I am so glad that MGS did not represent the passengers and that they left it all to our imagination.

 

Case in point: I took Nervous Nelly out for a ride. Sure, you know her: "OK, alright, OK!"

 

The flight seemed to be going fine, but all I had to go on was the passenger icon:

 

 

 

 

 

Just for the heck of it, I decided to do some rolls in the Cub. Of course, the Cub doesn't have an inverted fuel supply so the engine often conks out. But, that wasn't the only problem.

 

 

 

 

 

Nelly screamed, "Don't do that!" and the icon turned red. Then, a little later, the icon became a caduceus which is always bad news for your passenger satisfaction rating (I guess it's red icon = scared passenger and caduceus = sick passenger, double whammy!)

 

 

 

 

 

Now, it got serious. Nelly started to retch, so I ducked! Sure enough, she vomited... copiously. All over a couple of little rolls.

 

So, then I decided to give her a real thrill. And the thrill of the month is skimming the surface of the water with the Cub and its big tundra tires:

 

 

 

 

 

More retching, more moaning, and a lot more vomiting. I didn't let up, though, and started weaving low over the river, following the bends. Nelly screamed, "Too low! Fly higher!"

 

 

 

 

 

Poor thing, she just kept vomiting.

 

I would feel sorry for her, but then I think about the actress, and all the actors who have done these parts for Flight, and they are really all very good. Congratulations to them, although it is strange to imagine that they got paid for vomiting (or peeing!)

 

Anyway, this post is not really about vomiting, or Nelly for that matter.

 

I want to thank Fermin Fernandez. His GMap utility is brilliant and a great solution to a glaring absence in Flight. Other people may have wanted toe brakes or TrackIR, but I mostly wanted charts. And GMap even works with the missions and jobs where we need them the most. I hope that you and your partner make lots of money, Fermin.

 

Best regards.

Luis

Turn off that Destination Marker, Luis! You've got charts now! :LMAO:

:good: You're right, I can finally do that. It's been so long since I've bothered to tweak a config file that I lost the habit.

 

Best regards.

Luis

Great story!

 

My destination marker is a thing of the past as well...here's an idea...we should also be penalized by 500xp points as well for every time we use the R key. That'll keep us in line!

 

Seriously, single-screen-gmap-useability with plan-G beforehand, (thanks to Jeroen for the possible solution for a lack of data files) is really really awesome.

 

And about scaring the crap out of your passenger...I suggest pigs. Do barrel rolls with a plane full-o-pigs. When they start squealing my wife and I laughed our heads off...I actually felt a bit guilty afterwards!

 

Not guilty enough to refrain from torturing some chickens afterwards, though

I did not even know about the "R" key until last weekend. I missed that tutorial.