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Careful what you wish for. Remember wishing 2019 was over and surely it couldn't get any worse?
Fair point....
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I think we all want to see the back of 2020, don't we?
I confess this was a pretty good year for me so far. I love working from home, I am mostly delegating and organizing anyway (which means in the past week I could take off in the morning and land about lunchtime too, thanks G1000 AP
), also it means no wasted time on commuting, can spend more time with kids. Stock trading results look also spectacular, plus there is a new, albeit modest business opportunity at the door as well.While I feel sorry for those who got sick and/or lost their job, I think the world needed this change of course with hopefully lasting effects on wasteful mass tourism, commuting and other stuff.
Ingame pics from hurricane Laura.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator players are flying into Hurricane Laura
The real-time weather data is incredibly accurate
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I never encountered the landing bug myself, fortunately for me I guess as I too love the whole descent, approach and landing process. I do keep encountering an annoying bug, when the vertical trim of the VL-3 aircraft suddenly starts moving by itself, I can even see the lever moving if I look down. Effects can vary between being annoying downright to instant change of underwear required. Only seems to happen in the VL-3, which unfortunately is one of my favorites.
New footage, this has Kamchatka in and Fuji too.
Not sure what sort of machine runs it at these details, me with high terrain and LOD set at 130, I have nowhere near this drawing distance. I think I'll need to throw a new GPU at this problem, but something tells me it'll be worth to wait till Q1...
My poor old machine huffs, puffs and creaks under the struggle of photogrammetry streaming but hey, worth the struggle.
Earlier today I did a first practical test of the live weather...had a few spare minutes before going to work and with stormy weather brewing from West toward my place, so I took off from a small airstrip SW to have a look: got up under light rain and reached a mid altitude to see cumulus formations coming from the west, headed NE toward the city were it was still relatively clear (as it was above my real head in the SE part of the city) while I saw my starting place being engulfed in heavy rain, with patches of lighter precipitations here and there all along the southern outskirts of the city. Landed at another strip NW of the city with clouds ever more close, and the South now almost directly under dark cumulus. Shut down and got to work already under moderate rain, and reached it just in time (a few km south of my place) to avoid the passage of a heavy rain/wind storm that proceded to wreak havoc to the centre and North area, just as it was going to happen in the simulated flight.
Now I won't pretend it will ever be a 100% accurate representation, it was more akin to a coarse approximation of it, but for me it's been an impressive show of technology nonetheless. Can't wait to have another chance with a coming storm!
Earlier today I did a first practical test of the live weather...had a few spare minutes before going to work and with stormy weather brewing from West toward my place, so I took off from a small airstrip SW to have a look: got up under light rain and reached a mid altitude to see cumulus formations coming from the west, headed NE toward the city were it was still relatively clear (as it was above my real head in the SE part of the city) while I saw my starting place being engulfed in heavy rain, with patches of lighter precipitations here and there all along the southern outskirts of the city. Landed at another strip NW of the city with clouds ever more close, and the South now almost directly under dark cumulus. Shut down and got to work already under moderate rain, and reached it just in time (a few km south of my place) to avoid the passage of a heavy rain/wind storm that proceded to wreak havoc to the centre and North area, just as it was going to happen in the simulated flight.
Now I won't pretend it will ever be a 100% accurate representation, it was more akin to a coarse approximation of it, but for me it's been an impressive show of technology nonetheless. Can't wait to have another chance with a coming storm!
Lovely screenie of the Flavian amphitheatre...the amateur historian in me could never get around to calling it the 'Colliseum'...since that's the victory collumn not far from the arena erected by NeroMy poor old machine huffs, puffs and creaks under the struggle of photogrammetry streaming but hey, worth the struggle.
Earlier today I did a first practical test of the live weather...had a few spare minutes before going to work and with stormy weather brewing from West toward my place, so I took off from a small airstrip SW to have a look: got up under light rain and reached a mid altitude to see cumulus formations coming from the west, headed NE toward the city were it was still relatively clear (as it was above my real head in the SE part of the city) while I saw my starting place being engulfed in heavy rain, with patches of lighter precipitations here and there all along the southern outskirts of the city. Landed at another strip NW of the city with clouds ever more close, and the South now almost directly under dark cumulus. Shut down and got to work already under moderate rain, and reached it just in time (a few km south of my place) to avoid the passage of a heavy rain/wind storm that proceded to wreak havoc to the centre and North area, just as it was going to happen in the simulated flight.
