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Marmin GDNet+ Member since: 1/28/2005 From: Ede, Netherlands |
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 Posted - 8/3/2005 1:44:21 PM |
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| Hi! I'm just wondering, are there any Flight Simulator players on this board? Myself, I am addicted to X-Plane, because it is extremely addictive, realistic, and it sharpens my concentration and relaxes me when I need to take some time off programming/making music. And, It takes my mind off all the worldly problems. My new AMD64 laptop runs the simulator very smoothly, with a good ATI card. I'd love to get some feedback from you. Maybe I'll post some super splendid screenshots here, don't hesitate to post your own. Marmin. [Edited by - Marmin on August 3, 2005 1:19:42 PM] |
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Marmin GDNet+ Member since: 1/28/2005 From: Ede, Netherlands |
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 Posted - 8/3/2005 2:11:00 PM |
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| I just took off from Londow Heathrow, winds fair. Some nasty turbulence however. Plane is filled with tourists. Landing will be on the new Polderbaan in my own country: the Netherlands. Of course the plane is a 737. :)   Here you can see that my TAS (True Air Speed) is only 204 Knots.. slightly too slow. (I had to make some screenshots, oh well..) Climbing to a comfortable Altitude of 24000 feet. Everything is go.  |
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Modena_au Member since: 8/23/2002 |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 2:15:49 PM |
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| I was a pretty big flight sim addict as a kid (mind you it was mostly space flight, but I liked planes too). I just read a review for that Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar Joystick and throttle the other day, and I'm pretty sure when I get a couple dollars together the Cougar is going to rekindle that obsession in a BIG way. |
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MrWeet Banned Member since: 5/25/2005 From: Rutland, VT, United States |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 2:38:21 PM |
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I was in to Flight Sim's a while back, and got back into them recently. I knew I shouldn't have sold my flight stick  . |
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Max_Payne Banned Member since: 7/16/2001 |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 2:50:14 PM |
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| When I was a kid I used to play a game called F-15 alot ;) It ran well on my badass 386 DX with 4 MBs of RAM. The only problem is that I could never figure out how to land the fighter plane, and I had a poor understanding of English at the time (my main language is French). Looking for a serious game project? www.xgameproject.com |
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Gaiiden GDNet Content Lead Member since: 8/30/2000 From: Lincroft, NJ, United States |
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 Posted - 8/3/2005 2:52:46 PM |
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| waxes nostalgic Ahhhh... I can still hear the system-speaker-created buzz of the engines to my Cessna as I sat on the vector-drawn runway at Meigs, ready to take off and hop to O'Hare. Yep, I would indeed be talking about subLOGIC's A2-FS2 - Flight Simulator II. Wow, that was like, back when I was seven. Check it out, I still have the operator's manual   So yea, I've been a flight sim fan since I was a kid. I've wanted to be a real pilot for years but just don't have the money... yet. I haven't touched MS Flight Sim though since FS2000 cause the sim advanced faster than I could upgrade my comp  Now I'm waiting for FS2006 to jump back in________________ Drew Sikora President, Programmer - Blade Edge Software Executive Producer, Newsletter Editor - GameDev.net Community Relations, Live Events Mngr - Game Institute IGDA Chapter Advisor - New Jersey |
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Marmin GDNet+ Member since: 1/28/2005 From: Ede, Netherlands |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 2:55:01 PM |
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Finally on Cruise level. Thank you, Flight Attendant for the Coffee I need. Note the comfortable speed of 292 Knots,and the flight level I was assigned to. FL 240  |
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the_dannobot Member since: 3/13/2003 From: Austin, TX, United States |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 2:56:57 PM |
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| I've played the XWing series of games ever since I was a little kid, starting with XWing -> Tie Fighter -> XWing Vs Tie Fighter -> XWing Alliance. I was addicted to the Skirmish mode in Alliance for a long time. Lucasarts needs to make some more of those games. |
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Marmin GDNet+ Member since: 1/28/2005 From: Ede, Netherlands |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 2:57:36 PM |
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Quote: ahh.. is that SubLogic Flight Simulator? SubLogic was taken over by.. erm.. MicroSoft. |
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Perfunction Member since: 11/23/2004 From: Ohio, USA |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 2:59:58 PM |
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Quote: How is this fun? |
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Marmin GDNet+ Member since: 1/28/2005 From: Ede, Netherlands |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:05:21 PM |
