my opinion. Switzerland, austria, southern france, parts of southern Germany, italy, are all just gorgeous, with interesting landscapes and little towns that dot the coasts and mountains. I'm particularly fond of northern italy and sardinia with it's colorful rolling hills. One of my routes took me over northern Ukraine. I took a detour to check out Chernobyl. If you have played Stalker, watched the miniseries, or obsessively dug into the history of the exclusion zone, there is a bunch of landmarks you'll be able to spot. Unfortunately that funky gigantic Radar dish is not modelled, just like the sarcophagus requires a lot of squinting to pass. However, the air strip you see on aerials is there, as are all the various factories and Industrial sites around the place. Most importantly because Priypat itself was a pretty pre-fabricated town, the algorithm is absolutely able to produce a model that looks believable from the air. It even looks as overgrown as it does from documentaries; the game sparks dense vegetation all across town and it really looks the part. It's a little bit uncanny. I hope there's a scenery pack for the power plant and other tricky places soon.
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drat, I need to put together a new machine soon. In the meantime I've been doing a round-the-world flight one short hop at a time in a Vision Jet G2 in Xplane 11. I might grab a Hands On Throttle And Stick System; does anyone make one where the Stick is on the left and the Throttle is on the right?
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captainOrbital posted:I might grab a Hands On Throttle And Stick System; does anyone make one where the Stick is on the left and the Throttle is on the right? The Thrustmaster T.16000M is ambidextrous - it comes with left/right-handed grips in the box and you can just pull them off and swap them. Their throttle isn't reversible though. I don't think any basic ones are?
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uvar posted:The Thrustmaster T.16000M is ambidextrous - it comes with left/right-handed grips in the box and you can just pull them off and swap them. Their throttle isn't reversible though. I don't think any basic ones are? You could always bind it inverse and turn it around 
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:OPERATION BLIND DRUNK It's back! But I've fixed some things/addressed some issues from last time.
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Hey I think I saw na On Air thread in this forum but now I can't find it anymore. Can someone post me a link? I might want to join, as it gets lonely in my Neofly company.
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On Air Thread Thread seems fairly quiet recently but I haven’t actually joined the VA myself yet so don’t know how active it is in game. I’ve personally just been using OnAir mostly solo to find new destinations to fly to, like you with NeoFly but also like to keep an eye on what GoonAir has been up to!
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londonmoose posted:On Air Thread Thanks! Regarding NeoFly, I realized that you could copy/paste the flight log out of the interface into Excel to gain some insights into how the thing works. So I manually copied over 225 entries in order to learn how exactly the game works. There are a few interesting insights. Before we get into it, keep in mind that I only looked at hired flights. That is, flights that are done by a hired AI-pilot. These can only transport passengers and cargo, and earn a bit less than the flights you fly yourself (the pilots also need to be paid a bit). Let's bring out the spreadsheets  First of all, when determining the value of a flight, NeoFly seems to exclusively care about its distance. The relationship between distance and pay is almost a completely flat, suggesting that passenger count or payload only play a minimal role. Of course, longer trips will automatically come with higher freight and passenger requirements, but the key variable that will determine your pay is distance, and distance only.  We can also see this in the efficiency of flights, i.e. the pay-per-mile. You can pretty much expect $94 per flown mile in any job, regardless of location or requirement. There are a few outliers, but they're just that - outliers. The flight with the highest efficiency ($102) had a pay of less than 8k, the second-most efficient flight paid about 16k. Thus, it's not worth worrying about distance-to-pay ratio's when selecting jobs.  These conclusions are further corroborated if we turn to the planes themselves. Belowis an overview of the average pay by type. We can see that the Baron G58, which has the longest range (and second-most freight capacity) in my hangar, is the highest grossing earner. Second is the Grand Caravan. You might expect this one to be at the top since it's a far bigger plane with a turbo prop engine and lots of space for paying customers. However, it's hamstrung by its range (Grand Caravan: 964, G58: 2344), which as we saw above, is the dominant factor in deteremining pay.  We can also put this a bit more into perspective and show which planes give the best bang-for-buck. Below are the different types, their average pay, and the cost. Unsurprisingly, the dirt-cheap Cessna 152 comes out on top, followed by the G58.After these come the Skyhawk, DA62, Bonanza. The Grand Caravan and XCub fall behind in bang-for-bucks.  That doesn't tell the entire story though, there's also convenience: a Cessna 152 doesn't fly very far, so you'll have to constantly give it new jobs. It is also locked out of passenger missions because it can only carry one of them. By contrast, a Baron G58 or DA62 can be given missions that span the entire night. Taking that into account, here are my conclusions and tips: 1. For mid-range flights, buy the Baron G58. You can also consider the DA62, it goes almost as far, takes one passenger less, and is beautiful. 2. For short range flights, stay with the Cessnas. 3. Don't worry about the type of mission or other parameters, just take the longest trip your plane can take, as you'll earn $94 per mile regardless.
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FYI I just did a fix on my twist axis for a T16000m. It is actually really easy and works. There is a video on YouTube done by a guy that is pretty professionally filmed but I did the alcohol on the pot/twist the pot a lot and reassemble. I had to uninstall the drivers and do the Windows calibration, then reinstalled drivers and it was all good. I have pedals but for space games like Squadrons that fine control of yaw is a life saver. Basically if you buy a t16000m and your twist axis dies, it is much easier to fix than the Saitek x52 and trust me, I know. PM me if you need help. dialhforhero fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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Onair sounds like a lot of fun, I just don't want to commit to paying for an addon service when MFS is still kind of janky. NeoFly scratches that itch without the hilariously bad FSE UI. If you just want some extra starting cash to get a nicer plane you can download DB Browser for SQLite and alter your character's money count, it's stored in plaintext
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Real-life ice coverage is pretty great. I hope this means you can land on frozen lakes in the winter. Will they make the deciduous trees lose their leaves finally??? It's literally just a fuckin model swap
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Sagebrush posted:Will they make the deciduous trees lose their leaves finally??? It's literally just a fuckin model swap This is a somewhat more complicated problem to solve if you want to do it dynamically.
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DCS World 2021 and Beyond Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA49DDZ13LA Strike Eagles, human figures guiding Harriers, volumetric clouds, Apache Longbow among some of the teased things.
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Vahakyla posted:Strike Eagles, human figures guiding Harriers, volumetric clouds, Apache Longbow among some of the teased things. Also, Mosquito porn. Really hot Mosquito porn.
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Vahakyla posted:DCS World 2021 and Beyond Video. Broken engine that seems to break half the modules with every patch still  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ion61lzz4 Made a compilation, hope you guys enjoy
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Is there any way to clear or reset a Cessna citation's flight computer? It won't let me overwrite or clear destinations and waypoints like the airbus does. So you're stuck with the initil destination until you restart from main menu.
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Lord Stimperor posted:Is there any way to clear or reset a Cessna citation's flight computer? It won't let me overwrite or clear destinations and waypoints like the airbus does. So you're stuck with the initil destination until you restart from main menu. Are you using the working title mod? If so, just enter a new origin on the ground and it clears the flight plan out.
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