You Can Have Fun In Flight

[EagleSkinner 36]

Arwen, Flight images above are not lower resolution. I am just operating FSX on the left monitor 1920 x 1024 and Flight on the right monitor 1280 x 1024. The pictures are not stitched, they are a single screenshot taken at the same moment using Snagit to catch both screens in one jpg.I shut out UT, FEX, REX and everything except the Oahu Phototerrain in FSX ($10 special offer with Las Vegas and Reno) So for comparison, the FSX side is costing the same or less than Flight (you can get FSX for 10 dollars now as well)

[james_2k 36]

er. yeah so lower resolution :Pin other news and slightly OT but why am i listed as a newbie. been registered for almost a decade! boo!

Edited March 3, 2012 by james_2k

[n4gix 4,961]

MS would never have used Goggle anything in any case. They'd have used Bing!

in other news and slightly OT but why am i listed as a newbie. been registered for almost a decade! boo!

Newbie is based on low post count, not longevity as a registered user... :Thinking:...which I'll admit a bit disconcerting to me whenever I post the rare thing or two on other website's forums! :LMAO:

[james_2k 36]

i think its reset the post count at some point because ive sure made more than whatever it says there ;) but cheers

[RYR738 9]

Do we really have to listen to the FSX VS Flight comparisons all over again ?I thought all that crap was over !!Fred.

[n4gix 4,961]

i think its reset the post count at some point because ive sure made more than whatever it says there ;) but cheers

Oh, you're correct. Post counts were lost back during the "Great Hacking of AVSIM" a few years ago. That would explain it then...

[vamp106 4]

flight looks alot better on my system then FSX looks in your pic. Your running flight at low res. My system can't even run it that low.

[EagleSkinner 36]

Sound? The FSX Maule sounds good too. Comparison in motion? FSX wins hands down if you tune it right and even if you only use the Jeppeson FSX real weather. If you have payware - and I do have a LOT agreed, then Flight simply cannot compare - fair enough.But even without the eye- candy (the Flight default aircraft textures are definitely BETTER than the FSX pendants and Flight has better cliff face textures and definitely better eye candy) FSX is a whole different animal. I was on the Flight beta and I really did check the systems. I also used to beta test FSX aircraft agains real world test schedules and as an aircraft engineer specialising in real world flight testing airframes and engines I know how to read performance data and I know piston engines. The Flight Maule EGT / CHT does not react accurately to Mixture changes. And everyone knows now, that differential braking in Flight is still being worked on.I regret that no matter how nice Flight is - and it really is - it is not a game that we can use for simulation purposes. It is great for fly ins. It is great for multiplayer events. But there are just too many inaccuracies and lacking functions still for Flight to be a serious contender for FS9 and FSX.But I don't want that in Flight.

er. yeah so lower resolution :Pin other news and slightly OT but why am i listed as a newbie. been registered for almost a decade! boo!

Oh dear... do I need to teach maths too - both screens have a 0.25 millimetre dot mesh so the left monitor has 4 pixels per millimetre and so does the right one. Both monitors have been color calibrated this week. Both are showing the same temperature and tone.Oh, and I am running Flight MAXED out in options Edited March 3, 2012 by stormpup

[raymar 969]

Whilst Flight does give some great looking scenery and good looking planes (Very well modelled and painted - even if I do say so myself), one does question the developers connections with the real world... Take a look at this:Now what's what's wrong with this picture?378 Kilos of jellyfish antivenom? That sounds to me like the world supply of antivenom... :help:269 Kilos of chemistry sets? If I remember my childhood, I would recall that my first chem-set probably weighed a pound. We're talking five hundred chemistry sets for Kahului! What are the kids planning?! =@852 Kilos of live pigs? An adult pot-bellied pig weighs in at 125 pounds so... we could be talking 14 pigs. In a Maule? :Pig:909 Kilos of live ducks? A fully grown fighting duck (oh yes, them Aylesbury ducks make good watchdogs ) is what, 5 Kilos. 180 Live Ducks In A Maule? C'mon...and apart from the realism, who's going to clean the mess? :bad:And don't get me wrong... I like Flight enough to rag it and have a good belly laugh at the mission planner's sense of humour. I am guessing they want to make us laugh...Signed:- a Kitchen Cynic :Hug:

It's all relative. As a rw charter pilot I answered a print ad from a University requesting bids for flying one person and 4 - 6 million fish from South Carolina to the gulf coast of Mississippi. I was the only one that took them seriously and used a C177RG for the flight. The gillion fishes were about 3-4 hours old and in a plastic bag that fit on the back two passenger seats with the Fisheries Chairman as copilot. He was absolutely thrilled with the job of First Officer and actually gave me a tip.I think all the fish arrived alive and 99.99% ended up as food for turtles and other creatures of the sea.Ray

[james_2k 36]

edit: removing unnecessary semi arguments

Edited March 3, 2012 by james_2k

[EagleSkinner 36]

I must admit that the Flight designers really make me laugh with those charters. To tell the truth, m yfavourite jobs are the biplane tours and landing out in the sticks for the girls to go behind a bush...

[Arwen 289]

I regret that no matter how nice Flight is - and it really is - it is not a game that we can use for simulation purposes. It is great for fly ins. It is great for multiplayer events. But there are just too many inaccuracies and lacking functions still for Flight to be a serious contender for FS9 and FSX.

In your opinion. In my opinion Flight is a simulator and it gives me a better feel of flying than FSX or X-Plane ever has.1.) Flight was released just a few days ago. It still has bugs, and there are already some workarounds for some of the bugs, like differential braking. And more are being added every day Just check the tutorials.2.) Flight was not intended (at this point) to be a replacement for FSX. Will Flight ever lead to FSXI? Perhaps, at some point in the distant future. I plan to keep using both flightsims until that happens.

[EagleSkinner 36]

You are right of course Arwen - individual opinions. I'll reply in the Flight Beta forum...

[kama2004 74]

Also dont agree with the game opinion.Real pilot also and own my plane.Same software but different conclusion.Just flew default fsx vs flight and imho, flight is better. Experience for me is par with best scenery add-on. True they have to work on systems but overall i prefer it to my beefed up fsx with a thousand dollars of add-on.Pierre

[japascoe 98]

MS would never have used Goggle anything in any case. They'd have used Bing!

Of course it would be completely possible for Microsoft and Google to buy satellite or aerial imagery from the same source. There are only so many picture-taking satellites in orbit. The only pictures on Google Earth / Maps that were actually taken by Google (AFAIK) are those on Streetview, the rest are bought from commercial vendors as you can read in the bottom right corner.