I deleted/uninstalled much of my simulation stuff, only two sims remaining on my new rig...

 

I am really running short of time to use simulators, and space due to my new PC being used also for professional projects, so, I had to make a decision... What will stay, what will go?

 

- FLIGHT and ELITE stayed :-)

- Xplane10 will also have it's place for a few tests now that the dev team is working on some important (in my perspective) aspects...

 

I am saving space for what I believe may be necessary for ALASKA :-) Also, searching now for good Enroute LOW/HIGH level charts, more up-2-date than my 1988 copies, and in sync with the navaids database of Hawaii, and hopefully Alaska too.

 

Also, having been a true addict regarding simulation in the past, I have found a way to disciplinate myself :-) The logic is simple. In real life I wouldn't possibly be able to fly so many times and so many different airplanes whenever I wanted to, so, I try to make my simulation flights as close to real as my RL flights (well, actually a lot more frequent... although restricted to about 2 flights per week). Each flight requires planning, briefing and debriefing, and I try to do it as close to what I belive I would do in RL, although in RL I fly gliders only and only in my homeland, far from Hawaii or Alaska, although I'd love to visit both...

 

For each flight I choose the base weather scenario more or less randomly - being the first scenario that comes to my mind when the simulator loads, or the one inherited from the challenge/aerocache I decide to play (in the future, the misssions too). I have yet lot's of places/aerocaches, challenges, and all of the missions to play in FLIGHT, so, at least I can't complain about being bored waiting for the next release and having already spent all of those available in Hawaii :-)

 

It's really rewarding to "taste" this sim with time, like we should do with a good wine / plate :-)

Hey do like I do, add hard drives!!

I currently have 4 hard drives and combined I have a ton of available storage. Plenty of room for growth.

 

While I don't know where I will ever get the time, I currently have 6 flight simulators on my hard drives. Some of the others may see action only rarely, but I like knowing they are there ready in a moments notice.

 

It's really rewarding to "taste" this sim with time, like we should do with a good wine / plate :-)

 

I agree - I am approaching 100 hours in Flight.

Have been mainly flying jobs of late, originally was flying from the larger airports, now am doing them from the smaller ones - getting to see some really beautiful scenery. And I still have not done any aerocache hunting or true VOR flying - that is coming up soon.

I am so far behind all you guys, only 47 hours so far! And I have been at it since January! All of you would have been better beta testers.

 

José, I used Elite a very long time ago and wonder how you find it? At the time, it was pretty much all under the hood, pure instrument flying. A little scary, but very rewarding.

 

I was lucky and got a 1,5 TB drive for US$ 60 at Newegg before the catastrophe. It has 5 volumes, one with Win 7 and Flight, another with Win XP and FS X, a third with Ubuntu and no flight game (but maybe I could put Flight Gear on there). Good to have lots of HD capacity.

 

Best regards.

Luis

I have two flight simes loaded on a dedicated 500 gig 7200 rpm hard drive. FSX Gold and FLIGHT. Hardly takes up any room at all. My main drive is a 1.5 TB for the operating system and every thing else, still skads of room remaining there also. I had to pay $129.00 for the 500 gig AFTER the catastrophe. I did not want to wait it out.

 

Steve

I am sure, my 4 drives combined come to about 2.25 TB, and I am a long way from running out of any room.

I figure always better to have too much than not enough!

:blush: :blush:

 

Six 1 terabyte drives right now: It varies.

 

Windows

Games and STEAM

FSX

All multimedia

Fsx backup and Flight! (You don't even wanna know how many scenery's and planes I have)

Emergency Repair Drive (Iso images of all other drives)

 

Until recently, none of the 5 working computers used by various members of the household had less than two HD's, and none were smaller than a terabyte....... :Monkey:

yep, drives are cheap, get more rather then do without. I have 3 terabyte drives. One with my OS and my design files and programs. One with Flight, FSX, the SDK, and 210 gigs of my photoscenery files and other FSX addons and the other with Sims3 (all expansions), BF2, GRAW1 and GRAW2, ARMA2, XP10, Lockon/Black Shark, Pacific Fighters, takeon helicopters, and tropico 4 .

