Out of curiosity, has anyone tried the Courchevel challenge? I did yesterday for the first time with the idea of just taking a look to see what it was about...got away from it half an hour and many attempts later, climbing up the ranks from 600.000th to 30.000th. Only 30.000 better pilots than me to go!
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A lot of these are brilliant. Try Lukla airport. Or one in Caribbean when you can't see runaway up to 5 secs before touchdown.
I especially love high wind challenges - those are much more challenging than first set of these landing challenges.
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I tested the game at worst case scenario - landing a 787 at KLAX.
On one hand rendering the screens were for some reason the bottleneck, yet neither my CPU or GPU were stretched. Power draw and temperatures were also below vs. usual full load.
Then there was heavy live traffic and FPS crashed to 5 or below, in a few cases I thought that's it, the game crashed. I could barely land, though that was partly due to the auto throttle flip switch that turned itself on again and said "we brake for nobody".
On one hand rendering the screens were for some reason the bottleneck, yet neither my CPU or GPU were stretched. Power draw and temperatures were also below vs. usual full load.
Then there was heavy live traffic and FPS crashed to 5 or below, in a few cases I thought that's it, the game crashed. I could barely land, though that was partly due to the auto throttle flip switch that turned itself on again and said "we brake for nobody".
That's St. Barthelemy. Of course it's on the bucket list.
But I think I'll work on refining my approach to Courchevel before that:
Fun fact, between the tutorials in Arizona and the Courchevel landing in France, yesterday has been the first time I've been flying outside of my country. Feels strange for a "game" where I could be flying just about anywhere in the world with a click of the mouse, but now that world is rendered so good that I just have soo much to see of my surroundings...I'm growing a liking for the DR400: easy to fly, very stable, great visibility...it's now my main candidate for my planned tour of Italy. It could take a while.
Even the tutorials looked outstanding.
...and back for another bit of Italy!
A familiar view from "Col del Lys" over Val di Susa, a few km from my home city
A flight above Mugello!
Rome at night
A flight above Mugello!
Rome at night
Ok a few more gratuitous screenshots, scaled down...
Sunsets and nightfall in the 787 at FL410
Now rainbows!
and a stormy day in Toronto (real weather)
Sunsets and nightfall in the 787 at FL410
Now rainbows!
and a stormy day in Toronto (real weather)
I haven't been able to get better than a score of 902K on the release version. I managed twice to get just over 1.1million in alpha/beta... :-(
Yesterday I tried 3 times.
First one I flew past the destination while trying to find it
Second one I managed a rather smooth landing, but very off-center as I made the turn a bit late, still managed ~220K.
Third one the game glitched out, plane just lost speed and stalled out of the blue even though I still had full throttle and not even flaps deployed, fell into the valley crashing into the trees and rage-quit
Finally caved in and bought the 2 new aircraft in the store... Now I only have to wait the entire day to try them out.
Let us know your opinion! Getting mixed reviews so far..
I have landed and taken off from Courcheval a few times, but I didn't do it from the challenge, just did it in a Cessna 152. Same with the Saba location in the Caribbean which I did in both the 152 and the 172. That's one short runway!
Completed the USA bush trip, which was good fun. Not really bothered by 'achievements' in computer games, but did take a glance at my profile and it says that under bush trips I've managed 1 of 29, so not sure it counts them right anyway.
Well, even if it was a big bush trip...I have landed and taken off from Courcheval a few times, but I didn't do it from the challenge, just did it in a Cessna 152. Same with the Saba location in the Caribbean which I did in both the 152 and the 172. That's one short runway!
Completed the USA bush trip, which was good fun. Not really bothered by 'achievements' in computer games, but did take a glance at my profile and it says that under bush trips I've managed 1 of 29, so not sure it counts them right anyway.
The Cessna CT182T Skylane from Carenado is a quite polished airplane. Cockpit is great, and it;s a good looking aircraft. It's performance numbers put it right on top of the single engine piston segment, with a cruise speed of 145 knots and 20000 feet ceiling. It feels larger than it actually is. Feels mostly quite stable in the air, but also felt overly twitchy in windy, mountainous terrain. It may have to do with the the general feel of being in a larger airplane than it actually is in reality, so it feels weird when it wobbles in the wind.
Overall I am happy with this addition, although to be honest I find it a bit overpriced, as it costed almost 25€... It's a cool airplane, but maybe not 25€ of cool
and might be better to wait for a sale unless you're really into GA piston props, or really wanted more airplanes. I'm not having buyers remorse, but I don't think I'll part with 25€ again any soon for a single airplane, unless it;s some very special airplane.Some pics:
The Kitfox on the other hand is quite cheap, less than 9€. It's a bush plane cub, with a modern dashboard but it is most likely the simplest plane in the entire lineup, very easy to start and get moving, but I couldn't fiind out how to turn the engine off in the end, not sure if I missed some lever hiodden anywhere, or if the cockpit is simply missing something. The view to the outside is only rivaled by the one in the Pipistrel Virus, glass everywhere even the ceiling. Like other bush planes, it takes off easily, quite manouverable but twitchy and low powered. Great for sightseeing, bad for travelling.
It's announced ceiling is a staggering 25 thousand feet, putting it way above other piston props, and rivaling the turboprops. This honestly just felt like plain cheating, how can such an underpowered plane have such a huge service ceiling compared to all the other piston airplanes?.. But after investigating I found out it's true!