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Quote:I did not say it was fun. It 's hard work. |
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Sol462 Member since: 4/1/2005 |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:06:55 PM |
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| With Orbiter you can fly space ships realistically across the entire solar system. It even runs smoothly on my terrible computer with 1.4Ghz, 384MB ram, and a 4MB integrated graphics chipset (10-20 FPS, but still looks smooth). |
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Sagar_Indurkhya Member since: 1/28/2004 From: Cambridge, MA, United States |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:09:52 PM |
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| I'm attracted to combat flight sims, because I feel there is a purpose. You know, shoot down bad guys. I hate normal flight sims, because it feels boring... checking altitude, pressure, etc, without performing extreme aerial manuevers to evade bad guys. Oh, and good games have tons of bad guys. My Wiki |
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Meagermanx Member since: 2/2/2005 |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:26:54 PM |
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| I've never been in to flight sims, but I haven't played any recently. The learning curve for most actual flight sims is high, and there's a lot of taking off and landing (I can't land or park anything) for the little bit of dogfighting you get to do. And dogfighting is always hampered by such senseless things like odometers, or whatever those things are. I mean, some dude's hitting me with missiles and I've got to watch my altitude and pressure and stuff? Meh. Maybe I should just stick to Starfox. |
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Marmin GDNet+ Member since: 1/28/2005 From: Ede, Netherlands |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:30:55 PM |
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At this time , ATC instructed me to descend, to a lower Flight Level.  See my True Air Speed reduced to 229 , according to ATC instructions. (I am flying now above the nice coast of Belgium. I like Belgium very much. Nice coast). Note, that the Flight Level 240 is now reduced.  |
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reaptide Member since: 8/2/1999 From: Laval, Canada |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:32:08 PM |
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Quote: About as much fun as watching paint dry. You can get a complete experience by having someone dictate headings and altitudes to you while watching said paint dry. This is assuming that you're taking a 747-400 from New York to Heathrow. Seven hours of pure boredom. It even takes forever using time compression. The most fun I've had in MS Flight Sim is trying to pull of crazy stunts in the oddest ways. Trying landing a 737 on the Aircraft Carrier out near Los Angeles. Or landing a Cesna on top of the Sears tower. A Beach King Air through the Arc Du Triomph in France. The flight modelling in the game is some of the best I've ever seen. Its the only game where my buddies and I have been able to do close formation flying without worrying about an odd warp or packet skip sending us all crashing into each other. Performing a Snowbird routine with nine other guys in Tutors is a heck of a challenge. |
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DogCity Member since: 5/28/2004 From: Devon, United Kingdom |
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 Posted - 8/3/2005 3:34:21 PM |
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| I got FS2004 because I love exploring, I'm not to shabby at flying the planes, but its scoping out areas I want to visit in real life that I enjoy the most. This actually became worthwhile when I got Flight Simulator Global 2005.. Which is a 14Gb expansion, which basically height maps the entire planet in far more detail them microsofts packaged data. The alps were once big round white hills, now they are beautiful accurate jagged mountains.  |
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Perfunction Member since: 11/23/2004 From: Ohio, USA |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:35:03 PM |
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Quote: That's the kind of stuff I would be doing. Are there other planes at the airports in the sim? If so I would spend hours doing some unauthorized landings. |
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Marmin GDNet+ Member since: 1/28/2005 From: Ede, Netherlands |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:38:41 PM |
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| i agree totally. A long haul flight can be boring. But, as i've stated before, a medium distance flight can be interesting for any one. Just don't make a flight from Brisbane to John F. Kennedy. Without some companion. imho. This is just my opinion. Taking off and landing is very cool. |
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reaptide Member since: 8/2/1999 From: Laval, Canada |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:42:58 PM |
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| Try a high cross wind landing at the new Hong Kong airport in a 747-400. That should put some hair on your chest. See how many tries it takes you to do it without striking an engine. |
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Marmin GDNet+ Member since: 1/28/2005 From: Ede, Netherlands |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:46:27 PM |
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Quote: A high cross wind landing. I have not tried this in X-Plane. I will one day. Maybe take some shots. I think I would succeed, but the first attempt is always awkward. Thank god i'm not a Captain. |
