I was looking at simviation's misc FSX files and came across a space shuttle addon that claimed to take you to 800,000 feet. is that even possible? I haven't tried it out yet and was just curious.

Yes, it is, if you slew up high enough, because all aircraft engines shut off at about 50K ft, at the highest, for the F-18. However, with any of the default A/C you will have no control. I'd be skeptical of the space shuttle you found. Who is it published by?

It's published by a guy named Ron or Rob Jeffers, or something like that. I found it on page 26 of the FSX misc files on Simviation.com's free addons section. Check it out and tell me what you think. the last thing I need, after two days of trying to get my SDK up and running with no success, is to have to do any more reinstallations of FSX and SP1.

Ah, what the heck, give it a try, its free! Looks okay to me.

kool. I mean if it works, it may be the closest I get to space in the foreseeable future, right? Might as well have osme fun with it.

For real dabbling in space, the ORBITER sim is first-rate and totally free,they must be crazy to give it away, ha ha..

PS- for a challenge I've been trying for ages in Orbiter to get the Shuttle into orbit without looking at the instruments and haven't managed it yet, it's almost impossible to fly spacecraft by the seat of your pants and eyeballs only!

 

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I know that the folks at CaptainSim made a space shuttle back when FSX came out. No idea if it's any good but I found this video:

 

Looks like JustFlight managed to do a launch as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_912716&feature=iv&src_vid=OQ6CBa_mb6U&v=E1V4vtZyuRs

 

Anyway, you get the idea: space flight is possible in FSX to a certain extend.

In X-Plane you can land the shuttle from 500,000 feet. Takes 30 minutes

 

But everything considered, even if you could it would be boring as hell because you can't get anywhere for YEARS using our existing RL technology. Plus you would practically see black and hear nothing.

It's too bad that space shuttle modeled is using old analog gauges not used since the 80's