Elite Mile High Club! - Anyone beat 39990ft?

[Slopey]

Hi All,

I'm constantly amazed about how well ED runs on virtually anything!

I'm currently just South of Greenland in a reasonably well appointed Lufthansa A380, playing ED on the on-board wifi on a trashy 2013 MacBook Air (the Intel 4000 HD one), and I'm getting ok frame rates at 1280x768, enough I can do some trading for the next 6 or so hours!

Well done everyone on the networking and engineering teams at FD!

So - can anyone beat 35002ft?....

UPDATE: 39,990 is the new target to beat Pics later! Did bounce up above 40k in chop, but I couldn't get a pic.

(pics for proof!)





Cheers!
S

 

[stridecolossus]

Excellent work commander and enjoy the Bacardi.
Perhaps we need to petition NASA or ESA to have Elite running on the ISS, would beat your personal best by a few hundred miles or so!

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Flying a spaceship while flying in a plane! Eliteception!

 

[Ian Phillips]

I live in Holland. Do negative heights count?

 

[Slopey]

Excellent work commander and enjoy the Bacardi.
Perhaps we need to petition NASA or ESA to have Elite running on the ISS, would beat your personal best by a few hundred miles or so!

The Bacardi can currently no be seen, as I drank it.

 

[Asp Explorer]

Not Elite, but I did have a couple of fun games of Chaos Reborn in between LHR and ORD

 

[EidLeWeise]

The Bacardi can currently no be seen, as I drank it.

Why does that not surprise me? Fly Safe Cmdr!

 

[Kerrash]

I wonder if we can get David Braben in a game with Chris Hadfield on the ISS?
That would be epic.

 

[dayrth]

The Bacardi can currently no be seen, as I drank it.

Why is the rum always gone?... Oh...

 

[Legacy_LuckyLuke]

This is awesome. I regularly play ED on my MacBook Air tethered to my iPhone, whilst waiting for planes in airports and so on.

Not tried on the plane itself yet though! I didn't want to get stung by costly wi-fi charges.

I was so bored on my flight at the weekend that I fired up Elite '84 in BeebEm to get my fix

 

[aussi]

If you were playing CQC then I would be reading about you flying a space game within a space game when flying on a plane in a car.

 

[Legacy_LuckyLuke]

I'm currently just South of Greenland in a reasonably well appointed Lufthansa A380, playing ED on the on-board wifi on a trashy 2013 MacBook Air (the Intel 4000 HD one), and I'm getting ok frame rates at 1280x768, enough I can do some trading for the next 6 or so hours!

What mouse are you using? I'm really tempted by the MadCatz Rat 'M' wireless gaming mouse. Small enough to slip in my travel bag but versatile enough for gaming or real work

 

[drkaii]

That is so awesome it makes me cry.

Just imagine going back in time to the 50s and trying to explain this.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Awesome Slopey .. taking ED to new heights !

 

[FiddenUK]

Using call button to summon flight attendant... "Miss, can you ask the pilot to climb by 100ft, so I can post a better picture than Slopey"?

I think I know how that one will end...

 

[Ceeege]

Brilliant +1!!!

 

[who?]

If playing on headphones, just be careful what you utter out loud..

 

[Slopey]

Using call button to summon flight attendant... "Miss, can you ask the pilot to climb by 100ft, so I can post a better picture than Slopey"?

I think I know how that one will end...

I tried something like that, but I was side tracked by an urgent delivery of Rum based performance enhancers to my temporary outpost in Upper-19G.

 

[Katejina]

I'll get back to you in a month when I'm flying to New York.

 

[Slopey]

What mouse are you using? I'm really tempted by the MadCatz Rat 'M' wireless gaming mouse. Small enough to slip in my travel bag but versatile enough for gaming or real work

Just a little Logitech M125 - retractable cord, and no need to worry about batteries/bluetooth nonsense.