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Programmer One Member since: 12/19/2001 From: Redwood City, CA, United States |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 3:51:21 PM |
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| I just recently bought Falcon 4.0 Allied Force and it totally rocks. |
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vNistelrooy Member since: 10/27/2003 From: Rehovot, Israel |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 4:10:17 PM |
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| I liked F/A-18 Korea ages ago. Was really a good pilot. I didn't play many flight sims since those times but once I save enough for a good joystick and Lock-On... Just you wait.. |
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reaptide Member since: 8/2/1999 From: Laval, Canada |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 4:13:03 PM |
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| Now this is where its at. Combat Flight Sims. In particular, Falcon 4. You get all of the mind bending complexities of a Civilian Sim as well as having things shooting at you. Earlier today I started a new Balkans Campaign. Falcon 4 isn't just an F-16 simulation. You could more accurately called it a war simulation with a pretty good flight sim included. You don't fly one unrelated mission after another (I'm looking at you Lo-Mac!!). You play the part of just one pilot participating in a constantly evolving war. Whether you're in the cockpit flying towards you next target, or in the ready room prepping for you next sortie, the war continues. The graphics are a little dated, it is a five year old game after all, but that doesn't mean anything. The emmersion is so complete, that you won't even notice. Here's what I spent my morning doing. Maintaining air superiority over the former Yugoslavic states. I chose to fly with the Dutch 730th Fighter Squadron out of Pula Airbase in Croatia. The 730th flies the F-16A MLU (Mid-Life Update). Its basically an older F-16 that's been modernized with all the latest wizz bang technology coming out of the arms industry.  Today's mission, shut down Zagreb International. The Serbians have their hands on it and NATO ain't to happy about that. Its regrettable they we have to bomb a Croatian Airport, but its better than letting Serbia sortie the Mig-21 squadron they have based there. The idea is to hit it so fast they won't have time to put up a single bird. Here's a look at the office. Another one of Falcon 4's qualities is the accurate modelling of the F-16. Almost all of those buttons are clickable and do what they would do in the real thing. Except the Drag Chute switch. The Dutch chose to put a radar jamming system in the place the chute would normally go. I guess they have long runways in their home country.  The flight to Zagreb is a rather uneventful short hop of about 120 miles. Uneventful for me at least. There are about another dozen flights operating in my vacinity, doing whatever they've been tasked to do. Lobo 1, a pair of Dutch F-16s, have been tasked with escorting my flight to the target and Banshee 1, four British Tornados, have been tasked with blowing up some of the air defenses around Zagreb Intl. before I get there. Numerous other flights are off doing whatever they have been tasked to do, and the enemy are doing the same thing. An airline pilot coming into Zagreb Intl. might think he's a little too high in this shot, but its just perfect for me. In seconds I'll be rippling a line of BLU-107 anti-runway munitions along the runway. A normal bomb would detonate on impact with the surface and cause a small crater. It doesn't take much to bulldoze the hole and pour in new cement. The BLU-107 will penetrate up to three meters in the runway and then detonate, shattering the runway and spreading tons of debrise all over the place, making a massive upheaved crater. Its gonna take signifigantly longer to repair.  And there they go. Just imagine the black spot as being huge craters where the runway just isn't there anymore. My wingman followed in quick succession, dropping on the other end of the runway and the other to guys in my flight finished off the second runway. Zagreb is now out of commission for at least six hours. Just long enough for nearby ground troops to fight their way in and secure it, hopefully. Unfortunately none of my screen seem to show the air defenses doing their thing. This shot should show a swarm of yellow tracers flying all around behind my aircraft. Remember anytime there is a tracer, there is usually five or six regular bullets behind it.  Lobo 1 is having a hard time with a Serbian Mig-29. The Fulcrum barely dodges a shot from an AMRAAM.  On returning to base, I find that the enemy has been a bunch of busy bees. They've return the favor. Pula Airbase is out of commission and it looks like the Serbians have runway busters of their own. To make matters worse, my flight has been diverted to an airfield somewhere in Italy, a flight of about three hundred miles.  All in a days work I guess. Time to sit back and enjoy a little MS Flight Sim bordem for a while, at least I get to visit Italy. |
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reaptide Member since: 8/2/1999 From: Laval, Canada |
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Posted - 8/3/2005 4:17:13 PM |
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Quote: Agreed! An absolute blast. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the currently update version of regular Falcon (Either SP4 or Freefalcon), but it completely stable. No more crashing to the desktop while landing after a busy OCA Strike. |
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