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Anyone know anything about either of these books? http://www.amazon.com/Scenario-Based-Training-X-Plane-Microsoft-Simulator/dp/1118105028/ http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-Pilots-Training/dp/0764588222/ Thinking about picking one of them up to get a head start on instrument training.
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aunt jemima posted:Jeff and Kevin are both bona fide technology-driven-flight-training experts. The book is amazing and a must-own for any semi-professional simmer. Will you get a royalty when I buy it? 
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Oct 27, 2013 03:36
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Finally got around to turning the race sim in to a flight sim.
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Nov 16, 2013 05:12
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kalstrams posted:Looks nice. Are those CH pedals you got there ? Sure are. 
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kalstrams posted:How are they in comparison to Saitek pedals ? No idea, never used them.
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Nov 17, 2013 03:25
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Decided to do some gliding in xplane tonight, it went alright.   
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Nov 22, 2013 07:29
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EvilJoven posted:Did you catch some awesome thermals on that flight? No, although if the tow plane could have gone high and fast enough for me to hit reentry speed I could have made my own thermal. 
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Anybody using an Oculus Rift with flight sims? http://www.tomsguide.com/us/what-is-oculus-rift,news-18026.html#xtor=RSS-998 Thoughts?
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Megadyptes posted:Isn't the Oculus Rift pretty low res? Might make looking at instruments a pain in the rear end The dev kit is pretty low, but the consumer kit is supposed to be better when it's released later next year.
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slidebite posted:Yeah, although the consumer version if/when it is released is supposed to be 1080P. Yeah I'm not sure how I'd work around that. Maybe something like the Belkin N52 gamepad.
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So one of my classes is buzzing around in a Frasca sim. Today was practicing standard rate turns. I already have my ppl so this is all pretty rudimentary stuff, I decided to have some fun with it.
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Feb 17, 2014 22:01
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sellouts posted:The default 737 really sucks unfortunately. I recommend that you pick up the NGX or even the iFly 737 if you want to fly a 737. The Legacy is by far my favorite plane in FSX. The Bay Tower RV7 is pretty good too though.
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Goetta posted:That's fair, I'm still at the 'golly that looks pretty' level of needs when it comes to flight simulator detail. Fly some Frasca instrument flight trainers and you'll be happy to just have a screen lol. 
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Feb 18, 2014 21:06
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Finally got a 2nd throttle quadrant to do multiengine stuff and a new multi-head monitor adapter, time to get in to IFR. Also, now that I am going to start doing IFR stuff and need my iPad for charts and plates, what's a good cheap android tablet I can run flightgauge on? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vrs.flightgauge
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Apr 1, 2014 23:42
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I've finally got my setup pretty much where I want it (minus a more powerful computer, but that's more than I can afford at the moment) Just added a 2nd throttle quadrant and the X52. 
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Apr 6, 2014 19:10
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Colonial Air Force posted:I didn't think the asylum would let you bring that stuff in to your cell. They do surprisingly.
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Apr 6, 2014 20:14
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ethanol posted:How do you maintain your jedi focus levitating those monitors and fly at the same time? Simple, I just apply helicopter physics to them.
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Apr 6, 2014 23:05
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Stick and Rudder is a fantastic book. I really need to get around to reading it again. And yes it is old, but none of it is outdated or irrelevant, the physics of flying haven't changed at all last I checked.
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How much less buggy and optimized is P3D compared to FSX? Because FSX is a mess.
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MrYenko posted:It's night and day. You can still see the heritage in menus, structural stuff, etc, but the bugs have been pretty ruthlessly stomped out. Good to know, maybe I'll finally pull the trigger on it to make sure don't have fun using it.
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I really need to get on to VATSIM or the like.
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So I am compiling FSX sat map textures for a good portion of the southwest with FSEarthTiles if anyone wants me to put together a torrent when it's all said and done. I will have the Grand Canyon and all of Colorado at 1m/px resolution and all of Oklahoma and a portion of Kansas, as well as the route between Colorado and the Grand Canyon, at 2m/px resolution. It's going to be a big motherfucker once it's all done though, CO textures alone are looking like they're going to be well north of 100gb. It will be absolutely gorgeous though. Here's a quick sketch of what I am mapping out. 
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Also once I am done with all of these I can take requests for other areas if anyone is interested.
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May 1, 2014 04:47
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Colonial Air Force posted:We're well overdue for a Grand Canyon run, so we should all grab that and do it. lol I live in Colorado Springs and a friend of mine lives in Tulsa, grabbing it so we can sim fly together. God that is the most assburgers thing I have ever typed in my life. 
