Any of you who was able to get it, could please include a description of the "technique" used for such an achievement?

 

Thx in advance ! ;-)

I believe the only way to get it right now, as there are no aircraft currently in Flight able to reach it in normal ways, is through the " saved game cheat" that was floating around out there.

 

I myself will wait until hopefully we have an aircraft capable of reaching it.

Unfortunately I got this cache "accidentally". Someone posted a saved flight at FL800 and I thought that could be fun to play with. I didn't realize that it dropped you directly on the cache with no way to avoid it. Had I known this I would not have loaded the flight as I would have much preferred to get the cache legitimately. Like with a rocket powered sub orbital RV6.

 

I just wonder how they got the Icon that high in the first place. It was not controllable at all until I was below FL500, and even then I could not maintain level flight.

I just wonder how they got the Icon that high in the first place. It was not controllable at all until I was below FL500, and even then I could not maintain level flight.

 

Probably a simple modification to the .flt file to adjust the altitude from, say, 2000 ft to 80,000ft

There is also a rare spin bug that takes you up instead of down, or so I've been told.

 

I can't help but fear we're going to get a cockpitless SR-71 or MiG-25 to go get this aerocache with (legitimately). They'll get the Mach 3 achievement as well. The only other air breathing plane that will get up there is the U2, which probably won't be considered exciting enough. X-15 rocket might be another, but requires AI B-52 mothership! Can't see Sled drivers critiquing the flight model for us... :-( Was there a Hawaiian emergency shuttle landing site?

Was there a Hawaiian emergency shuttle landing site?

 

Only during off-peak times of the year...

 

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_are_the_space_shuttle_landing_sites

 

Welcome to Honolulu!

Probably a simple modification to the .flt file to adjust the altitude from, say, 2000 ft to 80,000ft

 

 

Can't find any altitude entry in the .FLT file ???? :-|

Can't find any altitude entry in the .FLT file ???? :-|

It's encoded in some binary format in the accompanying .SPB files. Yes, I tried, couldn't work it out :-)

Probably a simple modification to the .flt file to adjust the altitude from, say, 2000 ft to 80,000ft

 

Then would it be possible to change the lat / long of the starting position to place the aircraft outside the scenery area, say North America and see whats there, if anything? We know we can fly outside at least as far as Johnston Atoll and Midway, what what's beyond? It would be interesting to know if the whole world actually is there or not.

It should be possible.

Then would it be possible to change the lat / long of the starting position to place the aircraft outside the scenery area, say North America and see whats there, if anything? We know we can fly outside at least as far as Johnston Atoll and Midway, what what's beyond? It would be interesting to know if the whole world actually is there or not.

 

You can try, but my feeling is it would be a waste of time. Flight is using the same scenery areas that were in FSX. If you check the Flight files you will see area 0003, which covers Hawai'i and the surrounding area. Try to get to North America and you're likely to see only a very low-res overlay of any land area. Not close to the low quality area that represented the other islands for those that only had The Big Island.

That's the goal... just to verify that it exists. Not that it has a detailed mesh or textures, as we know it won't based on previous off-map finds.

 

Save a FLT file, edit it to 47.45 lat and -122.311 lon and see if it looks like Sea-Tac? While in the area, buzz Redmon and see when Alaska is being released.

 

Disclaimer: If it torches someone's Flight install don't blame me.

Based on how I found Johnston Atoll's appearance, it won't look like much of anything recognizable.