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A Quantum Leap in long-haul flying

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Tired of wasting time cruising over the vast oceanic and polar reaches in your simulated 747, MD-11, 777, etc?

I've written, and released to the AVSIM library, a small utility program that allows you to warp an FSX plane at cruise ahead to a future point on your flight plan. It allows you to select a named fix or enter coordinates plus a time of arrival, and transport the airplane in its current configuration to that position and time.

For example, you can take your loaded-to-the-gills B777 from Sydney headed to Los Angeles, fly the heavyweight takeoff and departure and get yourself established in cruise. But rather than waiting for 15 hours (or a couple of hours at 16x accelerated flight), you can transport yourself ahead, quark-like, to a point on your route a couple hundred miles off the California coast at the time you'd expect to arrive there, and fly the arrival/descent and landing without the mind-numbing boredom of the long-term droning. (You will have to reset your fuel manually at the leap-ahead point, though).

Another example...you want to fly a polar crossing in your B747 from Seoul to Detroit, but know that FSX will yakk on you like a vodka-chugging frat pledge once you get above 85 deg latitude. Solution? Leap across the pole!

With thousands of hours under my belt flying a military transport at cruise over the vast wastelands of the planet, I hope to spare some of you that butt pain. ;-)

Quantum Leap V1.1 is in the library now: http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=179703

Regards


Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc
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WOW!

 

This sounds really exciting Bob.   Guess where I'm heading straight to .......... the AVSIM Library!

 

Thanks in advance for your time and efforts in making such a superb, useful tool.

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Awesome Bob. Many thanks. I can only echo Dave's words


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thnaks for this, but i have lots of fun using time acceleration instead.

 

Would probs use this tool for those butt aching got to land now flights

 

cheers

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This utility sounds really great. However I should say that don't forget if you already own a certain other application, :smile: you can already do this with fuel and time depleted, and corrected for time zone and weather adjusted and other options.


Steve Waite: Engineer at codelegend.com

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I like the title of the utility!  That alone is exciting stuff!  :Big Grin:  Thanks Bob for the contribution. 

 

Best regards,

Jim


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Bob, thanks for your continuing contributions to the community. This sounds like a great one. Now, can I ask you to even this score out a bit with the PMDG T7 for me?

 

Takeoffs = 127,

Successful Landings = 0,

Ugly Bone Crusher not landings = 1.

 

B)

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Bob, thanks for your continuing contributions to the community. This sounds like a great one. Now, can I ask you to even this score out a bit with the PMDG T7 for me?

 

Takeoffs = 127,

Successful Landings = 0,

Ugly Bone Crusher not landings = 1.

 

B)

Tom

 

Just change your name to We Tu Lo, slap that logbook summary on a resume to Asiana and you could come out of retirement!

 

...dang, that was my out-loud voice again, wunnit? :-O

 

Cheers


Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc
ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V

System1 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS @ 6.0GHz, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090
Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@30Hz,
3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU, 1.2Gbps internet
Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro
PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box

Sys2 (MSFS/XPlane): i9-10900K @ 5.1GHz, 32GB 3600/15, nVidia RTX4090FE, Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, EVGA 1000P2
Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, 2x TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case

Portable Sys3 (P3Dv4/FSX/DCS): i9-9900K @ 5.0 Ghz, Noctua NH-D15, 32GB 3200/16, EVGA RTX3090, Dell S2417DG 24" GSync
Corsair RM850x PSU, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog HOTAS, Coolermaster HAF XB case

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Just change your name to We Tu Lo, slap that logbook summary on a resume to Asiana and you could come out of retirement!

 

...dang, that was my out-loud voice again, wunnit? :-O

 

No, no, no... You don't get it Bob. I need you to create a utility that overcomes the fact that I have closed my eyes on approach. :Praying:

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I really like this, Bob, and thanks.

 

If only I could use it with Radar Contact...or can I?

 

Anybody else using RC wanna think it through?


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I really like this, Bob, and thanks.

 

If only I could use it with Radar Contact...or can I?

 

Anybody else using RC wanna think it through?

You could use it, then request "direct to" . I have had to do that using Auto Cruise on the T7


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Sounds like MS Flight "skip to waypoint".

 

Yes, and I am looking forward to using it (if my earlier messages seemed to confuse that fact)...

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No, no, no... You don't get it Bob. I need you to create a utility that overcomes the fact that I have closed my eyes on approach. :Praying:

 

:Idea: I've got a go back 20 seconds button for when I crash :blush:


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