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May 1, 2014 17:48
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Rough estimate, the Grand Canyon will probably be around 60-80gb at 1m/px resolution.
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At the rate this is going it will probably be a week or so before it finishes compiling everything.
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Finally finished mapping out Colorado with FSEarthTiles and have started on the Grand Canyon at 1m/px resolution. Should take about 3-4 days to finish. I'll zip it and make a torrent when it's done. Also worked Meteor Crater in there too.
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SybilVimes posted:Will it be possible to selectively install parts of it? I already use Holger's Grand Canyon, and unless you're doing meshing and an update on KGCN I'm not likely to want to switch for that, but the rest is of interest (especially Meteor Crater) Yeah the BGLs all have the lat/long of the areas they cover in the filename, you can just delete the parts you don't want.
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May 5, 2014 20:47
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Mederlock posted:So what's that gonna mean in in-game terms compared to the default stuff? Will the terrain have better resolution textures, or is it more of a topographical accuracy improvement? It will just look prettier, actual satellite maps for textures, no randomly generated terrain textures. This is what it looked like with the MegaSceneryEarth textures, the ones I made should be a good bit higher resolution. http://imgur.com/XNzOIKl http://imgur.com/UVtDShN fake edit: I'll get some screenshots of my textures tonight.
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May 5, 2014 20:54
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The results of FSEarthTile are in, and it's gorgeous. http://imgur.com/a/93PVk edit: Here's an actual shot of that one area from real life for comparison. https://flic.kr/p/ndR5RM
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90_Minute posted:That looks awesome! Can't wait to try them out. Specifically, I want to crash into my house. Which, incidentally, someone actually did in Colorado yesterday: Colorado is about 250gb for the entire state. Also, dusk flying is just impossibly beautiful. http://imgur.com/a/tAJ3F
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Grand Canyon finally finished, weighing in at a hefty 62gb. Screenshots and a torrent of it tomorrow.
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Hidden Asbestos posted:I'm really looking forward to this and thank you for your efforts and teaser pics. It will work with FSX right? Sure does. Here's the torrent: http://itsfabulo.us/misc/Grand_Canyon_FSX.torrent It's been a while since I've hosted a torrent, please let me know if you have any problems downloading it. And the screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/I2d3N e.pilot fucked around with this message at 21:39 on May 9, 2014 |
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Grawl posted:For me the site doesn't work, can you re-host the torrent somewhere (sendspace or something)? I can help seed with a 100mbit seedbox. My firewall was blocking traffic from outside of the US, I fixed it.
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Hidden Asbestos posted:Sadly, it times out in uTorrent and trying to download the file through Chrome. As does visiting http://epie.sytes.net/ directly so it may be an access from the UK problem, or it may be a bad time, or ... I don't know much about torrents either See my previous post. E: or try http://itsfabulo.us/misc/Grand_Canyon_FSX.torrent e.pilot fucked around with this message at 21:30 on May 9, 2014 |
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Grawl posted:It's bad practice to rely on UDP, and not have any working trackers connected to it. The seedbox I use doesn't "understand" UDP, and the two trackers are both rejecting the torrent. Can you re-create the torrent with working trackers? Yeah I'll have to do it when I get home for work tonight.
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90_Minute posted:Hey e.pilot, any chance I can get my hands on (some portion of) the Colorado files? Not sure how they are broken up but would be most interested in the Front Range, Chaffee and Summit County. Or let me know if they're available somewhere already. Thanks! Yeah once I find a good tracker I'll seed the whole thing (and reseed the Grand Canyon one) you can pick out the areas you want by lat/long.
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90_Minute posted:Hey e.pilot, any chance I can get my hands on (some portion of) the Colorado files? Not sure how they are broken up but would be most interested in the Front Range, Chaffee and Summit County. Or let me know if they're available somewhere already. Thanks! Here's Colorado, it's quite large. The file names have the lat/long in them that they cover, you can just look for the ones you want. http://itsfabulo.us/misc/Colorado_FSX.torrent
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Hadlock posted:Holy crap, 245GB Sure can, just make sure you have caching turned off when you add the scenery. My seed box is running, not sure why you wouldn't see me.
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90_Minute posted:I pulled a few parts of it the other day then tried to start running the whole thing and couldn't find any peers. I'll get it running again tonight for the stuff that I have. I'll restart my server when I get home.
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