Some pics:
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The Cessna CT182T Skylane from Carenado is a quite polished airplane. Cockpit is great, and it;s a good looking aircraft. It's performance numbers put it right on top of the single engine piston segment, with a cruise speed of 145 knots and 20000 feet ceiling. It feels larger than it actually is. Feels mostly quite stable in the air, but also felt overly twitchy in windy, mountainous terrain. It may have to do with the the general feel of being in a larger airplane than it actually is in reality, so it feels weird when it wobbles in the wind.
Overall I am happy with this addition, although to be honest I find it a bit overpriced, as it costed almost 25€... It's a cool airplane, but maybe not 25€ of cool
Some pics:
The Kitfox on the other hand is quite cheap, less than 9€. It's a bush plane cub, with a modern dashboard but it is most likely the simplest plane in the entire lineup, very easy to start and get moving, but I couldn't fiind out how to turn the engine off in the end, not sure if I missed some lever hiodden anywhere, or if the cockpit is simply missing something. The view to the outside is only rivaled by the one in the Pipistrel Virus, glass everywehere even the ceiling. Like other bush planes, it takes off easily, quite manouiverable but twitchy and low powered. Great for sightseeing, bad for travelling.
It's announced ceiling is a staggering 25 thousand feet, putting it way above other piston props, and rivaling the turboprops. This honestly just feelt like plain cheating, how can such an underpowered plane have such a huge service ceiling compared to all the other piston airplanes?.. But after investigating I found out it's true!
Some pics:
The visibility of the latter looks gorgeous, and 145 knots is pretty amazing for something the size of a C182! I have to admit I'd much prefer steam over glass cockpits though; tempted to upgrade my FS2020 version just for the steam planes... As for the 25000 ft, how long would it take to get there? And how much oxygen do you have to bring?
Didn't it stop when you pulled out the mixture lever? That is the normal method with props, lean them off.
Kitfoxes should have a large choke in the center of the cockpit according to Google Images but I ain't seeing it in his screenies. Must be somewhere, no way to get to 25k without one...
The Cessna CT182T Skylane from Carenado is a quite polished airplane. Cockpit is great, and it;s a good looking aircraft. It's performance numbers put it right on top of the single engine piston segment, with a cruise speed of 145 knots and 20000 feet ceiling. It feels larger than it actually is. Feels mostly quite stable in the air, but also felt overly twitchy in windy, mountainous terrain. It may have to do with the the general feel of being in a larger airplane than it actually is in reality, so it feels weird when it wobbles in the wind.
Overall I am happy with this addition, although to be honest I find it a bit overpriced, as it costed almost 25€... It's a cool airplane, but maybe not 25€ of cool
Some pics:
The Kitfox on the other hand is quite cheap, less than 9€. It's a bush plane cub, with a modern dashboard but it is most likely the simplest plane in the entire lineup, very easy to start and get moving, but I couldn't fiind out how to turn the engine off in the end, not sure if I missed some lever hiodden anywhere, or if the cockpit is simply missing something. The view to the outside is only rivaled by the one in the Pipistrel Virus, glass everywhere even the ceiling. Like other bush planes, it takes off easily, quite manouverable but twitchy and low powered. Great for sightseeing, bad for travelling.
It's announced ceiling is a staggering 25 thousand feet, putting it way above other piston props, and rivaling the turboprops. This honestly just felt like plain cheating, how can such an underpowered plane have such a huge service ceiling compared to all the other piston airplanes?.. But after investigating I found out it's true!
Some pics:
Wow, the Kitfox will be the go-to plane for VR flying, at €9 I might consider it, though the Virus is also pretty good and has a nicer interior to look at.
Buying scenery leaves me cold, but in the future I might look into buying planes. I just hope there will be a segment for lower price but not study-level functionality as I'm not prepared to pay north of €20 for an aircraft. Out of the already shown ones, I'm most interested in the Concorde, but that thing must be very difficult to fly (land) for sure.
The visibility of the latter looks gorgeous, and 145 knots is pretty amazing for something the size of a C182! I have to admit I'd much prefer steam over glass cockpits though; tempted to upgrade my FS2020 version just for the steam planes... As for the 25000 ft, how long would it take to get there? And how much oxygen do you have to bring?
I prefer glass cockpits for casual flights to be honest, it is just too convenient. But I do see the appeal of the opposite too, I had great flights in the Shock Ultra.
Yeah 20€ or more for an airplane is too expensive, I do have a crapton of DLC airplanes for IL-2 and Rise of Flight (I just can't resist), but I got almost all of them during sales. Regarding scenery and airports, I also doubt I'll be getting any.
Out of the already shown ones, I'm most interested in the Concorde, but that thing must be very difficult to fly (land) for sure.
Where can we see the incoming aircraft? All I know so far is that the first big update will bring helicopters, which will be yet another whole world of fun. Can't wait to get to the choppa!.
edit: just seen it on OA's channel.
In such an underpowered plane, far too long. Most likely longer than most of my flights
And how much oxygen do you have to bring?
A crapton for sure... 25K feet is nearing Himalayan kind of altitudes...
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I couldn't complete the purchase to give the Kitfox STi a trial. However "shift+Ctrl+F1" is full lean mixture and "shift+ctrl+F2" is incremental lean. There should also be a fuel flow shutoff somewhere - I remember people saying this plane was way overpriced in X-Plane so I never bought it for that (also the panels looked "jobbie" in that version).
BTW - I looked at what images I could find and there didn't look to be a mixture control - I see that the Rotax 915i engine has an engine management system so that might explain it if that is the modelled engine?
BTW - I looked at what images I could find and there didn't look to be a mixture control - I see that the Rotax 915i engine has an engine management system so that might explain it if that is the modelled engine?
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