Now I won't pretend it will ever be a 100% accurate representation, it was more akin to a coarse approximation of it, but for me it's been an impressive show of technology nonetheless. Can't wait to have another chance with a coming storm!
It's amazing how all the people in the world look and act the same from 1,000 feet.
It's disgusting how our politicians and newspapers will tell us the opposite.
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Mole Island needs it's own field. The Cessna Caravan is the near-perfect aircraft for it.
Next week will bring a lot of needed fixes.
Next week will bring a lot of needed fixes.
Mole Island...I could almost make a TV series out of that...at least it would be better than the one with Ricardo Montalban as the guy in the white suit...Mole Island needs it's own field. The Cessna Caravan is the near-perfect aircraft for it.
Next week will bring a lot of needed fixes.
"De plane boss..de plane!"
He was once a Mr Universe winner...apart from his best role ever as Khan in the second Star Trek movie of course
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This sim is so much fun, I had to record a few videos. The Baron G58 is a blast to fly! Obviously I need to get used to the higher landing speed of it as I tend to slow down too much and dump the plane on the ground... plus on the first video I cancelled the IFR flight to check out the volcano on Negros/Philippines, so I managed to land without permission.
Sidenote: winds around the Philippines are not affected by the 3/225 plague for some reason.
With slight crosswind.
Sidenote: winds around the Philippines are not affected by the 3/225 plague for some reason.
With slight crosswind.
He was also trained as an accountant.Mole Island...I could almost make a TV series out of that...at least it would be better than the one with Ricardo Montalban as the guy in the white suit...
"De plane boss..de plane!"
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He was once a Mr Universe winner...apart from his best role ever as Khan in the second Star Trek movie of course
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My poor old machine huffs, puffs and creaks under the struggle of photogrammetry streaming but hey, worth the struggle.
Earlier today I did a first practical test of the live weather...had a few spare minutes before going to work and with stormy weather brewing from West toward my place, so I took off from a small airstrip SW to have a look: got up under light rain and reached a mid altitude to see cumulus formations coming from the west, headed NE toward the city were it was still relatively clear (as it was above my real head in the SE part of the city) while I saw my starting place being engulfed in heavy rain, with patches of lighter precipitations here and there all along the southern outskirts of the city. Landed at another strip NW of the city with clouds ever more close, and the South now almost directly under dark cumulus. Shut down and got to work already under moderate rain, and reached it just in time (a few km south of my place) to avoid the passage of a heavy rain/wind storm that proceded to wreak havoc to the centre and North area, just as it was going to happen in the simulated flight.
Now I won't pretend it will ever be a 100% accurate representation, it was more akin to a coarse approximation of it, but for me it's been an impressive show of technology nonetheless. Can't wait to have another chance with a coming storm!
A friend of mine who is an ardent simmer is very disparaging of MFS - claims that X-Plane11 and Prepar3D with Orbx addons is "better", because apparently "you can't VFR using MFS because cathedrals are missing".
Personally, I think he's just upset that he's spent hundreds of £££ on add-ons for a superseded flight sim.
Hope you don't mind, but I've sent him this picture.
He was once a Mr Universe winner...apart from his best role ever as Khan in the second Star Trek movie of course
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"I'm flying over you Kirk....and I intend to keep on...flying over you"
A friend of mine who is an ardent simmer is very disparaging of MFS - claims that X-Plane11 and Prepar3D with Orbx addons is "better", because apparently "you can't VFR using MFS because cathedrals are missing".
Personally, I think he's just upset that he's spent hundreds of £££ on add-ons for a superseded flight sim.
Hope you don't mind, but I've sent him this picture.
I don't mind
To be fair with your friend, he's probably right that X-Plane and P3D with Orbx addons are better, because, well, they are handcrafted addons. I'm confident that future handcrafted Orbx addons for FS will be better as well.
But as you imply, the fact that photogrammetry and AI allow FS in its most basic form to already come up with views like the one above, it's what makes it "next-gen" to me.
I'm also appreciating Blackshark's AI as well, I expected autogen to simply throw a bunch of bricks at any given place marked as "here be town", I was pleasantly surprised to find out instead it tries to give a resemblance of estimation to what's supposed to be on the ground. Of course it spectacularly misses on every building that isn't somewhat bricky in appearance, but it's still good enough that I can VFR above my city (Turin) with major towers, factories, buildings and streets easily recognizable, especially from a distance. Really the only things it misses are churches and monuments.