Whether it's flying by the book, or just punching holes in the sky...  in the end, isn't it still about having fun?

 

:o

It has nothing to do with "this community." The YouTube comment section is the most vile place on the internet. I assume you are new to YouTube, otherwise you would know this already.

 

Disable comments, or respond to haters with a simple "thank you". Trolls back down as soon as they realize you don't give a ****.  Either way... sim, fly, play, whatever you want to call it... the way you see fit.

 

Please note that comparing everyone in the flight sim community to a jerk on YouTube is not a good way to garner sympathy on this website. 

 

 

I've never understood those who spend hours planning a flight then spend 30 minutes doing a start up

 

If only i could start that quick,  i spend AGES getting everything ready, tuning my radio, admiring my plane, picking my livery,  doing my checks by the book, starting my engine by the book, watching my oil heat up, admiring my plane,  only to mush it into what ever hill or building i couldn't clear.  For me its all about the planning and take off,  flying is great but its secondary. 

 

I suppose each to there own 

I enjoy the (brief) planning, the takeoff and departure...

 

...and the approach and landing. For me the parts in between are b o r i n g. :Big Grin:

I enjoy the (brief) planning, the takeoff and departure...

 

...and the approach and landing. For me the parts in between are b o r i n g. :Big Grin:

 

Agreed, difference between real world and flight sim is in the real world you are being paid for the stuff in between. In Flight Sim their really isn't any reason for it so I use time compression at cruise altitude.  B)

Hey, Alan -- how you is?

 

Bruce

Hey, Alan -- how you is?

 

Bruce

Just fine, Bruce!

 

We need to get the gang together for another FS Roundtable!

 

:smile:

 

 

For me the parts in between are b o r i n g.

 

I just finished a long long long flight in the Carenado S550 ... pretty much filled it up and just kept flying ... I was doing some v2.5 VAS testing and some adjustments to my GoFlight controls/modules for the 550 ... happy to report 2.7GB on landing (started at 2.5GB) ... so 1.3 GB free VAS ... but it was an ocean flight out of FT's St. Maarten and I ended up in Mexico about 1600+ nm away.  Anyway, in the mean time I watched some of Jeff N. Airline Pilot guy on YouTube, went for a hike, watched season opener of Blacklist, had some food and came back just in time with fuel tanks almost empty and landed.

 

Cheers, Rob.

In Flight Sim their really isn't any reason for it so I use time compression at cruise altitude.

 

 

You found the force. Good for you. May all the complainers of OOM find it too one day.

 

The great thing about MSFS (from 2002Prof, FS2004 and FSX) is that encompass 99% of everybody's flying taste, big or small, fast or slow, easy or hard. I do not think that any other product will ever achieve this feat ever. Whoever took the decision to include all possible airports (or just about) on the planet was a genius that unleashed this wonderful passion of us.

 

But I am just digressing from the main topic...

 

It is a human trade this stupid thing about camps of so called holly us against evil them, unfortunately but normal, as in nothing new and nothing worth to get mad about. It will fizzle out. It always had.

 

Stay the course of your happiness and stick to it.

 

Cheers,

 

I enjoy the (brief) planning, the takeoff and departure...

 

...and the approach and landing. For me the parts in between are b o r i n g.

 

I have been doing nothing more than "taxi, take off, circuit, land, taxi" flights at the detailed versions of my large UK airports for a long time. I am currently doing this in the QW Avro RJ70 in P3D, but I have also used the PMDG 737NGX in FSX for exactly the same "test flights". I just enjoy take offs and landings at busy airports with lots of realistic AI planes operating at the same time. Waiting in a queue for departure and listening to the ATC chatter is all part of the fun.

 

On a side note, the PMDG 737NGX may well be a "study sim" to teach people how to operate a Boeing 737 as closely as possible to the real thing, but it is also worth noting that it's low speed flight characteristics are second to none. In other words, you can cruise around sight seeing in VFR mode with full flaps extended if you want, and it will happily comply. You do not need to take advantage of all those complex systems to appreciate what a work of art this plane really is. The sound of the engines, the superbly detailed VC, the excellent 3D model, and those magnificent thrust reversers.........everything about this plane is awesome. It is why I was prepared to pay the money to have the best, even though I have hardly touched a fraction of what it has to offer.

 

I have been criticised in the past for flying my airliners "low and slow", but frankly it is nobody else's business :smile:

That was a really good post Christopher. 

 

 

I have been criticised in the past for flying my airliners "low and slow", but frankly it is nobody else's business

+1

Whoever took the decision to include all possible airports (or just about) on the planet was a genius that unleashed this wonderful passion of us.

 

It is a human trade this stupid thing about camps of so called holly us against evil them, unfortunately but normal, as in nothing new and nothing worth to get mad about. It will fizzle out. It always had.

 

Stay the course of your happiness and stick to it.

 

 

Wisest words I've read in a long time.

 

Amen to that!

So those us who don't have friends who are "real real pilots with appropriate type ratings" can't have  fun?

 

Reductio ad absurdum...

 

 

Reductio ad absurdum...

 

Reductio ad absurdum is the technique of reducing an argument or hypothesis to absurdity, by pushing the argument's premises or conclusions to their logical limits and showing how ridiculous the consequences would be - which is what you posted.

I've never understood those who spend hours planning a flight then spend 30 minutes doing a start up, then sit there for a 14 hour flight. I usually spend about 5 min planning IE I want to go there so lets make it happen. Have the 777 cranked up and ready to rock from cold and dark in less then 10 minutes and once I hit cruise the autopilot turn on and I go do something else till TOD. What gets my peeve is when people spend all that time planning only to turn the AP on at 200 feet and proceed to watch the whole flight till they turn the AP off on final. I understand the autopilot has purpose and that is to assist the pilot but its purpose is not to be the pilot.

 

That's pretty much what accounted for the success MS FLIGHT had in my simmer life, and then, when I moved to DCS World because of the flight dynamics and ended fan of ww2 dogfights ( which I play almost every day now... ).

 

I like to get into action fast... because I do not have the time to spend in RW SOPs  Well, maybe twice a year I can feel in the mood for that, but it's on very rare occasions - I'd rather pick my Bf109 K4 and enter some crowded DCS World WW2 Combat server and use that time training CAMs and enjoying the superb flight dynamics...

 

And again, I smille when I watch those rather "professional" tubes where A/P is switched on at 400' .... Well, I'm with the OP - only flaw in his post - he forgot to tell us the URL to his video - I'd like to see it too :-)