Did anyone know FSX has shooting stars?

[z06z33 763]

Good question and I completely forgot about the northern lights.  I haven't noticed them, yet.

I've never seen them flying polar routes in the PMDG 777 but then again Im usually asleep by the time I get that far north.

[Angels40 17]

...that was just some sparks from your GPU,flying across in front of your monitor...

+1

[ESzczesniak 128]

Stop looking out of the windows and monitor your instruments.

Stop fixating on your instruments. Look out the window and fly

[Dillon 2,197]

Its Amazing the amount of detail that ACES originally coded into FSX!!!!

Didn't know about the meteors!

 

B.

I meant to quote you above, all these subtle features were a build up over the 20+ years the franchise has been in existence. These details aren't isolated to FSX. Many of these sky features date back to FS2000. Like I said above FS9 had this as well and I'm sure P3D v2 has some Easter Eggs as well (that's what we used to call these hidden features years ago).

[ailchim 206]

 

 

Stop fixating on your instruments. Look out the window and fly

 

Next time I fly in a 737 I will imagine the captain saying to the co-pilot "Oooh look, there's a big ship down there...."

[LHookins 3,103]

Next time I fly in a 737 I will imagine the captain saying to the co-pilot "Oooh look, there's a big ship down there...."

 

Instead, imagine him saying, "Oooh look, there's another aircraft headed our way."  At the same altitude.  And maintaining a fixed point on your windscreen over time.

 

Hook

[KingGhidorah 209]

Instead, imagine him saying, "Oooh look, there's another aircraft headed our way."  At the same altitude.  And maintaining a fixed point on your windscreen over time.

 

Hook

 

It's happened to me once at over 30,000 feet in NGX.  I completely ignored the TCAS warning because its only a simulation and I thought catching a glimpse of an AI airplane close up at cruise and what airline it was would provide a point of interest.  Collisions are enabled in my simulation.  Head On, BAM. 

[ailchim 206]

Instead, imagine him saying, "Oooh look, there's another aircraft headed our way."  At the same altitude.  And maintaining a fixed point on your windscreen over time.

 

Hook

 

 "Oooh look, there's another aircraft headed our way."  At the same altitude.  And maintaining a fixed point on your windscreen over time "Don't those flashing lights look pretty...."

[ArjenVdv 190]

It's a ghost.