I use Air Hauler, so whenever I fly it monitors the stress placed on the aircraft.  I've had situations where I overstressed the plane so much--it's almost as expensive to buy new.

 

Things like landing too hard, pushing throttles forward to fast, and tight turns with heavy loads.

When I crash my 737... the insurance covers most of the damage and I buy a new one with the insurance money pay off and profits from flights in my airline company.      It would be cheaper to just get FS Passenger X and pay for your destroyed planes with virtual money.  The incentive is still there not to fail miserably but sometimes, *(&% happens... the gear break, the hull is compromised, birds poop in your engines, UFO shoots you down... it's beyond your control.   You shouldn't have to toss out real money for these issues.   XD

I like to use FSPassengers... it I land it hard.. it will blow a tire and then steering gets really hard as the tire that blew now acts like a brake... then it gives me a repair bill at the end.

 

 

I've gone so far with FSPax that I wait in real time of what I would think repairs would take.. actually looking up online to see if there was a mechanic at that field I landed at.. thank goodness there was.. I would have had to call some one in.

 

to me that is really a lot of fun.. those pre flight checks now all of a sudden, have meaning!

What about the airport? When you make a smokin' hole in the ground at Flightbeam's KSFO for example do you buy the taxpayers a new airport also?

 

There's an idea, an airport scenery that reacts to crashes, and when a simmer augers in it affects everyone who owns the airport. Airport closures, virtual NTSB investigations, closed runways for weeks at a time while virtual construction crews clear wreckage and rebuild runways etc... Can you imagine some of the Avsim threads that would generate? :smile:

Yeah! My real problem was that I was afraid of my passenger's famillies suing me for taking their loved ones lives away.  So, this afternoon I asked my insurance company to give me an offer for an all-in insurance coverage.  But they refused to, saying that, as I am retired, my income is too low to pay for the insurance fees.

 

Sigh!

 

Jean-Jacques

The last time I crashed an airplane I simply jumped into another plane and took off 15 minutes later. It was the fligh clubs airplane so I didn't pay for anything. Oh, this was IRL!

here is what I do...

 

for I think the most of us.. we can't or won't ever fly for real.. so our flightsim becomes our taste of reality that we are going to get..

 

 

so.. for "real" flights I set it up with the highest graphics my machine can crank out..  then if you crash in the "real" mode.. then you have to.. do something to "punish" yourself for screwing it up.. and I mean only when it's your fault.. if some stupid AI plane plows into you then you can reset , it doesn't count.. but if you know you dorked it up because you just didn't know what your were doing or made a bad decision (like flying at night in a mountainous area that you aren't familiar with, or trying to scud run in the mountains and getting yourself boxed into a canyon, etc)  then you have to take a break or put $50 bucks in the "crash jar" or whatever... 

 

but when I want to use fs for a "simulator" to study a technique or something.. then I put it on low settings.. now.. if I crash on this setting, then it doesn't matter, do nothing but reset and try again.. after all you are in the "simulator" mode..

I like to use FSPassengers... it I land it hard.. it will blow a tire and then steering gets really hard as the tire that blew now acts like a brake... then it gives me a repair bill at the end.

 

 

I've gone so far with FSPax that I wait in real time of what I would think repairs would take.. actually looking up online to see if there was a mechanic at that field I landed at.. thank goodness there was.. I would have had to call some one in.

 

to me that is really a lot of fun.. those pre flight checks now all of a sudden, have meaning!

 

Dude seriously needs to hand over the source code to someone else.    This is still my favorite PAX simulation suite.    It is pretty complete as is but it could use a little refinement.   I really love running the business side of it as much as flying.   Love keeping my planes in order and the emergencies it adds are great.    I damn near had a heart attack when there was sudden blow out in one of the cabin windows and the sound of the wind suddenly WOSHING through my headset caught me off guard.    If only there had been papers and coffee cups flying around the cockpit I would have been totally immersed.

The OP may have been joking, but I'm sure he (and many other simmers) was considering ways of making his flights more "consequential" beneath the joking.

After all, why worry about getting lost, running out of fuel, or doing a crash landing, if you can just redo it right away, without any penalties?

 

I once worked on a military simulator -JCOVE Lite- that actually uninstalled itself if you killed one of your own guys! That may have been taking things a bit too far though — especially since nobody expected it.

But for FS, my way of making my actions matter more is by recording my flights on FS Duenna. It logs your route, and anything else you do on a flight. The thing that makes it unique is that you can't hide your mistakes. Once you screw up, it's out there in your record, for everybody to see... You cannot delete your logs, and even if you abort a flight (in order to bail out of an unrecoverable situation), it will still show up in your record.

With this permanent log in your mind everything you do in that plane all of a sudden DOES have consequences, and you start taking things a lot more seriously. It really puts a whole new dimension of realism in therer that I never felt when I just flew "hidden away" on my desktop...

What if you have a fatal crash? Trash your computer and buy a new one?

What if you have a fatal crash? Trash your computer and buy a new one?

 

 

(edit) I tried to add about 5 rollyeyes, and got a message "You have posted a message with more emoticons than this community allows...".  Wow, the've thought of everything! :lol:

I see your rolling eyes and raise you 5 more!

you must have plenty of money

If I bought a new plane every time I crashed in FSX I would only own one plane as I have never crashed.

 

I find it difficult to crash and if I find myself out of position on final I just go around for another approach.

I don't crash.

 

X2.  300+ hours IRL and 5,000+ hours FS versions, ATP, Fly, Pro Pilot, et al.    As in real life I rarely reach DH before making a decision to go around or head to alternate.  DH has just always seemed too late.

 

Did not count FSX program crashes or OOM's <grin>