 

then there are my 2 terabyte external backup drives.

Luis,

 

I won ELITE on a contest in 2003. It was then v7, and I upgraded to v8.0 a year later. Back then MSFS was in version 98, if I'm not wrong, and it was rather difficult to practice IFR on it, and even worth to analyse your performance after the exercises, so, ELITE what right on the mark, and since I got the ESPO Genview scenery database, it was great to fly in Portugal and Spain.

 

When I decided not to use MSFS (fs9 and fsx) any longer, and to dedicate solely to FLIGHT, I restarted enjoying ELITE whenever I want to play IFR scenarios, on a very credible simulation platform in as far as aircraft performance/systems and even weather modelling goes.

 

The only "problem" with ELITE is that it requires appropriate hardware for you to benefit the most from it, and I am using a Cyborg X, no throttle quadrant, no force feedbak panels/rudders like those also produced by ELITE. I have once "tasted" one of their FNPTs and it's completely different... Too expensive for me anyway, and since I do not even IFR rated, no pourpose for such an investment.

 

ELITE is great to alternate with FLIGHT :-)

 

I'll send you a PM with more details ;-)

 

 

José, I used Elite a very long time ago and wonder how you find it?

My goodness, what a lot of hard drive space you guys have...! I have Flight together with FSX on a 120 Gb SSD and still have 68 Gb space left...! I do have a seperate 120 Gb SSD for my music software and that one has 25 Gb space left. My 1 Tb regular hard disk (used for programs and data that don't need the SSD-speed) has something like 500 Gb left and my 80 Gb OS SSD 35 or so. I don't know how you all manage to get all those Gb's filled!

 

I have to say though that I only save what I really use or may use in the future. I like to keep my PC clean and uncluttered. In FSX I only installed the addons I actually used. Hence the small footprint on my SSD. Old games and downloads I simply delete: all my FS9 addons were gone a long time ago: a lot of FSX will be gone soon too, I think. (Shame I can't resell all that... are you allowed to give it away for free...? Anyone interested in the complete Orbx PNW library? Or all three Horizon's England scenery? ). I don't save movies, etc. I don't save that much at all: I also delete ALL my mail and sms and whatsapp and whatnot: to me all that stuff is temporary. I know people that have thousands if not ten thousands of messages backup somewhere... Not my mind of thing.

 

Also, having been a true addict regarding simulation in the past, I have found a way to disciplinate myself :-) The logic is simple. In real life I wouldn't possibly be able to fly so many times and so many different airplanes whenever I wanted to, so, I try to make my simulation flights as close to real as my RL flights (well, actually a lot more frequent... although restricted to about 2 flights per week). Each flight requires planning, briefing and debriefing, and I try to do it as close to what I belive I would do in RL, although in RL I fly gliders only and only in my homeland, far from Hawaii or Alaska, although I'd love to visit both...

 

For each flight I choose the base weather scenario more or less randomly - being the first scenario that comes to my mind when the simulator loads, or the one inherited from the challenge/aerocache I decide to play (in the future, the misssions too). I have yet lot's of places/aerocaches, challenges, and all of the missions to play in FLIGHT, so, at least I can't complain about being bored waiting for the next release and having already spent all of those available in Hawaii :-)

 

It's really rewarding to "taste" this sim with time, like we should do with a good wine / plate :-)

 

I am playing the game in more or less the same way. I never ever just put myself in the air and fly around a while and then close the game. I always plan a flight (in free flight or a job) and when I am done flying I usually stop the session. Usually I limit myself to one flight a day, even when I feel like doing another flight, and I also do this with the same idea of 'what would you do in real life'? But also to prevent that I am getting bored with the game...

 

I also did this in FSX btw. I also flew in FSX with ONE plane for months and months with the idea that in real life, if I would own a plane, I'd be flying with that plane only. It's already quite something for me that I regularly swith between the Maule and the RV-6A in Flight.

 

BTW In my case this 'how would I do it in real life' also means I won't fly outside of the plane...

Good point ;-) !!!!

 

BTW In my case this 'how would I do it in real life' also means I won't fly outside of the plane...